Wednesday, August 26, 2020
“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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM“Built in the 1250s as part of Henry III’s rebuilding efforts, the L-shaped structure” — called the Great Sacristy — “housed sacred items, including chalices, altar linens and ve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM“The top-level statistics are impressive: few other industries can boast sustained engagement with 98% of the population. The survey shows a significant rise in both the number of Australi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM“All three theaters are nonprofits in New England, where virus cases are low. The region has already been home to the first two outdoor productions featuring union actors during the pandem…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AMTuesday, August 25, 2020
Some of the most influential modern comedy in any medium was created for radio: “Who’s on First?“, Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life, The Jack Benny Program, BBC’s The Goon Show and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“A statue of Mary Magdalene housed in the chapel of Saint Pilon in the Var, in southeast France, has been destroyed by vandals apparently unhappy with her lack of clothing. The perpetrator…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“Cinema’s integration of image, word, and music promised a fulfillment of the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or ‘total work of art,’ which Wagner propagated at one stage of his career.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PMSpencer Kornhaber: “So-called diva antics never canceled the careers of, say, Christian Bale or Aretha Franklin. Yet DeGeneres may well be held to a different standard than other entertain…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PMWell, what answer did you expect to find in a newspaper column? Nevertheless: “It might be difficult to grasp that writing a magazine cover [story] could appeal more than featuring on it, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMEarlier this month, more than 60 former students at Ballet West, a boarding school in the Scottish Highlands, accused Jonathan Barton, the school’s vice-principal and son of its principal,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM“As the novel coronavirus takes its toll on businesses all over the world, many well-meaning consumers have flocked to local community bookstores. However, increased demand on these small …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMThe dismissal of 50 out of 180 full-time office employees is “the latest in a stream of cost-cutting measures designed to help the orchestra weather a prolonged hiatus from live performanc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM“The theater said it has given $1,000 ‘financial relief payments’ to 368 people including technicians and crew members like carpenters, truck drivers, engineers and programmers; teachi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM“At a time when museum leaders across the country are being challenged on whether their institutions are systemically racist, few are confronting as many thorny issues as [Salvador] Salort…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMFriday, August 21, 2020
“At the height of its popularity in the late 1980s, circulation reached 1.2 million copies per week. Headlines like ‘Bigfoot Kept Lumberjack as Love Slave’ ruled its covers. A team of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM“By day Dr. Bernard was an English professor at Long Island University, a job he took in 1959 and held for more than 40 years. By night he was a central figure in the experimental theater …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM“With the virus still on a rampage, many of the age-old, hands-on ways of training musicians, dancers and actors have had to be tossed out the window or, at the very least, drastically res…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMLeave it to the ingenious Dutch. With both the Rotterdam Ahoy conference and exhibition center and the city’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen closed due to the pandemic, the two institutions…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM“It’s easy to pin the current squabbles on the coronavirus. Look more closely, and you’ll see evidence of deeper frustrations at play that marketers and media outlets have known about …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMIt’s American history’s oldest mystery: in 1587, 100-odd colonists sent by Walter Raleigh settled on Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Within a few weeks, the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:02PM“It was not immediately clear how many shows would be eligible for consideration. Twenty plays and musicals opened during the abbreviated 2019-20 season, but a few might be deemed ineligib…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:04PMOn the day in March when the Bay Area got lockdown orders, Berkeley Repertory Theatre called the cast of Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, which was still in re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:02AMAs one of the authors of UCLA’s annual Hollywood Diversity Report put it, “There are almost no people of color in the film industry who have the power to say, ‘This movie is getting ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMDirectors UK (the Brit equivalent of the Directors Guild) has published Intimacy in the Time of COVID-19, a new set of guidelines for the planning, staging and recording of sex scenes, start…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMResearchers at the University of Bristol used 25 professional singers of various genres as subjects, having them speak and sing at various levels, and found that singing at a conversational …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMThursday, August 20, 2020
As New York City’s major museums prepare to reopen, the experience of the the first major U.S. art museum out of the re-starting gate — the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which intrepidly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32PMA series of collected strips, in a new English translation, about the funny little Gaul and his fellows resisting the Romans is now being released in the U.S. That’s bringing new attention…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMIt’s not news that the Khomeinite doctrines that drive the Islamic Republic’s authorities are dead set against dance, music, and any other way that women might display themselves to the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM“Admittedly, preschoolers, Zoom and opera don’t immediately sound like the makings of a successful project, but each installment I watched of Opera Starts With Oh! — helmed by director…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMMycologist? That’s mushroom maven to you and me. The late composer was fascinated by the fungi throughout his life, often foraging for them and at one point making money selling his finds …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM“Earlier this week, leading German epidemiologists from the prestigious Clinic Charité published a revised study suggesting that the opera houses and concert halls should allow every seat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM 
