Arts news

• The Spanglification Of Languages

  24-11-2021 23:29 via nytimes.com
  
  It is becoming clear that the mixed nature of Spanglish represents a general phenomenon. Among people born in and growing up in neighborhoods like Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach — where it’s common to hear Russian and Ukrainian spoken — lots of English words are mixed in. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Gareth Jones obituary

  24-11-2021 23:12
  
  My friend and brother-in-law Gareth Jones, who has died aged 77 of obstructive pulmonary disease, was an inspirational teacher, painter and printmaker. He has left a legacy of traditional printmaking in east Suffolk, where he founded Sudbourne Park Printmakers.His work reflected his love of the contrasting landscapes of Wales and Suffolk. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Our Ancient Attraction To Glass

  24-11-2021 23:01 via knowablemagazine.org
  
  In a world filled with the buff, brown and sand hues of more utilitarian Late Bronze Age materials, glass — saturated with blue, purple, turquoise, yellow, red and white — would have afforded the most striking colors other than gemstones. – Knowable Magazine
  
  Read more

• Nope: Tolkien Estate Blocks Crypto Coin “JRR Token”

  24-11-2021 22:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The developer said in response that JRR Token was intended to reference “a unique form of digital currency”, rather than the late fantasy author, and that the fact that the domain name “brings to mind” the name JRR Tolkien is parody rather than bad faith. – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Etel Adnan obituary

  24-11-2021 22:13
  
  Poet and artist who maintained her links to the Middle East throughout her lifeIf Etel Adnan’s poetry and prose was characterised by its mournful evocation of her native Lebanon’s turbulent history, often seen through the eyes of an émigré, then her painting, for which she found further fame later in life, was infused with a joyous sense of colour. For Adnan, who has died aged 96, the two disciplines were complementary.“My writing is rather pessimistic, because of
  
  Read more

• Kafkaesque US Visa System Wreaking Havoc With The Arts

  24-11-2021 22:01 via sfcv.org
  
  The amount of paperwork required by the USCIS (United States Citizen and Immigration Service), says Nicki Harper, Los Angeles Opera’s director of artistic operations, plus all the other requirements to obtain an artist’s visa can take on Kafkaesque proportions. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
  Read more

• ABT Taps Beyonce Entertainment Exec As Its Next Executive Director

  24-11-2021 21:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Janet Rollé, general manager of Parkwood Entertainment, Beyoncé’s media and management company, will in January assume the role of chief executive and executive director of Ballet Theater, one of the nation’s most prestigious ballet companies. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Assistant Professor/Associate Professor of Theatre

  24-11-2021 21:07 via artsjournal.com
  The Theatre Program of Columbia University School of the Arts invites applications for a scholar to be hired at the rank of tenure-track assistant/associate or tenured associate professor effective July 1, 2022. The successful candidate will play a key cross-disciplinary role in a complex and multi-faceted MFA program with concentrations in Acting, Directing, Dramaturgy, Playwriting, Theatre Management and Producing, and Stage Management. The Program aims to attract dynamic and dedicated teacher
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• This Virtuoso Horn Player Works The Valves With His Left Foot

  24-11-2021 21:03 via classical-music.com
  
  Felix Klieser, 30, was born without arms. Even so, he graduated from a German conservatory and made a recording at age 22 that won him an ECHO Klassik prize. His fifth CD came out in March, and he’s currently the Bournemouth Symphony’s artist in residence. – BBC Music Magazine
  
  Read more

• The Real Threat To Academic Freedom Isn’t Cancel Culture, It’s This…

  24-11-2021 20:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  With the privatization and commercialization of higher education, universities are run like businesses, in which a degree becomes a product, students become customers, and the world’s most populous country becomes the biggest overseas market. – The Atlantic
  
  Read more

• How The Temple Dancers Of South India Fought Back Against “Moral Reform”

  24-11-2021 20:02 via daily.jstor.org
  
  In the 19th century, prompted by the disapproval of Protestant missionaries who wanted Hindu temple dancing banned, some Tamil reformers campaigned for the performers, called devadāsīs, to become like nuns, as they supposedly were in a purer golden age. Starting in 1911, some devadāsīs argued back. – JSTOR Daily
  
  Read more

• School Protests From A Century Ago Set The Tone For Today’s Controversies

  24-11-2021 19:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  Telling parents you don’t want their kids to have the best possible public schools is never good politics. A full century ago, the most effective school-ban campaign in American history set the pattern: noise, fury, rancor, and fear, but not much change in what schools actually teach. – The Atlantic
  
  Read more

• Using Medieval Mystery Plays To Revive The Cornish Language

  24-11-2021 19:04 via atlasobscura.com
  
  This year was the third full production in modern times of the Ordinalia, a cycle of three 14th-century mystery plays originally written in the Celtic language once native to the far southwest of England. – Atlas Obscura
  
  Read more

• African Diaspora Music Project Collects 1,200 Symphonies By Black Composers

  24-11-2021 18:29 via classicalvoiceamerica.org
  Louise Toppin is on a mission to recalibrate who, what, and how we program our concert seasons to enable a more equitable representation of music from composers of African descent. She is seeking a sustained and systemic cultural shift. – Classical Voice North America
  
  Read more

• The Problem With Piling Prosthetics On Actors To Make Them Look Like The Famous Real People They’re Playing

  24-11-2021 18:03 via vulture.com
  
  “These inspired-by-real-life prosthetics are meant to bring authenticity, but they have a perverse way of achieving the opposite. … Playing people as heavily televised as Bakker and Ball seems to make prosthetic tweaks irresistible, yet the result usually lands the actor in the uncanny valley.” – New York Magazine
  
  Read more

• The 2021 good gift guide: 130 Christmas gift ideas for anyone from kids to chronic grumps

  24-11-2021 17:30
  
  From presents that give back to edible treats, Guardian Australia and a team of guest editors select the best options across Australia this ChristmasWe’ve been warned: shop early or risk disappointment. Between supply chain chaos, local delivery woes and the ongoing pandemic, getting your end-of-year gifts in order is going to take a bit of extra planning in 2021. So we’ve made a list – of gift ideas that are local, sustainable, socially minded or just plain delightful –
  
  Read more

• True Crime: Manhattan’s Art Theft Police

  24-11-2021 17:28 via theatlantic.com
  
  The unit has impounded more than 3,600 antiquities, valued at some $200 million. They’ve raided art fairs on Park Avenue, and Christie’s in Rockefeller Center. They arrested a dealer at the five-star Mark Hotel and seized statues on display at the five-star Pierre. – The Atlantic
  
  Read more

• Anderson Cooper Visits Caligula’s Pleasure Garden

  24-11-2021 17:01 via cbsnews.com
  
  A gay silver-fox fantasy come to life? Nope, sorry. In 2006, workers excavating for an underground parking garage found what archaeologists determined was a garden designed for the notorious young emperor, and they’ve been working there ever since. 60 Minutes sent Cooper to have a look. – CBS News
  
  Read more

• Japan’s Grand Old Man Of Anime Is Making One Last Film

  24-11-2021 16:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli said in 2013 that he was retiring. Now, aged 80, he’s back at work, the film titled How Do You Live? “I am making this movie,” he says “because I do not have the answer.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
  Read more

• He Was A Child Laborer, Then A Homeless Migrant. Now He’s A Prizewinning Filmmaker Who Could Get An Oscar.

  24-11-2021 16:03 via theguardian.com
  
  P.S. Vinothraj worked in a flower market at age nine and a sweatshop at 14. At 19 he ran to the big city (Chennai) and slept on the streets. Now his first feature is a festival hit and India’s official submission to the Oscars. – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• Paint the stage red: plays about artists – in pictures

  24-11-2021 15:59
  
  As the Young Vic announces it will premiere The Collaboration, Anthony McCarten’s play about Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, look back at shows about Picasso, Kahlo, Dalí and other great artists Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• How Right-Wingers Tried To Turn Thanksgiving Into A Celebration Of Free Enterprise And Rejection Of Socialism

  24-11-2021 15:35 via slate.com
  
  This was not some scheme dreamed up by Fox News or Rush Limbaugh or even the Cato Institute: this particular intellectual endeavor goes all the way back to the New Deal and FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech. (The Pilgrims, in this view, were proto-socialists mugged by reality.) – Slate
  
  Read more

• This AI Algorithm Could Help Us Figure Out Shakespeare

  24-11-2021 15:02 via nytimes.com
  
  No, not his actual identity, we’re afraid. But, if not the definitively correct version of the text of a play or poem, at least the most likely version. This is thanks to software developed by a Canadian startup called Cohere. – The New York Times Book Review
  
  Read more

• Italy’s “Netflix For The Arts” Is Now Open Across Europe

  24-11-2021 14:34 via variety.com
  
  “ITsART … was rolled out across 26 European countries on Tuesday, with plans to expand into the U.S. and China next year. … Prices range from €2.90 ($3.25) for a movie to €9.90 ($11.10) for an exclusive live opera.” – Variety
  
  Read more

• Britain’s Collins Dictionary Declares “NFT” Word Of The Year 2021

  24-11-2021 14:06 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s hard to believe now, but it was only this March that Beeple sold his original non-fungible token artwork for $69 million, setting off the NFT madness. Collins reported that it’s one of the few words that’s “broken through the COVID noise,” with usage up 11,000%. – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• Monsoons and makeshift bikes: childhood resilience in pictures

  24-11-2021 08:00
  
  From young girls braving the Sulu Sea to schoolkids in Afghanistan, in new book Stories and Dreams Steve McCurry records the strength and curiosity of children around the worldContinue reading...
  
  Read more

• PRESIDENT/CEO – DAVID A. STRAZ, JR. CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

  24-11-2021 05:57 via artsjournal.com
  GENOVESE VANDERHOOF & ASSOCIATES
  A Cultural Management Consulting FirmEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYDAVID A. STRAZ, JR. CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
  PRESIDENT/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
  Tampa, FloridaThe President & Chief Executive Officer provides the overall institutional and creative vision, ensuring the Straz remains a forum for wide-ranging artistic expression that serves diverse audiences, and spearheads outreach and education initiatives. Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the President &
  
  Read more

• Development Director Position

  24-11-2021 05:39 via artsjournal.com
  ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW:Since 1987, Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL) has cultivated transformative experiences through story and language with readers and writers of all generations. SAL fulfills its mission through educational, public, and community programming, in person and online. Our public literary events bring the most talented and thought-provoking writers of our times to local stages. Our youth programs include Writers in the Schools (WITS) and the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate (YPL) prog
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!