Friday, April 17, 2020
“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 12:48PMWith demand for its content soaring as people are self-isolating due to COVID, the streaming giant’s total market value on Wall Street has risen to $196 billion. Meanwhile, with demand for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM“[WBUR in Boston] had planned to return to a full eight-day campaign in 2020, after doing a marathon-themed 26.2-hour version for the past few years. … Months of planning for the origina…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM“In many ways, we’ll have to start from scratch. So why not learn from this moment and rebuild our community on a stronger foundation? Why not use this opportunity to enact the desires, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM“It’s bizarre to be this busy and not presenting music,” said an official at one festival; “We’ve had to unravel a pretty huge ball of yarn while transitioning to working remotely,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMIf you don’t want to be a covidiot, spend some of your quatorzaine at home boning up on the new words about Miss Rona, from the Chinese tagline for social distancing to the German term for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM“Bach is undoubtedly music’s supreme companion of extreme distress. … But, on the plane to D.C. that night, Bach would have been too raw, too dire. With Brahms, everything passes throu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM“In one of the strangest art controversies in recent memory, a group of right-wing internet users and blogs have begun targeting Marina Abramović, accusing her of being involved in a Sata…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMThursday, April 16, 2020
Every year since the mid-17th century, when a freak snowstorm stopped the shogun’s enforcer and saved them from a death sentence, the people of the mountain hamlet of Damine have performed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PMEarlier this month, with the Netherlands under COVID lockdown, raiders broke into a small museum and took van Gogh’s Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring. Writer Daniel Dumas talks to two …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM“An exemplar of modern jazz improvisation, and arguably the most influential alto saxophone soloist after bebop progenitor Charlie Parker, … Konitz was one of the last jazz musicians of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PMIn the Ohio University School of Dance program, “students can specialize in specific populations, such as seniors or children in schools. The program aims to prepare grads for a range of c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM“Nothing will happen until jurisdictions relax regulations that currently don’t allow gatherings of 20 or more people. Anticipating that will happen in a month or two, here are some of t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM“To get one example of all that goes into self-producing a show, we asked dancemaker DeAnna Pellecchia of KAIROS Dance Theater to break down the finances of her company’s most recent ful…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PMA musicologist named Remo Giazotto wrote a monograph on Albinoni in which he claimed to have discovered manuscript fragments by the Venetian Baroque composer, fragments from which he reconst…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM“The novelist is to be a guest on Mary Beard’s BBC Two arts show Front Row Late, hosted in lockdown from the study in Beard’s house. Atwood’s contribution is what Beard calls a ‘ve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMThe ruling, which could make a difference for websites that use material originally posted on social media such as Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, sidesteps what has been called “the serv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM“[The VSO’s president and board chair] said Wednesday the orchestra now expects to meet the goal of maintaining employment for musicians and staff to the end of the 2019-20 season in Jun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMResponding to “troubling reports” of some theaters’ plans, the union’s executive director said, “Any employer who wants to begin theatrical productions needs to have a comprehensiv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMOn a hilltop miles away from the city I love, I’ve decided to look at Paul Taylor & Company — An Artist and his Work, a 1968 film directed by Ted Steeg. 1968! My choice was partly pe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54AMUsing aspects of phrasing, rhythm and tonal quality adapted from the great Lester Young, Konitz in the 1940s developed into one of the most distinctive saxophonists in jazz. – Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AMTo help artists who, because of the coronavirus havoc, are finding it ever harder to stay afloat, the painter Makoto Fujimura and his International Arts Movement have launched the Hilary Tea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AMWednesday, April 15, 2020
“What is a choreographer without a stage but a sad clown of God at a time like this? So Morris has retooled himself as a filmmaker. … There is a certain hallucinatory, Fellini-esque qual…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PMThe manufacturer of Humvees, AM General, sued the game developer, alleging that the appearance of the trucks in Call of Duty “deceived [players] into believing that AM General licenses the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PMHowever difficult things may be once the coronavirus is under control, they likely won’t be as bad as in Germany just after World War II. Cologne Cathedral had been hit 14 times by Allied …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM“Theatre finance departments have been in an all-hands-on-deck mode as they gather payroll reports and compile the information needed for [CARES Act aid] applications. It’s been a round-…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM“The exact scope and nature of Germany’s contribution will be determined in the coming months on the basis of studies on the ground, [a] statement said, adding that three glass workshops…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PMHis American Place Theater staged important early work by the likes of Sam Shepard, Maria Irene Fornés, Eric Bogosian, and the poet Robert Lowell, but “his greatest hits, it might be said…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMIn an extensive Q&A, Bolshoi general director Vladimir Urin talks about how the dancers, singers and instrumentalists are and aren’t continuing to get paid, how everyone is trying to s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM“The former American Ballet Theatre principal and ballet mistress … will succeed Terrence Orr, who announced last year his intent to retire this summer after 23 years.” – Pittsburgh …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM“Though many libraries have sent workers home, with pay, several systems in states like Texas, Massachusetts and Colorado have required at least some staff members to keep coming to work. …
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