Wednesday, December 12, 2018
“Kaywin Feldman, 52, who has been director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Art since 2008, will succeed Earl ‘Rusty’ Powell III, who is retiring after 26 year…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:48AMWhen Elizabeth Rowe launched her lawsuit against the BSO, it was reported that she is paid less than the (male) principal oboist. How much less? More than $66,000. Geoff Edgers does a deep d…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:48AMRunning a contemporary dance institution with such a long history (read: stability) will be quite a change for Benoit Swan Pouffer: Cedar Lake collapsed in 2015 after its sole funder pulled …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:48AM“This proves to be a particularly timely question because exactly 10 years ago last month, two of the biggest arts venue headaches of recent times finally opened to the public.” …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:48AM“The [comedy] theater, which has four spaces, including the flagship that opened in Hell’s Kitchen last year, has struggled in its new location, in part because of increased comp…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:48AMThe country’s two major bookstore chains are in or near bankruptcy and are closing so many stores that many cities will be left with no place to buy books. The head of one Brazilian pu…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 08:42AMAccording to the study from the Pew Research Center, television is still the leading source, with just under half of respondents saying they get most of their news from it; hard-copy print c…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 08:42AMAfter the Kevin Hart debacle, which they had not expected, the Academy powers-that-be are having a hard time finding someone willing to host the Academy Awards ceremony, and that very much i…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 08:42AM“Staff of the State Russian Museum are taking legal action to protest against the imminent $17m reconstruction of its main building, the Mikhailovsky Palace in St. Petersburg.They argu…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:36AMWhen museum trustees set out to hire a new director, they tend to seek someone very different from the current one, a prominent art museum director once told me. They want change. — Lee R…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:18AMHere’s an updated version — call it 2.0 — of last year’s chart outlining the two main ways (the wrong one and the right one) of approaching the means by which arts organizati…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:18AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
“Figures drawn from Arts Professional‘s 2018 online survey of pay and earnings reveal that on average, women in full-time employment in the cultural sector earn 10.6% less than m…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PMThe opening of the renovated and reorganized (with some input from Belgium’s African community) museum moved Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to call f…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PMThe good news is that there’s been very little ideologically-based destruction of the kind ISIS perpetrated in Syria and Iraq; the damage is almost entirely “collateral,” t…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PMThis year’s list includes an amputee tap dancer, a young man whose star-making performance was partnering a wooden stool, and a dancer-cum-planetary geologist whose TED talk about chor…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PMThat’s more than double the revenue from last year, and analysts say that the figure should more than double again by 2020. — The Hollywood Reporter
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PMTracy K. Smith: “Political poetry … has done much more than vent. It has become a means of owning up to the complexity of our problems, of accepting the likelihood that even we the r…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PMAmong them, the handmade books he turned in as papers in art school and Macy’s behavior guide for Santaland elves. As he tells Jennifer Schuessler, “There’s no way I could …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PM“In a keynote speech at the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam [in late November], [David] Adjaye said that architecture should be the ‘arbiter of ideas’, yet many of…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PMOne Sunday last month, the Boston-area chamber ensemble Mistral was about to begin the third work on its program when 89-year-old Ingrid Christiansen slumped over in her front-row seat. Zoë…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PMBoxy shapes, flat windows, bland façades. How did American apartment architecture get conquered by the style one wag calls “Spongebuild Squareparts”? Reporter Patrick Sisson wri…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PM“The Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire has created an unprecedented program that uses art as a healing tool for those affected by the epidemic in a state that’s ranked third…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PMKaty Waldman (using the Dutch name under which tiny books have become popular in Europe): “A dwarsligger‘s teeniness is inseparable from its tweeness. But dwarsliggers embody twe…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PMA statement from the editors, who were first alerted by a reader, says that “the reviews by Covert in question span many years, but one was published as recently as November 1.” …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PMTheater Mu, a St. Paul-based company focused on Asian-American work, cut ties with artistic director Randy Reyes after a board investigation “discovered conduct that did not reflect th…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PMThe veteran journalist, who is also the author of the novels on which the TV series Killing Eve is based, tweeted that, after 14 years, “it’s time to step aside and pursue new pr…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PMFounded in 2013, Liquid Company, a troupe made up entirely of refugees and migrants from Africa and the Mideast who survived the dangerous sea crossing, has developed, scripted, and performe…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:24PMFriday, December 7, 2018
The Japanese musical drama called Noh has been practiced without a significant break since the 14th century. In this short documentary, The Spirit of Noh, actor Michishige Udaka tells filmma…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:01PMBBC”[Liverpool’s] Everyman became famous in the 1970s for its rep company, which launched the careers of actors like Bill Nighy, Julie Walters, Pete Postlethwaite and Sir Anthony…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:44AMThursday, December 6, 2018
“A group of disabled theatre artists have announced the creation of National Disability Theatre, a company that will produce fully accessible live performances. The company will exclus…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:03PMWednesday, December 5, 2018
“As novelist William Faulkner said about writing, but is applicable to all creative endeavours: ‘You must kill all your darlings.’ That said, killing your darlings can be r…
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