Wednesday, February 20, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Ai: “When I see your earlier work, the models that look like you crumpled up a piece of paper that you were going to throw out, I think that's a breakthrough.” Gehry: “You …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]“Books have used the ‘XYZ: A Novel’ format since the 17th century, when realistic fiction started getting popular. The term ‘novel’ was a way to distinguish the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]“Soundies” were three-minute musical films meant to be played on jukeboxes, and Lee starred in more than 100 of them. In a career that stretched from the age of nine to this past…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]“‘Spain’ and ‘September 1, 1939’ would be variously revised and amended before Auden finally excised them altogether from his corpus, the first because he saw i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Think that’s a ghastly idea for a Broadway show? So did audiences in 1971, when try-out audiences in Philadelphia and Boston hated Lolita, My Love so much that the Broadway run was cal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Scholar of comedy Matthew McMahan: “Just as Michel Foucault encourages historians to look to moments of rupture and discontinuity when trying to decipher how a culture thinks and acts,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]While other nations have had traditions of blackening the face to portray a particular character (e.g., Holland’s Zwarte Piet), “a man named Thomas Dartmouth Rice first brought A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke: “What we struggled with, I think, was putting too much focus on a narrow prestige lane. I don't think we had diverse-enough points of view in the s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]“Less than two years after an acquisition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it had handed over a first-century BC gilded coffin to the Manhattan district attorney fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The most famous of collegiate a cappella groups, the Whiffenpoofs were an all-male outfit until a decision last year to choose singers based on voice range (still tenor, baritone, and bass) …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]“We didn’t lose our funding. … It was something I did. I approached the board. I told them the last thing I felt I had time to do was create, to make ballets. They agreed. This…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]François Ozon’s By the Grace of God, which just won the jury prize at the Berlin Film Festival, is based on the case of Father Bernard Preynat, who went to court to delay the releas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]The orchestra’s board launched an investigation into conductor Matthew Savery after 14 people, including musicians, former staffers, and board members, sent a letter complaining of bot…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]“Valecia McDowell, incoming chair of [local funding body] the Arts & Science Council, said the local arts sector is at a ‘crisis point.’ To make up for steep losses in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Among the items found are meteorites, bones of an ancient human and dinosaurs, gemstones and minerals, and pre-Columbian artifacts. (Curators warn, however, that some of the 2,000 items may …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Ausdance National, the country’s advocate organization for the art form, has been presenting the honors annually since 1997. This year, in response to deep cuts in government funding t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Edward G. Robinson was Hollywood’s first major art collector, and in 1939 he and his (first) wife and son had a family portrait done in pastels by Edouard Vuillard. La famille d’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]What is your favorite key? Assuming that it's not Z-minor, you will find it in the video below, as vibraharpist (vibraphonist, if you prefer) Terry Gibbs explains in his introduction. –…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]Seemingly the go-to journalist for scholars seeking to debunk the painting's attribution to Leonardo da Vinci, Darya Alberge wrote about “an apparent snub from the Louvre in Paris, whi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]Friday, February 15, 2019
“I’m a street dance choreographer. I do street dance on street dancers. I’ve never set an hour-long piece on any other company outside my own, and definitely not on a moder…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]In the Victorian Era, if you wanted to break up with someone around Valentine’s Day, or if you simply wanted to let that special someone know how much you detest them, there were cards…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]Sian Alexander, executive director of the Lyric Hammersmith theatre in London, writes about how, as part of the organization’s Green Strategy, three hives were installed on top of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:02PM[SHARE]“[Lenny] marched in Selma with Harry Belafonte, he brought black conductors to Tanglewood in the ’50s and in the ’60s integrated the Philharmonic by hiring violinist Sanfor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]“In fact I have the show to thank for discovering electrical muscle stimulation (EMS), which uses electric current to amplify your workout and actually builds muscles much faster than …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]The Herald offers visualizations, in situ on the tiny peninsula in Sydney Harbor, of half a dozen of the runners-up in the competition to design what was meant to be Australia’s new na…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Rojo: “I wanted to do a classical ballet from a new point of view, and I wanted the hardest one … I had seen the Björk film Dancer in the Dark, and I kept thinking: This is Giselle,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]“Sahan Journal is the brainchild of Mukhtar Ibrahim, who began his career as MPR's first Somali-American reporter before joining the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He … said he wants Saha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]“Paperbacks had existed in the U.S. since colonial times, but in the 1930s were limited mostly to poorly made ‘pulp’ novels. … [Betty and her husband Ian] started out as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AM[SHARE]“Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians voted on Wednesday evening to authorize a strike that would begin on March 10, if contract negotiations are not resolved. … At issue are pension…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AM[SHARE]“A landmark pay-discrimination lawsuit filed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s star flutist, Elizabeth Rowe, has been settled out of court after successful mediation between the…
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