Friday, December 28, 2018
“There have been breakthroughs and positive changes in the dance climate this century. They’ve made me happy. Yet, Cassandra-like, I foresee ills ahead. … We’ve now enter…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]The chain, which has appointed administrators from KPMG, has been wallopped by online sales and streaming; it had an unusually weak Christmas shopping season this year. Customers with HMV gi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]“Nationalism " taboo for half a century following World War II and the fall of Mussolini " is suddenly in, as every possible political dispute is cast in chauvinist hues. Culture had l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Last year’s tree arrived half-dead, shedding needles and nicknamed Spelacchio (“Mangy”) " yet people grew so fond of it that they attached handwritten notes to it and creat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]With a big Piero della Francesca exhibition at the St. Petersburg mother ship and exhibitions, exchanges, and even satellite museums abroad and regional Russia, Mikhail Piotrovsky, compares …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Although I gave Andy Warhol " From A to B and Back Again (to Mar. 31) a mixed review last week, one focus of the Whitney Museum's widely praised extravaganza particularly interested me. It's…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48AM[SHARE]"A woman trapped in domestic boredom moves toward a nervous breakdown. Institutionalized, she attempts to create a performance for a shortly expected visit from her children, but can find no…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 27, 2018
This “cheeky literary salon” (ahem) has been taking place for six years in an east London gay bar: curators pick readings on a particular theme and willing audience members (of v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]There were new finds of art from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Mesoamerica, as well as discoveries of art tens of thousands of years old in Indonesia and South Africa. Two stolen painting…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]“Insatiable in his cultural cravings, all-embracing in his tastes, unreserved in his opinions, O’Hara was in many ways Gorey’s intellectual double, down to the fanatical ba…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]The plant-based aromatics are known to most people through the story of the Three Magi and the Christ Child, and frankincense is known to some through the incense used in some churches, but …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]A reporter travels to the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to meet the conductor and musicians of the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra and its choir as they rehearse Mendelssohn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]“Bale’s startling transformation is just the latest step forward in Hollywood for a booming prosthetics industry. For years, prosthetics were deep in the uncanny valley, making a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]When Denise Murrell noticed that art historians’ discussions of Édouard Manet’s painting Olympia always mentioned the model for the naked white courtesan and never mentioned …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]Sure, the purchaser of Girl with Balloon Love Is in the Bin claims to be happy with the unexpectedly altered work for which they paid $1.4 million. But, as certain observers point out, the s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]As rare as it is for touring Broadway shows to visit the island, there was little doubt that Miranda would take his hit to the place where his parents were born and raised and where he visit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]“Carme Font, a lecturer in English literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, has been awarded a €1.5m grant by the European Research Council to scour libraries, archi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]“Ms. Zall was known for vivid portrayals of women drawn from history, including Mary Queen of Scots and the French author who wrote under the pseudonym George Sand, as well as fictiona…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Jacob Padrón: “When I’m thinking about what plays to put on stages I ask: one, does the story reflect the community I am in and, two, is the story in conversation with the wor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]“On 29 October, for only the fifth time in the church’s thousand-year history " but the second since 2000 " water penetrated its main body, covering the inlaid marble floor in fr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]First, the orchestra is gradually making all its historic scrapbooks (with concert flyers, program booklets, newspaper articles, etc.) available online. Second, a new touch-screen terminal c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]“[She] toured the world with the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, performed with the Ballet Theater in New York and then gained acclaim on Broadway in the World War II-era musicals One T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]“Caracas-based AM Danza works with 50 young Venezuelans who are pursuing their passion for dance despite limitations like broken spines, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome or blindness.R…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 26, 2018
When a team of research psychologists asked subjects to describe where in their bodies they experience various emotional states, they were surprised by just how consistent the correspondence…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]In Ivo van Hove’s multimedia theatrical adaptation, the broadcast control room is a glass booth built into the set, and stage manager Timothy Semon calls the entire show from inside of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM[SHARE]Rebecca Onion: “In mid-December, as I struggled to keep my own toy purchases under control, the idea of 19th-century children constructing their own playthings " probably by the fire, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Victoria Eugenia Henao, widow of Pablo Escobar of the MedellÃn drug cartel (yes, Millennials, he was even worse than El Chapo), says that Salvador DalÃ’s The Dance accomplished s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]“The seanchaithe were Ireland’s traditional storytellers, itinerant poets, entertainers and historians who travelled the island regaling audiences with ancient lore. They thrived…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]“Before its official closing in 1992, St. Liborius was declared a City Landmark in 1975 and recognized as a National Historic Place four years later. Today, it exists as a shell of a c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]“The Lighthouse Guild sent a letter to students in June " in large print, for the visually impaired " notifying them that [the Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School] would…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]And if that’s not surprising enough, he chose as his subject a local Nutcracker. Why? Well, in Europe he grew quite tired of the Christmas chestnut, but over here, “Nutcrackering…
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