Monday, July 22, 2019
But the 16-year-old says she wants to focus on what she's passionate about " and she wants ballet to change, "to be a welcoming place for everyone and step away from traditions that can be h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]In some locations, local councils " whose library budgets have been slashed for years by the conservative government " are paying for security guards instead of library staff. "'It's a folly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]Before running the NEA and, briefly, the Metropolitan Opera, Southern was the first executive director of the Theatre Development Fund. Though Broadway producers resisted the discount TKTS b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]Zora Neale Hurston, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead " all influenced by their mentor, Franz Boas " changed the way we think about human relationships. "The anthropologists had a revolutiona…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]It's the first time a Bard on the Beach production has been set in India " and that's a boon for Sarena Parmar, the woman playing Helena, who grew up one of very, very few kids of color in K…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AM[SHARE]Camilleri picked up the Sicilian-Italian mystery series mantle almost by accident: At 69, he thought he was a "sloppy" writer who would be served by trying to write mysteries. To put it mild…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]Should a theatre prof be responsible for taking her students to a play that has scenes with violence and rape? And perhaps more to the point, does theatrical responsibility extend to warning…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]There's a very strict pecking order for art asks, of course. It's kind of a big job, especially with a new government. "This week, the climate and humidity-controlled store room in the bowel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]Bossa nova had a golden age, ushered in by its creator, João Gilberto " and "the reign of bossa nova " as it was originally intended " was brief. It was an engagement with and a rejoinder…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]Blockbusters as recent as Suicide Squad and Pets 2 had 18 months to two-year marketing campaigns, but now? People don't want to wait that long, and they actually get annoyed. Now, four to fi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]The short answer: Money. Longer answer, well, still money: "The reason for the sudden glut is not only that documentary makers have been inspired by the surprise success of documentaries suc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32AM[SHARE]At multi-day music fests, just like at Disneyworld, cashless wristbands prepare the way for 'gamifying' listeners' experiences. And sure, it's for pop music now, but could this also be the f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 21, 2019
It's a longstanding thing " consider the ways that Clytemnestra became "an archetypal domestic murder plot" after the play premiered in 458 BCE. "Killing Eve is just the latest example of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]Maria Kachetkova is classically trained, and danced with American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet before striking out on her own " and learning some new techniques. "I thought it wou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Writers and agencies are locked in a battle over who should reap the benefits from packaging fees " "the longstanding industry practice of talent agencies taking fees for putting together a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]There are two ways to do become a stonecarver in France " travel around to different work sites, apprenticing, or get a degree (the latter is less "mythic" and somewhat more friendly to wome…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]USians, unlike Europeans and many others around the world, historically do not like dubbed movies. But Netflix wants to change that with newly dubbed movies and high-quality actors. Will it …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Some samples: "2. So clearly this is a town for cats, created by cats"hence the Milk Bar. But what kind of milk are they drinking? 3. Cow milk? Do cows exist in this world? How would cats, w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Well, there's this: "Mueller report read-a-thons have become acts of civil disobedience, a way for artists to register their discontent by leveraging their most valuable currency: celebrity.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]The government of Germany is now " yes, many years after the 1945 looting of art in Munich " making some attempts to recover the stolen and re-stolen art. "It is belatedly reporting the 1945…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Yes, that Disney spectacle was indeed The Lion King, and A Strange Loop's Michael R. Jackson spent years working as an usher for the runaway hit. He says, "Being an usher was pretty brutal, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Yes, writing can be lonely " but producing a published book is a community affair. " The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]The "lunchtime battle of wits" at the Algonquin Hotel prepared a generation of socially conscious writers (especially the most famous of them all, Dorothy Parker) to take on the forces of is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]San Diego Comic Con, like the moon walk, turns 50 this year. And, wow, things have changed. "More than 130,000 people are expected to attend this year; they're here for comics, yes, but also…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Golub was concertmaster at the group's founding in 1972, and he shaped the sound and direction of the group through choosing the musicians, until he retired from Music of the Baroque in 2006…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]One of the artists wrote to Hyperallergic, "As a mother to a 2-year-old daughter, it terrifies me that my work is currently part of a platform that is now strongly associated with Kanders' t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]The deal, which includes harassment protection and a ban on private, in-room auditions, also "recognizes performance capture as covered work and includes coverage of dubbing, which applies t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]"All I managed to say was: 'It's over.' … There will never again be a Fidelio like this." " Joe Horowitz
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Wyman wandered New York & Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s "to capture compelling images of everyday people working, playing, idling, dancing or selling newspapers." Her work for Life,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]"Morris plays delicious games with Satie's variegated material." " Deborah Jowitt
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Sure, there are a lot of mothers (or, as The Guardian has it, mums) in opera, but Rosa Mamai in L'arlesiana has a command and power that's all too rare. " The Guardian (UK)
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