Friday, January 11, 2019
It is sometimes necessary to specify a third dimension " bulk or thickness " when describing a Buckley painting. The other giveaway that tells you a painting is by Buckley is its rough edges…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 10, 2019
In 1996, when a multimillion-dollar renovation of South Broad Street was completed, sound artist Robert Coburn attached 39 small bronze bells to lampposts along the newly-christened “A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]“In this edited conversation, Ben Brantley, co-chief theater critic for The Times, and the critics Elisabeth Vincentelli and Jason Zinoman aim to make sense of Mr. van Hove’s asc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]The likely answer not only opens up a new avenue for archaeology, it indicates that a highly-skilled medieval art associated with men (chiefly monks) had female practitioners as well. " The …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Following a particularly nasty campaign from certain book critics, Radclyffe Hall’s 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness was blocked from publication and circulation in the UK as “o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]As print designer Jordan Wannemacher says, “You have to have a really strong grid, you have to consider the practical physical nature of the package (is there enough room for your hand…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]“Yesterday, in a unanimous vote, the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA), a PBS affiliate, elected to cut ties with its thirty-year independent charitable fundraising part…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall, who were the TV critics at Tony’s hometown paper (The Star-Ledger) when the series ran on HBO and who have just released a major book about the sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]The Narativ article about the $450 million Leonardo painting and its possible connections with Special Council Robert Mueller’s investigation has gotten a lot of attention this week. I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]It all started years before, when Eric Idle told Mel Brooks he wanted to do a musical version of The Producers. Brooks rejected the idea " then. When he changed his mind later and made gobs …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]“A 2018 study … revealed that for the top 100 fictional films at the box office every year from 2007 to 2017, only 16 female composers were hired, compared with more than 1,200 men.&…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]“Raised in Mexico City, widely traveled, and based in the Boston area since the 1980s, Bensussen is just the sixth artistic director in Hartford Stage’s 55-year history. She is t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Mary Kay and Johnny, starring Stearns and her husband (who wrote the scripts) as a couple not unlike themselves (prefiguring such series as I Love Lucy), told comic tales of a banker and his…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]“[GCO’s] founder, Neal Goren, is back in business " thanks to an unusual collaboration between his new company, Catapult Opera, and Peak Performances at Montclair State Universit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]“The casing stone is from the Great Pyramid of Giza and will be exhibited at the [National Museum of Scotland] for the first time since it came to Edinburgh in 1872. … However, Egypt…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]As of New Year’s Day, the United States, along with Israel, officially left the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. The trigger for this withdrawal, whic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]“Just days into his tenure …, [new president Jair Bolsonaro] has folded it into the newly created ministry of citizenship, a portfolio that now includes social policy, sports, and cu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Dave McKenna In Madison (Arbors)McKenna (1930-2008) breathes life into this album, recorded in the early 1990s at Farley’s House of Pianos in Madison, Wisconsin and only recently relea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Helen Betya Rubinstein: “I am convinced that we can teach creative writing without the language of failure or success, criticism or praise. … Even praise, like any other drug, will e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]“A few malls have art, a very few have good art, but almost none have the button-pushers and immersive installations that the Aventura Mall features. Artists on view include pioneers o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]“Ethical concerns about these advances focus at one extreme on the use of AI in deadly military drones, or on the risk that AI could take down global financial systems. Closer to home,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]New Republic cultural critic Josephine Livingstone: “Kennings are essentially portmanteaus, Old English words made of two nouns that have been mashed together to create a new one. … …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Mark Wigglesworth, former music director of English National Opera, makes the case: “If opera is drama first and foremost, why is the question of the language it’s sung in so hot…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]A reporter and photographer travel to Orlando to see 44-year-old Michael Job acting his role at a Biblical theme park called The Holy Land Experience. " National Geographic
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]Aileen Passloff, now 87 and still working as a choreographer, talks to Gia Kourlas about the 1950s and ’60s, when a new generation was transforming what dance could be; her studies wit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]The problem: “most viewership on Netflix gravitates toward audience favorites that first aired on other networks, which Netflix itself doesn’t own” " which means it could l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]“New York art dealer Mary Boone pleaded guilty in September to filing false tax returns. Now, as she awaits sentencing " which could be up to six years in jail " her lawyers have filed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]The world’s most expensive artwork was supposed to have been on display at the Louvre Abu Dhabi four months ago, and it’s been more than 100 days since anyone (other than some Sa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]The store, known for its wide selection of play scripts and books on theater, had announced that it was going to close after one rent hike too many for its 84-year-old owner. So Miranda, who…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]The gilded pieces of farm equipment, perched like two glowing wreaths, are part of an installation titled Les Saturnelles by artist Claude Lévêque. Some irked onlookers are comparing the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Research has shown that musical activities have a variety of positive effects for dementia patients, but, despite encouragement from the NHS, financially strapped facilities often put music …
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