Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Four of Tanztheater Wuppertal’s dancers, including veterans and new members, talk about enterting the very different artistic worlds of Dimitris Papaioannou and Alan Lucien Øyen. " …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Sean McFate: “For a man in my profession, there’s much to love. Like war, things usually go horribly wrong in opera. For instance, take Verdi’s La forza del destino.”…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]“At the Edge of Night, by Friedo Lampe, was first published in 1933. … The [Nazi] regime objected to the novel’s inclusion of homoerotic content, and its depiction of an interr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]Nate Freeman recaps the story of financier Jho Low and 1MDB, the enormous Malaysian government investment fund whose billions were diverted into the personal accounts of former prime ministe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]“Mr. Baker, along with the syndicated columnist Art Buchwald, was one of the best-known newspaper humorists of his time, and The Washington Post ranked his best-selling autobiography, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]The Merriam Theater, which the Kimmel acquired in 2016, was the city’s most uncomfortable, problematic major venue, and the plan for fixing it involved partnering with a developer who&…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Kevin hart blew his chance at the Oscars, and nobody wants to replace him; Rihanna and Cardi B both passed on the Super Bowl; the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has become so fraug…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]“A British touring production of [the old Christopher Sergel adaptation of] To Kill a Mockingbird, which was to start next month, has been canceled after Scott Rudin’s company At…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:17AM[SHARE]“[The company has named] the beloved hometown prima ballerina Viengsay Valdés … deputy artistic director, which means she will immediately assume the daily responsibilities of runni…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]“Part of the excitement of being a critic was that I never knew when a work was going to undo me in this fashion: to leave me so intoxicated that, when writing about it hours or days l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]“With its centennial year approaching in 2022, the Barnes Foundation is on a path to raise $100 million by that celebratory anniversary, its leaders said Tuesday. The campaign has quie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]No, they aren’t audience engagement personnel, at least not in the usual sense. The Opera House has a couple of very popular places to eat outdoors, and the place is right on the harbo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]“Britons went to the cinema 177m times in 2018, the highest number since 1970, when hits including M*A*S*H, Love Story and Airport helped attract 193m admissions … The lack of a Star…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]I don’t know exactly how many chapbooks, folios, broadsides, and poetry cards Cold Turkey Press has published, but it must be in the hundreds. All of them " produced in handmade, illus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]Toward the end of last year someone asked what was the most important reason for arts organizations to embrace community engagement: economic viability or cultural justice. But those issues …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]There aren’t many props in dance. Some may intrude on classical ballet; otherwise, anything that gets in the way of bodies is considered clutter. That’s not the case with Bourne&…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 22, 2019
“The world’s top specialist for tour laundry, [Hans-Jürgen] Topf has traveled with many of the world’s biggest music acts, including Madonna, Pink and Beyoncé. As tours h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]“‘Oftentimes people get put into this position just because they were a star performer,’ says Sacramento Ballet artistic director Amy Seiwert. But leading a healthy, thrivi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]“Called ‘The Equity Project: Increasing the Presence of Blacks in Ballet,’ the three-year initiative, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is a partnership between Da…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]An Arts Council England-funded program called Creative People and Places “aims to increase arts participation in places where people are less likely to take part in arts activity”…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Describing her as “a terrific director of actors whose comedy can lacerate,” New York Times co-chief film critic Manohla Dargis reviews May’s career, from her 1971 directin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Historian and biographer Kathryn Hughes recounts the improbable career and character of Lee Israel, a talented and diligent biographer who turned into a talented and diligent criminal, alcoh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Both films received ten nods each, including Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress. The Roma nominations are making a bit of history: it’s the first Netflix original …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Director Sheldon Epps: “There is language in this play that you may have heard in a CNN report the night before. … It’s always been about racial issues; we’re just height…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]The leader and a researcher from the Performance Without Barriers project write about how, always working with disabled performers themselves, they’ve adapted VR technology to augment …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]“Scala Radio, a station designed to have a more casual and youthful approach than its established rivals [BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM], with a focus on film scores and work by modern co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]Art dealer John Brandler, who paid an unannounced sum in the hundreds of thousands of pounds to the garage’s owner, says that he met with officials from the city of Port Talbot (where …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]“The death of the Forward‘s print edition, and the slashes to its masthead, cap off decades of financial bleeding.” The publisher says the paper has run at a loss since 194…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]“[Founded in 1897 and] once known as The Jewish Daily Forward, the [Yiddish] publication first put out supplements in English in the 1980s and started a weekly edition in English in 19…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]Opened in 1960 as the home of the Canadian Opera Company and National Ballet of Canada as well as a venue for rock, jazz and other concerts, the O’Keefe Centre was renamed the Hummingb…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]The show, housed at another Rio museum, the Palace of the House of Money, features fossils found in Antarctica. Eight of the items on display, including a pterodactyl bone, were recovered fr…
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