Wednesday, December 26, 2018
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Sherrie Silver: “Donald [Glover] is somebody who likes to learn, so that made my job easier. I changed the choreography quite a few times. It was really complicated at one point, then …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Karen Hao and Will Knight “fed plot summaries of 360 Christmas movies, courtesy of Wikipedia, into a machine-learning algorithm to see if we could get it to spit out the next big holid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]“[The Swedish firm Made by AI] fed 100 Christmas songs into a neural network, then waited for the bells to start ringing. While the resulting tunes are kind of a jingly mess, the title…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The official residence, known as Los Pinos, had been off-limits to the public ever since it was built in the 1930s, but new president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has opened it to the pub…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]“Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love.” (Robert Indiana)“It never came to mind: ‘Maybe I’m not good enough.’ I never thought like that.&#…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]An analysis of the situation in the English city of Bath, which steadily reduced its arts grants over a decade before ending them entirely last year, shows that such local funding leveraged …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]He played key supporting roles in The Stepford Wives, In The Heat of the Night, and The Exorcist, and he directed the film adaptation of The Trip to Bountiful, but his biggest impact was pro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AM[SHARE]As the director of what is currently the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag says, “The [Dutch] ‘G’ is a very strange sound for people from abroad.” Not to mention that most of t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AM[SHARE]Rifftides readers have asked the staff to again present Jack Brownlow's Christmas recital  that first appeared here in December of 2015. We are delighted to do so. " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24AM[SHARE]If you liked Black Panther, listen to the music that introduced and embodies Afro-Futurism. Photojournalist Marc PoKempner captured a bit of the celestial magic of the Sun Ra Arkestra …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24AM[SHARE]Friday, December 21, 2018
A pair of architectural history buffs bought this 377-square-foot apartment in a 1932 Constructivist building in Moscow, restored it, and furnished it with copies of avant-garde Soviet furni…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]“Heart of Darkness is, to use today's parlance, problematic. … Whether [the novel] is ‘offensive and totally deplorable’, as [Chinua] Achebe insisted, or a searing critiq…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]“Latinx theatre and theatremakers in Chicago are consistently ignored, erased, or misunderstood by both critics at mainstream publications and the city’s one major awards body, t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Elmar Hashimov writes about how he and his peers, the last generation of kids to grow up in the USSR, watched still-illegal American films (and learned English) on VHS tapes, dubbed on the d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]“‘You’d think so,’ says the poet and aphorist Don Paterson. ‘But there’s absolutely no evidence of it.’ As he sees it, the aphorism is a different t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PM[SHARE]“From his early short essay ‘A Christmas Dinner’ in Sketches by Boz (1836) to his incomplete ï¬nal novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), in which an uncle appears to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]In 1955, Shepherd co-founded Compass Players with Paul Sills, and, as one comedy historian put it, “Without David, no Compass. Without Compass, no Second City.” Which means no No…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]“American critics called Mr. Moffat a consummate pro who could play any supporting role from Shakespeare, O’Neill, Ibsen, Beckett, Pinter or Shaw, as well as the lawyers, doctors…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]A decade ago, the Shenzen suburb of Dafen produced three-quarters of the world’s supply of oil reproductions of famous paintings such as Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. “[But] what …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]The Rijksmuseum Schiphol was the world’s first museum satellite at an airport, with a rotating selection of ten Golden Age paintings displayed (at no charge) for a few hundred thousand…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Until now, the only tools for telling how long users actually listened to the podcasts they downloaded were the proprietary ones of Apple and Spotify. So NPR developed an open-source tool to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]David J. Skorton, who became secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in July of 2015, is leaving in June to become president of the Association of American Medical Colleges. A cardiologist …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]A company called ReDigi had developed a platform for people to offer their “pre-owned” MP3s and FLACs while making sure that the sellers didn’t keep a bootleg copy for them…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]The Conservative provincial government, under Premier Doug Ford, “has slashed base funding to the Ontario Arts Council (OAC) by $5 million, as well as [$2.25 million] to the Indigenous…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Antony Hamilton, a longtime dancer and sometime choreographer with the company, replaces Anouk van Dijk as artistic director. Joining him as executive director is Kristy Ayre, also a former …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Mark Cantrell “might be the most versatile hire in the organization’s history.” Currently chief of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and a longtime freelance trombonist, he h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]The jazz pianist, not the Star Wars/Boston Pops guy." Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 20, 2018
“In 1957, Ross Bagdasarian had an idea. … The story goes that [he] was down to his last $200 when he took a chance on purchasing a fancy tape recorder " one that could change the spe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]Frankfurt financier Christian Reister and violin dealer Jost Thoene have founded Violin Assets GmbH as a fund that treats Strads, Guarneris, Amatis, and the like as an “alternative ass…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]Most European companies have at least five ranks for their dancers, based on the system developed at the Paris Opera Ballet. Most North American companies limit themselves to corps de ballet…
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