Tuesday, July 21, 2020
The Stuttgart Ballet is performing a program of solos, duos, a trio, and a socially distanced adaptation of Maurice Béjart's Bolero for 249 people in the theatre and 1,000 cars at a drive-i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"Troy Powell, the 51-year-old artistic director of Ailey's junior touring company and a teacher at The Ailey School in New York City, was dismissed following an investigation commissioned by…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"Dubbed Frick Madison, the space will serve as a temporary home for the historic collection while the grounds of the Henry Clay Frick House on Manhattan's Upper East Side undergo an extensiv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Trained at the Paris Opera Ballet, she became an international star in the title role of Carmen by her husband, choreographer Roland Petit (for whom she continued to dance for decades, somet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]As COVID-19 rages on, the star jazz pianist was more than a little nervous about performing indoors in a small venue, even one as out of the way as the Deer Head Inn in Delaware Water Gap, P…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]"The repayment clauses could stipulate that the amount employers have paid towards furlough contributions is subtracted from workers' wages when shows resume, and if workers do not return to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Movies, jazz and reading remain my favorite solitary diversions, and Fresh Air critic Kevin Whitehead enables immersion in all three with Play The Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 19, 2020
Eat your heart out, Anish Kapoor. At least sixteen species of deep-sea creatures "have evolved a different and devilishly clever way of going ultra-black with incredible efficiency: One spec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Roughly nine minutes. In famously low-crime Japan, no less. Organizer Tota Hasegawa, owner of the Same Gallery in Tokyo, had expected the "Stealable Art Exhibition" to run for ten days, but …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Friday, July 17, 2020
"[There's] a new class of augmented reality (AR) technologies like the Magic Leap, a headset that allows users to superimpose digital media atop their seen reality, innovatively combining re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM[SHARE]"You may have heard of the Blue Mustang, the infamous giant blue equine sculpture outside Denver International Airport. But the Blue Mustang is only one of many conspiracy theories circling …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]"Gale walked on jazz's cutting edge from his childhood. He was taught to play trumpet by bebop legend Kenny Dorham; as a teenager in the 1950s, he jammed with such titanic figures as Art Bla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]James Bennett, II: "First, we looked at the technology and market realizations that set crossover up for a late 1980s-90s boom. Then we explored how that bubble burst. But crossover today is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Cameron Ball, Festival Manager of the UK's U.Dance National Youth Dance Festival: "The energy of sharing a studio space and the buzz of a live audience is hard to imitate, so inevitable comp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]"Over the last year, deaths, retirements and executive reshuffling have made way for new leaders, more diverse and often more commercial than their predecessors, as well as people who have n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"The government examined the first draft of a law … which legislates that specific items known to have been looted must be returned permanently to their places of origin within one year. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"In place of what most theatergoers have come to regard as a 'season,' the New York Theatre Workshop " the birthplace of Rent [and Slave Play], among other landmarks " is offering what you m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]Documentarian Anthony Baxter writes about how his 2016 film You've Been Trumped Too " which shows how the seizure of land for and the construction of Trump's Scottish golf resort affected ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"How does a genre in love with routine respond to a moment in which everyone's lives have been disrupted?… Country fetishizes the day-after-day realities of homes, highways, and beer halls…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM[SHARE]"The job losses are expected to affect all areas of the organisation, which comprises venues including the Hayward Gallery and Royal Festival Hall, as well as being home to eight orchestras,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]"China will begin reopening cinemas in 'low-risk regions' from July 20, the China Film Administration announced Thursday, ending nearly six months of closures that left thousands of theaters…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]After posting my contrarian defense on Tuesday of Gary Garrels, I ducked, anticipating a pile-on of invective. Instead, I got confirmation of what I've always known: I've got a classy reader…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 16, 2020
"This moment and movement did not come out of nowhere but emerges from longstanding frustration among BIPOC theatremakers … [who] have never truly felt welcome in an industry geared toward…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]The character as passed down from the Diaghilev Ballets Russes original is not only painted in outlandish blackface makeup, he is, as Wendy Perron puts it, "mean and aggressive [and] prodigi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]" a prequel is hitting the shelves. Fitzgerald's novel enters the public domain next New Year's Day, and on January 5 Little, Brown is releasing Michael Farris Smith's Nick. "The publishers …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Kate Knibbs: "Occasionally, circumstances arise where someone or something so high and mighty takes such a ludicrous tumble that the pratfall practically begs for a gleeful response, even fr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]A two-page letter sent by former employees and board members to Smithsonian secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III "alleges that more than 10 former or current Black employees have 'reported or exper…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]Anthony Tommasini: "The status quo is not working. If things are to change, ensembles must be able to take proactive steps to address the appalling racial imbalance that remains in their ran…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]"In 20 years, I've never been hired by a Black person; I've never been directed by a Black person; I've never had a Black C.E.O. of a company; I've never had a Black president of the board; …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]"Concerts, conversations, classes, collages, child-friendly shorts and more filled arts websites and social media channels daily as institutions and individuals worked to preserve relationsh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]Conductors Thomas Wilkins and Roderick Cox, clarinetist Anthony McGill, bassoonist Monica Ellis of Imani Winds, singers Lawrence Brownlee and Latonia Moore, and composers Tania León, Jess…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE] 
