Wednesday, December 19, 2018
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]They’re certainly not at the point of having public performances by women in tights and tutus yet, but ballet classes are becoming ever more popular, for adult women as well as for gir…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]Richard II gives up power " though it's not his choice. Shakespeare stages this concretely " a crown passed from one to another. The supposed divinity of majesty proves portable as a party h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 18, 2018
UK nonprofit Lycaeum Music is raising money “to buy a double-decker bus and renovate it as a space for touring music lessons, workshops and concerts, visiting the most deprived areas o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]Ernie Smith gives a brief history of the very American phenomenon, from its 1949 birth (pitching Vitamix blenders, actually a legit product) through the Psychic Friends Network and Miss Cleo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:04PM[SHARE]“We spoke to 35 filmmakers " directors, cinematographers, effects artists " about the toughest effect they’ve ever pulled off. The resulting stories run the gamut from the comput…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]David Mayer was a lieutenant in the US Army and spent decades living and teaching in Britain. Unfortunately, “David Mayer” was also an alias of one Akhmed Chatayev, a Chechen mil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]“Using historical data, 3D-printed pieces, and architectural software, archaeologist Alexei Vranich from UC Berkeley has created a virtual reconstruction of Pumapunku " an ancient Tiwa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]Dancers from San Francisco Ballet, Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Tulsa Ballet, Boston Ballet, and Ballet Austin tell how their performances have changed over the years and share their key s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]Chad Cooper, a 45-year-old former managing director at Deutsche Bank in New York, left that lucrative job to become executive director of the conservatory, 121 years old but at that point ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]“Darin Webb, the bookkeeper who stole more than $3.4 million over eight years from venerable New York literary agency Donadio & Olson, was sentenced to two years in prison on Monda…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]“[Dance/USA] just reported on the state of The Nutcracker for the first time since 2008, and the data shows just how much the ballet’s prevalence has grown in the past 10 years "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]According to the 2018 Americans for the Arts report, “40% of Americans believe that the White House is not spending enough on nonprofit arts organizations. A majority of Americans (53%…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]Said company CEO Stuart Murphy, “We were founded on the belief that opera is for everyone. Removing cost as a barrier to entry for under-18s is a seismic leap forward for ENO and for o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]For the Times Book Review‘s “By the Book” feature, Walker cited among the books on her nightstand David Icke’s And the Truth Shall Set You Free, which allegedly cites…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]“Over the past 15 months, experts have cleaned and repaired surviving fragments of the 12th-century masterworks, preserving 1,345 square feet (125 square metres) of what was once 21,52…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]Indhu Rubasingham (who’s spent this year dealing with people campaigning the change of her theatre’s name from Tricycle to Kiln), Vicky Featherstone (Royal Court Theatre), Richar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]“Following a short but successful singing career as the lead singer and singer-songwriter with the chart-topping Paradons, Weldon turned to acting in the 1960s. … [He] joined NEC in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]“Pedro Edmunds Paoa said Easter Island had a ‘thousand’ of its iconic statues, known as the Moai, ‘both buried, ignored and discarded’, and lacked the means to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]“Concord Music, which started as a jazz label but now owns song catalogs from classical to metal, said Monday that it would establish a new division, Concord Theatricals, to oversee it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]There was a definite frisson at this year's WOMEX for Toko Telo, a Malagasy trio with two acknowledged stars. " Michal Shapiro
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54AM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2018
Mark-Anthony Turnage redefined British opera with Greek. But that was in a different world: 1988. When the piece arrived at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this month, I imagined it like some …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 16, 2018
Kristin Korb, That Time Of Year (Storyville)Winter holiday albums began showing up in the Rifftides mailbox well before Thanksgiving. They're still coming. It's time to call some of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]Friday, December 14, 2018
Alex Ross goes home to Washington, D.C. to watch Ma’s “day of action,” the meetings with students and community members in poor neighborhoods (in this case, Anacostia) that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]Maddie Gaw, who was part of the selection panel for the first-ever Problematic Play Festival this past fall, writes about what makes plays “problematic” (i.e., subject matter vio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Publisher and editor-in-chief Win McCormack: “Given the current costs of producing a print literary magazine, I have decided to shift resources to Tin House's other two divisions: Tin …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]The Good Chance Theatre was founded in the Calais refugee settlement known as “The Jungle,” where the touring piece by that title was created. Now that the Calais camp is gone, G…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]In 1939-40, Dutch dealers Nathan and Benjamin Katz sold almost their entire inventory, at steeply discounted prices, to the Nazis (among them Hermann Goering himself) in exchange for the abi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]“The artists, from Europe, Australia and the United States, were not given an official reason why their works were rejected for the show … The works, which raise questions about the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]Jim Copp, an erstwhile jazz performer and L.A. Times society columnist, wrote and narrated the stories, sang the songs, played the instruments, created the sound effects, and layered the tra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]“The vast majority of assets and growth lie with a relative few of the largest stations. Every year, the weakest go dark, or they are absorbed. … Or their licenses are spun off for c…
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