The school said in March that it was likely to close, but after more than $4 million in donations, the 149-year-old institution says it can open in the fall for one more full year. But it wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]The school's recently fired artistic director, students say, "abused his position of power, touching them inappropriately or making sexual overtures that include inviting one student to a se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]While some authors say the fiction can help people learn how to resist and persist, Black people in the U.S. say it's more of a mirror. "Assume where America has always been is a tragedy. Wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]It may be closed on its 65th anniversary, but that's the only appropriate choice. "For me and many Southern California residents, Disneyland is more than a theme park; it is where I go to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]At the centenary of his birth, NPR has an appreciation of those he mentored and his influence on the music world of today. "Isaac Stern's tombstone simply reads, Isaac Stern, fiddler. These …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Morgan Bullock's TikTok videos went viral, and then came the backlash. The dancer diplomatically says, "I think people use the term appropriation without understanding what it means." Plus, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]It's just too, too weird. "To someone living exclusively online, many of Freud's "primitive beliefs" would be literal truths. The dead live on in their videos and social media feeds. Thanks …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Opening with socially distanced audiences on August 1st? Not likely, say theatres. "For most theatres it will not be economically viable to reopen with 30%-40% audience required under social…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Natasha Trethewey, former poet laureate of the U.S.: "When people talk about how getting rid of [Stone Mountain] would be erasing history " well, the monument itself is already an erasure of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Sapardi, an influential poet and cultural critic, founded the Indonesian Literary Scholars Association and served as a dean at the University of Indonesia. One author: "As long as I've known…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Sure, people might pay $20 for a concert " but will they do what's even better, what the Met would like them to do? "The recitals are intended to stimulate donations. 'Fund-raising ebbs and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]At least partially " the biggest ad buyer this year on the social media giant has decided to pull its Disney Plus and Hulu ads, probably, along with hundreds of other advertisers, over conce…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]The graduating MFA class of 2020 at the Oregon College of Art and Craft has, to put it mildly, been through some things. But they may be the only graduating MFA class in the country to have …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]Last week, Netflix suddenly decided to "reveal" its Top 10 movies of all time. Hm. "The catch was that Netflix provided the ranking and the numbers itself, meaning there was no way to verify…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]What's that about? "Are these enablers true believers or just cynical opportunists? Do they believe the lies they tell and the conspiracies they invent or are they simply greedy for wealth a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]There aren't many in England, even in the capital city " and it took two years to raise the funds for this one. "Price's latest statue will be one of very few in Britain of black female subj…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]It's hard to settle on a bop when there's no one to bop with and no place to dance to that bop. "This level of turnover has not been seen since 1990, the year before Nielsen SoundSc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]OK, we just miss it. A lot. "It's a different absence than the loss of indoor theater, partly because of how fondly we cherish summer traditions. But as the director Anne Bogart said in a ph…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]The author of Room says, "I generally go out of my way not to be timely or to try and capture cultural moments. It's very peculiar "- Irish Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]Museums will not open on Monday, or anytime soon, says Governor Cuomo. "We're not going to have any indoor activity in malls or cultural institutions. … We'll continue to monitor that situ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]Uhm. British government regulations are that singers and musicians stand three meters apart, or (for singers) back-to-back, or side-by-side (in other words, not in rows on risers). "If the c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]Bloodletting was a normal treatment at the time, but not the best practice for someone who probably had pneumonia, or so a new study says. " The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]You'd think living during a plague (The Stand, The Walking Dead, Domesday Book) and a time when unmarked federal agents are kidnapping people off the street (Little Brother, Hunger Games) mi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]London: "Emptied out by coronavirus during lockdown, the City was the perfect place for socially distanced, government-mandated walks. And beneath its streets are the bodies of innumerable p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]Despair about the state of the world, a little rosé, and voilà : "Orlean sent 27 entertaining, if typo-infused, tweets (read: "I do r e we. Know who is I my house") that careen from th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]While Spain's figurehead monarchs went to the movies in Madrid, the Catalan government shut down Barcelona theatres and other mass gatherings (though it's awfully hard to shut down Barcelona…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]When you have to ask yourself, "Am I actually dying to see this movie?" it might be too early for the theatres to reopen. "Infections are still going up in many states, and there is no feder…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]A new streaming documentary does a lot more than set jazz dance into context " it asks the ballet and dance communities to restructure what they consider "foundational." " Dance Magazine
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Why? Well … drive-in movies and a summer that's full of actual horror as well. "It turns out that inexpensive horror flicks, which have been part of the Hollywood ecosystem as long as cine…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]For the new Beethoven piece, 323 musicians and choir members will perform remotely " and during Proms, most performances will be from years past (though there's a faint hope some final perfo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]It's not the language teachers, especially the English-language teachers from places like the Philippines, who are getting paid poverty wages. And what of apps? Uh … "Language 'learners' o…
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