Wednesday, June 17, 2020
“Opened in 1920 as a silent film nickelodeon, the movie theater would undergo several retail business incarnations in the decades that followed. … It ‘reopened’ in 2011 under the cur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“The mossy and somewhat eroded form of a granite statue of the Virgin Mary and child that could date from the 14th century … was discovered 11 days ago in the Sar River on the outskirts …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMWell … “As long as there are no further pandemic-related hold-ups or lockdowns, the first parts of the complex will open on the ground floor and first floor in December, the Humboldt For…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMNew South Wales was slow to establish a fund to aid struggling arts organizations, not even announcing a plan until May 24, about 10 weeks after shutdowns began. Even as Australia begins the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMAmerican Public Media, the Minnesota-based public radio network that produced the shows, announced the layoff of 28 employees and the immediate end of the weekly program that was heard on ro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM“The report predicts that the country’s creative sector will be hit twice as hard as the wider economy in 2020, with one in five creative jobs expected to be lost. The loss could have a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMA tribute to the brash, quick-talking, brilliant, no-nonsense scholar, writer, colleague, and friend whom I once taught, worked with, and learned from. – Deborah Jowitt
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06AMTuesday, June 16, 2020
“Could repurposed coal-mining sites in the Appalachian mountains of Eastern Kentucky become an art-world destination and hub for a burgeoning arts scene? That is the ambitious proposition …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM“The police are a reflection of a society. They’re not a rogue alien organization that came down to torment the black community. … [They] are, in some respects, a border patrol, and th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM“Restoration work funded by Germany has begun on the Al-Aghawat mosque, houses are being refurbished with the aid of the European Union, and the rehabilitation of the Dominican Al-Saa’a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM“The National Gallery of Art will open its six-acre Sculpture Garden to visitors on Saturday, marking the first step of a multiphase comeback from the museum’s coronavirus closure. The s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMBilge Ebiri thinks there have been enough Oscar-worthy films released already this year to fill out a nomination roster. “Most are the kinds of movies that would have had a hard time stand…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM“The resignation of Director Amanda Bennett and Deputy Director Sandy Sugawara was announced as Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker and supporter of the president, was set to take over …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM“Many governors across the United States have been eager to begin the multiphase reopening of businesses, but bookstore owners are acting cautiously. In remarks gathered from more than 25 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMMore than half of the NBCC’s board of directors have resigned since last Thursday, when now-ex-member Hope Wanuke posted on Twitter part of an email discussion among the board about an ant…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM“Outgoing director Stéphane Lissner dropped a bombshell Thursday, saying Europe’s biggest opera and ballet company was ‘on its knees’ and he would be leaving seven months early in J…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM“Last week, the country’s ministry of culture launched an open call for the design and production of the public work, which will be installed in Paris’s Tuileries Gardens, next to the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM“The group’s founders, Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh, who control operations of the organization’s training program and theaters, said that they have been seekin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMSotheby’s has quietly upped its charges for purchasers of its offerings: An “Overhead Premium” of 1% of the auction hammer price will supplement its buyer’s premium, effective Aug. 1…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12AMFriday, June 12, 2020
When the NBCC statement was posted, a foreword was appended which said, in part, “In the course of our committee’s discussion with the rest of the board, a board member responded to the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMThe Conversation, founded in Melbourne in 2011 with university and state government funding, now has ten editions in various countries and 150 employees as well as dozens of freelance contri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMThe themes of racial (in)equality and (in)justice that are now starting to get the attention they deserve have been material for Faith Ringgold for her entire career. Yet, faced with the dea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMAnthony McGill, New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist, launched a new mini-genre of musical protest on May 28 when he tweeted a video of himself playing “America the Beautiful,” tr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMThe video platform is launching the multi-year initiative to fund content hosted on the site “to center and amplify Black voices and perspectives,” as YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki put it i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM“The discoveries were little short of miraculous: pieces of third-century pottery engraved with one of the first depictions of the crucified Christ, along with Egyptian hieroglyphics, and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM“[We] reached out to more than a dozen black artists” — painters, actors, musicians, poets, quilters, hip-hop artists — “across the state to discuss what they think is at the cente…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM“By December, the city’s largest performing arts presenter will have missed out on revenue from about 800 shows, events, and rentals since mid-March, when it closed the doors to its hall…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMAs COVID-19 gets more and more contained on the island, the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan is moving back into live performance, gradually increasing the numbers of both musicians and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMFunding nonwhite creators to make work using stories from their own underrepresented communities may seem a self-evidently good thing, but there are potential dangers — to the artists them…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMThe research by TRG Arts and Purple Seven found that, compared to the same period in 2019, ticket revenue fell by 71% in North America and by 92% in the United Kingdom over two weeks in Marc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:05AMGeorge Floyd art gathered May 31 – June 11 in Over-the-Rhine and downtown Cincinnati – Margy Waller
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