Keeping Contemporary Dance Works From Being Lost To History by Artsjournal1

Merce Cunningham, Alvin Ailey, Mark Morris, Pina Bausch, Richard Alston … and the list goes on. Writer Lyndsey Winship gives a brief survey of the various ways (and no, video alone is not …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24pm on March 13, 2020☆⚑

Egypt's Favorite Street Music Banned By Government by Artsjournal1

"Mahraganat music, fast and loud, soared in popularity following Egypt's 2011 Arab Spring revolts, which toppled the country's longtime autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak, who died last month. …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24pm on March 13, 2020☆⚑

Bill Smith And McCoy Tyner Are Gone by Artsjournal1

James Moody told me that his Georgia-born grandmother said one morning while looking through the newspaper, "Folks is dyin' what ain't never died befo'." The trend continues, as it always ha…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32am on March 13, 2020☆⚑

Chanel Miller, Edwidge Danticat, Patrick Radden Keefe Win National Book Critics Circle Awards by Artsjournal1

Miller, the survivor of the rape by Stanford athlete Brock Turner, received the autobiography award for her memoir Know My Name; Danticat's Everything Inside: Stories won the fiction prize; …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32am on March 13, 2020☆⚑

What Happens To 'The Merchant Of Venice' When Shylock Is A Woman? by Artsjournal1

Carey Perloff, who directed Seana McKenna in the role last year in Calgary: "I am not always convinced that cross-gender casting helps illuminate Shakespeare; many of the plays focus so spec…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32am on March 13, 2020☆⚑

Composer Charles Wuorinen Dead At 81 by Artsjournal1

Known for his adherence to thorny modernism and his strong opinions, Wuorinen won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for Time's Encomium (the first piece of electronic music to earn the honor) but i…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32am on March 13, 2020☆⚑

A Fundraiser For The Academy Of Music Is Philadelphia's Biggest High-Society Event. Here's How It Should Change For The 21st Century. by Artsjournal1

Eyebrows shot up last month when the Philadelphia Orchestra (which owns the building) and the Kimmel Center (which operates it) announced that the Academy Ball, held every year but one since…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32am on March 13, 2020☆⚑

UK Finally Makes E-Books Exempt From Sales Tax, As Print Books Are by Artsjournal1

"Printed books and newspapers have always been zero-rated for VAT but until now their digital equivalents " such as books from Amazon's Kindle service or online subscriptions to news website…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32am on March 13, 2020☆⚑

Marcelo Gomes Gets First Full-Time Position Since Resigning From ABT by Artsjournal1

The Brazilian-born star will become, along with Sofiane Sylve of San Francisco Ballet, principal dancer and ballet master of the Semperoper Ballett in Dresden. In late 2017, Gomes was pressu…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 5:03pm on March 12, 2020☆⚑

Does Anyone Even Want The Job Of Running The BBC? by Artsjournal1

The deadline for submitting applications has just passed, reportedly with few candidates showing interest in a position seen as a "poisoned chalice." Right now, a new BBC director general wi…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 5:03pm on March 12, 2020☆⚑

'You Know, It's Going To Cost You Something': Building A New Opera About The Police Shooting Of A Young Black Man by Artsjournal1

The quote is what composer Jeanine Tesori told bass Ken Kellogg about taking his role (the young man's father, a police officer himself) in Blue, which Tesori wrote with librettist Tazewell …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 5:03pm on March 12, 2020☆⚑

Broadway Theatres Ask Actors And Audiences To Stop Gathering At Stage Door by Artsjournal1

Neither producers nor performers and crew nor patrons want to suspend all performances until COVID-19 is under control (whenever that may be), so the theatre owners and producers of the Broa…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03pm on March 12, 2020☆⚑

One Of World's Top Art Fairs Quickly Shuts Down After Exhibitor Comes Down With Coronavirus by Artsjournal1

TEFAF, held in the Dutch city of Maastricht and the world's leading fair for art and antiques, opened last Saturday and closed Wednesday evening (four days early), just hours after an exhibi…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03pm on March 12, 2020☆⚑

Macmillan May Be Trying To Back Away From Its War With Libraries Over E-Books by Artsjournal1

"At the recent ALA Midwinter meeting in Philadelphia, Macmillan CEO John Sargent told librarians that he would come back in March with potential alternatives to the publisher's controversial…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03pm on March 12, 2020☆⚑

Cancel The Concerts And Close The Theatres Now, Says Leading Critic " This Virus Is Too Dangerous by Artsjournal1

Justin Davidson: "It's easy for me to call for a shutdown. I'm not the one who'll be hemorrhaging millions every night or facing months of unemployment. … [But] the evidence suggests that …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03pm on March 12, 2020☆⚑

Vienna's Albertina Museum Opens New Branch For Modern Art by Artsjournal1

The Albertina Modern " housed in the newly-renovated 1868 Künstlerhaus on the Ringstrasse, the site of the Nazis' notorious 1939 "Degenerate Art" exhibit " will focus on postwar Austrian ar…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03pm on March 12, 2020☆⚑

Just A Couple Of Years Ago, Louis C.K.'s Career Seemed Over. Now He's Selling Out Theatres. by Artsjournal1

Until late 2017, he was one of the most admired comedians working, seen as something of an auteur of stand-up. Then reports emerged of, er, unprofessional behavior with younger female collea…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03pm on March 12, 2020☆⚑

Nelson Leirner, One Of Brazil's Most Influential Artists, Dead At 88 by Artsjournal1

"Pop culture imagery and canonical works from art history were frequent subjects of Leirner's painting and collages; think Velázquez's court ladies swarmed by flies or a football stadium …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03pm on March 12, 2020☆⚑

What's In The UK's First Post-Brexit Culture Budget by Artsjournal1

The next overall budget for the Department for Digital, Media Culture and Sport (DCMS) will increase by £100 million to £1.7 billion; it will include £250 million to support local l…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03pm on March 12, 2020☆⚑

'Merce Cunningham Redux' by Artsjournal1

James Klosty's book is big in several ways. (Try lugging it to a sunny spot; it weighs about six pounds.) I'm in love with it. " Deborah Jowitt

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 2:42am on March 12, 2020☆⚑

'The Infectious Pestilence Did Reign': Shakespeare And The Plague by Artsjournal1

"'Plague was the single most powerful force shaping his life and those of his contemporaries,' wrote Jonathan Bate, one of his many biographers. … But the plague was also Shakespeare's sec…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 3:18pm on March 11, 2020☆⚑

Gov't Of Catalonia Paid For Documentaries Saying That Cervantes, Shakespeare, Columbus, And Leonardo Were Catalan by Artsjournal1

The government of the independence-minded Spanish region gave €3 million in subsidies to media companies connected to the New History Institute (INH) and paid €184,000 for the ri…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 3:18pm on March 11, 2020☆⚑

Trey McIntyre Comes Back To The Company Where He Learned To Choreograph by Artsjournal1

"During his time at Houston Ballet as choreographic apprentice in 1989, and later as choreographic associate from 1995 to 2008, he created seven ballets … Although the company has returned…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 1:48pm on March 11, 2020☆⚑

Exhibition Cancelled Because Of … Not Coronavirus, But Slavery by Artsjournal1

"Four North American museums" " the National Gallery of Canada, Seattle Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, and National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC " "have canceled plans to …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24pm on March 11, 2020☆⚑

Radical Artists Are Running Performance Space New York. Here's How They Showed A Journalist What They're Doing. by Artsjournal1

To mark its 40th anniversary, the East Village venue (formerly P.S. 122) turned itself over to 11 loosely connected artists of various stripes for the whole of 2020. Not even PSNY's director…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18am on March 11, 2020☆⚑