Thursday, April 2, 2020
“[A] pianist and educator, [he] became the guiding force behind a late-20th-century resurgence in jazz. … Photogenic, erudite and fabulously talented, Mr. Marsalis’s children and many …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM“In a March 31st letter to alumni, Dean Robert Blocker outlined an ambitious plan to provide aid, including ‘a one-time stipend of $500’ to all students to assist with travel and expen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM“Amid the far-reaching impact of the coronavirus pandemic, … domestic ticket sales turned in a combined $1.81 billion from Jan. 1 through March 19, the day when Comscore stopped reportin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMThe Edinburgh International Festival, the Fringe, Book Festival, Art Festival, and Military Tattoo, which transform Scotland’s capital for the month of August, have been called off for 202…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM“Imagine you are a small businessperson or freelancer suffering a deep financial loss as a result of your city’s lockdown. You apply for a grant from the government on a Friday, submitti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMFaced with mounting pushback against its plan to consider cutbacks beginning Apr. 5, the Met has now postponed any such changes until May 2. The Frick’s plans, including a temporary move t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12AMI’ve also been watching with great interest the number of arts organizations making content available online, providing virtual experiences to help us get through this. At the same time, I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12AMWednesday, April 1, 2020
“This is Pieter Bruegel’s circa 1562 world-masterpiece painting The Triumph of Death, a panoramic pandemonium of an army of skeletons laying waste to a barren burning landscape while mur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMShe helped create the series Live From Lincoln Center, Dance in America, and Live From the Metropolitan Opera. And in 4½ years as PBS’s senior vice president for programming in the late 1…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“Timur Bekmambetov, best known outside Russia for making the Angelina Jolie thriller Wanted, was midway through filming his second world war fighter-ace film V2: Escape from Hell when the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“The imprint at Penguin Random House [is] responsible for publishing some of history’s most canonical authors, from Homer and Marcus Aurelius to James Joyce and George Eliot. Elda Rotor,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMThis summer’s event would have included the premiere of a new Ring cycle staged by Valentin Schwarz with Pietari Inkinen conducting; that production will “probably” be postponed until …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMFacing serious criticism for the furloughs — one congressman introduced a bill to rescind the $25 million, saying “if an organization is receiving assistance from the federal government,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMThe five-week furloughs, announced days after all National Symphony musicians were laid off with a week’s notice, cover administrative employees in education, marketing, and development as…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMAlexis Soloski: “You could fill a shelf with plays of the past several decades that have dreamed bleak outcomes for humanity. And then, in a pinch, you could burn that shelf and those play…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM“Players voted last week to approve an across-the-board 20% reduction in compensation starting April 1 and lasting through the middle of September. Pay cuts have also been instituted fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM“In this time of confinement, we have been given one immeasurable gift — the freedom to go outside. In exchange, we must abide by a simple rule: Stay six feet away from others. As choreo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM“In a survey of 1,000 consumers in the U.S., 44% of respondents said they would attend fewer large public events, even once they are cleared by the CDC, with 38% saying they’d attend abo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM“The French tourist, who was visiting London with his parents, was pushed from the gallery’s 10th floor viewing platform by a teenager with a history of mental health problems. … The b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMThe “Mrs. T” of this blog suffered throughout our years together from pulmonary hypertension, a rare and devastating illness that gnawed inexorably at her body without touching her soul.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48AMTuesday, March 31, 2020
The Amazon delivery guy rang the bell, then scampered off to safety behind the garden gate, a good distance, but not so far that he couldn’t hear and acknowledge my “thank you.” – Pa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03PMOut in the woods for today’s video, on Charles Lindblom’s classic essay “The science of ‘muddling through’”. When an arts organization sets out to form a strategic plan, what exa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03PMIn addition to calling off all events in the June 24-August 30 festival, Jacob’s Pillow administration is making staffing and salary cuts. However, said director Pamela Tatge, “[if] peop…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03PMAlex Greenberger: “[There’s] a difference between Hopper’s forlorn subjects and so many of us right now. They choose to live in modernity and find themselves alienated because of it. W…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMJonathan Jones: “If [the widely-shared tweet is true], a crisis of loneliness is impending that may be one of the most fraught social consequences of COVID-19. The loss of direct human con…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM“Ars Nova did not seek an article about the course it has chosen. On the contrary, [its directors] worried that discussing it publicly could look like they were shaming colleagues amid an …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMSharon Stern was a vivacious, popular, hard-working actor when she enrolled in the MFA program at America’s first Buddhist university. There she met Butoh master Katsura Kan and became his…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM“Mr. Tarr left his mark on every aspect of the trumpet world. As a player he set new standards of lyricism on an instrument long associated with military bravado. As a scholar he hunted fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM“A fiery champion of social justice and sustainability in architecture and urban planning, [he] emerged as one of his profession’s most incisive public intellectuals over a multifaceted …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM“Hours after municipal authorities in Shanghai gave more than 200 cinemas the greenlight to re-open Saturday, national-level Chinese authorities on Friday ordered all theaters throughout t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMWith libraries and bookstores closed across the U.S., and with teachers searching for materials to use for remote teaching, the Internet Archive decided to lift all restrictions on access to…
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