Friday, August 28, 2020
A 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 01:24PMRichard Lawson: “If the reason for my hesitancy to go to a restaurant or, when New York theaters are open, go see a movie is safety, then is it a bit, I don’t know, morally compromised t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMAmong the artists whose works he bought, exhibited, and donated to museums (and to some of whom he paid regular stipends) were Thornton Dial Sr., Lonnie Holley, Bessie Harvey, Mose Tolliver,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM“We do not think we should exist, because we do not believe prisons should exist,” says a member of Liberation Library, founded in 2015 in Chicago and serving incarcerated young people i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM“So reflexive is applause, it can be easy to forget how powerful it is, what makes it important enough to fake” in performances and sports events without live audiences. “Applause is a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM“Jujamcyn Theaters, the operator of five Broadway houses, has sued its insurers for denying it millions of dollars that the theater company says it deserves as payment for the losses suffe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMThe Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo houses more than 250,000 rolls of film and employed some of the continent’s best film-restoration technicians. Over the 19 months since Bolsonaro ab…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM“Just over a year ago, San Diego Opera gathered 40 opera industry artists and cutting-edge technology designers from around the country for a first-of-its-kind Opera Hack weekend, with the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMFrans Hals’s Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer (1626) was taken by robbers from a small museum south of Utrecht in 1988 and was not recovered for three years; it was pilfered again in 2…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMOne of the primary benefits of this pandemic is that artists and arts organizations were all forced to experiment – even though they didn’t feel ready. This wide-spread spirit of experim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18AMThursday, August 27, 2020
“More Americans are buying Bibles they read less — if ever — and reading Bibles they didn’t buy because they’re dipping into verses here and there online …, according to the find…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PMThe Richmond Ballet is foregoing its annual cashflow lifeline because the piece simply involves too many people to be done safely while the pandemic continues. But the company’s Studio Ser…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM“When a team of archaeologists deep in the deserts of Sudan arrived at the ancient site of Jabal Maragha last month, they thought they were lost. The site had vanished. But they hadn’t m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM“The 29-year-old Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has become the youngest author ever to win the International Booker prize, taking the award for their ‘visceral and virtuosic’ deb…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMThe New Zealand Symphony, Royal New Zealand Ballet, and Auckland Philharmonia all say that key members of their companies, foreign nationals who were abroad when the COVID lockdown began, ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM“The men, who have been charged with copyright infringement conspiracy, were accused of being members of the Sparks Group, a sophisticated piracy outfit spanning several continents … [th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMWhen Canadian Opera Company general director Alexander Neef accepted the appointment to run the Opéra national de Paris from 2021-22, he was cutting short his Toronto contract by four years…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM“The incident took place on December 28, when Shakeel Massey, a Spanish architecture student, punched Picasso’s 1944 painting Bust of a Woman numerous times. He held metal padlocks and w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMCurrent licensing rules for free-to-air commercial TV broadcasters in Australia require a set number of hours of original, locally produced drama, nonfiction/news and children’s programmin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM“If a successful cultural transformation can be defined as the moment when you can finally stop counting heads, the first sign of that may be when you realize that at least there are heads…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMAfter thirty years at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, Hetty Berg is taking the helm of an institution which is, thanks to history, both highly visible and loaded with baggage. The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMMy goal as guest editor of Lynne Conner’s blog for the next six months is to share and respond to what I’m seeing happening during this crisis through the lens of the audience. Every day…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12AMWednesday, August 26, 2020
Either Max Hollein and Daniel Weiss, the director and president of the Metropolitan Museum, were knowing participants in Yoko Ono’s mischievous potshot at their august institution, or they…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06PM“The organization plans to celebrate its 35th anniversary … with a reimagined season of new commissioned digital works, outdoor performances and online premieres of some of the company�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM“The book, titled Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story [and now dropped by Bloomsbury India], claims that the riots were the result of a conspiracy by Muslim jihadists and so-called ‘urban…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PMThe world power that is 21st-century China likely wouldn’t exist as we know it if an ingenious and tenacious computer programmer named Wang Yongmin hadn’t solved that very basic, very co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PMSaba Sahar, who is a senior police officer and an activist as well as a performer and producer/director, was shot in her car or her way to work. She was comatose for 20 hours but is now out …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM“Under the plan, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to hold august institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Carnegie Hall accountable for hiring more members of historically margina…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM“On the surface, that no doubt sounds idiotic — economically, socially and in just about every other way,” writes the L.A. Times classical music critic. “It’s not. It is the simple…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM“Trained in Hungary and the Soviet Union, Mr. Rabovsky and [his wife Nora] Kovach created a sensation with their technical virtuosity and an energetic style virtually unknown to Western au…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM“The Whitney Museum of American Art on Tuesday canceled an upcoming exhibition after artists of color objected to the institution’s having obtained their work through discounted sales la…
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