Friday, May 1, 2020
He 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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMKate Craddock, founder and director of the Gateshead International Festival of Theatre in northeastern England, “is keen to point out this isn’t just about taking a stash of pre-recorded…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMGiven the scale of the national crisis facing all sectors of the economy in the months and years to come, the pandemic is a historic disruption that represents an existential crisis. What to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMThursday, April 30, 2020
Sarah Kaufman: “They can serve as guardian angels of the evening, controlling the musical universe and its atmosphere, smoothing over mishaps and delivering well-timed thunderbolts with a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM“The hosts [of the radio show A Way with Words], Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett, are the Click and Clack of word talk. Barnette is a writer who has studied Latin and Greek (her books in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMMichael Andor Brodeur: “Lately, my social media feeds are filled with musical experiments that take a head-on approach to the current crisis, or works composed before the outbreak that res…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM“Mr. Ales was one of [Berry] Gordy’s most indispensable executives throughout the 1960s, when Motown became a ubiquitous force in American pop culture and a prime symbol of black enterpr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM“The Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) Project … has found an uptick in posts on Facebook groups involved in buying and selling looted objects from the M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM“The proposed addition of hand-washing stations and health screening areas means that theatre lobbies will have to grow. The whole theatre building will have to grow, in fact. If social di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:02AMAMC has announced that, in both its U.S. outlets and its Odeon Cinemas abroad, “it will refuse to show movies released by Hollywood studio Universal. The latter had just declared it would …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM“For every private development project of $500,000 or more in the city of Los Angeles, the developer must pay an arts fee to the city based on the square footage of the building or a perce…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM“The salaries of 89 senior-level executives — all nonfederal employees — will be cut by 10 percent for 12 months, starting May 24, with Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III and De…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMThe Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District in Alaska “cited ‘sexually explicit material’ and ”anti-white’ messaging’ in [Maya Angelou’s] I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, ……
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM“South Korea, which has a burgeoning theatre economy with a size and scale to rival the West End, has become the big player in Asia. … Its theatres were given the choice, rather than dem…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMWednesday, April 29, 2020
“The Brooklyn-based artists and designers behind MSCHF purchased a $30,000 Damien Hirst spot print and cut out all 88 of its dots. Starting today, they’re selling the dots for $480 each.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMThe albums released by London-based Electric Recording Co., “assembled by hand and released in editions of 300 or fewer — at a cost of $400 to $600 for each LP — are made with restored…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM“An iconic yet tortured female painter. A mistress wrapped up in a witch hunt in an early American colony. A talented cellist whose life ended prematurely after her battle with multiple sc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM“With many staffers on furlough, and operations grinding to a halt, fundraising efforts (and a boost of morale) can be more important than ever. And while there’s some debate over how we…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM“The Barrington Stage Company, … responding to the coronavirus pandemic, will give up the ambitious musical productions for which it is known (it’s the birthplace of The 25th Annual Pu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMAfter an unsatisfying early career in Indian TV serials and films (his acting was too subtle and his looks too unconventional for a traditional Bollywood lead), he found acclaim in the Briti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM“During a meeting on Tuesday, the [Academy’s] board of governors approved a temporary hold on the requirement that a film needs a seven-day theatrical run in a commercial theater in Los …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMWith both the timing and the conditions of the return of live performances uncertain, organizations are considering numerous possibilities, from outdoor shows (free or ticketed) with spectat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMYes, she’s been dead for 34 years. She started writing the book, titled The Inseparables and based on her best friend (who died at 21), in 1954, the year she won the Prix Goncourt for The …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM“Over the course of his wide-ranging career, Harrell performed as a soloist with just about every major orchestra in the U.S. and Europe. Within the classical music world, Harrell was also…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMHe was part of the first generation of American musicians to work seriously on the revival of historical keyboard instruments and their repertoire. He used the Institution’s instrument col…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMTuesday, April 28, 2020
“Bookshop launched in January with the intention of offering independent bookstores an improved online commerce hub that will help them woo customers away from Amazon. … The site has see…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMRobert Garland, the company’s resident choreographer and director of its school, “for all of his talent, is still one of the most underused choreographers working today, which is odd in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMHis name was Vicente Lusitano, he was son of a Portuguese father and African mother, he worked in Italy and (later) Germany, and his first book of motets contains daring chromaticism and dis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM“The governor proclaimed that all retail outlets, as well as restaurants, movie theaters, museums and libraries, are free to reopen May 1 — but with occupancy no greater than 25%. That�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM“[Archaeologists’] study of the three oldest stone enclosures at Göbekli Tepe” — a site in present-day Turkey whose monoliths are thought to be 11,500 years old — “has revealed …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMHis enormous body of prose fiction, poetry, stage dramas and screenplays (including the Oscar-winning Pelle the Conqueror) won him virtually every major Nordic literary prize other than the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM 
