Wednesday, July 29, 2020
“The sudden rise of calls for color-conscious casting comes after years of criticism about whitewashed roles. But while many Black voice actors are glad to see white actors leaving roles w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMThe pressure on ballerinas to maintain extremely thin figures is notorious for leading to eating disorders. The Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham, England’s second city, is meeting this…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMMarina Harss: “When the Compañía Nacional de Danza took the stage at the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada in southern Spain on Wednesday, it was in many ways like any…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM“Of the total amount, the government has currently released £880 million ($1.14 billion), which has been split into two funding rounds. The first round of £622 million ($805.3 million) w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMThe study, conducted by outside consultants at the board’s request after two major scandals broke earlier this year, “found problems and deficiencies at all levels of the hierarchy — f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM“After analysing data from 54 studies conducted on 6,984 participants between 1986 and 2019, [researchers] found music training was ineffective at enhancing cognitive or academic skills, r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM“The ubiquitous app built on short video clips seems frivolous at first, with its lip-synching, dance challenges and goofball celebrities. But this is how a rising generation communicates …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMThe company’s annual fall festival, much praised ever since its 2017 debut, is off this year; most plans for next season, including Jennifer Higdon’s latest opera and Sondra Radvanovsky�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMTuesday, July 28, 2020
“Inside a cavernous steel hut in the middle of Glasgow’s Springburn Park, the sweeping arc of keyboards, lids and carved panels has been taking shape … Using mainly upright instruments…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM“The ‘Theophrastan character’ is not often mentioned today, perhaps because it is so little known as a genre. Yet for centuries this was what ‘character’ meant in literature. A lis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM“Silkroad has to exist outside of Yo-Yo, but Yo-Yo is an inalterable part of Silkroad,” said the singer/banjo player/fiddler/opera composer. “Both of those things have to exist at the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM“A new report [by the RAND Corporation] claims that … the true size of the market in illicit antiquities may be ‘much smaller’ than is regularly reported. Perhaps more controversiall…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM“Dancers are harming themselves trying to achieve the look. The continued preference for ultrathin bodies seems particularly out of step with current cultural conversations around body pos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMJoseph del Pesco, International Director of KADIST: “Sales of art in the US reached $29.9 billion in 2018 … Imagine if just 2 percent of that $29.9 billion did some good. That’s 600 mi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMWhile a student in Moscow in the late ’60s, he became passionately interested in William Blake, going on to translate his complete works into Russian and write the first Russian-language b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM“There is real concern that at a time when the need to insure for [COVID risks] is even greater, venues and organisations will not be able to obtain or afford appropriate coverage. This is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM“In a move expanding the news outlet’s presence in Hollywood, The New York Times has named Caitlin Roper executive producer for scripted projects. Roper, who has been a senior editor at …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMJeremy Reynolds, responding to New York Times chief critic Anthony Tommasini’s argument that U.S. orchestras will never become more racially balanced without affirmative action, points out…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMA statement released jointly by the musicians and management said, “We recognize the challenges presented to the ISO by the pandemic and unforeseen economic. For those reasons, the 2020-21…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMFriday, July 24, 2020
Historically, the purpose of monuments, says Ken Lum of Monument Lab in Philadelphia, “has been to activate or even sustain a certain narrative of memory which people of influence have dee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMKahlil Ashanti began his performing career as part of an elite U.S. Air Force unit that did shows for servicepeople at military bases and in battle zones all over the globe. One thing he hea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM“In conversations about the future with 14 dance professionals, feelings of anguish, hope, fear and resolve emerged, along with ideas about adaptation and innovation. … Here are some gli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMChristine Walevska got her one-eighth-size 1834 Bernardel cello when she was eight years old, and even as she went on to study with Gregor Piatigorsky, win a first prize at the Paris Conserv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM“As the decades passed, [David W.] Forbes [has] painstakingly tracked down archival portraits of people alive in that era, in libraries and private collections throughout the islands. That…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMOnline, that is. “Every day at sunset, Artist — an anonymous conceptualist who legally changed their name to question the biases built into the phrase ‘American Artist’ — will repl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM“Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish Iranian exile and journalist who became the voice of those incarcerated on Manus Island” — an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea where Australia ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMIt was a one-time pilot project, performed in front of 640 people spread out through the Palladium, one of London’s biggest theatres. The program: one singer, Beverley Knight, doing two ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM“TikTok is launching a program to fund its most popular creators directly for their videos — with an initial $200 million earmarked for the U.S. … How much individual creators will be …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMPandemic permitting, the Center and its resident companies, the National Symphony Orchestra and Washington National Opera, plan to present performances for full audiences n its three large v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM“Career opportunity on Broadway doesn’t begin at the box office, but in the front office. And that’s where T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams and their fellow advocates have set their sights…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMAlready battered financially by the pandemic, many art museums now find themselves barraged by attacks from aggrieved staffers and former employees accusing the higher-ups of racism, harassm…
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