Wednesday, September 2, 2020
No, it wasn’t to generate random patterns of movement; rather the contrary, in fact. Ellen Jacobs, for years his company’s publicist, recounts how, at age 70, when his body could no long…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMStudios in the Federation have released at least seven major big-budget movies set during what Russians call the Great Patriotic War just since 2010. Alex Cox has a look at what they say abo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMElif Batuman on watching Theater of War’s online production of Sophocles’s Oedipus the King: “You’ve never really seen Oedipus, I found myself thinking, till you’ve seen it during …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM“[They] led major concerts by Arturo Toscanini’s NBC Symphony, gave the Philadelphia Orchestra premiere of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 8, and led the Metropolitan Opera’s celebrated …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PMHe first came to prominence on recordings by Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano, especially their landmark series of Monteverdi’s madrigals. He then broke off to found his own cons…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMThe world’s most-used online dictionary has, among other changes, capitalized Black throughout; changed homosexuality to gay sexual orientation; revised language around ethnicity, suicide,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMChelsea Ainsworth and artist Kyle Netzeband decided that presenting dance on film or online just wasn’t adequate. So they decided they’d try putting on a series of shows on the roof of t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMLaura Cappelle, a thoroughly bilingual arts journalist and a trained sociologist, looks at the assumptions made and misunderstood by both Ruth Mackenzie and the officials who hired and then …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM“‘This pandemic has devastated so many lives and businesses,’ [general director Tomer] Zvulun said. ‘But it has also been a major catalyst in accelerating our shift to a business mod…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM“The festival said its 26 digital productions, which featured specially staged performances involving about 500 artists, musicians and technical staff, were watched 1.013m times in nearly …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMWay back on August 9, “Margarita” tweeted side-by-side images of van Gogh’s Café Terrace at Night and a rendition of the same scene in Arles by contemporary painter Haixia Liu (not to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMNo one had any idea if people would tune in to all this arts content when the digital floodgates opened in March. Now arts organizations are reporting massive increases in online audiences d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12AM“Battle Instructions is Burroughs the self-styled revolutionary in 1960 at his most historically explicit, the courageous whistle-blower denouncing and exposing moguls, political leaders a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12AMTuesday, September 1, 2020
“He believed, he once wrote, that a mind ‘still inhabiting the flesh’ could reach another mind at great remove. There was an inciting incident in the spring of 1875 (before Twain’s r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM“Powered by an artificial intelligence text generator, the video game [AI Dungeon] can be played on smartphones or computers, offering players a choice of five genres: fantasy, mystery, ap…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM“John Cheever [once] told [an] audience he was ‘one of perhaps ten American writers who are known as the American Chekhov’. The description isn’t unhelpful because it’s used carele…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PMAs protests against the latest rigged election of Alexander Lukashenko continue to rock the former Soviet state, “will the theatre, which has won increasing acclaim on tours abroad but put…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM“[Ruth] Mackenzie was sitting in her office when she learned to her astonishment that she had been sacked for ‘bullying’. She was even more shocked, when [general director Thomas] Laur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM“Exploitative and degrading” is how one Iraqi newspaper described the current draft Memorandum of Understanding between the Iraqi government and the Museum of the Bible along with the fa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMThe CEO chose to take it, that’s how. “Spirit of the Confederacy, a bronze sculpture of an angel holding a sword and palm branch, was removed from Sam Houston Park in June … and is now…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM“Pritzker Prize-winning architect and high-tech architecture pioneer Richard Rogers has retired from Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the practice he founded in 1977. … He is perhaps bes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM“The BBC has looked at whether the licence fee [paid by each household with a television] could ultimately be replaced with a new special income tax, based on the Swedish model for funding…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AM“The Vienna Philharmonic was one of the first professional orchestras to return to rehearsals and performances since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it wouldn’t have been possibl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AMAudience demand for First Nations performing arts is growing. yet, aside from one superstar company (the dance troupe Bangarra), “many independent Indigenous dance and theatre artists are …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM“Orchestras are better than ever” – if you mean that, literally, you mean that in terms of the role the institution plays in Minneapolis or Philadelphia or Boston, it has a bigger and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AMWhile the persistent lag in hiring minorities is arguably a manifestation of museums’ systemic racism, it is also a “pipeline problem” — the relative scarcity of well-trained minorit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54AMMonday, August 31, 2020
One of the most powerful agencies in the classical music industry, Columbia Artists Management Inc. sent a statement to its clients on Saturday saying that, due to the “prolonged pandemic …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMBach isn’t exactly the kind of composer for which Lang Lang became famous. In fact, he’s known the Goldbergs for a long time now, and the piece fits him better than you might expect. –…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48AMFriday, August 28, 2020
In 2011, Hallberg joined the Bolshoi Ballet as a principal, the first American (and one of the few foreigners) ever to do so. In 2019, he danced what would turn out to be his final performan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM“Without widespread consumer awareness that most books are not fact checked, or about which imprints publish which books, there’s no real reason for publishers to care about fact checkin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PMA number of students playing in it thought so — and they felt dismissed, stonewalled, and sometimes threatened when they brought their concerns to festival management. (One student, not lo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM 
