Arts news

• Old People Are Turning To TikTok To Redefine Aging

  17-06-2022 23:31 via theconversation.com
  
  Many older people are turning to TikTok – best known as a playground for Gen Z – to reframe the experience of ageing and kick back against age stereotyping. – The Conversation
  
  Read more

• Deep Inside Erotic Cookbooks: A Brief History

  17-06-2022 23:03 via eater.com
  
  No, they aren’t just gag gifts.  From their (modern) beginnings in Playboy magazine’s food and drinks column, and then Mimi Sheraton’s Seducer’s Cookbook (somewhat scandalous in 1963), they track the way changing attitudes toward sexuality became part of the American mainstream. – Eater
  
  Read more

• The Surprising Musical Inspiration That Led To Invention Of The Post-It Note

  17-06-2022 22:31 via classicfm.com
  
  On April 6 1980, Post-it Notes as we know them hit the shelves, and a year later they were also launched in Canada and Europe. That same year, 3M named the Post-it its Outstanding New Product, and awarded the development team the ‘Golden Step Award’ in both 1980 and 1981. – ClassicFM
  
  Read more

• The “Scorched Earth” Option: San Antonio Symphony Board Goes For Broke (Literally)

  17-06-2022 22:01 via sacurrent.com
  
  In comments to TPR, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, the symphony’s former music director, blasted the board’s move as a scorched-earth solution. The maestro has led a behind-the-scenes effort to convince city and county leaders to help fund the organization and end the labor impasse. – San Antonio Current
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• ‘It had to be perfect’: the deafblind artist making meticulously detailed carvings of Melbourne

  17-06-2022 22:00
  
  Joe Monteleone, 60, has been an artist for only five years. His major new linocut for the City of Melbourne took more than 800 hoursGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastI’ll let Joe Monteleone introduce himself to you, because he has his way: “My name is Joe. I’m deafblind,” he signs. “I was born deaf, and in my 30s I found out I had Usher syndrome, type one. You can google Usher syndrome and what that means. Everyone who has Usher ha
  
  Read more

• Struggling With Creativity In A Time When Everyone Thinks Everything’s Creative

  17-06-2022 21:27 via msn.com
  
  When I hear people in the corporate world talking about creativity and storytelling — how what they’re really doing is ‘telling a story,’ how everything is about creativity and storytelling, how everything is narrative — I hear it and think: Do you actually know what it means to be creative? – Chicago Tribune
  
  Read more

• Royal Shakespeare Co. Casts Its First Disabled Richard III

  17-06-2022 20:59 via bbc.com
  
  Arthur Hughes, who opens in the role at Stratford-upon-Avon later this month, lives with radial dysplasia and describes himself as “limb-different.” “I’ve always wanted to play him,” says Hughes, “I think a lot of disabled actors will think playing Richard is their birthright.” – BBC
  
  Read more

• Acclaimed French Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, 91

  17-06-2022 20:23 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Trintignant received a number of accolades throughout his 60-plus-year career, including the best actor prize from Cannes in 1969 for Costa-Gavras’ political thriller Z and a Cesar Award in 2013 for Michael Haneke’s Amour, which also won the Oscar for best foreign-language film. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Dumb Thieves Steal Million-Dollar Sculpture To Sell For Scrap Metal

  17-06-2022 20:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  Two suspects were apprehended on June 9 after investigators determined that the oblivious pair had peddled the art objects—weighing in at around 2,200 pounds in total—to a recycling company for a few thousand euros. – Artnet
  
  Read more

• Thieves Stole Metal Gates By An Iconic Northwest Sculptor To Melt Them Down. Now They’re Being Replaced

  17-06-2022 19:31 via magazine.washington.edu
  
  The Seattle Police Department, savvy to metal theft, one of the fastest-growing crimes in our region, quickly recovered the cut-up pieces of gate through detective work and a bulletin to scrap metal dealers. – University of Washington Magazine
  
  Read more

• Dark Mofo, Tasmania’s Wild Winter Arts Festival, Learns From Last Year’s Disastrous Mistakes

  17-06-2022 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “For those who know Dark Mofo for its gothic bombast, weird surprises and controversial headlines, this year’s festival … may feel a little different. But after a programming controversy last year which led to public outrage, calls to boycott and an eventual apology, perhaps it had to be.” – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• Why It’s So Difficult To Repeat Productions Of New Operas

  17-06-2022 18:31 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  Most works of art don’t yield their secrets all at once. It takes time, and repeated exposure, before listeners have a good sense of what rewards are available in a particular creation. But that entails a level of financial and institutional overhead unlike that of any other art form. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
  Read more

• Italy Opens A New Museum Just For Stolen Antiquities It Has Recovered

  17-06-2022 18:04 via apnews.com
  
  The Museum of Rescued Art opened this week in part of the ancient Baths of Diocletian in Rome.  Its exhibits will rotate every month, with various objects recovered by the Carabineri’s admired “art squad” displayed there temporarily before being returned to their region of origin. – AP
  
  Read more

• New York Philharmonic Names Successor To CEO Deborah Borda

  17-06-2022 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Gary Ginstling, currently executive director of the National Symphony at DC’s Kennedy Center, will assume the title of executive director this fall and move fully into Borda’s position, president and chief executive, as of next July. Borda, now 72, will remain available as a consultant. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Is Back To (Almost) Normal

  17-06-2022 17:03 via dancemagazine.com
  
  “Almost” because the Pillow’s second theatre, the Doris Duke, burned down in 2020; rebuilding won’t be complete until 2024.  But the flagship Ted Shawn Theatre’s renovation is just about finished, and it will host ten weeks of performances for the festival’s 90th season. – Dance Magazine
  
  Read more

• Checking In At La MaMa, A Cradle Of Off-Off Broadway, A Decade After Its Founder’s Passing

  17-06-2022 16:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Mia Yoo took over La MaMa after the death of the formidable Ellen Stewart.  (Yoo’s father is Stewart’s adopted son.) While Yoo has kept going what Stewart left behind (and is overseeing a major building renovation), her leadership style is “polar opposite.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• YouTube Shorts Now Has 1.5 Billion-With-a-B Logged-In Viewers Each Month

  17-06-2022 16:02 via techcrunch.com
  
  “Related to its new milestone, YouTube also promoted Shorts’ ability to drive viewers to creators’ long-form video channels as a byproduct of its investments in Shorts.  … (Thus) seems to be an admission that YouTube still sees more value in its longer-form content.” – TechCrunch
  
  Read more

• Is It Time For NPR’s “All Things Considered” To Be Rethought?

  17-06-2022 15:31 via current.org
  
  “Its format and clock have remained basically the same for a generation. Meanwhile, there’s been considerable swirl and change in media consumption and audio competition. … Ironically, part of the answer may lie in letting All Things Considered be free from the mantle of considering all things.” – Current
  
  Read more

• San Antonio Symphony’s Board Unanimously Votes To Dissolve The Orchestra

  17-06-2022 15:04 via tpr.org
  
  After almost nine months of no labor contract and a musicians’ strike over wage cuts, the board decided on Thursday to file for Chapter 7 (liquidation) bankruptcy. (The board last declared bankruptcy in 2003, and the orchestra has struggled financially ever since resuming operations in 2004-05.) – Texas Public Radio
  
  Read more

• Dürer in Birmingham, Hockney in Normandy and a not-so-hot climate crisis show – the week in art

  17-06-2022 14:53
  
  Stunning works from Renaissance grandee Albrecht Dürer, David Hockney’s French spring scenes and the Royal Academy’s dull take on global heating – all in your weekly dispatchDürer: The Making of a Renaissance MasterThe phenomenal early work of one the most curious, inventive and restless artists of all time.
  • Barber Institute, Birmingham, from 17 June to 25 September. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• There’s Going To Be A Big Immersive Theatre Under Waterloo Station In London

  17-06-2022 14:33 via whatsonstage.com
  
  The venue, called Labyrinth, was conceived by the creative directors of the immersive theatre company Les Enfants Terribles and will open in November with a revival of their hit adaptation of Alice’s Adventures Underground (Lewis Carroll’s manuscript title for Alice in Wonderland). – WhatsOnStage (UK)
  
  Read more

• There’s “A Deal To Be Done” On The Return Of The Parthenon Marbles, Says The British Museum’s Chairman

  17-06-2022 14:05 via artnews.com
  
  “Speaking to the radio station LBC this week, (George) Osborne seemed to suggest that he alone, if not all of the other British Museum trustees as well, was open to the possibility of an agreement with Greece — but only if the country was willing to compromise in some way.” – ARTnews
  
  Read more

• Elizabeth Richie obituary

  17-06-2022 14:00
  
  My friend Elizabeth Richie, who has died aged 76 from a pulmonary embolism, had a career and life that encompassed success in dance, theatre administration, complementary medicine and art.Initially a ballet dancer in Canada and the US, she later moved to the UK, where she worked at the Royal Court theatre in London, promoted authors at the Canadian embassy and founded two complementary health centres and an art gallery. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Artistic Director – Oklahoma City Ballet

  17-06-2022 06:05 via artsjournal.com
  DaYoung Jung, Principal Artist, Photo by Diana Bittle. The Sleeping Beauty.
  OKLAHOMA CITY BALLET (OKCB) seeks its next Artistic Director, as it celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year. The Artistic Director serves in a co-leadership structure with the Executive Director, with both reporting to the Board.
  The AD is responsible for conceiving, developing, and implementing the artistic direction of OKCB, and effectively communicating this direction both internally and to the broader community. S
  
  Read more

• Why Singers And Actors Often Don’t Get Treatment For Injured Voices

  17-06-2022 00:01 via theconversation.com
  
  Voice disorders carry a stigma among performing artists. This has made performers hesitate to seek proper and timely medical help. – The Conversation
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!