Thursday, December 20, 2018
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]“Kant put his finger on the problem when he observed in the Critique of Pure Reason that human reason is driven by its very nature to ask itself questions that it is unable to answer. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04PM[SHARE]Scientists and engineers have been building and programming piano-playing robots for decades. But there's something different about a new robotic hand that tickles the ivories with technique…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PM[SHARE]More than 52,000 people so far have signed a petition accusing Disney of “colonialism and robbery” after it trademarked the phrase (which means “no worries”) in conne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]An Italian man broke down and suffered a heart attack after gazing at Botticelli’s Birth of Venus (ca. 1485) at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence over the weekend. The unnamed man was t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]“In an industry where buying monthly, serialized stories is the norm, TKO is presenting an alternative: binge releasing its mini-series; simultaneously selling collected editions of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]“We have never seen such a mass entry into the public domain in the digital age. The last one " in 1998, when 1922 slipped its copyright bond " predated Google. … [And] we can blame …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]In a memo to staff, Walker said that “the Board and I have agreed that the time has come for me to move on.” (Her contract was due to expire in June; she steps down at the end of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]Jason Zinoman: “The answer has to do with the peculiar nature of stand-up, an art form in which the elephant in the room does not lurk in the background. It stands right in front of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]Jumping off from Boston Symphony principal flutist Elizabeth Rowe’s gender pay discrimination lawsuit, equal opportunity law scholar Nancy Leong and freelance oboist Tenly Williams arg…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]“Tired of suffering defamations in state media publications such as Granma newspaper … as well as official websites from the Ministry of Culture,” said the artist-activist …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]Bach scholar Michael Marissen observes that, throughout the set, the composer has solo instruments do things that, in the accepted order of things at the time, those instruments simply didn&…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]“She began studying at the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1955 when she was just 20 years old … [but] eventually left the prestigious dance theater after six years, during many of wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]His latest mural, which popped up in the Welsh steel town of Port Talbot, shows a child catching snowflakes on his tongue " except that the flakes are actually ashes from a dumpster fire beh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]According to my friend the remarkably loquacious Spanish pianist Pedro Carboné, the "birth of Spanish music" occurs during the third of Manuel de Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12AM[SHARE]What most transfixed me about Mustard Race Riot was not the grim subject matter (which I saw anew through the perspective of our current racially charged moment), but Warhol's uncanny presci…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 19, 2018
The half-goat-half-devil has been St. Nicholas’s sidekick and enforcer for hundreds of years, warning little Austrian children that they’d better not be naughty. Traditionally he…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Phoebe Smith writes what are basically bedtime stories for grownups, 20-to-40-minute narratives that are recorded by actors such as Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley and listened to on an app ca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]They get less rehearsal than the principal cast, they have to keep the lines and (crucially) the blocking straight in their minds while rarely getting the chance to use them, and they’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:01PM[SHARE]In response to reader queries, Pamela Paul explains why Alice Walker was chosen for the “By the Book” Q&A feature, how the interview was conducted, and why the published feat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]“A key challenge for selling stereo was consumers’ satisfaction with the mono music systems they already owned. … Something was needed to show people that this new technology w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]“Today, as I travel around the country giving master classes, … I can’t help but notice my students’ eyes widening as they look to each other wondering who exactly [one o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]A new report from Oxford’s Journalism Innovation Project refers to it as ‘bright, shiny things’ syndrome: a tendency to focus on, and fund, new and perhaps untested ideas s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]Owen Bennett-Jones writes that the network is now so top-heavy with senior managers who are terrified of negative public attention that it takes months to get a project approved " and that r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]Her sitcom, a spinoff from Happy Days, was one of the two or three most popular series on American television in the late 1970s; with Big and A League of Their Own, she became the first woma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]The mural of Ava Gardner on the wall of a public school campus in Koreatown recently drew objections from a Korean group that argued the sunburst in the background looks too much like the Wo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]“Director Gregory Mosher said in an interview that his association with the Roundabout Theatre Company revival " which will star Annette Bening and Tracy Letts and begin performances a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]“The Holocaust cannot stand alone. We decided to send our videographers into Rwanda to get testimony. From there we went to Cambodia, Armenia " we’re doing a critical study in th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]“[The Russian state museum] is harnessing blockchain technology to power a new app that digitises its entire collection of more than 190,000 objects … In what is being described as a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]“The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC SSO) under chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard will perform during the six-day festival, from 30 October to 4 November, in Tokyo and Osaka. … T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]Google Arts & Culture has just opened a virtual recreation of the pre-fire museum, which was completely destroyed in a fire in September. In addition, the Smithsonian has launched a prog…
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