Monday, August 31, 2020
The theater in Stratford, Connecticut, modeled on Shakespeare’s Globe theater in London, burned down in January 2019 as the result of arson. The theater building had not hosted an indoor p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMSyria’s architectural legacy has been a well-known victim and propaganda tool of the civil war. Islamic State famously took pleasure in detonating the temples and tower-tombs of Palmyra, w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMFor 15 years, Knoedler had procured and sold at least 40 fraudulent paintings – an astounding $60m of forged work attributed to such modern American masters as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMThere are few answers about this disease. But the choral community has come together to figure out how 54 million people in America who sing in a chorus can do so safely. Choral leaders have…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMFriday, August 28, 2020
These days, book covers are all about nature; they’re festooned with flowers, swirling with birds and littered with leaves. Those aren’t the only trends we’ve noticed, however. Here’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54PMThe city is indeed at a moment of reckoning—not simply because of the pandemic, but because of what it had already become. After the fiscal crisis of 1975, New York and its economy were re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54PMThe International Festival of Arts & Ideas (Festival) celebrates and builds community, engages with vital issues, and promotes the arts.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54PMA little over a year into my tenure at The Chronicle, I’d been initiated. For journalists, receiving an angry handwritten letter about usage from Quentin Kopp is a rite of passage, badge o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PMHow realistic is it for writers to get rich from selling adaptation rights? “It’s just not,” says Joanna Nadin, whose YA novel Joe All Alone was adapted into a Bafta-winning 2018 telev…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PMFestivals can serve as coronations, bestowing status or, even better, controversy. (Almost inevitably, “Joker” took home Venice’s top prize, the Golden Lion.) More valuably, they can c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM“For the past several months, I’ve really only heard applause in small, sporadic outbreaks, and it’s only hitting me lately how much I miss the stuff.” – Washington Post
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM“ Twenty volunteer musicians, all Black and Latinx string players from in and around Milwaukee, make up the Black String Triage Ensemble. When a tragedy occurs, they bring their instrument…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PMPrevious research on universal facial expressions has centered largely on similar responses by people from different modern communities. These studies seems to suggest that individuals acros…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:32PM“For too long, we have watched the detrimental impact of Amazon’s business on our communities and the independent bookselling world,” Powell wrote. “We understand that in many commun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMAs high-profile titles like Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic “Tenet” and “The New Mutants” gear up to hit the big screen, marking the first major films to open since theaters were f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMThursday, August 27, 2020
TV needs the movies. But as the pandemic has forced the closure of countless movie theaters, new questions have surfaced about how much the movies will need TV. – Variety
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PMFor three years, 120 people are to receive 1,200 euros per month, and throughout the study period, they will be closely observed and frequently interviewed, as will the 1,380 members of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PMThe Prison Music Project, which is a political and creative effort, is focused on centering the voices [and] stories of people who get entangled in the justice system, people who experience …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PM“The group allegedly circumvented copyright protections on nearly every movie released by major production studios, as well as television shows, and distributed them by way of a worldwide …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PMAs many as 40 local television outlets and 200 Canadian radio stations could be forced to close in the next three years as the financial pressures faced by media companies intensify under th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PMThe campaign that was intended to celebrate the partnership of Gene Russell, a Black pianist and producer who died in relative anonymity in 1981, and Dick Schory, a White percussionist and a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PMIn the centuries prior to western industrialisation, stools or benches were common household furnishings, but chairs were special-occasion objects, usually the exclusive property of the weal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMWhat if adaptation is not what is needed? What if we are asking the wrong questions? We are asking how to integrate our structures: staff, collections, exhibition schedules, board membership…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PMWe should be deeply skeptical of Trumpian fantasies of business-as-usual on the horizon. There is evidence that the pandemic, when it comes to attending live entertainment events, is changin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMWednesday, August 26, 2020
The Lewis Prize for Music seeks applicants to provide a range of communications services, particularly around public and media relations. This includes engagement for its third round of fund…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06PMMr. Perlman has been so ubiquitous that it is easy to take for granted his status as “the reigning virtuoso of the violin,” as his marketing materials put it. But with his 75th birthday …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03PMConnery nonetheless celebrates his advance on a tenth decade as an avatar of old-fashioned masculinity. His role as James Bond — hating the Beatles at the height of the their success — h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMUnder the plan, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to hold august institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Carnegie Hall accountable for hiring more members of historically marginaliz…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PMAccording to producer Edward Snape, the current situation “will stop work happening in the first place”, because producers will not be able to proceed with planned projects uninsured. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PMVirtual conventions are long. People are watching at home, in their rooms, instead of in giant ballrooms packed with other excited fans. Trying to bring some of that convention energy to peo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM“There’s a language there, and the language comes out of so many years of study. And the idea that the orchestra can’t move a couple of paces in a certain direction toward what they wo…
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