Tuesday, January 22, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]In his foreword to an upcoming book by a Baconian, the award-winning actor and former artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe writes, “I continue to be regularly and passionatel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AM[SHARE]Visitors who had scored timed entry passes for a Martin Luther King Day pilgrimage to the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in DC were out of luck: Its doors r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:04AM[SHARE]Not a happy post, but a useful one: here are the hundreds of musicians and music industry activists who died in 2018, as compiled by photographer-writer Ken Franckling for the Jazz Journalis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:04AM[SHARE]Friday, January 18, 2019
“The filmmaker Jean Renoir made a career of dismantling the beliefs of his absentee father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Jean satirized the aristocracy and upended his fatherR…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]A widespread belief of the 15th century held that the bite of a tarantula could only be treated by wild, mad dancing; groups of people would be possessed by a compulsion to dance, and towns …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]“In its first era of popularity, [Lydian] was all pop and pulp, but now it seems reserved for the task of adding just the slightest bit of a smirk to extremely straight-faced endeavors…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]“Theatre has the power to help us recognize the social forces that we have created as a society and allows us to envision how we can change them. To incite positive social change and c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]“The history of children's literature is a shocking affair, offering death, murder, abuse, death, racism, death, and damnation. … For most of history, authors have used their words t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]“[She and the film have] started a national conversation about inequality, the treatment of domestic workers and who is welcome on the red carpet in a country where Indigenous women ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]“The new director’s name could be released any day now. And we have some theories about who it might be.” Lauren Wingenroth runs down a list of ten possibilities (though sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]“The Museum of Contemporary Art announced Wednesday that it will close its Pacific Design Center location next month after exhibiting architecture and design at the West Hollywood sate…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]In The Trial, Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa and his team use only rare, recently-discovered film (with sound) of a full 1930 show trial in Moscow. Masha Gessen explains just how fitting…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]“The cultural secretary’s office admitted that the [earlier report] relied on information in a public government database that, in effect, converted the guest performers’ f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]Well, it’s one thing to do if you find a Banksy on your property one morning. The garage’s owner, Ian Lewis, has sold the piece, Seasons Greetings, to the Essex-based Banksy expe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]“Often compared to her literary idol Ralph Waldo Emerson, with whom she shared an abiding interest in the natural world, Ms. Oliver combined a precise, unfussy style with an almost rel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]Eventually, the centuries-old string instruments for which this Italian city is famous will become too fragile to play. “So that future generations won’t miss out on hearing [the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]The creator of Hamilton, playing the title role in the musical’s high-profile run in Puerto Rico, was in the middle of the song “My Shot” when he spotted someone recording …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]Video of the 2013 derailment and explosion of an oil-tanker train that killed 47 people in the town of Lac-Mégantic features in both Netflix original productions, and, despite heavy critici…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AM[SHARE]Administrators in the UK culture ministry took proposals for specific projects of up to £7 million. The first five winners, to share £20 million, are the Thames Estuary, Wakefield in Y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AM[SHARE]"Get updates about our exciting new future," proclaims the homepage of the long-dormant NAD, which closed its doors to the public on June 1, 2016, at the age of 190, with the stated intentio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2019
A look into the backstory of a quartet that became two rare things: a star classical percussion group and a genuinely hip chamber ensemble. " Ludwig van Toronto
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]“A contract between management and musicians expired Tuesday night as they continue to debate whether shrinking the BSO’s season from 52 weeks to 40 weeks a year is the best path…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]“When he dances, he soars; in life, he swerves into self-doubt. Yet Mr. Stanley, a shy and self-effacing mixed-race 27-year-old gay man, has become one of the company’s most valu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]The British harpsichordist and conductor, who currently leads the Academy of Ancient Music (which he leaves in 2020) and begins a stint as artistic partner at the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Kyle Buchanan: “One of the academy's oft-stated priorities is to trim the telecast to a slim three hours, and with no monologue nor a host to keep cutting back to, the proceedings shou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]For eight years now, a pair of Yale professors, Sarah Demers (particle physics) and Emily Coates (ballet), has taught a course called “The Physics of Dance.” “Their partner…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Jozef Czapski was a Polish officer fighting the Nazis in 1940 when he and his fellows were captured by the Red Army and shipped to a gulag (and thus barely avoiding the Katyn Massacre). To p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]“Jackson asserts, reasonably, that if the cameramen of the Great War could have shot in color with sound, they would have. But such choices are trickier historically than they may seem…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]“We have a rich picture of the beginnings of language, thanks to decades of scientific research with children, infants, and even babies in the womb. But if you wanted to know how langu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]Dan Vo leads groups on #QueerMuseum tours of Cambridge museums and the V&A, pointing out things like an Antarctic explorer’s scandalized notes on male-on-male penguin sex and a …
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