Wednesday, August 12, 2020
“Theatres are entering a critical stage in their fight for survival, with the cancellation of the 2020/21 pantomime season expected to cost the industry more than £90 million in lost reve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMAccording to reports on the Russian broadcast network RBC, one dancer at the Bolshoi (where rehearsals for the fall are underway) has gotten sick and 59 dancers and rehearsal pianists have b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM“The Senate of the City of Berlin has announced a decision to allow choral singing in closed spaces to resume, under very strict and precise regulation.” (Very strict and precise, in fac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM“Raised in a Boston tenement with a shared bathroom, … Sumner Redstone [was] a combative and daring dealmaker who in his 60s turned his family’s movie theater chain into one of the wor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM“Shedding the Fox name entirely from 20th Century Fox Television in the wake of the Disney-Fox merger, that studio will now be known as 20th Television. … Nixing ‘Fox’ from 20th TV w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMFor a lot of us, these last few months have provided an opportunity to clean out and organize our closets, cupboards, garages, and workshops. (Stick with me, there will be a point to this.) …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMTuesday, August 11, 2020
It was only a short time after Breton gave her her first solo show in Paris that she left the artistic movement he spearheaded, developing a muscular, energetic approach to abstract art. Rou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMA stage on the beach in Brighton with audience groups at picnic tables. A solo show in a Belfast shopping mall and another amid the Narnia sculptures in C.S. Lewis Square. And, of course, op…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMDana Naomy Mills: “The theme of the universality of grief, as well as the tension of confinement and expansion that echo throughout Graham’s performance, acquire a double meaning by bein…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PMRabbi Adin Steinsaltz wrote more than 60 books on subjects from philosophy to zoology, including a classic on the Kabbalah. But his major achievement is what he called his “hobby”: a 45-…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PMThat’s the argument being made by a growing number of nonwhite actors and observers such as critic Diep Tran: “Color-blind casting is dangerous in the same way the phrase: ‘I don’t s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMThat’s what worked — shockingly well — when Dutch public broadcaster NPO tried it: when it eliminated cookies, and thus the means to target ads to particular users, revenue soared. Her…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMThe Virtual Online Museum of Art (VOMA) …, curated by London-based art dealer Lee Cavaliere, will feature masterpieces on loan from international institutions such as Musée d’Orsay, Whi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM“J.J. Yore … presided over big increases in revenue and membership since the Marketplace co-creator arrived at the public radio station in 2014, but the end of his tenure began with a pu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMArthur Kaptainis: “[He] managed to forge an entente with an orchestra still reeling from the public resignation of Charles Dutoit and a provincial government that took culture more serious…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM“In 2017 [sic], two Americans attempted something unconventional … a musical about a subject even Afghans would consider too sensitive and unsettling — ‘bacha bazi‘ or ‘boy play�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM“Almost £1m has been given out to nearly 700 authors since the end of March, to help those facing financial crisis through the coronavirus pandemic. But the Society of Authors has warned …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AMOne stands back and marvels how horizons have kept expanding in the music before J.S. Bach, with modern premieres of 400-year-old works by names you’ve barely heard of — and leave you wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54AMFriday, August 7, 2020
Having listened to recent online offerings from North America and Europe (where concerts are carefully starting to move back into halls), David Patrick Stearns predicts that “innovation an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM“In addition to their pioneering role as women on the jazz circuit, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm were an interracial band in the era of Jim Crow. Their extensive itinerary throu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PMAleshea Harris’s Is God Is was the last show of the season at theWilma Theater in Philadelphia, and when the shutdown came, there was still time to figure something out. “We then went th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM“The more text to which an algorithm can be exposed, and the more complex you can make the algorithm, the better it performs. … The model that underpins [the AI software] GPT-3 boasts 17…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMHere’s one instance from last month: “Standing at the base of the three-story pedestal supporting the Confederate general’s likeness, [Janine] Bell, the artistic director of Elegba Fol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM“‘Sold down the river.’ ‘Cakewalk.’ ‘Master and slave.’ American English is riddled with words and phrases with racist origins or undertones. Since the killing of George Floyd …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM“In recent months, several people working on the committee to revise the body’s definition of what a museum is have resigned, and there have been accusations of ‘back-alley political g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM“Making waves is what Hunan Broadcasting System does best. … That is striking for an outfit run by the government of a province that is better known as China’s largest producer of rice…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMAnthony Tommasini: “Elements of dismaying ageism run through the chronic bemoaning over the graying of classical and opera audiences, something that bothered me even before I entered this …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMThe vote tally was 181 to 22. “While organizers said there were many reasons behind the union drive, complaints against two Art Museum supervisors provided the movement with energy. Organi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMMartin Di Caro, an award-winning transportation correspondent at Washington’s public radio news station from 2012 to 2017, was outrageous enough in hitting on junior employees at WAMU, loc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMShowing a courage and candor that’s been in short supply among museum officials navigating the choppy waters of racial tensions, political unrest and economic difficulty, Salvador Salort-P…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32AMThursday, August 6, 2020
The Lyon Académie de Musique officially went bust on New Year’s Day 1693, but it was back in business two years later. “How did Académie musicians transform hardship into productive cr…
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