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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Black Voice Actors: Yes, There's Been Progress, But Not Nearly Enough by Artsjournal1

"The sudden rise of calls for color-conscious casting comes after years of criticism about whitewashed roles. But while many Black voice actors are glad to see white actors leaving roles whe…

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This Ballet School Is Actively Helping Dancers Deal With Body Image Struggles by Artsjournal1

The pressure on ballerinas to maintain extremely thin figures is notorious for leading to eating disorders. The Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham, England's second city, is meeting this p…

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How Spain's National Dance Company Made It From COVID Lockdown Back To The Stage by Artsjournal1

Marina Harss: "When the Compañía Nacional de Danza took the stage at the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada in southern Spain on Wednesday, it was in many ways like…

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Here's How The UK's £1.5 Billion Arts Rescue Package Will Work by Artsjournal1

"Of the total amount, the government has currently released £880 million ($1.14 billion), which has been split into two funding rounds. The first round of £622 million ($805.3 million)…

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What The Philadelphia Museum Of Art's Workplace Assessment Found (It Wasn't Pretty) by Artsjournal1

The study, conducted by outside consultants at the board's request after two major scandals broke earlier this year, "found problems and deficiencies at all levels of the hierarchy " from th…

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Learning Music Does Not Make Kids Smarter, New Study Finds by Artsjournal1

"After analysing data from 54 studies conducted on 6,984 participants between 1986 and 2019, [researchers] found music training was ineffective at enhancing cognitive or academic skills, reg…

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Think TikTok Is Ultimately Too Silly To Matter? Think Again by Artsjournal1

"The ubiquitous app built on short video clips seems frivolous at first, with its lip-synching, dance challenges and goofball celebrities. But this is how a rising generation communicates ac…

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Opera Philadelphia Cancels O20 Festival, Postpones Main Season, Announces Newly Made Online Offerings by Artsjournal1

The company's annual fall festival, much praised ever since its 2017 debut, is off this year; most plans for next season, including Jennifer Higdon's latest opera and Sondra Radvanovsky's ro…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

A Theatre Made Out Of Recycled Pianos by Artsjournal1

"Inside a cavernous steel hut in the middle of Glasgow's Springburn Park, the sweeping arc of keyboards, lids and carved panels has been taking shape … Using mainly upright instruments, wi…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04PM[SHARE]

The 2,300-Year-Old Character Sketches That Have Influenced Western Literature Ever Since by Artsjournal1

"The 'Theophrastan character' is not often mentioned today, perhaps because it is so little known as a genre. Yet for centuries this was what 'character' meant in literature. A list of famil…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]

Rhiannon Giddens Named Artistic Director Of Silkroad, Yo-Yo Ma's Cross-Cultural Project by Artsjournal1

"Silkroad has to exist outside of Yo-Yo, but Yo-Yo is an inalterable part of Silkroad," said the singer/banjo player/fiddler/opera composer. "Both of those things have to exist at the same t…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]

Illegal Trade In Antiquities Is Not As Big As We Think It Is: Study by Artsjournal1

"A new report [by the RAND Corporation] claims that … the true size of the market in illicit antiquities may be 'much smaller' than is regularly reported. Perhaps more controversially, the…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]

Do Ballerinas Really Need To Be So Extremely Thin? by Artsjournal1

"Dancers are harming themselves trying to achieve the look. The continued preference for ultrathin bodies seems particularly out of step with current cultural conversations around body posit…

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A New Idea For Artist Resale Royalties Contracts by Artsjournal1

Joseph del Pesco, International Director of KADIST: "Sales of art in the US reached $29.9 billion in 2018 … Imagine if just 2 percent of that $29.9 billion did some good. That's 600 millio…

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Composer And Writer Dmitri Smirnov Dead Of COVID At 71 by Artsjournal1

While a student in Moscow in the late '60s, he became passionately interested in William Blake, going on to translate his complete works into Russian and write the first Russian-language bio…

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What's The Last Hurdle For Getting Theatres Open Again? Insurance by Artsjournal1

"There is real concern that at a time when the need to insure for [COVID risks] is even greater, venues and organisations will not be able to obtain or afford appropriate coverage. This is n…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]

Another Step In New York Times' Turn Toward Hollywood by Artsjournal1

"In a move expanding the news outlet's presence in Hollywood, The New York Times has named Caitlin Roper executive producer for scripted projects. Roper, who has been a senior editor at The …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]

Stop Blind Auditions For Orchestras? No " Auditions Should Become Even More Blind by Artsjournal1

Jeremy Reynolds, responding to New York Times chief critic Anthony Tommasini's argument that U.S. orchestras will never become more racially balanced without affirmative action, points out t…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]

Indianapolis Symphony Cancels 2020-21 Season by Artsjournal1

A statement released jointly by the musicians and management said, "We recognize the challenges presented to the ISO by the pandemic and unforeseen economic. For those reasons, the 2020-21 i…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]
Friday, July 24, 2020

No More Dead Guys On Horses: Reimagining The Entire Idea Of Public Monuments In The U.S. by Artsjournal1

Historically, the purpose of monuments, says Ken Lum of Monument Lab in Philadelphia, "has been to activate or even sustain a certain narrative of memory which people of influence have deeme…

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How I Got Audiences To Pay More For Streamed Performances Than I Would Have Asked Them To by Artsjournal1

Kahlil Ashanti began his performing career as part of an elite U.S. Air Force unit that did shows for servicepeople at military bases and in battle zones all over the globe. One thing he hea…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]

Spread-Out And Sanitized: The Future Of Dance In The Age Of COVID by Artsjournal1

"In conversations about the future with 14 dance professionals, feelings of anguish, hope, fear and resolve emerged, along with ideas about adaptation and innovation. … Here are some glimp…

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How A Virtuoso Got Her Antique Cello Back 40 Years After It Was Stolen by Artsjournal1

Christine Walevska got her one-eighth-size 1834 Bernardel cello when she was eight years old, and even as she went on to study with Gregor Piatigorsky, win a first prize at the Paris Conserv…

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'The Robert Caro Of Hawaii' by Artsjournal1

"As the decades passed, [David W.] Forbes [has] painstakingly tracked down archival portraits of people alive in that era, in libraries and private collections throughout the islands. That s…

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Every Artwork At The Whitney Is Being Covered With Plywood by Artsjournal1

Online, that is. "Every day at sunset, Artist " an anonymous conceptualist who legally changed their name to question the biases built into the phrase 'American Artist' " will replace every …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]

Refugee Who Wrote Award-Winning Memoir Via Texts Sent From Internment Camp Granted Asylum by Artsjournal1

"Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish Iranian exile and journalist who became the voice of those incarcerated on Manus Island" " an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea where Australia maintain…

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Andrew Lloyd Webber Tries Putting On A Socially Distanced West End Show by Artsjournal1

It was a one-time pilot project, performed in front of 640 people spread out through the Palladium, one of London's biggest theatres. The program: one singer, Beverley Knight, doing two half…

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TikTok Will Spend $200 Million On Creators (How And On Which Creators? Good Question) by Artsjournal1

"TikTok is launching a program to fund its most popular creators directly for their videos " with an initial $200 million earmarked for the U.S. … How much individual creators will be elig…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]

Kennedy Center Will Reopen Its Large Theaters Next January by Artsjournal1

Pandemic permitting, the Center and its resident companies, the National Symphony Orchestra and Washington National Opera, plan to present performances for full audiences n its three large v…

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New Project Aims To Get More Black Theater Professionals Backstage As Well As Onstage by Artsjournal1

"Career opportunity on Broadway doesn't begin at the box office, but in the front office. And that's where T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams and their fellow advocates have set their sights in a …

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Nyerges on the Purges: Virginia MFA's Director Defends Bondil, Himself, Other Beleaguered Leaders by Artsjournal1

Already battered financially by the pandemic, many art museums now find themselves barraged by attacks from aggrieved staffers and former employees accusing the higher-ups of racism, harassm…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24AM[SHARE]

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