Wednesday, July 1, 2020
“Ordained on the same day as his brother, Ratzinger proved to be a talented musician and went on oversee the recording of numerous masterpieces and concert tours around the world by the Re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM“For decades, the Met’s programming has been associated with a kind of elegant classicism. The Breuer, it seemed, would allow the museum to strike a new balance between grandeur and some…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM“Literary critics say [that Bless Me, Ultima,] Anaya’s World War II-era novel about a young Mexican-American boy’s relationship with an older curandera, or healer, influenced a generat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMTuesday, June 30, 2020
Haruki Murakami famously wrote his first novel in English and then translated it into his mother tongue himself, resulting in a plainspoken, “neutral” (his word) style far removed from s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM“The coronavirus had barely arrived in Germany just before Sofiane Sylve was hired Feb. 1 as the new artistic advisor for Ballet San Antonio. Her experiences there in May with strict coron…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMConductor Kazushi Ono and the players of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra spent two days at the Bunka Kaikan concert hall in mid-June with researchers from a university and medical …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“With his charming, easeful baritone and a crisp, efficient touch at the piano, Cole carved out a professional career of more than 65 years. … Because of a familial resemblance in vocal …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“The space, which features fourteen dark paintings by Rothko, is famous for being dim and moody. It’s a sensory deprivation chamber that also functions as a theological deprivation chamb…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“It’s precisely because Code Switch has spent years interrogating the effects of race and identity on society that it’s the podcast many listeners are now turning to. Launched in 2016,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM“[The decision is] a surprise legal victory in a fraud case his supporters say was politically motivated and a test of artistic freedom in Russia. Suspended sentences are widely seen as th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMWith coronavirus cases surging again in much of the U.S. and not really slowing in the UK, and with the release of the summer’s two big tentpole titles, Tenet and Mulan, postponed, AMC and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMThe global circus giant was struggling with an estimated $900 million in debt (much of it incurred by acquiring other companies) even before the pandemic hit and ended all ticket income. In …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMThe National Gallery and Royal Academy will accept visitors the following week, but the Tate won’t open its four locations until July 27; others are waiting until August or September, and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM“Mário Frias … is the fifth person to hold the role in the 17 months since president Jair Bolsonaro was elected and, like most of his predecessors, Frias has no political experience. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMFriday, June 26, 2020
Curtis Foley, who danced with the Royal Winnipeg ballet and Les Ballets Grandiva, was, until this year, a ballet master at the Polish National Ballet He had just arrived to coach the ballet …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMThe polymath Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was only one of numerous women in Spain and its New World colonies who became accomplished authors during the 16th and 17th centuries (and who should b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM“Perhaps one reason why America’s national reckoning on police brutality took so long to arrive is because TV is conditioning its citizens to view cops as reliable heroes. Of the 69 scri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM“At great personal risk [he] documented the dark side of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, producing powerful black-and-white images that remain a rare visual testament to the brutality …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMUntil just a few years ago, the august Florence museum “acted like the internet didn’t exist”: it didn’t even launch a website until 2015 and only got itself a Facebook page after th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMThe 50-year-old Russian, celebrated at home and overseas for his productions of theatre, film, and opera, is artistic director of the Gogol Center, Moscow’s most celebrated stage for avant…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM“As states ease restrictions, many museums and animal attractions are next in line to reopen, if they haven’t already. Like other businesses, they must enforce social distancing rules an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMSteven Brosvik comes to Utah from the Nashville Symphony, where he was Chief Operating Officer. He has previously worked in management at the Baltimore, Houston, and San Antonio Symphony Orc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM“Classical musicians of African descent have existed on the margins of obscurity for centuries — in the classroom, the concert hall, the record industry, and on the radio,” says Terran…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMWhen the Flea Theater was founded by Sigourney Weaver, playwright Mac Wellman and two others in 1996, it was intended to have no stable location and to shut down after five years. Twenty-six…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM“On Thursday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden published the five-stage plan for a ‘phased return’, which will initially let performances take place outdoors, with indoors performances …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMThursday, June 25, 2020
“The case concerns ‘the sale of hundreds of pieces for tens of millions of euros’, which were allegedly looted from Egypt, Syria and Yemen as well as zones in Libya under Islamic State…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM“Aunt Nellie’s Diary,” a 9,000-word piece written when Alcott was in her late teens, “is narrated by the 40-year-old title character, and follows her observations as a romantic trian…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM“There is a pervasive idea that if you are a great dancer, you are automatically qualified to teach, whether you have training or experience in education practices or not. There is also an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMLast week, AMC, Regal, and Cinemark all issued elaborate safety plans for reopening — but all three said that they wouldn’t require patrons to wear masks except where local governments o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMTwo actors have publicly accused Eric Schaeffer, who has been the Northern Virginia company’s artistic director since its beginnings in 1989, of repeatedly grabbing their genitals during p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMBahl, who succeeds Thomas Wilkins at the start of the 2021-22 season, becomes the second conductor of color in a row to hold the music director position in Omaha. An Indian-American born and…
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