Thursday, February 7, 2019
“James Haskins, managing director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, will take the same title at the Guthrie,” and new development director Mollie Alexander Hogan comes from K…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]The gift from Rockefeller’s estate is the largest in the museum’s history. “[His] mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, was one of the founders of MoMA in 1929, and he carried …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]“In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, his son Matt Salinger has finally revealed, definitively, that his father never stopped writing and that almost ‘all of what he wrot…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]Young’s Greenwich Village music store, the Folklore Center, “was also equal parts hiring hall; Schwab’s Pharmacy, where young hopefuls awaited discovery; matchbox recital s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]“The controversial initiative, which is due to launch on 1 May [at the rate of €3], applies to day-trippers … From early 2020, the fee will rise to between €6 and €…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]“Workers at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada went on strike on Tuesday over claims that the museum's wage policies are unfair. According to members of the union CUPE Local 15, tensi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]The Crypt Sessions in Harlem, always a thoughtfully-curated series, offered a concert on Tuesday night with the kind of repertoire, venue, and penetrating performance that yielded fresh ques…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AM[SHARE]It was déjà -vu-all-over-again when I returned yesterday from a California sojourn to the "news" about how permanent-collection installations in the new MegaMoMA (my sobriquet, not theirs…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Ezra Brain: “Even as representation increases, there doesn’t seem to be much evidence of a truly and uniquely queer theatrical culture " which, for this argument, I am defining a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]“Wally Feresten, who runs the cue card department for the show and has been there for decades, explains everything from how cast members can tell their lines apart, why they’re w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]Philosopher Simon Critchley visits the Athens park that’s still called “Akadimia Platonos” and ruminates on what the site and its ancient proprietor were and were not " and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]“Lincoln Center, which has been buffeted by leadership churn in recent years, has looked to Broadway and academia for its last two presidents. They didn’t take. Now it is looking…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]“No culture and few individuals live without ritual. … And here’s the thing. Rituals work " even for people who say they do not believe in them. [Researchers have found that] r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PM[SHARE]Mamet’s upcoming play Bitter Wheat centers on a very Harvey Weinstein-like studio head, and Steven Berkoff is preparing a one-man show about Weinstein himself. Lyn Gardner is not havin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]The piece by conceptual artist Jennifer Rubell is simple enough to describe: an Ivanka-look-alike performer, immaculately dressed in pink, repeatedly vacuums a pink carpet as visitors toss c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]“To mark the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which barred states from denying voting rights based on gender, the Philharmonic has commissioned new works by 19 female composers, eight…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]“According to Drexel, museum, and city officials, the university would oversee pruning the vast number of objects " there are more than 100,000 items in the collection " to a ‘ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]First, who was the Dark Lady? Most likely, it was a black brothel owner in London known as Lucy Negro " whom actress and poet Caroline Randall Williams took as the inspiration for her 2015 b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]“At first glance it would seem to be the strangest of business models. But when Cassa Pancho, 40, decided to found Ballet Black in 2001, to give much-needed opportunities to black and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]“Roomful of Teeth is a kind of lab experiment for the human voice. Its eight singers cover a five-octave range, from grunting lows to dog-whistle highs. Three have perfect pitch, all h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]At the museum on Monday, “[the three partners] present[ed] five digital prototypes that harness artificial intelligence to make use of images of objects in the Met’s collection. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]“[Oligarch Leonid] Mikhelson is spending around $300m to transform a former power plant near the Kremlin into a 20,000 sq. m museum designed by Renzo Piano. … GES-2 will be part of a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]“During an era in which scholars developed increasingly specialized interests, Dr. Rabb adopted a sweeping academic approach, ranging from economic history to politics to painting, emp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]There are about 30 of these tiny theatres in the city, and they seat 25 to 50 people and can run as small as 170 square feet. And they, along with every other private sector venue, have to p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]For many of us, a free tree sounds like an unequivocally good thing. Why would anyone not want one? It turns out, as a nonprofit in Detroit learned the hard way, that there are a number of r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 5, 2019
For nine months in 1969-70, Native American activist John Trudell made weekly broadcasts from the shuttered prison in San Francisco Bay, programs that aired on Pacifica Radio stations in Cal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]It was on Valentine’s Day of 1999 that the Ayatollah Khomeini issued his notorious fatwa decreeing that author Salman Rushdie should be executed on grounds of blasphemy for the novel, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]The worst fire in California destroyed Trudi Angel’s ballet school in Paradise, along with costumes and sets for the Nutcracker she’d been putting on there for 33 years (and alon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]“Recently, activists have begun to apply increasing pressure on a number of leverage points in museum systems: leadership and curatorial staff, financial backers, and the institutions&…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]“The distress sale of its building to Johns Hopkins University … has become a cautionary tale of bloated budgets and unrealized ambition. The museum has been weighted down by crushin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Synetic Theater, for instance, has had its stage right in the Crystal City complex that Amazon is taking over. “That catapulted Synetic back to its start-up roots, scrambling for place…
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