Wednesday, February 13, 2019
“Imagine a situation in which an American defendant hires a British lawyer for a trial in an American courtroom. The accused then demands that a British interpreter be found. British-A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]“‘There is starting to be an understanding and a sensibility that, in certain cases, the high school market does not necessarily cannibalize the commercial run of a show,’ …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]“The origin story of Be More Chill is already one of musical theater legend. After a month-long run at the Two River Theater [in New Jersey], the creative team … thought the showR…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]“[The orchestra] announced on Tuesday, February 12, that CEO Peter Gistelinck is no longer there but didn’t give a reason for his departure.” Gistelinck came to Michigan in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]“More than half a million visitors a year get lifts up to the 10th floor of the gallery's £260m extension and breathe in fresh air as they look out to St Paul's, or the Shard, or th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]The city has lost a third of its Latin dance studios over the past five years, “in a city that touts itself as a culture-rich salsa town, but that, according to the some of the region'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]Citing practices that “wouldn’t be tolerated in any other industry,” the ArtsPay 2018 survey “reveals that salaries in the sector, which are already low in comparison…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]“Consider recent gifts from the Little Rock-based Windgate Foundation. Roughly two years after committing $40 million to the University of Arkansas to create the Windgate Art and Desig…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]The violin soloist and the hip-hop trailblazer, as well as the peace-through-music nonprofit Playing for Change, will each receive an award of one million Swedish kronor (more than $108,000)…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:04AM[SHARE]“On Monday evening, the union CUPE Local 15 said it had reached an agreement with the museum in its ongoing negotiations over elements of a prior contract, which representatives said e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:04AM[SHARE]There is stuff you expect to find in a garage. A car. Metal shelving, peg board. Strip lighting that tints everything stark and queasy. A toolbox. Gaffer tape. An Amazon delivery box (there'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36AM[SHARE]Morgan's critiques, reviews and album notes were among the most widely read of those by any contemporary jazz critic. " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36AM[SHARE]Gary Tinterow, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has a knack for attracting distinguished staff. After Gary's homecoming to Houston (where he grew up), to assume the MFAH's direc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Oh yes, people showed up, and they asked real questions. Lee McIntyre, author of Post-Truth and one of the three, offers a report. (The hardest part: the six-year-old girl who looked him in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]Mosaics, reliefs and sgraffiti from the days of the USSR are being found behind boards in Almaty and restored. Why did they escape being destroyed, as Soviet artworks were in so many other p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]It’s not simply that romance novels are “bubble gum for the mind” " there’s plenty of that available in just about every medium and style around. In fact, romance nov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Aaron Bady goes through they saying itself and its history to explain why. (For one thing, in Inuit languages, “they can have as many words as they want for almost anything.”) In…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Richard Crafus, aka “King Dick”, was shipped off to a prison in southwestern England as an enemy combatant during the War of 1812. The biggest and strongest man in a segregated w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]“Neuroscientists have some ideas of about where these [physical responses] come from " essentially neurological reactions to being pleasantly surprised … Music's ability to trigger m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]“[Video game company] Rockstar’s version of American history is not for the fainthearted. The developer took pains to make Red Dead Redemption 2 as historically accurate as possi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04AM[SHARE]“Much as Hamilton gave America's founding a progressive cool factor and became the quintessential Obama-era musical, [Heidi Schreck’s] What the Constitution Means to Me captures …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]“Ellie Cosgrave, a lecturer in urban innovation at University College London, is collaborating with Theatrum Mundi to look at how choreographic methods could improve urban engineering.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]In All In A Row by Alex Oates, “a puppet portrays the character of Laurence, who is described as ‘autistic, non-verbal and occasionally violent’. … The play has faced a b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Yes, seriously: the Danish director “intend[s] to turn all 13 of the films he’s made so far into diamonds and to present them at art institutions across the globe. … A museum v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]“Gary Crofts, 68, claims that he has been plagued by depression and anxiety since a half-tonne section of stage curtain fell down near him without warning. The incident happened during…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]The project, designed by Norman Foster and his firm, has “add[ed] 12,000 square feet of gallery space, along with new classrooms, a restaurant, a sculpture garden and a 210-seat audito…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]“[He] leaped between genres and mediums, crafting works that included anti-Vietnam War posters, darkly comic children's books, a mischievous reworking of The Joy of Sex and a cat-shape…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]“Over the course of the more than half-century of relentless experimentation that followed, Ryman radically expanded the possibilities of abstract painting, continuously rethinking how…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]“An annual statistical report, published on Tuesday by Arts Council England (ACE), showed slow progress in representation of people from a black and minority ethnic (BME) background, a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]A welcome surprise: I had no idea that veteran pianist Fred Hersch and the relatively new piano star Sullivan Fortner had worked together. " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18AM[SHARE]It wasn't the usual impersonal voice reminding those of us sitting in the Joyce Theater to please turn off our cellphones, Instead, we who were waiting to see Camille A. Brown and Dancers pe…
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