Thursday, February 28, 2019
"[His] criticism appeared regularly in publications like DownBeat and JazzTimes. He wrote two books about bebop, the challenging form of modern jazz that emerged in the 1940s. And, along wit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]People seem to devour articles, books, and documentaries about the likes of the Fyre Festival and Theranos; Bernie Madoff and Enron are household names. "Reminding ourselves that sometimes l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]Shonda Rhimes, Ryan Murphy, J.J. Abrams and their fellows are now getting nine-figure production deals, with next-rung creators like Mindy Kaling and Seth MacFarlane landing eight figures. W…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]"Money is a factor. But even a few extra zeroes wouldn't necessarily change the creative process for concert work, where priorities tend to revolve around giving an idea its fullest expressi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AM[SHARE]Among his most famous and historic programs were the 1962 Tour of the White House with Jackie Kennedy; Hunger in America (1968), which shocked the public and led to changes in federal policy…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]"One installation in the show [at Mary Baldwin University] included a bathroom sink with air fresheners " shaped like the silhouettes of statues of Confederate leaders " hanging from it. A m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]"[The $30 million project] will erect three new buildings to support the chapel's ongoing social justice programming and is replacing the building's ceiling apparatus with a new skylight and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]"The Sarasota Orchestra, which has kept its supporters guessing for years about the possible location of a new concert hall, made a pitch to Sarasota city commissioners Tuesday night to buil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]In January, the ever-troubled ballet star caused another stir with some offensive (and incoherent) remarks on Facebook, and he was promptly let go from a guest spot with the Paris Opera Ball…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]"Silicon Valley billionaire, philanthropist and author Michael Moritz and his wife Harriet Heyman's charitable foundation, … Crankstart, has committed to an initial five-year exclusive fun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]"The event, the first of its kind held by the NT, will take place on April 15 in London, and is aimed at 'professional actors who identify as transgender, trans*, genderqueer, non-binary, ge…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]The Arts Council of Ireland released details of its 2019 grants two weeks ago, and Wexford was missing from the list with no explanation or target date for a decision. "When this kind of iss…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]"Devotion, by the Taiwanese indie developer Red Candle Games, was released on 19 February and was initially popular among horror enthusiasts. However, the discovery of a number of hidden jok…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2019
In addition to performing free concerts for every elementary school student in the city's public school system every year, the orchestra has a Diversity Council (created in 2016) that provid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:15PM[SHARE]The orchestra's Conducting Freeman Fellowship program, overseen by music director Mei-Ann Chen and part of its larger Project Inclusion, brings two conducting fellows and two auditors to the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:35PM[SHARE]Opera America's IDEA Opera Grant Program (that stands for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access) "will award grants to teams of composers and librettists of color to support and promote th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:25PM[SHARE]"With IN UNISON Chorus, orchestra leaders made an effort [beginning] in 1994 to … welcome more African-Americans into the predominantly white world of European classical music. … Its mem…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:20PM[SHARE]"This first cycle of funding, totaling $15,000, will go to Lexington Children's Theatre, Target Margin Theater, and The TEAM (Theatre of the Emerging American Moment). The grants, funded by …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:10PM[SHARE]"The New York Community Trust and the Jerome L. Greene Foundation have established a fund to support accessible tickets at 12 New York City theatres. The one-year grants will gift each of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:05PM[SHARE]It's a niche market, to be sure, and one that major auction houses and dealers stay far away from. But there's enough demand to make it worthwhile for a few to sell Hitler's handiwork " or t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]Ned Bennett's galvanic production for English Touring Theatre and Stratford East sets Peter Shaffer's play at the time of the 1973 premiere, and the production's props assemble like a toolki…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]New York Times reporter Walter Thompson-Hernández, a native of Southeast L.A.: "I heard a rumor that lowrider culture " a community with an affinity for cars, outfit with intricate design…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]Now there's a way to deal with the play's violence-against-women problem, and two current productions are trying it: one at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff and the other at the RSC in Stratfo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]"Both the play Minefield and the documentary Theater of War are part of the same project in which [director Lola] Arias, together with veterans of the Malvinas/Falklands War of 1982, reconst…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]"His stand-up style was a seemingly contradictory mix of confrontation and self-deprecation. He would often mock the fact that he was not a household name and had managed to land only small …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]Some of the company's cinematic success is because, with the films as with the toys, "every new product [is] compatible with every previous one; you could just keep adding more and more to y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AM[SHARE]"BritBox will mainly feature archive BBC and ITV shows, alongside new British commissions made especially for the service. There were no details on pricing; the announcement said it would be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]There have been a few previous devices developed using gloves with motion sensors, and a team at MSU has invented a new one using an internal camera and deep-learning AI software. But many i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]"Given the high stakes, and the potential to exert unwanted influence on these fragile languages, researchers have been arguing for years about how to handle them." Some follow a "prime dire…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]Executive director Shane Jewell, responding to a previous Dance Magazine post: "Sara's argument that it's unfair that dancers are the only members of the company that have to pay for a job i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]"The Obama portraits have catapulted the Smithsonian museum to the top tier of the city's attractions by dramatically increasing attendance. The Old Patent Office Building " the historic hom…
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