Tuesday, April 7, 2020
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]Karen Russell: "Today, we are witnessing the shotgun weddings of words into some strange unions, neologisms sped into existence by this virus ('quarantunes,' 'quarantini'), epidemiological v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]He first attracted notice for shooting supermodels in famous ad campaigns for the likes of Estée Lauder; his fame grew with a photo series of famous actors, each in an enormous black turtle…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]"Matthew Belloni resigned as editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter due to intense conflicts with Modi Wiczyk and Asif Satchu, the co-CEOs of the trade's owners, Valence Media, over th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]Before embarking on a conducting career in 2013, the 38-year-old American performed as a violinist in solo and chamber works as well as in the Berlin Philharmonic's Academy Orchestra and the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"Projecting a shortfall in revenue of at least $7 million by the end of this fiscal year, New York City's Whitney Museum has laid off 76 staff members. In an email sent Thursday afternoon, m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]"He played the laconic rancher with no name on the revolutionary NBC series. Among Westerns, only Gunsmoke and Bonanza lasted longer." " The Hollywood Reporter
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Just short of a month after the Salzburg Easter Festival was called off because of the pandemic, the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, directed by mezzo Cecilia Bartoli and scheduled for May 20-Jun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]This is, first of all, an expression of profound gratitude for the innumerable messages of sympathy I have received. I thought you might like to read about Hilary's last good day. " Terry Te…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18AM[SHARE]A few days after my beloved Hilary received her double-lung transplant, I published an open letter in The Wall Street Journal addressed to the family of the anonymous organ donor whose lungs…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18AM[SHARE]These past few weeks, a whole world of arts organizations have been searching for, revisiting, or assembling-on-the-fly their emergency readiness plans as the pandemic turns that world upsid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18AM[SHARE]The Canadian drummer's new album manages to meld elements of contemporary electronica with references to developments in the six decades since John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman turned the mu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]Friday, April 3, 2020
Here's a brief history, going from a five-by-five palindrome from ancient Rome to Victorian double acrostics to four different kinds of riddle (including the anti-riddle). " The Paris Review
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]An April Fool's story that's actually true: back during the 1978 newspaper strike in New York City, a group of writers and editors that included some now-illustrious names " George Plimpton,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM[SHARE]"Alamo Drafthouse, Film Forum and the Angelika are a few of the … theaters testing out the provisional path into [online streaming]. … Patrons can purchase a digital ticket, most of whic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]"Skylight Theatre, a Los Angeles theater company that prioritizes social issues, … [has] kicked off weekly plays from its writers lab set amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and the [online] serie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Yasmeen Lari retired at 60 after making her career designing some of Pakistan's glitziest modern buildings for government and corporate clients. Then, after a severe earthquake, she went to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]"Carnegie Hall is projecting a $9 million operating deficit on its $104 million budget after canceling … all events in its auditoriums through July 25, roughly 30% of this season's schedul…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]Let's hope this is the start of a trend. "Two weeks after temporarily laying off staff and musicians, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra is offering them reduced hours. Everyone will be able…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"The Irish Museum of Modern Art … announced last week that it had been 'requested to facilitate the construction of a temporary mortuary' on its grounds as the 'country prepares Public Hea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]Cultural institutions and restaurants, whose revenue has been largely wiped out by the coronavirus epidemic, have been among the biggest underwriters of local public media outlets. Reporter …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]Warning that there are up to five times as many jobs in the city indirectly affected by the festivals and the tourism industry as there are directly employed in them, the head of the Edinbur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"[He] was revered for the technical aplomb that enabled him to combine intricate runs, full chordal accompaniment and even his own walking bass lines. His rock-solid rhythmic footing and bro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]'The man next to us is honking like a seal,' whispered my friend Mel at the interval of One Man, Two Guvnors at the National Theatre back in 2011. Tonight the National Theatre will stream th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2020
"A researcher at the University of Göttingen, Sebastian Kruss, has used [Egyptian Blue], which is also known as calcium copper silicate, to produce a new nanomaterial that improves infrared…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]"When libraries closed their doors abruptly, they immediately opened their digital communications, collaborations, and creative activity to reach their public in ways as novel as the virus t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]"The [project], which is being called 'Play at Home,' is a website (playathome.org) featuring new plays, intended to take no more than 10 minutes to read, that are free so that anyone can re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]"Ella Marchment, stage director of the International Opera Awards, is behind the scheme, which is called #OperaHarmony. … The [project] will pair composers with librettists to create piece…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]"In the eight years since it was founded, the Underground Museum has become not only one of the most important destinations for black art in the country but also a crucial gathering place fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]The male-female binary is built into the formalized structures of dance at just about every level, from the very beginning of training through the conventions of professional-level choreogra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]"[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 othe…
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