Tuesday, April 28, 2020
His 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 12:36PMKatharina Wagner, the composer Richard Wagner’s great-granddaughter, became co-director of the festival (alongside cousin Eva) in 2008 and sole director in 2015. Now, just short of age 42,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMLast month, the festival canceled all April and May performances and laid off hundreds of workers. But with the repertory company’s actors appearing in several productions and with audienc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM“Opening safely is a very complex project that involves countless new procedures and equipment, all of which require extensive training,” said a statement from company management. “Thi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMFor 18 years, Gersten was second-in-command to Joe Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater (where his interventions twice saved Papp’s and the company’s future), and he …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM“Elsewhere around the world, art galleries and museums remain shuttered, hemorrhaging staff and plaintively asking, What will it take to reopen? And just as crucially, What will this new a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AMAny sustainable and resilient plan for returning to live performance will have to be highly adaptable, nimble, responsive, and risk-tolerant. The trick will be to find loosely-coupled approa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03AMFriday, April 24, 2020
No, it’s not a traditional practice, but there are pallbearers in Ghana who (at the bereaved’s request) will execute some slick moves while toting the coffin on their shoulders. The soci…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMKarissa Krenz: “Perhaps the coronavirus is forcing us to have an extended performance of John Cage’s … groundbreaking 1952 work that epitomized his every-sound-can-be-music philosophy.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMTurns out not even the people involved agree on the answer to that. Absolutely not, says Ryan Rilette, artistic director of metro DC’s Round House (the theater behind the project): “You …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMEnglish National Opera is planning to stage two classics on the grounds of the Alexandra Palace in North London, with singers and orchestral players spaced at least six feet apart and the au…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMSaturday afternoon’s At-Home Gala, the brainchild of Met general manager Peter Gelb, will have opera stars performing live on the Web from wherever they’re waiting out the COVID lockdown…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM“With no clear indication when the theater might be deemed safe to reopen, [managing director Amy] Wratchford and her remaining team (all on half or quarter salary) have written contingenc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMAs general director from 1985 to 1993, he, along with director of productions David Pountney and chief conductor Mark Elder, “fostered a production style based on radical, dynamic dramatur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMA three-judge panel from the 6th Circuit ruled 2-to-1 that “education — at least in the minimum form discussed here — is essential to nearly every interaction between a citizen and her…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM“The robber, who arrived to the [Singer Laren] museum [near Amsterdam] on a motorcycle, broke in by smashing reinforced glass doors with a sledgehammer. Leaving the scene, the thief took V…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM“They don’t want to be lumped in with meatpacking plants and senior centers as hot spots for the virus. Already struggling financially, theaters fear that a too-soon return could stigmat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMThe Democratic National Committee staffer was shot during a mugging in the summer of 2016, but a conspiracy theory, developed in right-wing circles and repeated on Fox News, claimed that Ric…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMThursday, April 23, 2020
“More than just the organizational and financial genius of the enterprise, Mrs. Wyeth also had a firm hand in guiding her husband’s artistic development. … Later she came up with the i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM“Its vast army of 1,800 artists relies on international travel to get from show to show, regularly crossing borders, performing on cruise ships, and interacting with fans. Daily training r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMShortly after the pianist abandoned live performance for good, he started making nonfiction radio programs for the CBC, the best-known of which are called the “Solitude Trilogy”: The Ide…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMMark Harris: “So forget the movies — he certainly has. What remains is the man, and on that score, Apropos of Nothing is one of the most unsettling accounts of a life I ever hope never t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM“Today, as the pandemic reshapes the ways we understand our work life and its meaning, Terkel’s supermarket workers would be classified ‘essential’ to the smooth continuity of societ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AMEarlier this week, Helen Shaw wrote that the Broadway.com stream of Jonathan Tolin’s Buyer & Cellar was “the proof-of-concept for low-budget live-capture.” So she talked to the peo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM“In a long film, television and stage career [she] earned two Oscar nominations while still in her 20s, won a Tony Award in 1975 and later garnered three Emmy Awards.” – The New York T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMIn Germany, it’s a state-by-state process: small museums in Brandenburg are reopening this week, with Thuringia next week, Saxony and Berlin in early May and the rest of the country follow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMAs we know, American society and politics (especially in Congress) are very different in 2020 than they were in 1934. Even then, there was political opposition to the very idea of arts fundi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMWhat, the guy who wrote all those pops-concert pieces like The Typewriter, The Syncopated Clock, and Sleigh Ride? Yes, says Anthony Tommasini: “Bach provides solace, Beethoven stirs us wit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM“With his fellow quartet members, he toured all over the world, specialising in works by Czech composers — many of them contemporary — and winning several prestigious prizes, including…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMConsidering his long, illustrious career as an art scholar and museum director, not to mention his generosity in sharing his deep insights with others (including me), I’m puzzled as to why…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03AMDo you consider your organization’s deepest responsibility to be to art or to people? I don’t mean what is your mission. Rather, in extreme instances, what is most important? If many in …
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