Tuesday, May 19, 2020
This 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 08:12AMBeans and poverty. Beans and diversity. “Here’s a recipe” leads to a doubtful bean cul-de-sac, no matter how much chopped and shredded you throw on top and shove in the oven till the e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AMOpera America had asked me to speak at their annual conference this year, but of course the conference was canceled and moved online. So I made this video for the online conference, talking …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AMIf we as a nation come out of the pandemic with a heightened awareness of and reaction to profound economic inequality and the systemic injustice in which it is rooted, it could be that the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AMFriday, May 15, 2020
In D.C., you see, it is legal to possess marijuana but not to sell it; there is, however, no law against giving it away. So the enterprising proprietors of District Derp gallery got the idea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMFor decades, most authors writing in French in Africa have had to publish their books in France, partly because of a lack of publishing infrastructure at home and partly because French compa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM“Afrolit Sans Frontières, a series of hourlong readings and question-and-answer sessions held entirely on Facebook and Instagram, kicked off on March 23 and [is recurring monthly]. In the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMIn addition to his triumphs in Europe, he was one of the few French singers of his time to have a big career in the U.S., notably in Chicago and Philadelphia and at the Met, where he sang fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMJustin Davidson: “There is a cohort of artists and presenters who, long before the great contagion, were already rethinking the physical relationships between performers, audience, and spa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMBy the time new Washington Post classical critic Michael Andor Brodeur confesses that he used to listen to Feldman at the supermarket and when stuck in traffic, you might think he’s not im…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMAlexis Soloski: “The glut of new content speaks to the reach and ubiquity of his work, the open-source accessibility of his plays, the confidence that if you do share a snippet of pentamet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM“Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’ first published in 1798, is … the dream-poem of right now.” It’s currently appearing on YouTube in short daily ins…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM“In designing this new organization, Facebook’s leaders … formed a separate legal trust with an initial $130 million investment from Facebook. But they also empowered that trust to bot…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM“It will hear only individual appeals about specific content that the company has removed from the service — and only a fraction of those appeals. The board can’t say anything about th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM“In California, all construction — including museum expansions — has been categorized as essential. While much of the art world is standing still, expansions at LACMA, the Hammer, and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMFlutist Stephanie Winker has been organizing these very intimate events at the airport and in other locations around Stuttgart — inspired, she says, by The Artist Is Present, the project i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM“Set up in the 1960s via international treaty, Intelsat SA has played a critical and often-overlooked role providing connectivity infrastructure for more than a half century so that humani…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AMThursday, May 14, 2020
“Most often associated with the Grupo Frente movement of the 1950s and ’60s, Palatnik was among the first Brazilian artists to take up a style called Concretism, which envisioned formali…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54PMDirk Obbink was perhaps the world’s most admired expert in Greek-language papyrus fragments from the early centuries of the Christian era — which is why he was recruited by Hobby Lobby p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54PM“Scientists at the Charité in Berlin have issued a 13-page paper, at the request of seven Berlin orchestras [including the Philharmonic and the Staatskapelle], advising the distances to b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMHere’s how studios are currently using artificial intelligence to manage operations and workflow, editing, analysis of finances and moviegoer preferences, and “digital humans.” What’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM“The investment is the biggest bet to date made by AT&T to realize the promise of its $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner. … The hope is that HBO Max is built up over the next f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM“While he did take star turns, his many ‘comprimario’ roles, as opera’s supporting roles are known, increased his performance total to sixth among basses in Met history. He sang 62 r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM“Many of the community’s original tenants remain, and with rents for a live-work studio in the building maxing at about $1,200 per month — $1,900 less than the median rent for a studio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM“‘Oh, I hope it holds together,’ he fretted the other morning, between rewrites and rehearsals of In-Zoom, his new 10-minute play. Performed by Irwin in New York and Christopher Fitzge…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMAs if the cost overruns, scheduling snafus and controversy over its holdings weren’t enough (not to mention last month’s tar fire), the opening of the city’s $700 million ethnographic …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMTwo concrete murals, designed by Picasso and sandblasted onto the walls by a Norwegian colleague, are part of a government building that was damaged by Anders Breivik‘s car bomb in 2011. F…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM“The summer closure — the first in Bowl history — following the spring closure of Walt Disney Concert Hall has triggered the furloughing of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (65 musicians a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMWednesday, May 13, 2020
America’s oldest orchestra had the development and promotion of American music as part of its founding mission. Yet, in its first 11 seasons, it played two American works, both composed by…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM“The Baltimore Sun is owned by Tribune Publishing. Alden Global Capital, a New York-based hedge fund infamous for purchasing, then gutting, newspapers across the US, owns a 32% stake in Tr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMKathleen McGuire: “The portrayals of distress can feel clichéd — Lady Capulet writhing on the floor, or, in Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre, the animalistic woman in the attic or the corps …
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