Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Dear SFMOMA and Sotheby's: Have you no shame?It's bad enough for a museum to decide it no longer wants a work that it had specifically requested from its owner. It's much worse when that own…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]"It's where free speech, community interests, censorship, harassment, spam, and overt criminality all butt up against each other. It has to account for a wide variety of always-evolving cult…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]WQXR editor-in-chief Jacqui Cheng interviews Chi-chi Nwanoku, one of London's leading double bassists and founder of the Chineke! Orchestra, and Chineke! bassoonist Linton Stephens. " WQXR (…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]Isaac Iskra, a person with high-functioning autism, writes about his difficult adjustment to his college's dance department (he had a panic attack the first day), his subsequent breakthrough…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]"Shot in a single-take, the [five-minute] dance routine is more than just choreographed steps. It shows off the dancers' individual styles which include voguing, an improvisational dance for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]In 1955, she founded what would become the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet in an old barn in Carlisle, about half an hour west of Harrisburg. "CPYB is [now] known as one of the most presti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM[SHARE]"Edinburgh Fringe theatremakers earned an average of just £392.15 for their work at the 2018 festival, covering a period of as much as 40 days, with fair-pay campaigners branding the figu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]Peter Shannon, who was artistic director of the orchestra for all of its ten years, announced last fall that he'd be leaving his post at the end of this season. But the Philharmonic board sa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]"Mr. Flummerfelt played an outsize, if not always highly visible, role in American classical music. He prepared choruses for hundreds of concerts by the New York Philharmonic and a host of o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]"The long-in-gestation building, which has been designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill and the British theater design company known as Charcoalblue, is expe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]"The announcement on Tuesday of architecture's highest award was seen by many as a long overdue honor for this 87-year-old architect, urban designer and theorist … Mr. Isozaki's more than …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]At least they agree on something. "Female researchers, authors and firefighters in France could soon be known as chercheuses, autrices and sapeuses-pompières after the conservative Académi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]"The elite club of 40 'immortals,' as the members are known, that serves as the official guardian of the French language does not admit just anybody." Indeed, these days they don't admit any…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]Last fall, the culture ministry of Italy's new populist government took exception to the Louvre's plan to assemble an unprecedented number of da Vinci's paintings for a major quincentennial …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]"John Palfrey, an educator, author and scholar with a focus on digital technology … [who is] currently Head of School at the old-line Massachusetts prep school Phillips Academy Andover, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AM[SHARE]Come From Away, a Broadway transfer about the Newfoundlanders who welcomed grounded airlines on 9/11, and director Marianne Elliott's revival of the Sondheim musical Company with the commitm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2019
"He was and remains … a mensch. He is also a very French mensch. He is a touchingly perfect representative " far more than the prickly Voltaire " of a certain French intellectual kind not …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]What museum director would choose to sell from his institution "an important work completed at the apex of Rothko's artistic powers, … one of just 19 paintings completed by the artist in 1…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:57PM[SHARE]In Luchino Visconti's magnificent four-hour film Ludwig, the king is ingeniously cast as an embodiment of the Wagnerian pariah. Is the film a credible re-enactment of history? In writing abo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]Orchestral music's Mr. Maverick and the very avatar of Austro-German symphonic tradition are touring together, playing Mahler (on which they each have longstanding opinions and practices) an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]Peter Marks: "Sometimes, cheap theatrics are redeemed by a memorable line. In the desultorily expanded version of Twelve Angry Men that played out Wednesday on Capitol Hill with Michael Cohe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]"In what seems to be a growing trend, regional companies are coming together to share stages and expand their audiences. These team-ups often go beyond split bills, with companies swapping c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Said the 62-year-old Michael Mael, "I'm at the age where I need some balance. The ballet needs someone who is all in. Somebody who is at every single performance and every single donor event…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]Strange as it may seem today, there was a point at which the network was very skeptical of Donald Trump's campaign for the presidency. Now Fox News personalities appear with Trump at politic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"The anti-vax documentaries had been available in the U.S. as part of Prime Video but as of Friday afternoon were not available to stream. … The move came just hours after U.S. Rep. Adam S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AM[SHARE]The move is part of the museum's 50th anniversary "Open House" inclusivity initiative, which also includes "the creation of a diversity-focused curatorial fellowship (the first recipient is …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]The Tony-winning actress was set to co-star alongside Nathan Lane in Mac's Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus. (The lead roles are servants who have to haul away the dead bodies and clean up…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]The Swedish Academy has confirmed that a second prize will be awarded this fall to make up for the postponement caused by last year's messy scandal. (This had been announced at the time, but…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"The elderly man was traveling from Kassel to Düsseldorf on February 15 when he switched trains at the city of Hamm and forgot to bring his precious cargo with him." The ten-inch-tall jug, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]"Alexander Pereira, the Austrian chief executive and artistic director credited with bringing in more sponsors and creating a healthier balance sheet since his appointment in 2014, said the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]Mind you, the tribunal didn't find that the 27 plaintiffs were unfairly sacked; neither did it say they should have all the rights of Gallery employees (not the same thing as "workers" under…
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