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Friday, April 10, 2020

New York State Fines Christie's $16.7 Million For Not Collecting Sales Tax by Artsjournal1

"Christie's auction house has agreed to pay $16.7 million to the Manhattan District Attorney for failing to properly collect New York sales tax between 2013 and 2017. The bombshell settlemen…

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Schubert and Mendelssohn on the verge of nervous breakdowns (like the rest of us) by Artsjournal1

Hundreds of performances of Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 ("Death and the Maiden") have come my way over the decades, but none seized me from the very first notes like the new recording b…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48AM[SHARE]

Future Jazz past: Hal Willner, circa 1992 by Artsjournal1

The death of this funny, smart, idiosyncratic, unique music producer at age 64 saddens me. We were East Village neighbors in the go-go '90s, flush with ideas to try in the future. Here's my …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48AM[SHARE]
Thursday, April 9, 2020

A New Non-Toxic, Natural Blue Pigment Made From (Of All Things) Beets by Artsjournal1

"No matter how much people enjoy looking at it, blue is a difficult color to harness from nature. … Plants seldom produce blue hues. When they do, their pigments rarely remain stable after…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]

'Akin To The Cancellation Of The Olympics': ABT Calls Off Its New York Spring Season At The Met by Artsjournal1

"The company estimates that loss of the Met season, along with previously canceled tour performances " in Chicago, Detroit, Durham, N.C., and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates " will cos…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]

L.A. Phil Cancels Rest Of Regular Season, Cuts Musicians' And Staffers' Pay by Artsjournal1

"Payroll reductions of 35% in the aggregate will include the layoffs of 94 part-time employees and pay cuts of more than 35% for the leadership team, the orchestra said. Orchestra members wi…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]

NEA Releases Guidelines For Distributing Its $75 Million In Coronavirus Relief To Arts Organizations by Artsjournal1

"A wide variety of non-profit organizations can apply for a share of the money, including 'arts organizations, local arts agencies, statewide assemblies of local arts agencies, arts service …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]

Explosion And Fire: Latest Snafu To Beset Construction Of Berlin's Humboldt Forum by Artsjournal1

Two pots of hot tar took flame at an entrance to the old palace that's being rebuilt to house the ethnographic collections of Berlin's various museums. The incident sent black smoke through …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]

Budapest Festival Orchestra Saved By The Government Its Conductor Keeps Criticizing by Artsjournal1

Iván Fischer, who founded the ensemble and led it to become one of the most admired in the world today, has been a vocal critic of the increasingly autocratic rule of Hungary's prime mini…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]

Disney Plus Has Signed 50 Million Subscribers In Five Months by Artsjournal1

"Disney has taken an especially hard hit from the pandemic, with its theme parks shuttered, movies postponed and ESPN cable channel without live sports to televise. But the company on Wednes…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]

France Orders Google To Pay News Outlets For The Snippets It Displays In Search Results by Artsjournal1

"The French antitrust agency gave the Alphabet Inc. unit three months to thrash out deals with press publishers and agencies demanding talks on how to remunerate them for displaying their co…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]

'Quarantine Soirées' And 'Confinement Concertos' " How Classical Music Performance Is Developing In The Days Of Social Distancing by Artsjournal1

"So far, nothing has approached the embarrassment factor of the quarantine meditations from Madonna's bathtub. But is this classical music's brave new world? A temporary novelty? A dead end?…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]

Arts Philanthropist Anne Bass Dead At 79 by Artsjournal1

The first wife of Fort Worth oil billionaire Sid Bass, she ultimately "became one of New York's most respected philanthropists, supporting, in large but unflashy ways, the New York Botanical…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]

Broadway Theatres Will Remain Closed At Least Through June 7 by Artsjournal1

"Even though the [Broadway] League has extended the shut down, many Broadway insiders don't expect performances to resume until July at the earliest, with some predicting that theaters will …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]

Mahler's 8th: The antithesis of social distance in a new PhilOrch recording by Artsjournal1

This Mahler 8th arrives some four years after the live performances, and it signals not only a high-water mark in Nézet-Séguin's relationship with the orchestra but a certain evolution in …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12AM[SHARE]

Small Consolation: Museums' Hit-&-Miss Attempts to Engage Audiences Via "Virtual Exhibitions" by Artsjournal1

Too much of museums' existing online content, now being repurposed, reminds me of "park and bark" " the great opera stars of yesteryear, standing stock-still at center stage and belting out …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Montreal's Franglais Rap: Multi-Culti Creativity Or Threat To The Survival Of French In North America? by Artsjournal1

"To their legions of fans, the groups give voice to the bilingual vernacular of a multicultural city, marinated by its past French and British rulers, the forces of globalization and success…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]

Archaeologists Open Egyptian Mummy's Coffin And Discover 3,000-Year-Old Paintings Inside by Artsjournal1

At the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland, conservators working to preserve the remains of an ancient priestess or noblewoman named Ta-Kr-Hb opened her sarcophagus and found two painti…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM[SHARE]

Another Landmark Postmodern Dance Piece You Can Perform At Home by Artsjournal1

Last week it was one by Yvonne Rainer. This week it's Trisha Brown's 1971 Roof Piece, in which "dancers scattered themselves across the roofs of SoHo and played a dance version of the game T…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PM[SHARE]

'Tiger King', The Most Watched TV Show In The U.S., Is An Ethical And Moral Dumpster Fire by Artsjournal1

"[The series is] the latest and most acute iteration of a Netflix trend toward extreme storytelling; the more unfathomable and ethically dubious, the better. The point is virality " content …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]

Australia's Arts Funder Slashes Grants, Leaving Companies In Shock by Artsjournal1

The Australia Council for the Arts' four-year funding program for 2021-24 has reduced the number of organizations included by a quarter, from 128 to 95, and has cut the planned grants for th…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]

Pulitzer Prizes Postponed, Will Be Livestreamed In May by Artsjournal1

The announcement of this year's awards had been scheduled for April 20, but, as administrator Dana Canedy said in a statement, "The Pulitzer board includes many high-level journalists who ar…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]

Kennedy Center Rescinds Furlough Of National Symphony Musicians by Artsjournal1

"The deal [with the musicians' union] includes immediate pay cuts until early September, a wage freeze and a delayed pay increase and extends the current contract for a year, to 2024, accord…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]

Williamstown Theatre Festival Finds Alternative To Canceling This Summer's Season by Artsjournal1

"In a bold attempt to salvage its shows, the festival … has decided to develop, rehearse, and record all seven of its planned productions and release them in audio form on Audible … [wit…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]

New York Philharmonic Players Fired For Sexual Misconduct Reinstated by Artsjournal1

"The Philharmonic dismissed the players " its principal oboist, Liang Wang, and associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey " in September 2018. Both men denied wrongdoing, and the players' …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]

London's West End Theatres To Remain Closed At Least Through May 31 by Artsjournal1

"London's theatres first shuttered their doors on March 16 in the wake of the escalating coronavirus pandemic. The mass closures, in an effort to curb the spread of the virus, mirrored those…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]

Singer-Songwriter John Prine Dead Of COVID At 73 by Artsjournal1

"A onetime Army mechanic and mail carrier who wrote songs rooted in the experiences of lower-middle-class life, Mr. Prine rose to prominence almost by accident. He was at a Chicago folk club…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Bringing An Indigenous American Language Back From The Very Brink Of Extinction by Artsjournal1

Journalist Lorraine Boissoneault looks into the effort " using classroom lessons, software, and the memory of one of five native speakers left " to revive and teach the Menominee language of…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]

With Everyone Else Avoiding Museums, Will Thieves Stay Away, Too? by Artsjournal1

Recent thefts of van Gogh and van Dyck paintings indicate that the answer is no. "Alarm systems and uniformed guards are still in place, of course, and the sale of museum-famous stolen art h…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]

This Ballet Company Is Sending Practice Barres And Special Flooring To Its Dancers In Lockdown by Artsjournal1

Says the Head of Performance Health at Queensland Ballet in Brisbane, "They've been using everything from bench tops, to tables to ironing boards as well as ballet barres, and practicing on …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]

Ben Brantley And Jesse Green Size Up The Off-Broadway Season (Since It's Now Over) by Artsjournal1

Ben : "In many of these productions, time seemed to be torn off its hinges, and the solid floor of what we think of as 'normal life' to have cracked open. Who knew how apt a preface such wor…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]

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