Thursday, April 12, 2018
"Sir Andrew Davis will step down from his role as Chief Conductor with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the end of his contract in December 2019, the Orchestra announced today. The Britis…
SOURCE: www.limelightmagazine.com.au at 07:44AM[SHARE]"As VR technology has gotten better and cheaper, more artists and curators are experimenting with it as a new medium for expression." Reporter Andrea Shea checks out two new virtual-reality …
SOURCE: www.wbur.org at 07:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2018
In Sign Gene, the first feature by deaf filmmaker Emilio Insolera, "the plot centers on an international band of deaf people, who, thanks to a genetic mutation, can channel superpowers throu…
SOURCE: psmag.com at 02:01PM[SHARE]"JRR Tolkien's The Fall of Gondolin, his tale of a beautiful, mysterious city destroyed by dark forces which the Lord of the Rings< .em> author called 'the first real story' of Middle-ea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PM[SHARE]"Shakespeare has at least three tribute accounts, the largest of which, @Wwm_Shakespeare, boasts 158,000 followers. The most popular Oscar Wilde account has upward of 160,000 followers, whil…
SOURCE: www.theparisreview.org at 11:04AM[SHARE]"For almost two decades, self-taught artist Nek Chand worked in secret. In the cover of night, he'd sneak away to a clearing deep in a forest owned by the government on the outskirts of the …
SOURCE: www.artsy.net at 10:36AM[SHARE]"Consider the reaction of another listener: Jimmy Carter. In 1978, the president, not renowned as an especially sophisticated jazz listener, hosted a jazz festival at the White House. Most o…
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 10:05AM[SHARE]"[The Montreal Symphony will] receive a supplemental grant of $7.5 million over five years in addition to the $8.8 million it gets annually from the province ... The Orchestre Métropolitain…
SOURCE: montrealgazette.com at 09:49AM[SHARE]"After more than 45 years working in Europe, changing the face of dance, he has returned to his native America. ... More significantly, since he left his own company in 2015, he has turned h…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 09:34AM[SHARE]"The Writers' Room will be led by Rachel Wiegardt-Egel, the [Los Angeles theater's] newly named manager of New Play Development. A group of playwrights will each receive one-year residences …
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:18AM[SHARE]"The Smithsonian Institution has confirmed that it will work with the Victoria and Albert Museum to set up a joint gallery and exhibition programme in East London, on the former Olympic site…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 09:03AM[SHARE]"Alicia Graf Mack, an educator and former performer with Dance Theater of Harlem and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, will become the director of the dance division at Juilliard ... She w…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:32AM[SHARE]"He performed with modern-dance pioneers Martha Graham and José Limón while still in his teens. At 21, he formed his own dance company, whose members included such renowned figures as Al…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:16AM[SHARE]"The business is horrible, it's been horrible forever and it's worse now because of Twitter and Facebook and YouTube, so legitimate actors that have trained in the profession have a harder t…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:01AM[SHARE]"It has been 250 years since 'modern' circus was born with Philip Astley's invention of the equestrian ring in London in 1768. ... What is often overlooked about that first event is that Pat…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:45AM[SHARE]"The National Arts Stabilization Fund, a consortium of private and corporate philanthropies ... , grew out of her collaboration, beginning in the late 1950s, with a Ford vice president, W. M…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2018
"For the first time in 60 years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has reached beyond its own doors for a new leader ... Max Hollein, 48, currently the director and chief executive of the Fine …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:46PM[SHARE]Says Martha Graham Dance Company artistic director Janet Eilber of Childs, "She is one of the people who truly went in the other direction of Martha Graham, and part of what we do now is inv…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PM[SHARE]"A quarter of the 40 major arts and culture organisations that had to report their gender pay gap details to [the UK] Government this week paid their female staff a higher average hourly rat…
SOURCE: www.artsprofessional.co.uk at 12:03PM[SHARE]Ashley Bouder: "It's as if the image of a man leading a woman into the wings is a metaphor for how the dance world is run. A male director leading the careers of dancers. A male choreographe…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]Natasha Jen of Pentagram: "Design thinking embodies our obsession with prescription. ... We crave prescriptions and mythology in general - as a profession and as a society. ... Prescriptions…
SOURCE: www.fastcodesign.com at 10:37AM[SHARE]Khoi Vinh of Adobe: "Design thinking has a lot of downsides. It can be very superficial. It can be very misleading and the outcomes that it produces can be disappointing. It can lead to bad …
SOURCE: www.fastcodesign.com at 10:36AM[SHARE]Parul Sehgal: "It's constant panic, and guilt, and shame. Also pajamas. No, it's a great gig, I'm not going to lie. ... It's monkish, but if you are into that sort of thing, it's bliss. But …
SOURCE: slate.com at 10:05AM[SHARE]Diep Tran: "There is one question that has been lingering both for me and many other women in and around the theatre: If we're going to stage these retrograde works" - Pretty Woman, My Fair …
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:34AM[SHARE]"'The right function of every museum,' wrote John Ruskin, the influential 19th-century art and social critic, 'is the manifestation of what is lovely in the life of nature, and heroic in the…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AM[SHARE]"More than being Dominican, more than being an immigrant, more, even, than being of African descent, my rape defined me. I spent more energy running from it than I did living. ... And always…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 09:03AM[SHARE]"Don't worry Hugh. There will be no further operas by me that you will ever have to sit through again. I'm done with the genre. Going to leave it my more talented contemporaries and younger …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:47AM[SHARE]"Where might you expect to find William Hogarth's fine and recently restored portraits of William and Elizabeth James, or a lobby-filling Roman floor-mosaic from Antioch that depicts a livel…
SOURCE: www.apollo-magazine.com at 08:32AM[SHARE]General director Bernard Foccroulle credits the festival's artist development program, L'Académie du Festival Aix: "You really have to work with a vision of the long term. We have been able…
SOURCE: bachtrack.com at 08:16AM[SHARE]"Nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and even shortlisted the year before his death, Tanizaki is one of the more prominent figures in modern Japanese literature, and h…
SOURCE: quarterlyconversation.com at 08:01AM[SHARE]"In books, biographies, monographs and program notes, Mr. Guest became one of the foremost authorities on dance in the Napoleonic and Victorian eras and notably on the Paris Opera Ballet. Ja…
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