Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Daniel Szabo, Visionary (Fuzzy Music)Szabo's work reflects influences of jazz, classical and modern European music. But more striking is that the music has coherence and " for lack of a more…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:56PM[SHARE]It isn't just the normal wear-and-tear of millennia; too many figures have their other features intact for that. In fact, it's because of a particular set of Egyptian beliefs, and a particul…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]"We knew by promoting a love story between two men we would make some people uncomfortable," said company officials of Human Abstract, "but we were not prepared for this grotesque display of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]"Incorporating four components into their practice: dance, discussion, writing and American Sign Language, dance company BLAQ works to give black women a space where they can be free of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]The reason is inertia, basically: "[English] got there first, and there is no major expansion of globalization to shift the balance to another language. Today there are far more non-native E…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]"The most noteworthy example may be the New Museum, which is in the midst of an $85m expansion. Despite the institution's progressive founding values, its staff have never been unionised " u…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"[He was] a Columbia University literary scholar who became an early champion of 'popular' fiction within the academy and worked as a critic, editor and novelist, most notably with the grisl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AM[SHARE]There are last year's scandals, the excessive secrecy, the ridiculously overdue reforms. (Only after the 2018 debacle did the Swedish Academy decide that it would expel any members with conf…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]"As a symphonic conductor, he held posts with the Belgian National Orchestra (1969-73), Cincinnati SO (1980-86) and SWR Symphony Baden-Baden and Freiburg (1986-89). He also served as a Princ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]"Yotam Haber is an established composer and pianist, an assistant professor at the University of New Orleans, a former artistic director of New York's MATA festival and winner of a Guggenhei…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"After a nationwide search that began in 2017, Actors Theatre of Louisville has found its new artistic director " Robert Barry Fleming, a Kentucky native who was previously working as associ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]He served as principal cellist with the Baltimore Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, and was a widely admired teacher, and he's best remembered for a still-legendar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]"The £7m Heritage Impact Fund will provide charities, social enterprises and community businesses " which could include venue operators " with loans to help them deliver 'positive economi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]"[In] Leicester's arts and museums service … four posts will be scrapped as part of a complete reshuffle of the department." Five vacant positions were also eliminated. The savings: £32…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]"Presenting a new book on their research, art historians revealed extensive documentation from the Renaissance that appears to prove the [terracotta] statue" " which surfaced about two decad…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]ASHTAR Theatre had made its home in a Gaza City cultural center that was destroyed last August in an Israeli airstrike (launched to retaliate for rockets from Gaza fired at Beersheva). Never…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2019
I've found strikingly few resources available in any media about the craft, practice, and management of arts organizations in the live performing arts (beyond the usual-suspect books). So I'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:58PM[SHARE]It's not a real iguanodon tooth, I don't think. Though in a story about how to interpret the material world and humanity's place within it, identification is an unusually fraught subject. " …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:56PM[SHARE]Dominic Miller: Absinthe (ECM)Abetted by producer Manfred Eicher's canny guidance and ECM's flawless sound and studio presence, Miller draws on inspiration from painters of France's impressi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2019
There has been plenty of disagreement about whether the painting of Judith beheading Holofernes that turned up in Toulouse in 2016 is an original Caravaggio or a copy. But the people selling…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]"After a five-month search, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem has hired Brian Kennedy as its new director and CEO. Kennedy, now 57 years old, was born in Dublin and has worked for museums on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]Aaron Shulman revisits the weeks that led up to that early morning in the summer of 1937 when the poet, dressed in pajamas and a blazer, was murdered by paramilitaries just off a dirt road i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]At the Ross School, a very pricey K-12 institution in the Hamptons, faculty have worked hard to create what CJR calls "the best media literacy program money can buy." Alexandria Neason looks…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]"In her research and teaching, she pored over the records left by women who received little if any public attention during their lives but whose diaries, letters and other writings vividly r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]TK: "I've always been a little skeptical of the notion that there's something sort of shamanistic or medicinal or restorative about theater in a kind of mysterious way, but I really felt tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM[SHARE]Soderbergh has made a feature for Netflix and released his work in all sorts of ways; he says "I really don't care how people see my movies, as long as they see them." Spielberg is trying to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]"Paramilitary groups, the most active of which is called C14, have existed as a form of 'art critics' since 2009, when they first burnt down the Gudimov Centre for its presentation of a book…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden's master plan involves a makeover of the main building, including its beloved Great Hall and Main Reading Room, to add exhibition space. But some staffers …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]"The good thing is that the actual material we are dealing with on a daily basis is fantastic " [some of] the best things humankind has ever produced." So what are the problems? Two, Salonen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]Last week, ballet's perpetual problem child had his manager summon a non-dance journalist to hear him "explain his recent activity on social media" " a series of Instagram posts that basical…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]"As his work for seven dancers moves from darkness (the staid and somber Assyrian Court) to tranquility (the meditative Chinese Garden Court) and finally lightness (a bright court in the Ame…
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