Thursday, May 21, 2020
The Drive-In Festival, conceived by a small group of French movie execs, shows one title a day (“popular director-driven films” rather than “blockbusters or new releases”) for a week…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM“Even before the pandemic, the sprawling company was struggling with bloat and creative fatigue after a consortium led by an American private equity firm acquired it in 2015, and accelerat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMIf, that is, the players remain one meter apart, per current regulations. The research, commissioned by the Vienna Philharmonic and carried out earlier this month, “involved members of the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMThere will be strict rules in place for the time being: audience limits of 200 indoors and 1,000 outdoors, one meter’s distance between individuals, masks and temperature checks required, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM“With a list of conditions that will leave most venue operators scratching their heads, venues can reopen on the basis that a maximum of 30 people – including staff – are allowed in at…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AMAmong the venues receiving the public this week are the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, and the Duomo in Florence — each with its own limits on visitor traffic,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AMTime and again while listening to the new recording of David Hertzberg’s opera, I asked myself, What zeitgeist did this arrive from? What cultural phenomenon contributed to why it was writ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18AM“It behooves us to spend some time considering how we might prepare not just for a new financial reality but for a new social one. It will be important to be and be seen as partners in mak…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12AMWednesday, May 20, 2020
The 3,600-year-old, 6×5-inch clay fragment contains the section from the Epic of Gilgamesh in which the hero recounts his dreams to his mother. The U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security seized it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMBeth Morrison and her company have produced dozens of new operas and music-theater works since they launched in 2005, including such prize-winning, audience-thrilling pieces as Missy Mazzoli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM“[A new course at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts] pairs students with professional technologists and artists to explore questions about the future of live performance and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM“A Spanish court has dismissed an appeal from a psychic who claimed to be Salvador Dalí’s long-lost daughter after DNA results debunked the outlandish theory. Pilar Abel has been ordere…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMIn recent years Chinese developers have been putting up, and opening to buyers and renters, reproductions of such attractions as an English village, a lakeside Austrian town, and a Paris nei…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM“In Venice, a city famous for being visited by too many and home to too few, … [locals] hope the crisis has also provided an opportunity to reimagine one of the world’s most fragile ci…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMThe company, which performs in Fort Worth and Dallas, is reducing its total budget from $10.8 million to $8.5 million, reducing dancer and staff pay on a scale from 5% to 20%, changing dance…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM“Executive director Mark Masuoka resigned from his position effective immediately after seven years leading the Ohio institution. The news came less than three weeks after ARTnews publishe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMAt the State Theater of Hesse in Wiesbaden, bass Günther Groissböck and pianist Alexandra Goloubitskaia gave a recital of Schubert and Mahler before about 200 people in a 1,000-seat audito…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMHere’s a look at the safety measures which the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has put in place for receiving visitors beginning this Saturday. The San Antonio Museum of Fine Arts is followin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM“The corporation is actively exploring reviving the broadcast channel, four years after it was taken online-only, … after enjoying a run of hits – from Fleabag [and Killing Eve] to loc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AMOne of the most controversial acts in the ever-controversial life of Dmitri Shostakovich was his tortured decision in 1960 to join the Communist Party. It is not mentioned in Testimony (1979…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48AMTuesday, May 19, 2020
“Long ago, both jobs and respect were hard to come by for choreographers and dancers. This was especially true for women of color, as well as for modern dance. Respect went more easily tow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMThe moisture that comes out of singers’ mouths and into the air that their fellow singers are breathing seems to be a very efficient way of transmitting coronavirus, as several cases of mu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“Youths see [in speculative fiction] examples of young people grappling with serious social, economic, and political issues that are timely and relevant, but in settings or times that offe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMViolinist Jennifer Koh has been commissioning more than 40 pieces for herself to play unaccompanied on her weekly Facebook Live show. So are other musicians and organizations, from the New J…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“For about 10 years, between the era of Shirley Temple in the 1930s and before Jerry Mathers appeared on TV’s Leave It to Beaver in the late 1950s, Joel Kupperman may have been the most …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“Digital juggernaut Pornhub has offered itself as a streaming partner to Germany’s Oldenburg Film Festival, a 26-year-old indie movie event known for edgy programming and quirky celebrit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“Even when he was a big name, Piccoli was never too proud to play small supporting roles or even bit parts if he liked the screenplay. But whatever the size of the role, whether playing a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMOn the 1910 version of the painting, housed at the Munch Museum in Oslo, the cadmium yellow in the sky and the lake has been fading to off-white and flaking off for years, with light believe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM“North Texas arts organizations tuned in eagerly at 2 p.m. Monday to hear Gov. Greg Abbott’s address regarding ‘Phase Two’ of the effort to reopen the state’s economy, which, they …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM“Despite being well-managed, well governed, and – crucially – able to operate without public subsidy,” says the statement, “we will not be able to survive this crisis,” the coron…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMThis year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, which had already been rescheduled from this spring to August, will now take place in the late summer and fall of 2021; next year’s (art) Bienna…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM 
