Tuesday, 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 08:36PMThings are far from perfect north of the border, but overall Canadian artists and organizations say they feel relatively well taken care of, especially when they look south. Kate Brown repor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36PM“After a decade of spectacular growth, the entertainment conglomerate has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its 14 theme parks (annual attendance: 157 million) delivered record …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36PM“In Rousseau’s scheme of things, solitude was the natural human state. By stepping outside of society, by distancing oneself from other voices, one was facilitating a return to oneself. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMShe made her Metropolitan Opera debut at age 23 and sang 54 roles there over 42 years, becoming one of the most beloved singers within the company. Perhaps most notable among the many operas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMCarriageworks, Australia’s largest arts center devoted to contemporary work, has entered voluntary administration (as it’s called there). A statement from a spokesperson said, “The sud…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM“Of course, people are doing everything possible to avoid that fate. But fears of folding are, understandably, creating major anxiety right now. To gain some perspective, [we] spoke to a f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMWhitehead received his second fiction Pulitzer for The Nickel Boys; Brown’s The Tradition took poetry honors; the biography prize went to Moser’s Sontag: Her Life and Work; McDaniel’s …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM“[The work,] which debuted last June at Long Beach Opera, … chronicles the racially and politically charged New York trial and conviction of one Latino teenager and four black teens — …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM“Jackson’s win marks the first time the committee has awarded a black writer for a musical. … That’s particularly poignant given the material itself: a discursive meta-tale about a y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM“A Border Force officer at Heathrow Airport discovered the hundreds of clay figurines, pots, and tablets covered in cuneiform script in a pair of metal trunks last July. Intercepted en rou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM“In partnership with the Los Angeles Times and Vice News, This American Life won for an episode called ‘The Out Crowd’ — which illuminated the personal impact of the Trump Administra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM“[Festival management] had previously cancelled all performances up to and including July 14, but the festival was due to continue until August 30. A virtual festival, Glyndebourne Open Ho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMSotheby’s new leaders, who took the publicly traded company private, are understandably eager to reopen their New York saleroom for post-pandemic business. Having disclosed a $71.2-million…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24AMMonday, May 4, 2020
“The jury said Knight’s work demonstrated ‘extraordinary community service by a critic’ through the application of ‘his expertise and enterprise to critique a proposed overhaul of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24PMFriday, May 1, 2020
The point of the exercise is to wean the young artist off result-oriented copying from photos. ‘Taking the line for a walk’ lets the drawing come about in the process of drawing. – Jan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMThe dictionary defines equation as “the act of making equal.” In his engrossing new solo album, pianist Matthew Shipp creates eleven new pieces of music in which the equality of his powe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMYes, the COVID lockdown has deprived most museums of nearly all their income, which is why the Association of Art Museum Directors has given qualified approval for members to “use the proc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMWe learned a lot of things about Singin’ in the Rain during the Lockdown Theatre Club group watch. Here are 20 of them – from dubbing the dubbers to Gene Kelly’s buttock-framing trouse…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMReacting to a scene partner’s body language and expressions is an integral part of learning how to act. Zoom, clearly, isn’t optimal in that department. But … students were finding way…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMMovie theaters in Norway will reopen on May 7 with a mandatory minimum of one meter of space between each audience member and no more than 50 patrons total in any one space. (These rules fol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM“The primary lesson of plague literature, from Thucydides onwards, is how predictably humans respond to such crises. Over millennia, there has been a consistent pattern to behaviour during…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM“Since its release in 2017, TikTok has become a wildly popular global platform for dance, especially among teens, with tools that make it easy to film yourself dancing to music, integrate …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM“The performers … feel abandoned by the Met. … The sense of drift has been compounded by what musicians call a lack of communication and leadership from the Met’s management. Music d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AMThe offerings, open only to subscribers, include a “virtual reading” of a new adaptation of Chekhov’s Seagull (available May 14-27); a radio-play version of Arthur Miller’s The Ameri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM“In 1967,[he] wrote a lasting page in art history when, as a 27-year-old curator in Genoa, he mounted an exhibition of five young Italian artists making provisional assemblages of humble m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM“The Forbidden City, past home to China’s emperors, is allowing just 5,000 visitors daily, down from 80,000. And parks are allowing people to visit at 30% of the usual capacity. … Larg…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM“Facing his own burgeoning budget problems, Gov. Tom Wolf has directed some state agencies to rescind grant money previously awarded to arts groups. The decision surfaced Monday when numer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMWhen I visited dish-besotted Bill Stern in his apartment in Los Angeles, we would make tea for breakfast in a gray pot designed in the 1960s by Edith Heath. At some aha moment, Bill decided …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMMy beloved Hilary died a month ago tonight. I could not begin to thank enough people for saving my life, which is what all of you did by reaching out to me, generously and unhesitatingly. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMHe was a renowned expert on American Impressionism and 19th-century American still-life painting as well as author of more than 20 books on American art, notably his three-volume Art Across …
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