Lyn Gardner, whose blog has been featured many a time here on ArtsJournal, had a contract to provide 150 posts annually. That contract has been terminated, evidently for budgetary reasons, though Gardner says she’ll continue to contribute reviews and features.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Why The Guardian’s Killing Of Lyn Gardner’s Theatre Blog Is A Disaster
Mark Shenton, even as he laments the disappearance of arts critics from news outlets all over, writes that “it’s not just that Gardner is one of the best, most vital theatrical commentators there is, constantly drawing attention to things away from the mainstream; she also has a keen appreciation of a wide theatrical landscape. She gets to more theatres around the UK than any other critic I know.”
Chicago’s Top Business Magazine Devotes An Editorial To Lyric Opera
They approve – especially of the musicals and renting out the house.
Ancient Black Granite Statues Of Amenhotep III And Lion Goddess Unearthed At Luxor
The sculpture of the pharaoh is just over eight feet tall, two feet wide, almost 3½ feet deep, and very well preserved, and there are dozens of fragments of statues of the goddess Sekhmet. (in English)
Louvre Sets Up Shelter For Art And Antiquities Caught In War Zones’ Crossfire – But Ends Up In Crossfire Itself
In light of catastrophes ranging from the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas to ISIS’s trafficking in looted antiquities, the French government has offered a conservation facility it’s building in northern France as a haven for artifacts recovered from the battle-scarred Middle East. Yet some curators and archaeologists are fighting the plan, saying that it would stir up an entirely different hornets’ nest of problems.
Misha Mengelberg, 81, Pioneering Pianist Of Europe’s Jazz Boom
“[He] was one of the most creative jazz pianists to emerge in the first phase of Europe’s breakaway from American jazz styles in the 1960s … However, he was soon exposing those materials to creative pressures from non-jazz radicals including John Cage and the interdisciplinary experiments being pursued in the US and Europe by futurists, dadaists, and the 1950s Fluxus artists.”
Dance Or Die: He Faced Down Death Threats From ISIS And His Father Rather Than Give Up Ballet
Ahmad Joudeh grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, where his father beat him and ultimately threw him out of the house for continuing to dance ballet. He supported his mother by giving dance lessons, but fled when the Syrian army tried to draft him into the civil war. Renate van der Zee recounts how Joudeh made the semifinals of Beirut’s version of So You Think You Can Dance and ended up with the Dutch National Ballet.
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Contextualize First
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At the Top of the Met, Salaries Rose During Buyouts & Layoffs
Consider the top two-thirds of this posts as akin to a re-tweet, because I have not confirmed the numbers. … read more
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Speaking of Gender . . .
Richard Move and MoveOpolis! performs at New York Live Arts. … read more
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It’s A Rave: The Matisse/Diebenkorn Exhibition
San Francisco beckoned me because of the Matisse/Diebenkorn exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Both artists are nothing if not seductive and, … read more
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U.S. Museums Wrestle With How To Respond (Or Not) To Political Turmoil
Art and history museums alike are taking a variety of approaches, including wait-and-see. Graham Bowley provides a run-down.
‘Fearless Girl’ Sculpture On Wall Street Is ‘Fake Corporate Feminism’, Says Hyperallergic
“Fearless Girl represents basically everything that’s wrong with our society,” argues Jillian Steinhauer. “Could there possibly be anything more patronizing than two massive, male-dominated capitalist companies” – advertising giant McCann and investment firm State Street – “installing a branded statue of the most conceivably non-threatening version of womankind in supposed honor of a day devoted to women’s equality that was founded by the Socialist Party?” Do you think Steinhauer has a point?