Friday, May 8, 2020
“Since mid-March more than 70,000 extra creators have joined Patreon, which allows fans to give monthly payments to artists in exchange for exclusive content or simply out of a desire to s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AMKara Swisher: “I am not trying to be glib here, because solving the problem of how to deal with speech across the largest and most unwieldy communications platform in human history … may…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AMA 5.4 magnitude temblor hit the Croatian capital, Zagreb, in late March. “Over 80% of [the city’s] museums are in buildings that date from before the Second World War and most of them ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AMOne gallery owner said, “Art is so important. We’re more important than other businesses. I want to be taken seriously.” Another said, “We refuse to die here in the tunnel. We’re p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AM“The ‘nominal’ payment will apply to all the productions the National has been streaming on YouTube since early April. The venue said it was up to the artists whether they chose to acc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMThursday, May 7, 2020
“[Maria Forteza’s documentary] Mallorca, an eight-minute, black-and-white sweep across the Balearic island inspired by the music of the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz, was donated to th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM“Although [Steve] Paxton is credited with inventing, or initiating CI, it was Stark Smith who became the chief educator and organizer. … Whether springing up out of the floor or boomeran…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMYears of preparation — conservation, research and catalog writing, loan negotiations, insurance, shipping arrangements, and more — went into the big Van Eyck show that opened in February…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM“Performances in front of an audience are still out of the question for now. But on May 18, Austria will become one of the first countries on the continent where theater troupes can return…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMDurante Verzola, isolating with his family in Kansas City, has set on four dancers in Miami City Ballet a new piece titled A Dance for Heroes, commissioned by MCB artistic director Lourdes L…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM“Formed in 1970 by Mr. Schneider and Ralf Hütter, Kraftwerk was credited with bringing synthesizers, drum machines, preprogrammed tapes and sequences to the fore, developing a sonic templ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM“As dancers, we are taught to problem solve in real-time, so it came as no surprise when,” once the coronavirus pandemic led to the cancellation of almost all live dance, “streamed per…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AMPeter Florence: “In the last three weeks we’ve reshaped the programme we’d been planning for the last 18 months into just 80 online events and we’ve been experimenting with tech plat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AMTwo international operations culminated last fall in the arrest of 101 suspects and seizure of trafficked objects in Spain, Argentina, Latvia, and Afghanistan. Among the items were ancient c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AMOn top of the obvious difficulties of staging a televised ceremony to promote Broadway shows when theaters are closed until god-knows-when, there may be no fair way, at this point, to vote f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AMWhat has interested me right now are online videos in which dancers, sequestered in their homes, keep in shape. Their charm lies in how the dedicated, witty performers interact with their lo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMDifficult times are a form of truth serum. They force clear priorities. For me, that’s meant reaching out nationally to offer, at no charge, a webinar for nonprofit leaders: “CRISIS ENGA…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMAmong the key elements of the proposal outlined by President Macron are a full-year extension of unemployment insurance for gig workers in the performing arts (known as “intermittents du s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMI fear that the rampaging growth of income (and most other) inequality is going to be a raw wound on the other side of this crisis and that the nonprofit arts industry could be caught up in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMWednesday, May 6, 2020
“To continue offering dance despite the pandemic,” Melissa Turnage, a dance artist in residence at several hospitals in Birmingham, Alabama, “[has] made DVDs for each of the units she …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM“Cancellations [due to the pandemic] have now been extended from 31 May to 28 June. ‘This does not mean theatres will reopen on 29 June,’ [the Society of London Theatres] stressed in i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMABS-CBN, for years a target of President Rodrigo Duterte for its reporting, was shut down on May 5 as its broadcast license expired. The network’s application to renew, which must be renew…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM“The claims filed by arts groups, from movie theaters to concert halls, have become a particularly intense battleground, in part because the virus ended a primary source of revenue — tic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM“Decades before Cecil B. DeMille sent horse-drawn chariots thundering through the desert, the world’s most famous ballet choreographer created an epic version of Egypt for the stage, and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM“A leading Russian avant-garde expert says he has identified dozens of works by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova languishing in [the Yaransk Mus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMJill Lepore traces the history (and prehistory) of “the most extensively researched television program [ever made]” — from the educational and social ideals of its creators (and the en…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM“Flanked by 20 strings on each side, her fingers coated in rosin, [Ellen] Fullman, 62, walks a central aisle while rubbing the strings lengthwise, conjuring thrumming minimalist drones and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM“The [Spanish] flu did not transform the American cultural scene, as the new coronavirus threatens to; when the outbreak eased, in 1919, musical life returned swiftly to normal. A columnis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMArtist Sam Winston, as part of his project A Delicate Sight, invited Bernardine Evaristo (co-winner of last year’s Booker Prize), Raymond Antrobus (winner of last year’s Folio Prize for …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM“When the playing of his three colleagues – all Austrian exiles – threatened to become too sweet, Lovett could be relied on to bring them back to the right side of good taste with a fi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMTuesday, May 5, 2020
Musicians and their audiences may be physically separated these days, but they’re closer emotionally, writes David Patrick Stearns. “The old sense of ‘us’ and ‘them’ — each sid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36PM 
