Thursday, February 11, 2021
“When Professor Herbert began delving into Impressionism, the field was threatened by a kind of anemic gentility, arid formalism and French literary theory. His method, by contrast, was to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM“Almost nine years ago, two thieves carried out a near-perfect heist at the National Gallery in Athens, taking two works by modern masters Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian, as well as a a s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMSome of the recommendations are both obvious and overdue: no more yellowface/brownface/blackface, hire more diverse choreographers (but classical choreographers, not contemporary or hip-hop …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMThe ancient conch shell was discovered at the site of some cave art in the French Pyrenees back in 1931, when archaeologists figured it must have been some sort of ceremonial cup. Now resear…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM“The story of breaking’s meteoric rise to the Olympic stage — it’s set to make its debut at the Paris Summer Games in 2024 — involved an unlikely and reluctant partnership between …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMWhat you get is writer-performer Kris Andersson’s Dixie’s Happy Hour, “a 95-minute performance streamed to patrons of 21 arts centers and theaters across the country. … A year into t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM“That semicolons, unlike most other punctuation marks, are fully optional and relatively unusual lends them power; when you use one, you are doing something purposefully, by choice, at a t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM“Veteran producers Bruce Hendricks and Galen Walker have optioned the rights to the late Stanley Kubrick’s unmade film Lunatic At Large, and have plans to bring the film-noir storyline t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMThe 41-year-old Austrian-born maestro, who recently completed his term as chief conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic in Croatia, takes up the baton in Portland this fall. He succeeds Carlos …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM“Many private Polish TV channels and radio stations fell silent and online sites and newspapers ran black front pages on Wednesday in a concerted protest over a planned tax that critics fe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AMThe money was to go toward developing a Carpathian “heritage” trail” in Poland’s Podkarpackie region. After a local activist brought to funders’ attention a resolution passed by th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AMWednesday, February 10, 2021
What makes washtubs sound best? How about coffee cans? For the answers, check out Lou Harrison’s instructions for his Concerto for Violin and Percussion. So far as I am aware, it is the mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06PM“As they announce plans for the spring and summer — mostly digital, garnished with a little outdoors and in-person — many New York dance presenters spoke in recent interviews about wha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54PMIn fact, he was a very promising art student, excelling at plants in particular, but a professor who worried that he couldn’t support himself as an artist suggested he go into botany — a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMAlisher Navoiy was born in 1441 in Herat, now in Afghanistan but historically a Persianate city. He wrote in Arabic, Persian, and Chagatai, the Turkic literary language used all over Central…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM“The museum tells a chronological story of Black music starting in the 1600s through present day and framed around major cultural movements including the music and instruments brought by A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM“Many workers regarded it as a positive step this summer when numerous leading institutions released detailed diversity, equity, and inclusion issues (DEI) plans. But more than six months …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM“A Bosnian-born guitarist and accordionist, [she] brought the traditional ballads of her Sephardic [Jewish] ancestors and the melodies of the Ladino language to American audiences through …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM“Louis Aliot, the right-wing mayor of Perpignan, a city in the south of France, will let four museums begin welcoming visitors once more, effectively disobeying countrywide COVID-19 safety…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM“The Frick Collection will open in the Breuer building as the Frick Madison on March 18, the museum announced on Tuesday, beginning a two-year stay in the Brutalist space while its 1914 Gi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMSocial distancing is easier outdoors and there’s more air circulation, not to mention the fact that, as one director puts it, “Outdoor arts is more accessible because it’s in democrati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM“Paramount has a screenplay for a new movie, according to court papers. But Alan Schwartz, Trustee of the Truman Capote Literary Trust, has been shopping a television series, and has gotte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM“The J. Paul Getty Trust initiated the fund, to be officially announced Tuesday, and the California Community Foundation is administering it. Struggling arts organizations with an annual o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMTuesday, February 9, 2021
He wrote the screenplays for a remarkable number of important films: Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Belle de Jour, and That Obscure Object of Desire; The Tin Drum; T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PM“In the shouty Valhalla of pointlessly destructive literary feuds, a place of honor must go to the verbal duel between the poets Heinrich Heine and August von Platen, which amused and disg…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMIn the network’s motion to dismiss the voting company’s defamation lawsuit — which alleges that Fox News and three of its hosts knowingly spread a false conspiracy theory that Smartmat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMOnce the AAMD, looking at the financial carnage wrought by COVID, relaxed its strict rule about museums selling their art only in order to acquire other art, the sales started — with major…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMHer project, called Rising Sun Music, “is a series of newly recorded works written by black composers — including many works that have never been recorded before — performed by Downes …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM“[She] remains best known for her breakthrough 1994 feature The Silences of the Palace, a lyrical study of a woman’s return to an abandoned royal residence, which tackled the themes of e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMThe Louvre Conservation Center, located in Liévin (20 miles or so southwest of Lille), “has six storage areas, including dry, low-humidity areas for metalworks, a photography studio, work…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM“By one count, Broadway is directly responsible for nearly 100,000 jobs in New York City alone and, as a leading attraction for people who travel to the city, it has an economic impact of …
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