Wednesday, January 9, 2019
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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]The 5% increase over last year seems to indicate that the museum’s adoption of a mandatory $25 admission charge for out-of-state visitors didn’t discourage attendance. Even reven…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]“Long before the burglar Vjeran Tomic became the talk of Paris, he honed his skills in Père Lachaise, the city’s largest cemetery … Tomic and his friends turned the cemetery i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]“The Globe’s exhibition space will close following what the London theatre has described as a ‘difficult financial year’, meaning several roles will be restructured a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]“Yorgos Lanthimos’s raucous period romp about a high-stakes love triangle in the court of Queen Anne [received] 12 nominations … Meanwhile Vice, the Dick Cheney biopic …, cam…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]It’s been a bad-news month for the Smithsonian: On Dec. 20, Secretary David Skorton " arguably the most successful, least embattled Smithsonian leader in recent memory " announced he&#…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:04AM[SHARE]No mission statement should be the template for another organization (that’s very nearly a truism for us in the nonprofit world), but being able to see commitment to engagement in the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Eight writers, including Dahlia Lithwick, Kate Julian, and Tyler Cowen, offer their predictions on sex, computers, neo-antebellum politics, China, the Internet, and the Supreme Court. " New …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]“[Today,] conspiracy theories are customized to achieve desired political outcomes and then injected into the news stream via social media. … No, with swiftboating, birtherism, voter…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]“Go to festivals like Sundance or True/False and it feels like we’re living through a golden era of nonfiction film; turn up at your local art-house theater and you’d think…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]“While terms like herd, swarm, and pack seem more or less reasonable, others are downright ridiculous " and that’s probably because they were never meant to be taken seriously.&#…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]Todd VanDerWerff: “We need cultural criticism not just to tell us which movies to go see and which ones to avoid, but to tell us things we already knew but didn’t know how to exp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]To the end of the 19th century, no matter how virtuosic a ballet dancer could be, the leg was not to be lifted above the hip. Emma Sandall recounts how that changed, from Diaghilev through B…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]“What makes this partnership special is not just its longevity, but the nature of support that has allowed Ailey to grow into a stable, globally recognized organization. Unlike many gr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]The 102-year-old actress objected to the FX series’ portrayal of her as a gossipy hypocrite who (this was very important to de Havilland) used dirty words. A California appeals court r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]That’s the project of Toronto theatre company Volcano, which hopes to tour its adaptation " with “an entirely new story” " of Joplin’s 1911 opera to California, D.C.,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]“The [Voice] film poll was a fun and useful snapshot of the year in cinema from a healthy roster of film critics, and it’s one feature that a grieving fan desperately trying to d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]For almost 42 years, the café’s basement performance space had offered a stage and support for jazz, theatre, and other offbeat and experimental artists, from the Afro-Latin Jazz Orch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]After several dry winters in Israel, the earth in the old Roman cemetery in Beit She’an, near the Sea of Galilee, was dusty and loose. So this year’s rains washed some of that ea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]After being passed over for a promotion, Molly Diers resigned from the theater last January, alleging gender discrimination and a hostile work environment. Now both a union-management arbitr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]After years of displaying this 4,400-year-old object face-down, thinking it was a vessel for flowers, curators realized that was actually a vessel of grievous bodily harm: the head of a mace…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Regarded as one of the best harpsichordists of her generation, with a repertoire covering four centuries, from William Byrd through Francis Poulenc, Verlet was especially known for her perfo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]“A study of 2,000 18-to-30-year-olds found that 24% of respondents said they never attend theatre performances, with this figure higher among men than women.” (On the other hand,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Most Paul Gauguin exhibitions show him off as a sensualist who abandoned his family in France to canoodle with young Tahitian girls. So it was refreshing to see Gauguin: A Spiritual Journ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54AM[SHARE]Friday, January 4, 2019
A 25-year-old Air Force vet and translator for a U.S. intelligence contractor, Winner was convicted of leaking a classified NSA report on Russian hacking of US voter databases. For The Inter…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]“Stories that are ability-positive center around real or fictional characters with different ability statuses, not for dramatic reasons, like an abled character experiencing a new stru…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]Matt Zoller Seitz: “These types of guys thrive on attention, and if they can’t get the positive kind, they’ll settle for the negative. ‘Oh, sure, they’ve tried …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]“During a years-long pro bono legal fight, Mr. Begle represented [Ruth] Brown and other R&B artists, helping them claim royalties from past sales, industry-standard royalty agreeme…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]We’ve read about how Khmer royal court dance has been revived (and even queered). Less familiar is the masked dance-drama lakhon khol, which was nearly wiped out, along with the countr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Derek Thompson points us back to the age of the “party press,” when newspapers were funded by political organizations that “treated readers as a group to engage and galvani…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]“The clue for 2 down in the New York Times‘ first crossword puzzle of the new year was nothing unusual: ‘Pitch to the head, informally.’ But the answer stopped many p…
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