Monday, June 10, 2019
Kathleen Breene Combs has been with the Boston Ballet for decades. now, she's packing up her pointe shoes, putting on the business shoes, and moving to Rhode Island's Festival Ballet Provide…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Oh, you thought it was cool, or even OK, that [SPOILER ALERT HIDDEN] is ruling Westeros? Let's think of alllllll of the reasons why that person is a mass murderer who may rule for hundreds o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]We didn't used to worry or predict it, aside from religious prophets. Then came the idea of progress. "The Enlightenment gave humanity the idea that we might make things better, that perh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]The Telling Project works with veterans and their families to create devised work all over the country. How does that work, really? "We are using our decades of training as artists to transl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Returning to the book itself is something of a tonic against despair, but: "We are living with a new kind of regime that didn't exist in Orwell's time. It combines hard nationalism"the diver…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"Over the history of our big and small screens, audiences have been treated to thousands of variations of whiteness. White people have stood in as the face of humanity's fullness and complex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]It doesn't seem entirely likely, but artists, activists, and even a judge have asked the museum to try. "They accuse the central London gallery of helping to launder the oil industry's image…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Basically, Hadestown. Sure, it didn't win all 14 awards it was nominated for, but eight's not bad. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2019
In 2001, the music industry "faced an existential threat" because its "vanquishing of Napster turned out to be a pyrrhic victory: the genie had escaped from the bottle. Dozens of filesharing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]Just take a look at Shrill or Fleabag versus, oh, Game of Thrones, or Chernobyl. "Over time, length came to be correlated with quality, and with TV auteurs who declined to have their genius …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]The U.S. permits shocking abuses of privacy online. Why? Well … "Congress's earliest attempts to regulate computing in the 1980s and 1990s were embarrassing." " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]"Deep into the symphony, Symphony No. 6, there is a paradoxical passage that, when played, no one will be able to hear. This is because Tchaikovsky scored it to contain a musical illusion. W…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]Svetlana Alexiévich published Voices from Chernobyl in 1997, 11 years after the catastrophe. Now, a new HBO miniseries is bringing the story to life for a new generation " "but for Alexiév…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18PM[SHARE]Laura Stearns, the survivor, says it's a bit too late. "They should never have made the motion to begin with. … It was an insensitive choice and it's grown bigger." " Minneapolis Star-Trib…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:30PM[SHARE]Reading the history of this week of YouTube announcements, discussions, demonetizing of right-wing accounts, and the subsequent high-profile, high-volume, high-intensity harassment campaign …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph are two of the funniest stars out there, but on Russian Doll and Forever, they're forced to put that humor to use in the middle of some pretty intense situati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]The dazzling, dense, glorious career of the New Orleans musician. " Howard Mandel
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Will Harry Potter and the Cursed Child get a sweep? Will Hadestown dominate in the musicals? Here's what New York Times readers said, and at the link in this post, find out what Los Angeles …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Twyla Tharp revivals bring to mind how we understood her 40 years ago. " Deborah Jowitt
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]Linda Fairstein published 24 books after retiring as a prosecutor, but the new Netflix series When They See Us shows her "determined to see the boys convicted, regardless of inconsistencies …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]One young woman who is at "the university of Mickey Mouse" " that is, working in communications for Disneyland Paris " says that fluency in idiomatic English is a must-have for business. If …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]A University of Washington professor worked hard to get the overlooked and forgotten 1957 book No-No Boy republished through the university press, and it's become an Asian American literary …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]In short: "Hers is an art of shape-shifting and disguise, artifice and camouflage. It draws on high and low culture: European and Hollywood films, 1950s television sitcoms, art history, high…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]The author, or is that "the author," of a new book that emerged from a diary found in 2004, says that she learned to write while reshaping the diary into a book, and that there's a certain c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Nancy Meyers and Mindy Kaling agree that this is clearly related to gender. Look at Wes Anderson's kitchens and dining rooms " or have you noticed articles about them? " Variety
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The opera will go back to concert productions of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust next year, because, well, the production that was scheduled was way too demanding. The Met "decided not to re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]It's only been 137 years since the builders, who had no permit, apparently, broke ground for the massive, and massively complex, masterpiece cathedral. Will it be finished by the year the wo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Re the return of Tales of the City for a Netflix generation, she says, "I hope that it does what the arts do, which is it makes you feel less alone." And re the show Ozarks, which films in G…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Jefferson, author of On Michael Jackson: "Am I chagrined and shamed that when I wrote my book I couldn't push myself to acknowledge that this damaged man was almost certainly a sexual predat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Harvey Fierstein (who prefers a riot of color): "Superstition demands that a dressing room cannot be decorated until the reviews are published. It's the old 'counting your chicks before they…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2019
A new study says that, at 18 major U.S. museums, with 10,000 artworks analyzed, the numbers are overwhelmingly clear. "The study found that 85.4% of the works in the collections of all ma…
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