Wednesday, February 27, 2019
"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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:46AM[SHARE]"The federal lawsuit, filed Monday in Maryland, accuses Epic Games Inc. of unfairly profiting from the 'Running Man Challenge' dance that Jared Nickens and Jaylen Brantley performed in socia…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31AM[SHARE]Most complaints from orchestral musicians about hearing loss deal with gradual damage; this one involves "acoustic shock," sudden damage caused, in this case, by a blast from the trumpets ri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]"She recorded for major labels in the late 1950s and the '60s; toured Europe with Benny Goodman; performed onstage alongside Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Louis Armstrong; and appeared on t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]The Turkish-Kurdish painter and journalist was jailed for a watercolor she made depicting a Kurdish town destroyed by the Turkish military. The charge: "spreading terrorist propaganda." (The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:44AM[SHARE]In a performance at the city's St. Isaac's Cathedral on Feb. 23, "Defend the Fatherland Day," the St. Petersburg Concert Choir sang a cheerful little ditty about a submarine headed toward D.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 26, 2019
The "Deaf and Loud Symphonic Experience" brought together the DSO with a band and percussionist Evelyn Glennie, rapper Sean Forbes and singer Mandy Harvey, among the world's most famous deaf…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:35PM[SHARE]"In a storytelling culture obsessed with bigger stories and higher stakes, climate change should be irresistible. And yet when we try to tell the story " whether it's motivated by politics o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]The hits to the Metropolitan Museum's finances attributable to its previous director, Tom Campbell, just keep on coming. " Lee Rosenbaum
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:57PM[SHARE]Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Co. February 22 & 23The wall to our right is mirrored; a trio can become a sextet, a duet a foursome. The wood floor " golden brown, unmarred, and glowing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:56PM[SHARE]Here's a Flash Mob video featuring a huge number of Muscovites having more fun than may be legal in Russia, dancing to the most joyous and metrically challenging song Irving Berlin ever comp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:55PM[SHARE]"If you paid any attention at all to the run-up to this year's Academy Awards, you might reasonably think the ceremony's producers and network wish they didn't have to do the damn thing at a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:01PM[SHARE]"'Finlay's sexual relations with (Waterbury) were not even remotely connected to his employment as a dancer for the Ballet,' declared the court documents filed Wednesday. 'Indeed, Plaintiff …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]"At over seventy minutes, [Busoni's Piano Concerto of 1904] may be the longest concerto ever written for any instrument. It may also be the most challenging. It demands nearly superhuman sta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"These are happening on works of art throughout the generations " since oil paint was created," says a Smithsonian conservator. They've appeared on paintings ranging from Rembrandt to van Go…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]"If you thought the controversy over library book scanning ended with the Google case, think again. This week the National Writers Union became the latest organization to join the outcry ove…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Stephen Buescher, former head of movement for the San Francisco theater's MFA program and choreographer for several of its mainstage productions, says that he was underpaid for his work and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AM[SHARE]"The head of the planning committee for the Paris 2024 games, Tony Estanguet, announced today that break dancing was one of the four new proposed events. Its inclusion is contingent upon app…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:34AM[SHARE]"You may never have heard the Ken Nordine name, but there is no doubt you have heard him. … [He was] one of the few people in the history of radio to use the medium to its fullest potentia…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]"Researchers examined more than 40,000 artworks in the collections of 18 museums across the US, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Peter Dobrin on the 270-seat hall in the Rhoden Arts Center at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: "New halls take a while to settle in, and this one, which employs an extensive sound…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]Scott Rudin, lead producer of the Aaron Sorkin adaptation now on Broadway and likely to tour eventually, has been trying to block stagings of the older version, written half a century ago by…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]"Prosecutors dropped the rape investigation into allegations by the actor Sand Van Roy who told police in May that she had been repeatedly raped by Besson, 59, during an on-off relationship.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:16AM[SHARE]"Throughout her career, Ms. Zadek was praised by critics for her dark-hued voice, dramatic intensity and fine musicality. Before retiring from the stage in 1971, she also sang at the Metropo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]"In China and Korea, millions of fans make micropayments to writers for incremental updates in their serialized stories." Now a Korean entrepreneur has launched Radish, which offers a simila…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]"How do you memorialize a holocaust that even now, seven decades after it took place, may still not be entirely safe to talk about?" India's Partition Museum, which opened in 2017 in Amritsa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Friday, February 22, 2019
"A half-mile apart on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, two buildings claim to be putting on theater for the PUBLIC, using boldfaced font to advertise their mission. … The Public Theater, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 21, 2019
"Set in an alternate universe during the 2008 primaries, as she fights for survival against a charismatic upstart … [and] unfolding around a pivotal moment in the contest, it examined how …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]In a new production at ACT in Seattle, Juliet will speak English while Romeo will sign. (Interpreters will translate other roles' lines into ASL.) In a process involving several steps, Shake…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2019
The sleeper-hit musical's composer and lyricist, Joe Iconis, has kept around him a group of performers (who call themselves the Family) who've all been waiting for their big breaks together …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]Lynn Nottage: "I've become so known for my tragedies, these very heavy, social realist plays, and I think people forget that I'm a satirist as well and that I can be very, very funny. I thou…
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