Sunday, April 14, 2019
How to make sense of Eliot's "Four Quartets"? The choreographer isn't sure, even after years of work. Pam Tanowitz: "It's massive, it's hard, it's abstract. I still don't understand the poem…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]Winn didn't like the way that the academic world tended to get itself twisted into silos, he said, which is why he wrote about cultural life during Queen Anne's reign, the poetry of war, Bac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AM[SHARE]The quickest way to the heart, and all that: "The activists offered pizza and veggie dumplings to protestors and members of the museum's staff in an action far less boisterous than in previo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]OK, fine, everything we thought was good in art from the 1950s and 1960s was indeed funded by the CIA in some way. As for Dr. Zhivago, "Literary propaganda was a company-wide preoccupation. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM[SHARE]Like New Zealand and Lord of the Rings, Belfast became a major tourist attraction thanks to its starring role across eight seasons of Game of Thrones. One local artist who spent a year makin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AM[SHARE]Parents who lost children to the opioid epidemic are pushing Harvard to take the Sackler name off a building that used to host the Arthur Sackler Art Museum. One: "Harvard, we want the Sackl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM[SHARE]Really, why is Odon von Horvath so incredibly popular in Germany right now? Oh: "European directors have rushed to rediscover Horvath, who chronicled the struggles of ordinary people during …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM[SHARE]And also the hot topics of 80 years ago. While Rebecca Makkai won best novel for The Great Believers, "Julia Boyd won the History prize for chronicling the Nazi party's ascent to power in Tr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]That's right, Rae (of Insecure fame) shares the screen with a young woman who conceived of the movie when she was 10 and then executive- produced it at 14. "The bullying that the young [char…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Writers vs. agents heated up over the weekend, and the sides don't look any closer than they were last week. "The contract battle between the WGA and Association of Talent Agents came to a b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM[SHARE]The reality is, the National Theatre is a leader in supporting women in theatre, at least according to one of its lighting designers. "If we want to give voices to women, then we need safe s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2019
Author Philip Pullman says, "Online piracy of books, music, and other expressions of the human spirit needs to be properly understood: it's an offence against moral justice. … It's the ver…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AM[SHARE]Lisette Oropesa "is one of the few opera singers who have been featured in both Opera News and Runner's World." " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]At least this one isn't just Millennials' fault. But seriously, buffets used to dot the landscape in the United States. No longer. "Yelp and Google Reviews and TripAdvisor and all of their i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM[SHARE]Dance to Be Free offers classes in women's prisons in 13 states, and it even trains them to be dance teachers after they get out. But it's not just because dance is nice or because teaching …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:45AM[SHARE]Hm. After lawsuits and countersuits and a lot of bad publicity, the museum deaccessioned and sold 40 pieces of art from its collection, including some Norman Rockwells, to fund a "New Vision…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AM[SHARE]Crickets? Fireflies? Metronomes … and clapping: "Objects with rhythm naturally synchronize." OK, but so what? Well, scientists are finding real-world applications of abstruse mathematical …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:15AM[SHARE]From Ann Reinking to Chita Rivera, from Hal Prince to Shirley MacLaine, the mini-series takes viewers on a tour of mid-century Broadway, and beyond. Here's how to keep track of the (many) dr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM[SHARE]And here's a guide: "These six surprising books " four novels, a memoir and a collection of essays " cover subjects as diverse as grief, loss, history, childhood and Indigenous resistance. T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:45AM[SHARE]Where previous attempts to serve the one percent by showing new movies to them for a high price, a new venture may work because the founders have decades-long relationships in the industry "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM[SHARE]The big winners were the musical Come from Away, which won for new musical, the musical Company, and the play Inheritance, which won for new play. " The Stage (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]Cohen, a 28-year-old jazz piano player, was a finalist the last time the prize focused on jazz " the prize alternates classical and jazz " but won this one after a 14-month process. " The Ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]Rowan Moore has had it with some extremely popular designers. "I like things such as nuance, complexity, multiplicity and depth, in architecture as in other art forms. It seems obvious and f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]The women of publishing in Mexico have had it. In a joint statement published in LitHub, they say, "We will remain firm and united until machismo across cultural fields is no longer normaliz…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]One, for instance, will be "working on a project that deals with unequal birth outcomes and maternal mortality for pregnant and parenting black people in the Bronx." Says an assistant commis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM[SHARE]As K-Pop and Spanish rappers start to climb the charts, the utter stranglehold of English over pop is starting to relax a little. "The idea that the [English-speaking] public would listen on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 7, 2019
Is Bob Fosse one of your artistic heroes? Perhaps it's time to join NPR host Scott Simon in letting go of that idea, in learning more about Gwen Verdon, and in understanding how creative par…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30PM[SHARE]The Chinese media company is way more than "The Spotify of China" " it's "a mash-up of music streaming and social networking, enabling users to listen to music, sing with friends, and buy di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:00PM[SHARE]The extension came right before the original deadline of 12:01 am on April 7th, "after a Saturday afternoon meeting with a small group of talent agents, at which the agencies said that they …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:30PM[SHARE]At the Sugar Hill Restaurant & Supper Club, owner Eddie Freeman and his family have seen every kind of music and dancing from disco to house music to whatever the white hipsters now gent…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:00PM[SHARE]The dance of translation can be difficult and sublime, but the author and translator(s) can never forget (or sometime forgive) the fact that "translation is not only a two-way but a three-wa…
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