Tuesday, February 5, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]“It was horrible, horrible, when I think back, that I did that … It’s awful. But I did learn a lesson from it. I understand that need for revenge, but it just leads to more rev…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]“[The goal is] to reconfigure its galleries, rehang the entire collection and rethink the way that the story of modern and contemporary art is presented to the public. The Picassos and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]The violinist-turned-conductor, who stepped down as music director of the Toronto Symphony last summer after 14 seasons, will be “the fourth conductor to lead the six-week long annual …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]“A survey from the ballet has been arriving in email inboxes with only two questions for recipients: ‘How much does live music affect your decision to purchase tickets to Orlando…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]“Over a career spanning seven decades, Mr. Lee wrote nearly a dozen volumes of historical fiction, but his best-known work was his debut novel, The Flower Drum Song, which brought inst…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]“Mosul’s celebrated museum has not recovered since Islamic State group jihadists ravaged its ancient treasures several years ago, but part of the complex reopened Tuesday to show…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (roughly, “I felt something when I saw that girl”) isn’t the first-ever lesbian movie from India " Deepa Mehta’s indie film Fire came …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]“Doug Putman, who runs the Canadian retailer Sunrise Records, has bought the UK music and film retailer, … [which] collapsed into administration just after Christmas, blaming tough c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]Due to uncertainty over what visa and employment regulations will be in place after March 29, “the English Theatre of Hamburg said it was only interested in seeing actors who held a pa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]“The proliferation of English words on display at the book fair, where the ‘scène YA’ was set to feature ‘Le Live’, a ‘Bookroom’, a ‘photoboo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Buckle your seatbelt and fire up your time machine. You are about to blast yourself back nearly fifty years to a simpler time when America was at war, the country was polarized, a crazed and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18AM[SHARE]I'd never heard of cicerchie, or grass peas, so I read it was "an ancient pulse" " nice vampiric phrase " and that the recipe for Zuppa di cicerchie (Grass Pea Soup)is similar to those from …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12AM[SHARE]After decades of watching the nonprofit professional theater sector play musical chairs with leadership positions, a number of top posts have gone to women, or people of color, or others who…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12AM[SHARE]I am always amazed by the dances that Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker creates for her Belgium-based company, Rosas. To begin with, I'm never sure what I'll see or where I'll have to go in order t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12AM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2019
The Kyrgyz National Opera and Ballet Theatre is funded from the always-strapped budget of Kyrgyzstan, a small and mountainous ex-Soviet republic wedged between China, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:04PM[SHARE]“[Many theater professors] shake their heads about the aspiring actors who have refused to work on material they find harmful or otherwise objectionable. My colleagues sadly wonder how…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Asghar Farhadi has won two Best Foreign Language Feature Oscars in five years: in 2017 for The Salesman and in 2012 for A Separation, which became the most profitable Iranian film in history…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Still Life with Fruit and Chestnuts, in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco since 1960, has been de- and re-authenticated more than once; it had been labeled as possibly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]The Crown Prosecution Service announced, “We do not propose to bring charges [under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959] based on material that depicts consensual and legal activity b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]The Swiss conductor lost his various positions during the winter of 2017-18, after several women came forward to accuse him of sexual harassment and assault. Now the Orchestre national de Fr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]“Vice's copious failings … are exactly the sorts of things that the Academy reveres. Oscar voters love films that pretend to tackle Serious Issues but in fact exploit them as stages …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]“The RomArchive data bank has a collection of 5,000 objects, including photos, texts, videos and sound recordings … Works of art collected for the project include dance, theater, fil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]“When Ariana Lallone left Pacific Northwest Ballet after nearly 25 years, … [she] knew that she wanted to keep performing. Eight years later, look up, and there she is " an aerial ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AM[SHARE]Amélie Wen Zhao asked her publisher to withhold her book Blood Heir after voices from the Young Adult Lit Twitterverse (which is notorious for drama) attacked it for “anti-blackness&#…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AM[SHARE]“For the position, a three-year residency to begin in February, Ms. Tanowitz will create three commissioned dances, including a collaboration with the New York City Ballet principal Sa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AM[SHARE]Admired as much for his unusual communicative gifts (especially in American English) as for his warm and gentle voice, Sylvan began his career in Boston’s chamber and early music scene…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AM[SHARE]“His films, known for scenes of nudity and explicit sex, often centered on the sexual liberation of a female character. … Makavejev’s work " part of a ‘Black Wave’ …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]Last Christmas Day, two men unbolted and carried away a 330-pound bronze gnome from outside an Auckland art gallery. When the extensive media coverage made things a little too hot, they drop…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]With his company, Livent, Drabinsky was one of Broadway’s powerhouse producers in the 1990s (Ragtime, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Show Boat, Fosse, Parade). Then he got busted for financ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]Kurdish-Iranian writer Behrouz Boochani composed his first book, No Friend But the Mountains, one text message at a time from inside the Manus Island detention center in Papua New Guinea, on…
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