Monday, October 21, 2019
The protest was held at the end of a show sponsored by BP (British Petroleum) to protest the museum's ties to the company. One, a 19-year-old named Eden, said, "Who will there be left to see…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Neda Ulaby on the woman who shaped the course of ballet in the US and also, famously, in Cuba: "To this day, says American Ballet Theatre's Kevin McKenzie, young ballet dancers who want to l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, says that he decided not to worry about what the audience thought, or more specifically thought of Asian Americans. "I had to stop caring. Because even as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Tosches, who had a taste for rock and country (and their far fringes) "and his fellow music writers Richard Meltzer and Lester Bangs were labeled 'the Noise Boys' for their wild, energ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]The elegant young American artist and the surly older French Impressionist inspired each other " and, because both destroyed or left little information about their friendship, a lot of art a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Group up? Spend more money on new, fresh content? Somehow find, and fund, top talent? Everything is up in the air with all kinds of streaming services debuting and European producers wonderi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]The revamped MoMA invited people to visit for free on Sunday, before the official opening. Nearly 10,000 people took the museum up on its offer, and they needed to create new mental maps. "A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]The basic problem? A dashed line (one that violates international law as decided by a court at The Hague in 2016). "Malaysia's censorship board initially agreed to permit Abominable to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Just days before MoMA was set to reopen after its big renovation and expansion, activists crashed both the outside and inside of a preview cocktail party for VIP guests. "The protesters gath…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12AM[SHARE]Assuming there is a future, "when historians of the future chronicle the last days of Britain, a pig's head may enjoy its own footnote." " David Jays
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 20, 2019
The Lyons family of New York were a vital part of New York's Seneca Village. They "were Seneca Village property owners, educators and dedicated abolitionists, running a boardinghouse for bla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]That's right: Fanfiction, with its hookups of likely and unlikely characters, its absolute refusal to live by the rules of the world set by authors like J.K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins, edu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]The hours are good, the patrons can be terrible, the dreams live … for a while. "A lot of actors, directors and writers work front of house, with most of us spending our days auditioning, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]Well, it's because of a brief scene with a map, you see. "It's not every day that a largely forgettable Dreamworks yeti movie can come under fire from multiple national governments for viola…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]The narration begins, "You were too young to lose your mum, and we were too young to organize a funeral. So because we were in Yorkshire, with nowhere else we wanted to be and nothing else w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]Can a madrasa that teaches children of suicide bombers to draw and dance help them get deprogrammed from hours and hours of militant videos? The school is sure trying, but "when they first a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]In Columbus, Ohio, ballerina Rachael Parini was the inspiration for a 90-foot billboard that advertises the BalletMet company, but it means more than that to her " it means that young dancer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]Swings are more than understudies " they have to learn multiple roles within one show. Twenty-year-old swing Debôrah Godchaser, who was barely born when Lion King opened, says she's learn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]The three-story mural, created for the Catholic youth Grace House in New York, has been cut out and preserved for auction. The Haring Foundation is not thrilled by the idea of the auction. "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]A consultant tells the BSO that it needs a "vision" in order to deal with the debt and the uncertain future. The consultant said that "the BSO should be building a blueprint for the next sev…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]The vast majority of Inuit artists, even the celebrated ones, "eke out an existence." Canada's famed reconciliation isn't touching their lives much. "Many support large extended families tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]Jia Tolentino, New Yorker writer and extremely online person, follows the advice of a computer scientist. First thing to do: Give up everything optional on your phone and computer for 30 day…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]Vine and Instagram did it first (and, let's be honest, Vine was great, RIP Vine), and now TikTok is the new way for kids to become social media-famous. How the heck is a school supposed to d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]The choreographer has a new memoir out. In an interview, he describes "the sissy tests" of middle school " and turning those humiliating, degrading moments into dance. " NPR
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]Why did Elizabeth Strout return to her dour, challenging protagonist " and how the heck did Olive Kitteridge become such a cultural force to begin with, a bestselling book that turned into a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]Clark was "an African-American expressionist painter who used a broom and bold colors to capture the natural world and to convey emotions about the racial injustice of the 1960s, earning him…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]Backup dancers aren't very "backup" anymore; instead, like the 16-year-old who began touring with Janet Jackson at age 12 and is now a major social media influencer, they're at the center of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]We regret it an awful lot as well, Dame Julie. But oh, the stories she's accumulated, this one quite early: "I had forgotten to pack my dress shoes, so my mother painted white ballet slipper…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Sure, Peter Handke spoke at the funeral of Serbian war criminal Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević in 2006, and sure, before that he had compared the fate of Serbia to that of Jewish people during th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]This is a bit of a problem for the massive company: "The big question now is whether some of Netflix's existing subscribers will decide to cancel its service and defect to cheaper alternativ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2019
Hockney, as a brash young artist in the 1960s, made some bold moves. "In the previously unknown letter, scrawled by Hockney while he was studying at the Royal College of Art in London, the 2…
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