Friday, February 21, 2020
“I’m trying to have a bigger conversation about social conditions, and sometimes I’m having that conversation in a really pensive, sort of introspective kind of performance. And then s…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:54AMThe result, at least in what producers were careful to call a dress rehearsal, is intermittently convincing. The hologram gets some of Houston’s physical tics right, and the lip-syncing …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:54AMZumthor’s single, integrated composition (now tan instead of black!), raised high above the grime of the city, is just a building. The strength of LACMA as it stands now is its complexity;…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:54AMThat system sometimes “reward[s] bad behavior. We reward those who keep spending without regard” and sometimes “penalize organizations that take thoughtful, correct and prudent cuts to…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:54AMThis effective ban on modern architecture commissioned by the US government is horrifyingly reminiscent of Hitler’s insistence that public buildings in the Third Reich hew to the Classical…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:54AMLyric Opera of Kansas City seeks a poised and professional candidate who will be responsible for the strategy, implementation, evaluation and achievement of earned ticket revenue goals and f…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:54AMThe Vice President, Marketing & Communications is a critical member of the Executive team at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and leads a division that is responsible for $31 million …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:54AMThe Boston Children’s Chorus (BCC) seeks to identify a talented Executive Director who can bring their knowledge and lived experience to the critical discussions inspired through our commi…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:54AMThursday, February 20, 2020
Theatre has always paid attention to political and social issues. So what does working on climate change look like for theatre? American Theatre presents a collection of stories exploring ho…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 04:01PMThe Wrights became known as “the Medicis of Seattle,” especially renowned for their marvelous art collection. – Seattle Times
Linked From ArtsJournal at 03:06PMThe European Union will demand that Britain gives a collection of ancient marble sculptures back to Greece as part of a post-Brexit trade deal. Greece has long argued that the Parthenon Marb…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 03:06PM‘Technology is playing a huge role in shaping the future of how people engage with orchestral music,’ says James Williams, managing director at the RPO. ‘At the Royal Philharmonic Orch…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 03:06PMIt’s not the liberal arts vs. corporate education. And it’s not soft skills vs. hard skills. It’s both a dichotomy and a lexicon we must eliminate. First, the dichotomy: the education …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:36AMWednesday, February 19, 2020
That a company engaged in conservative or liberal political activity did not affect Republicans’ opinions of that company, but it did for Democrats. (As previously reported, Democrats didn…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 08:18PMIn January, all seven of the most-watched YouTube Gaming channels weren’t run by happy gamers livestreaming the game du jour. They were instead recorded, autoplaying videos advertising vid…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 08:18PM“Our research shows that most pay TV households already have Netflix so even if cord-cutting accelerates, Netflix won’t get a whole slew of new customers. In [other] words, people are cu…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:12PM“This is not a fight the BBC is picking nor a contest my party promised if we got elected. If the BBC ends up in decline, it will be the government which will be accused by the very people…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:12PMThe scientific analysis “showed brushwork, and a liveliness to that brushwork, that is quite consistent with other works by Rembrandt,” said Shan Kuang, a conservator at New York Univers…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:12PMThe BBC was given rare access to the preparations and spoke to three experts involved. – BBC
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:12PMDance as a basis for problem-solving is a growing field within psychology research. It underlies some of the theories behind dancing as therapy for people with Parkinson’s Disease, for exa…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 03:03PMHe has a history of handling thorny issues like cybercrime and data privacy. As a Parliamentary Secretary in Theresa May’s cabinet office, Dowden was the Minister for Implementation of the…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 03:03PMI am a white, male, liberal administrator working in New York’s nonprofit theatre community. I see firsthand how the word “diversity” has kicked up a lot of dust throughout the industr…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:32PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
Since 2010, urban inner rings, including central business districts, accounted for barely 10 percent of population growth in the nation’s 53 largest metropolitan areas. More revealing stil…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:36PMAs the Shakespeare scholar Todd Borlik has pointed out, the triumph of Romanticism throughout Europe by the mid-1800s meant that Shakespeare (though not so much Pope) was seen as a universal…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:43PMThe organization has about half the members it did in the 1970s. But it has failed to address claims of sexual abuse for decades, and the claims have mounted up. The bankruptcy is an attempt…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:43PMFounded in 1992, the Kunsthalle Wien is a large exhibition space with no permanent collection. How does a triumvirate lead such a venue in practice? Surely much more time is spent on meeting…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:43PMThe idea, floated by the city’s mayor, is to redesign urban life so that all the essentials – for work, play, shopping, culture – are within 15 minutes of every resident of the city. I…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:43PMPerhaps the forger’s best tool is the desire of buyers to want something to be real. No matter how improbable. – The Daily Beast
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:43PM“It seems to me that the only solution commensurate with the scale of the problem is fundamentally changing the way musicians work. We have to stop seeing it as reasonable that we’d play…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:43PMYuval Sharon: “If there was a straightforward message, there would certainly be simpler and more direct ways to communicate it than by creating this enormous operatic experience. Opera’s…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:43PMThe arts advocacy group says these are the trends that will inform its work over the next few years. – Americans for the Arts
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