Friday, August 7, 2020
Here’s one instance from last month: “Standing at the base of the three-story pedestal supporting the Confederate general’s likeness, [Janine] Bell, the artistic director of Elegba Fol…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:12AM“‘Sold down the river.’ ‘Cakewalk.’ ‘Master and slave.’ American English is riddled with words and phrases with racist origins or undertones. Since the killing of George Floyd …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:12AM“Making waves is what Hunan Broadcasting System does best. … That is striking for an outfit run by the government of a province that is better known as China’s largest producer of rice…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 10:06AM“In recent months, several people working on the committee to revise the body’s definition of what a museum is have resigned, and there have been accusations of ‘back-alley political g…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 10:06AMThe vote tally was 181 to 22. “While organizers said there were many reasons behind the union drive, complaints against two Art Museum supervisors provided the movement with energy. Organi…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 10:06AMAnthony Tommasini: “Elements of dismaying ageism run through the chronic bemoaning over the graying of classical and opera audiences, something that bothered me even before I entered this …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 10:06AMMartin Di Caro, an award-winning transportation correspondent at Washington’s public radio news station from 2012 to 2017, was outrageous enough in hitting on junior employees at WAMU, loc…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 10:06AMPablo Picasso paints for the camera in 1949 in a scene from Visit to Picasso, directed by Paul Haesaert:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:01AM“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”
G.K. Chesterton, interview, New York Times (November 21, 1930)
Continue reading Almanac: G.K. Chesterton on…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:00AMShowing a courage and candor that’s been in short supply among museum officials navigating the choppy waters of racial tensions, political unrest and economic difficulty, Salvador Salort-P…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 03:32AMMost seminal event in classical music since global onset of COVID-19 on August 14th in Vail, CO!
Linked From ArtsJournal at 03:32AMThursday, August 6, 2020
The problem is that urban nightlife — no matter how risky — isn’t something that just allows itself to be canceled. The need to socialize, relax, mingle, hear music and dance is a powe…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 10:12PMFans come to see themselves not just as the audience for, or patrons of, a given “intellectual property” but (to paraphrase the old WestJet slogan) as owners too. This feeling of ownersh…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 10:12PM“The reluctance to produce shows with casts that are all or largely non-white disproportionately affects shows written by Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) playwrights and compose…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:31PMThe artwork appearing on the toonie honouring his legacy is known as Xhuwaji, Haida Grizzly Bear. Reid painted it in 1988 on a ceremonial drum belonging to the Sam family of Ahousat, B.C. …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 04:36PMBeing unable to see real works of art in person for months has made me realize just how much I have come to depend on seeing works online—and how I get more from that experience than I’d…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 04:36PM“The need for accessible streets and sidewalks has utterly reshaped the contemporary cityscape, and the most profound change is also the most modest: the curb cuts that you’ll find now a…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 04:36PMA white supremacist on YouTube will tell you all about race and IQ but if you want to read a careful scholarly refutation, obtaining a legal PDF from the journal publisher would cost you $14…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 03:32PMThe Lyon Académie de Musique officially went bust on New Year’s Day 1693, but it was back in business two years later. “How did Académie musicians transform hardship into productive cr…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 03:32PMIf white-collar workers are told the downtown office is forever optional, some will take their superstar-city jobs out of superstar cities. That much is obvious. But these shifts, even if th…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“From her house in Amsterdam, she has taken to creating dance films, all three to five minutes in length, with performers around the world. Dancers from Tulsa Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Dutch…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:24PMThe truth of Fleisher is in his own questions, his dogged pursuit of answers (from spiritual healers to experimental treatments) is more interesting than the answer itself. You can’t help …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“To find out, we chose one reality dating show that debuted every year from 2000 through 2020 — shows that were particularly popular, controversial, influential or taught us something un…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:24PM“Hundreds of New Yorkers submitted proposals earlier this year to design eight-by-five-foot flags. This past Saturday, the 192 winning designs were unfurled on the [flagpoles] surrounding …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:06PMLooking at non-representational art tends to induce what’s called “psychological distance.” As one of the lead researchers put it, “This means that art has an effect on our general c…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:06PM“With their ability to elevate a dancer both literally and metaphorically to a superhuman realm, [they] are the ultimate symbol of a ballerina’s ethereality and hard work. … The shoes …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:06PMWhile the pandemic has revealed the power of our shared public spaces, it has also magnified enormous disparities in quality and access to them. Demand has outstripped supply, in some cases …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:06PM“[His] carefully cultivated image — a vigorous martial artist, his commitment to bushido, the code of the samurai and his fixation with masculinity, beauty and glory — has remained mor…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:06PM“Radish, which has offices in Seoul and New York, says it has seen significant revenue growth since its 2016 launch, and that it has produced more than 6,500 episodes across 30 original se…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 10:06AMThat’s what Actors’ Equity president Kate Shindle said (via video call) to the cast of the Berkshire Theater Group’s Godspell, the first live-with-audience musical Equity has approved …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 10:06AM“Dozens of pantomimes across the land have been cancelled or postponed due to uncertainty about easing lockdown restrictions for theatres. … Though it is only August, pantos take months …
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