Friday, May 29, 2020
“It is 46 years old, weighs nearly four pounds in paperback and is about as ill-suited for the internet age as they come: The book is not even available for digital readers. And yet, in ce…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM“Mrs. Dew emerged in the early 1980s as part of a group of prominent female novelists that included her friends Louise Erdrich, Anne Tyler and Nancy Thayer, a onetime neighbor in Williamst…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM“That’s right: the chief curator of the 2022 Bucharest Biennial is Jarvis, an artificial intelligence program in development from the Vienna-based studio Spinnwerk. … Jarvis will ‘us…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM“The European Commission announced an ambitious seven-year budget yesterday to bail out the EU’s 27 member states from the economic impact of COVID-19, but culture representatives say it…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMAhmed Elgammal, director of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Rutgers: “Can an artificially intelligent machine be an artist in its own right? My answer is no. While the de…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMEarlier this month, 11 artists from a collective called the Consortium of Postartistic Practices carried a 46-foot-long letter about 1¼ miles to the Parliament building in Warsaw as lawmake…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM“Police arrested CNN journalist Omar Jimenez and his crew on air early Friday during a live broadcast in Minneapolis, as they covered riots sparked by George Floyd’s death, sparking inte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMThursday, May 28, 2020
“Much like the ‘stans’ of pop figures and franchises, members of TikTok cults stream songs, buy merch, create news update accounts and fervently defend their leaders in the comment sec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM“An icon of the stage, Makarova was beloved for her grandeur and spontaneity, the same qualities that led her, in 1970, to become the first Russian ballerina to escape the Soviets. But she…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM“As part of our ongoing coverage about the crisis theater faces, and the possible ways out of it, [Tim Teeman] spoke to a range of theater professionals, enduring unemployment and hoping o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMDespite the fact that American pop culture and the ability to speak English are considered very cool in Japan, multinational companies want their employees to know the language, and the Japa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMThe former CEO of the Kennedy Center and his colleagues at the DeVos Institute of Arts Management are giving pro bono consultations to more than 400 organizations. “In phone calls with gro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM“[He] is most commonly associated with the Light and Space movement, which was pioneered by a group of artists working in California during the 1960s. … Alexander wound up producing unde…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM“Patients and health-care workers at Penn Medicine’s six sites can now access a service that brings them archived performance videos of the Philadelphia Orchestra. … New performances w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMWell, mostly settled. “A virtual first night in July will see more than 350 musicians play together in a Beethoven ‘mash-up’ [of the nine symphonies] having each recorded their part fr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMIn places such as Georgia (the first state to reopen), Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Utah, independent cinemas are operating again. (The chains are staying closed for now.) Yet attendance is g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM“Archaeologists were astonished by the find as it came almost a century after the remains of a villa, believed to date to the 3rd century AD, were unearthed in a hilly area above the town …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM“[The] Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom plan to open again on July 11, while Epcot and Disney’s Hollywood Studios will resume business on July 15. SeaWorld, meanwhile, will reopen to the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Charles McNulty: “Stuck indoors with little to distract us from the bewilderment of our metaphysical predicament, we are like one of his immobilized characters, not scrunched into trash ca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM“The July 18 attack on Kyoto Animation, a famed anime studio that produced popular ‘slice of life’ shows and movies,” killed 36 people and was the worst mass murder in Japan in decad…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM“A cache of 2,400 letters between the poet and his long-time lover and muse, Monica Jones, … reveal[s] the full extent of her fury, fears and frustrations over a painful four-decade-long…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMAt least two-thirds of eligible employees have signed authorization cards to request that the National Labor Relations Board oversee a union election, according to organizers. The union at t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMSaying “I do not think that making everything safe for the audience – although that is important – and leaving the the people on stage to be epidemiological guinea pigs is the right an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM“For the past two months, he has experimented with making dances using Zoom and Final Cut Pro. Four of these short works will premiere on ‘Dance On!,’ to be shown on the Mark Morris Da…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMA staff conductor at the Met for 21 years, Revzen served as artistic director of Arizona Opera (2003-2012) and Berkshire Opera (1991-2005) and was, from 2012, the founding artistic director …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMThe piece, titled Game Changer and showing a boy leaving his other superhero action figures behind for one of a nurse, had been in Southampton General Hospital in England for all of two days…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM“A New York Times/Siena College Research Institute poll, administered [last week], sought to gauge how soon New Yorkers would be comfortable attending live performances like Broadway shows…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMNo specific program has been announced yet, but “look for some combination of performances presented online, outside, or in other ways that maintain social distance. The festival will cont…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AMThat’s the grim figure that the Milan opera house’s new superintendent, Dominique Meyer, will present to its board of directors on Thursday. Under the law that Italy’s parliament passe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AMTuesday, May 26, 2020
“[He] devoted his career to studying how some of the fundamental elements of art could be manipulated to create perceptual effects. His experiments with color led him to make paintings of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMThe broad cupolas in Italian churches of the era were constructed by laying bricks in a “complex cross-herringbone spiraling pattern” called a double loxodrome, according to a team of en…
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