Thursday, April 23, 2020
Do 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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03AMWednesday, April 22, 2020
Journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis looks into the young phenomenon’s background and meteoric rise, teases out how he got to the point of selling artworks to several different clients at onc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMDwight Garner: “With so many hours to obliterate, I’ve found myself turning to the experts. I’ve pushed away the Tootsie Roll wrappers and empty root beer cans and gathered around my b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM“Although its museums have been closed since February, commercial galleries were allowed to remain open. Several have done so, some throughout the crisis, putting South Korea alongside Tai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMFolium, an ink with hues ranging from blue to purple that was used extensively to illuminate manuscripts, was derived from the small fruits of an unassuming weed native to southern Portugal.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PMSeriously? But Merce is hard. “And yet, this is what Patricia Lent, the director of licensing at the Cunningham Trust, is proposing. In a new online series, she has been systematically bre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM“Abigail Disney, an Emmy award-winning film-maker and a granddaughter of the company’s co-founder Roy Disney, launched a Twitter tirade against the world’s biggest entertainment group …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM“Attempts to remove books from libraries across the US rose almost a fifth last year, with children’s books featuring LGBTQ characters making up 80% of the most challenged books,” acco…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMJust a couple of months ago, there were articles suggesting that the streaming service may have tapped out its pool of potential customers. But, as with most things on Earth, everything chan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM“Roberto Cicutto, president of the Venice Biennale, which oversees the film festival, confirmed it would go ahead on 2 September as planned. Meanwhile, the Biennale’s theatre and dance f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM“Sound like quackery? It’s not. Numerous studies … have found that both performing and listening to music can have a significant impact on the immune system” — including one review…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMThe once-mighty, now-struggling comedy improv institution is giving up the leases to both its theater and its training center on Manhattan’s West Side. Nothing about the company’s Los An…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMHow often can you say that the Metropolitan Opera rocks? That happens in much of this new recording, taken from live performances of the Met’s hit production. But the price of capturing th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42AMTuesday, April 21, 2020
Critic Ben Read went looking for the source of the bizarre allegations that have had the right-wing internet in a lather for a few weeks. He found a 77-minute YouTube video about a pair of f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMDavid Patrick Stearns: “The carefully-curated public images of the past … have, ironically, faded away in this era of social distancing. Any exterior glamour that creates psychological d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMHelen Shaw: “After five weeks of valiant internet productions that looked a lot like readings (even when they weren’t), Buyer & Cellar” — with Michael Urie, live from his living …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM“No one in live comedy is thrilled about moving shows online. ‘Doing standup without an audience is like sex without an orgasm,’ quipped Felicia Madison, the booker for West Side Comed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM“Less than a month after canceling its spring season because of the coronavirus pandemic, New York City Ballet is back with a six-week slate of online programming. The company announced on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMIn addition to performing and recording a great deal of early keyboard repertoire, he prepared and published a new edition of Domenico Scarlatti’s 555 sonatas, became the first North Ameri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMThis is especially true at (now-online) universities, reports Emma Pettit, for students and professors alike. And as professors find themselves unable to focus on the reading they need to do…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMTim Schneider: “An art market justifiably paranoid about frequent international travel is an art market incentivized to fracture into regional and local interests. Short distances won’t …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMJason Boog recounts how his experience as a (non-)working writer during the Great Recession moved him to rediscover the story of the publishing industry’s first strike. – Literary Hub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMGov. Brian Kemp has said that cinemas in the Peach State may begin welcoming customers again beginning April 27. People actually in the business of showing movies say there’s no way things…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM“For Roosevelt, it was not superfluous to the country’s most exigent needs. And in a move that remained decidedly controversial with his conservative congressional adversaries, he made t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMAs a generation of jazz elders leaves our world — some hastened by the pandemic — their faces as photographed by Sánta István Csaba become even more luminous, haunting, iconic. – How…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54AMPina Bausch’s work has been a delight and compulsion throughout my theatregoing lifetime. I’ve seen every piece I can, several of them more than once. And it turns out I’ve written qui…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54AMOf course, I had to grow, pluck my own and juice them. I even bit one on the vine like an animal — I am an animal — and sucked and chewed, thinking of another writer who acted on the sam…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54AMFriday, April 17, 2020
Alexis Soloski got texts from Romeo (who’s a bit of a jerk), helped someone held hostage in Venezuela undo handcuffs, failed to help a pilot land a 747, told an inspector for the Misplaced…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM“Posing in her most glamorous handmade outfits, ArtActivistBarbie has been calling into question the representation of women on gallery walls” — the blonde doll is photographed in fron…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMArtistic director Oskar Eustis said that “there’s no way we can responsibly prepare, build and rehearse to get shows open in a timing that might match the quarantine’s timing.” 70% o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:59PM“Standing 6-foot-3, Mr. Dennehy had a booming voice and an often intimidating screen presence. … [He] was celebrated for his work as a character actor in Hollywood and on television, whe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM 
