Thursday, August 20, 2020
“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“In such an expansive catalog, encompassing films from more than 40 countries, the relative absence of African-American filmmakers stands out. There are, for example, more directors in the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“The theaters are mostly small, and it remains unclear how calls for change in the industry will (or won’t) affect life at larger institutions, many of which have been programmatically a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“Female film critics contributed 35% of the film reviews across print, broadcast and online outlets, up 1% from 2019, according to the report, titled Thumbs Down 2020: Film Critics and Gen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMA German couple going swimming in the Grand Canal. An Austrian breaking the toe off a statue when he climbed on it for a selfie. A French woman writing her name in felt-tip pen on the Ponte …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AMWell, as long as Jersey, 14 miles off the coast of France but 85 miles from England, counts as the British Isles. “The designs were scratched into small ornamental tablets known as plaquet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AM“The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California has ruled that the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation in Madrid is the owner of Camille Pissarro’s 1897 painting Rue …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM“People have been saying to me, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry you had to go through that!’ Well I’m not sorry — I think it’s the best thing that could have happened to me, considering wher…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48AMWednesday, August 19, 2020
“Technology and trivia may not be obvious bedfellows. But trivia enthusiasts in the postwar-trivia boom of the 1950s would surely look in envy at technologies we take for granted today: wo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMArtists and institutions in Beirut, large and small, have rebuilt several times since the outbreak of Lebanon’s 15-year civil war in 1975 and through subsequent conflict. But even before t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:02PMHe didn’t start the community radio movement (that was Lew Hill of Pacifica), but, as one radio historian wrote, “if Lew Hill fathered the movement, Lorenzo Milam reared it.” He founde…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:02PM“[The company] hosted galas at its St. Petersburg theaters, featuring solos and duets performed by dancers who had undergone weekly tests for coronavirus. More ambitiously, it had begun st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM“Many of New York’s museum leaders have taken pay cuts to offset some of the financial damage their institutions are suffering from their Covid-related closures. But at a time when museu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM“More than 100 staff members at the Tate galleries in England began an indefinite strike on Tuesday morning to protest the institution’s announcement that it would cut more than 300 jobs…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AMFirst, there are the obvious issues of placement: how far apart the string players must be, how much farther apart for the winds and brass, placing the conductor where everyone can see. In L…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AMIn late 2017, PBS suspended Smiley’s late-night talk show following sexual harassment allegations from staffers. Smiley sued the network, which countersued, and in March 2020, a jury award…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM“Like nuclear power plants and sensitive computer networks, the safest rare book collections are protected by what is known as ‘defense in depth’ — a series of small, overlapping mea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM“The Bush Theatre in London [has] produced a series of timely Monday Monologues online, curated The Protest series of digital pieces inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and posted …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM“The autumn series will not only include solo recitals and duos, but trios, quartets and larger ensembles will return to Wigmore Hall for the first time since lockdown. … All 100 concert…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMJames Poniewozik: “At its shakiest, it was, like much pandemic-era TV, uncanny, disjointed and unsettlingly weird. (To its credit, though, there were few of the glitches that have riddled …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42AMTuesday, August 18, 2020
The Dunedin Consort, an Edinburgh-based period-instrument group known for its recordings of Bach sacred works and Handel oratorios, had its first engagement since lockdown this past Friday i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM“I’m the first to admit that my project can sound outré or precious. … When it came to Bach, I was unhappy about the piano’s awkwardness with hand crossings, the harpsichord’s lac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“He has stunned Covent Garden audiences as the doomed Prince Mayerling, a tormented Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, Lewis Carroll’s bewigged White Rabbit and a gloop-smeared Gregor Samsa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“Known for his unique voice which had both depth and softness, Pandit Jasraj was one of a handful of remaining old school musical giants of the Indian classical world, alongside artists li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMSeveral outfits in New York are trying it, and Jesse David Fox checked one out. “Comedy clubs are agreed-upon spaces where we allow comedians to say whatever they want. But now we have, as…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:35AMThe market for Black artists’ work is hot right now, and some re-sellers are pocketing enormous profits — none of which are going to the actual creators of the (as it were) merchandise. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM“I haven’t got another big historical novel in view, … so I hope people will stop writing to me with suggestions. It’s lovely that people have the appetite for it but considering the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM“According to the Rural Establishment Innovation Survey, residents in rural counties that are home to performing arts organizations earn up to $6,000 more than people who live in rural cou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM“The announcement came as the state has seen less than 1 percent of all coronavirus tests return positive for seven straight days, [Gov.] Cuomo said in a news conference. … Institutions …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMOut beyond the big state capitals, people had barely had a chance to take a breath after the catastrophic bushfires of the Australian summer when COVID-19 hit, straining the national economy…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMI have to hand it to Holland Cotter: For better or worse, the NY Times‘ co-chief art critic was right. I was wrong. – Lee Rosenbaum
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