Thursday, January 17, 2019
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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]“One of Africa’s pre-colonial treasures, the Mapungubwe gold collection, discovered in the 1930s near what is now the South Africa-Zimbabwe border, will take pride of place in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]“The project, ‘Facing Change: Advancing Museum Board Diversity & Inclusion,’ will be supported by $4 million in grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Alice L…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]“After a Banksy mural appeared on his Port Talbot garage last month, Ian Lewis found himself facing a ‘very, very stressful’ battle to protect the artwork from thieves and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Dr. Sherman Hershfield was a rehab doctor from Beverly Hills, who, after his stroke, started speaking in rhymes. He started recounting the Holocaust in rhyme on the bus, and a passerby sugge…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]An evangelical parish called The International Church in the Midlands village of Mansfield Woodhouse encouraged its members to donate thousands (it would be “giving to God”) to d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:04AM[SHARE]She became known in the 1980s for projecting slides and film images into the bodies of her dancers, who performed more often in rock clubs than in theaters; in the 1990s, she made short expe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:04AM[SHARE]That headline may not sound like news, but it is, in one sense. Many occurrences in the world of indigenous art that may not, on their own, make international headlines are adding up to real…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 16, 2019
“The role is wrenching, vocally and emotionally, and [Andrew Barth Feldman] will be the first teenager to tackle it on Broadway. The character is 17, but adolescent boys are often thou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]The 53-year-old Mexico City native, who is also music director of the Louisiana Philharmonic, is accused of paying exorbitant fees to foreign soloists, something both he and his manager insi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]With observations from three New York City Ballet alumni who learned the title role from Mr. B himself, the recently-retired chief dance critic of The New York Times looks at what makes this…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]“Who are Extremely Bad Reviews written for? What do they hope to accomplish? Are they spiteful acts of vengeance, or more principled demands for justice? Are outright slams more preval…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]“In London, it is possible to stage a state-of-the-nation play while remaining vague about the nation you mean. Not so elsewhere.” Just ask the folks at the national theatres of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM[SHARE]“Last year, 77-year-old artist Susan Unterberg revealed that she’s the patron behind this grantmaking outfit” " which selects ten female artists over 40 each year for $25,0…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]When word got around that Aleksey Krasovskiy’s Holiday was a comedy about the Siege of Leningrad, the outrage came thick and fast. So did the threats, all from people who hadn’t …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]Last month, an 18-year-old allegedly ran through the museum’s “Stampede: Animals in Art” exhibit, knocking over a display case and smashing centuries-old sculptures and obj…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]The funds are divided into two grants. The first will help start a new fellowship program to support poets laureate of states, cities, United States territories or tribal nations across the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]“The TravelBass breaks down into separate components for transport in a custom case, and is assembled for play when double bassists reach their destination. Its makers " out of Parma, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]The 45-year-old Cuban was one of the (London) Royal Ballet’s most popular stars in his 17 years with the company, from which he retired about three years ago. He says he hopes to ̶…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]In a statement, SAG-AFTRA [the actors’ union] has claimed that an ‘extraordinary and unwarranted pressure’ is being placed on their members” " that is, that the Acade…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]“The scale of artifacts in question is staggering. Up to 95 percent of Africa's cultural heritage is held outside Africa by major museums. France alone holds 90,000 sub-Saharan African…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Jeremy Geffen, who has been Carnegie’s top artistic administrator for 12 years, succeeds Matias Tarnopolsky, now CEO of the Philadelphia Orchestra. “New York is wonderful,”…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]“[Her] novels and biographies often examined the lives of women as creative forces and as muses, and [she] published an acclaimed memoir that explored her complicated personal history …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]The organization " called Aliph, based in Geneva, chaired by billionaire Thomas Kaplan, and funded with $60 million so far " will work on restoring the museum in Mosul and the fourth-century…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]In “Listen vs. Tell” I spoke of the necessary switch from telling people about our work to listening to them as a pre-requisite for effective communication. As happens not infreq…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2019
“Drag queen storytime began popping up in 2015 in San Francisco and have spread across the country to libraries, community centers, and increasingly, bookstores. … Protests are commo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Joan Harvey sings the praises of the astounding variety of music to discover (and facts to learn) at Concertzender.nl. (We here at ArtsJournal can recommend it, too.) Yes, the site is in Dut…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]“Proust composed by an immensely complex process of writing and rewriting, weaving together passages sometimes composed years apart, filling his margins with additions and, when the ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]Ryan Gilbey points out some of the unintended consequences beyond the usual “it’s called acting for a reason” argument. As one out gay actor put it, “In the current c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]“A one-year, $750,000 grant from the Ford Foundation’s Art for Justice Fund will help launch the Arts and Youth Development Project, intended to serve youth and families at risk …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]“After confiding in just 20 trusted people of his suspicion that a painting in his church was a lost masterpiece, a priest in the small Flemish town of Zele, 45 miles north of Brussels…
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