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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

The Story Behind The Instagram Hit #CamerasandDancers by Artsjournal1

"[The] monthly, location-specific Instameet … brings together top dancers, interesting architecture and elite movement photographers " the intersection of which results in truly exquisite …

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Britain's Theatre World Banded Together And Got The Government To Provide Lockdown Rescue Money. Why Can't American Theater Do The Same? by Artsjournal1

Jesse Green: "For months I've been waiting for industry groups to galvanize themselves into meaningful action, as they did in Britain " and as Black theater artists have proved can be done h…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]

An Art Critic Visits The Newly-Socially-Distanced National Gallery In London by Artsjournal1

Adrian Searle: "Visitors … have to follow one of three designated routes through the galleries, all of which are signposted, with arrows on the floor pointing up the prescribed flow. Quite…

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Yet Again, Milan Kundera Denounced In His Native Land by Artsjournal1

While the Czech-but-now-French author is known in much of the world for his pointed depictions of how the Communist regimes of Europe twisted the lives of regular people, he's been viewed am…

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What To Do With The Theatres And Concert Halls Now Sitting Empty? Use Them As Classrooms by Artsjournal1

Justin Davidson makes the case that New York City's overburdened, underinvested-in school buildings simply can't fit students in at a COVID-safe distance, but the currently-dark performance …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]

Big Three Movie Theater Chains Sue New Jersey For Right To Reopen by Artsjournal1

"In the lawsuit led by the National Association of Theatre Owners of New Jersey, naming Gov. Philip Murphy and New Jersey's health commissioner, …, the plaintiffs" " which include AMC, Cin…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]

Atwood, Marsalis, Steinem, Rushdie, Bill T. Jones Among 153 Signing Letter Warning Of 'Intolerant Climate' (Yup, There's A Backlash) by Artsjournal1

"The letter, which was published by Harper's Magazine and will also appear in several leading international publications, surfaces a debate that has been going on privately in newsrooms, uni…

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Here's The Full 'Letter On Justice And Open Debate' by Artsjournal1

"The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]

Terry Pratchett's Last Unpublished Stories Will Finally See Print by Artsjournal1

"The final collection of early stories from the late Terry Pratchett, written while the Discworld creator was a young reporter, will be published in September. The tales in The Time-travelli…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]

Artists' Retreat MacDowell Colony Drops 'Colony' From Its Name (Because Colonial Oppression) by Artsjournal1

"MacDowell Board Chair Nell Painter … acknowledged that the word 'colony' can mean a country or given location under the control of an outside power or, as would apply to MacDowell, a comm…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

How Conductor Alan Pierson Brought 'Ten Thousand Birds' Indoors by Artsjournal1

Back in 2014, Alarm Will Sound " the contemporary music ensemble Person founded at Eastman and has been leading ever since " played the world premiere of John Luther Adams's Ten Thousand Bir…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]

La Scala Reopens For First Time Since COVID Lockdown by Artsjournal1

For now, it's a small-scale relaunch: only 600 audience members in a roughly 2,000-seat house (so social distancing can be maintained) and chamber music rather than full-fledged opera. There…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]

Meet France's New Culture Minister by Artsjournal1

"[Roselyne] Bachelot, 73, is returning to politics after eight years working as a commentator in radio and television. Prior to that, she served as the minister of ecology and sustainable de…

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Earl Cameron, Pathbreaking Black Actor In British Cinema, Dead At 102 by Artsjournal1

A native of Bermuda who settled in the UK after World War II, he performed " "against the odds," he once said " to perform in 40 feature films as well as numerous TV movies and series. "His …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]

Actors' Equity Approves First Post-COVID Productions by Artsjournal1

"The union, which represents 51,000 actors and stage managers around the country, said it had given the green light to two summer shows in the Berkshires region of Western Massachusetts: an …

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Sides Line Up After Students Demand Removal Of A WPA Mural by Artsjournal1

"An alumnus has filed a suit to save a fresco at the University of Kentucky that depicts enslaved people; a Black artist whose work is shown with it also wants the mural to stay." " The New …

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America's Largest Arts Funder Is Pivoting To Social Justice Causes. Its President Explains Why by Artsjournal1

Elizabeth Alexander of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: "We were going to do it anyway, [but in] this moment … it seems very clear … that we all need to be thinking very sharply about ho…

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Two Radical Publishers Celebrate 50 Years by Artsjournal1

"Our sales go up with political and economic turmoil and down during times of prosperity," says Jake Stevens of Verso. "It's really amazing to see all the different types of books that we ex…

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For The Second Time In Two Years, Fire Shatters A Brazilian Museum by Artsjournal1

"In September 2018, a devastating fire ravaged Brazil's National Museum [in Rio de Janeiro]. Now, yet another Brazilian cultural institution " the Federal University of Minas Gerais' Natural…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]

Silicon Valley Gets A New Professional Dance Company by Artsjournal1

"San Jose Dance Theatre [has] announced that it [is] launching a professional ballet company, as well as a trainee program and a new pre-professional training division. This is good news for…

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How A 15-Year-Old Cartoon Series Became One Of The Most-Watched Shows In America by Artsjournal1

"Avatar: The Last Airbender … first ran from 2005 to 2008 on Nickelodeon, and swiftly made a name for itself as a politically resonant, emotionally sophisticated work " one with a sprawlin…

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Everest by Artsjournal1

If we are experts in music, we need to know about now. Imagine a scientist who said: 'You know I only repeat the experiments of the 19th century. I've really worked at them. I get fantastic …

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The New Deal, the Arts, and Race " and Today by Artsjournal1

FDR's Works Progress Administration was the closest Washington had come to emulating European arts subsidies. At the same time, the New Deal made a devil's pact with race " and the WPA was n…

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Rooftop Rooms by Artsjournal1

Among the at-home dances I've seen recently, one strikes me as truly suitable to performers who have to be isolated: Anna Sokolow's 1955 Rooms, recreated for the pandemic as Rooftop Rooms. "…

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Friday, July 3, 2020

Flamboyant Organ Virtuoso (And Flamboyant Hedonist) Jane Parker-Smith Dead At 70 by Artsjournal1

"[She] brought glamour to the organ console thanks to her extraordinary dexterity at the keyboard and her love of life in the fast lane: she swore like a trooper, drank like a fish, smoked l…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]

Philippine Artists Fight Against Duterte's Anti-Terrorism Bill by Artsjournal1

"The bill's vague provisions make it easy for the state to target artistic and creative productions, especially critical, satirical or protest forms it subjectively deems as anti-government …

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Turkey Might Really Turn Hagia Sophia Back Into A Mosque by Artsjournal1

The Byzantine emperor built it in the sixth century to be the flagship cathedral of Eastern (and perhaps all) Christianity. When the Ottoman sultan conquered Constantinople in 1453, he conve…

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Scots Gaelic Could Die Out In Next Ten Years: Researchers by Artsjournal1

"The study … found that only 11,000 people were habitual Gaelic speakers, after a rapid decline during the 1980s when the density of native speakers fell below 80%. … The language is rar…

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Smithsonian Chief Lonnie Bunch: 'I Want Museums To Be A Place That Gives The Public Not Just What It Wants, But What It Needs' by Artsjournal1

"I believe very strongly that museums have a social justice role to play. … I'm not expecting museums to engage in partisan politics. What I'm expecting museums to be is driven by scholars…

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BBC Proms Announce 'Flexible' Plans For Two Weeks Of Live Concerts by Artsjournal1

After six weeks of "fantasy Proms" consisting mostly of rebroadcasts from previous years' festivals, the hope is to present live performances (without live audiences) in the Royal Albert Hal…

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Can This Movie Make An AI Robot Into A Star? by Artsjournal1

A "synthetic actor" called Erica "has been cast in b, a $70 million science-fiction movie … about scientists who create an AI robot named Erica who quickly realize the danger of this top-s…

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