Thursday, June 25, 2020
Bahl, 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM“The [museum] is moving to cut more than 100 jobs from its staff through furloughs, voluntary departures, and possibly layoffs. The furloughs will go into effect July 6, museum officials t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM“The U.S. internet giant has for years tried to fend off demands for payment from news publishers worldwide in return for using their content, with European media groups among their fierce…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AMLee Pringle, founder of the Colour of Music Festival in Charleston: “The average white orchestra fears that Colour of Music will shine a huge light on the fact that while you can’t put b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM“To counter its elitist image, the museum will strive for a ‘cultural democratisation’ to make its treasures more accessible with improved presentation, labelling and curating. [Direct…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMThe program includes $90 million to underwrite bank loans to fund new productions, $35 million in additional money for organizations already funded by the federal government, $50 million to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMIn January I made the difficult decision to leave The New School when my current contract ends. My heart and mind have been calling me to other lands, to other ways of being and living in th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24AMWednesday, June 24, 2020
“A game of ‘international chess’ is how Maxime Cottray describes the current state of the global production business. ‘Right now, everyone’s moving their pieces around the board, t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PMAs one development exec for a major company puts it, “During a crisis, it’s not really the time to go out and ask for those five-year campaign pledges. It’s the time to say, ‘how are…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM“With more crossover than ever, the line between the two once-distinct career paths feels increasingly blurred. Broadway shows now feature every style from hip hop to ballet to the work of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PMJohnny Mnemonic. The Net. Hackers. Strange Days. “It’s hard to know what’s most dated about these mid-’90s curios: the primitive-looking effects, the funky fashions or the clunky tec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM“Colleagues say his legacy includes dismantling multinational looting and trafficking rings; recovering tens of thousands of Greco-Roman artifacts from secret storehouses; and compelling w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM“The Metropolitan Museum of Art plans to open its doors on Aug. 29, after more than five months of pandemic shutdown … If everything goes smoothly with New York’s phased reopening, mus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM“As Americans grapple with the country’s history of racism, many of them have turned to books, propelling titles like How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and So You Want to Talk Ab…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMAfter an investigation by the BBC and a Syrian-American archaeologist found a network of groups trading in ancient objects stolen from Middle Eastern war zones — including loot-to-order of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM“Whether it’s the artist Tschabalala Self discussing the fraught experience of seeing her paintings be sold, like her ancestors, at auction or the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Micha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMWhen things shut down in March, Mercury Theater proprietor L. Walter Stearns — one of the few commercial theater producers in the city to own the real estate they operate on — thought he…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM“I survived the gun-to-the-head modernism, back when I was a student — you know if you weren’t crunching elbows on the keys and counting up to 12 all the time, you weren’t being much…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMWhenever someone of visibility in the music industry proclaims that what the pandemic lock-down world needs now is this (whatever that is), the chances are good that it’s here already. –…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24AMTuesday, June 23, 2020
From Taiwan to Germany to Spain to Quebec, lockdowns are lifting and orchestras are figuring out ways to make music again. David Patrick Stearns looks into what they’re trying, from Yannic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM“The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals … says that additional evidence, including expert testimony, is needed to weigh similarities between the Academy Award-winning film and a play by t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMOne might say that they’re conflicted. Barnes & Noble says that The Room Where It Happened is already at the top of its bestsellers list. “In contrast, a survey of participants in PW…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM“The U.K. public broadcaster is also putting into place a mandatory 20-percent diverse-talent target for all new commissions as it plans ‘bold steps that will help make the BBC an instru…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM“Offenbach’s 1858 Mesdames de la Halle is the first opera to be announced. It will be staged with 12 singers but no chorus, with 13 orchestral musicians instead of the usual 40, and with…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM“When he painted it, Leonardo used an experimental technique using egg tempera and oil paint on plaster, so it began to fade soon after it was completed. Luckily, Leonardo’s pupils creat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PMFirst there was the world-famous fiasco “Beast Jesus,” then there was St. George painted to look like a toy. Now an early copy of Murillo’s Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables has …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM“A journeyman director who shepherded a new generation of young stars to the big screen in St. Elmo’s Fire and steered the Batman franchise into its most baroque territory in Batman Fore…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM“City Council has put money for the arts back into the administration’s revised COVID-19-ravaged 2021 budget, including full restoration of the subsidy for the African American Museum in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM“We all know it’s safer to be outside and socially distanced, but that doesn’t mean we are confined to an outdoor stage with chairs placed six feet apart.” Here’s a look at what co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM“With the usual model of theatregoing currently out of the question most everywhere, a handful of theatres have taken a cue from an old concept: medieval pageant wagons. Only this time, in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMI knew that my contrarian suggestions about what to do with the controversial sculptures of Confederate leaders on Richmond’s Monument Avenue would provoke some pushback, but I hoped for t…
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