Friday, June 12, 2020
George Floyd art gathered May 31 – June 11 in Over-the-Rhine and downtown Cincinnati – Margy Waller
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06AMThursday, June 11, 2020
“[Marc] Restellini’s lawsuit against the institute asserts that it is in possession of roughly 89 boxes and various other containers of research materials that he had amassed over the ye…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM“Indexing Gentileschi’s oeuvre back to the rape and trial reinscribes the painter as an adolescent sex object, rather than an eminent adult artist with a 40-year career across major Euro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMAmanda Hess: “It’s a joke, but it’s also not. As the protests against racist police violence enter their third week, the charges are mounting against fictional cops, too. Even big-hear…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM“Ballet companies are in a bizarre holding pattern right now. With studios and theaters shut down indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, how do they keep the repertoire alive and da…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PMJust a few days after a letter, written by 30 prominent poets and now co-signed by roughly 2,100 people, called for the resignation of the $250 million foundation’s president and board cha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMThe memorial to the victims of the 2015 terrorist attack at the Paris rock club was painted at the venue in 2018 and was stolen by thieves using angle grinders the following year. French and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“The vast majority of the 349 recipient groups from the 2020 fiscal year are small, their audiences mostly neighborhood audiences who often see themselves reflected on the stages or in the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMThe long-running cartoon series was given the Peabodys’ Institutional Award along with (less of a surprise here) the PBS documentary series Frontline, while actor Cicely Tyson, 95, receive…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“Just as the coronavirus crisis has stimulated a surge of digital theatre on our screens, it has also sparked a wave of theatre via our headphones, the latest, unexpected development in an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMPeter J. Kuo of ACT: “With the ability to gather in person on freeze, many of us in the theatre industry collectively held our breaths, waiting to exhale. Now, we find ourselves gasping fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“[The orchestra’s] 2,854-seat Musikverein, considered by many the world’s most beautiful concert hall, was filled with only 100 people Friday for the first of three days of programs wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM“A world-class saxophonist with a big sound, a big presence and a capricious improviser’s imagination, [he] sometimes seemed more at home playing pub gigs in his Croydon birthplace than …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54AMMy essay, “To What End Permanence?,” seeks to get beyond the question of economic solvency to examine other signs that it may be time to shut a thing down and other motivations for closi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54AMAfter initially resisting the resisters’ demands that it halt its production of napalm, Dow stopped making it in 1969. Now Warren Kanders, who resigned under political pressure last July f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54AMWednesday, June 10, 2020
“The limitations of relaying opera from stage to online are subtle. It’s the difference between an experience that’s mesmerizing and one that’s merely impressive.” David Patrick St…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMTeotihuacán, which had a population of around 100,000 at its height circa 500 CE, seems to have had no system of writing and left behind no known written records. But musical instruments ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM“[He] was ‘an antique guy in a modern world,’ appearing in a derby and vest and performing illusions from the vaudeville era: classic tricks with steel rings or handkerchief, dividing …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMThe museum, one of Southern California’s leading venues for photo exhibitions, had been closed for three months because of the coronavirus lockdown and was unsure when, and under what rule…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMAffirming warnings it gave last week, the world’s largest movie theater chain reported that it lost $2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2020, a period that saw the beginning of the corona…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“The Red Lion is thought to have been built around 1567 and probably played host to travelling groups of players. … Archaeologists are as certain as they can be that they have found its …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“More than 1,800 people have signed on to an open letter criticizing the Poetry Foundation’s response to the protests sweeping the United States, pledging not to work with the organizati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMThe Electric Slide in Harlem and the Cupid Shuffle in Newark; the bomba in Puerto Rico and voguing in Chicago; Ojibwe and Nuhua dances in Minneapolis and haka in New Zealand — those are ju…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“Frontline booksellers are the first people customers see when they set foot in bookstores across America. They also do physically demanding work, from carrying heavy boxes to shelving tho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM“Half of all music venues and 70% of theatres across the UK face permanent closure as a result of the coronavirus crisis, industry leaders have told a committee of MPs.” Testified one ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMLong ago Barry Hessenius charged us to move from thinking of the pursuit of equity as a “issue” to making it an obsession. So, if “doing” is where we go now, what does the doing look…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12AMTuesday, June 9, 2020
“To mark his farewell, Mad‘s ‘Usual Gang of Idiots’ will salute Jaffee with a tribute issue next week. It will be the magazine’s final regular issue to offer new material, includin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM“Long was the right man at the right time in 1957, when he came to Houston to establish Meredith Long & Co. With less than a million residents then, the city had two art museums, three…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM“Museum exhibitions take an exceptional amount of planning — from curatorial conception to filling out loan forms and insurance, to shipping, hanging, and displaying works. Getting a sho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMAs the novel coronavirus spread, the machinery of live classical performance ground to a halt months ago, putting thousands out of work; the industry will be one of the last to return to ful…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM“The entertainment industry has generally followed the official line: blithe ignorance and denial giving way to grudging admission of a problem, but only as far as the ‘bad apple’ theo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM 
