How Muslims handle the all-day fast, why there are arguments every year over when exactly the holy month begins and ends, how to be respectful of your Muslim friends and acquaintances, and what the whole Ramadan thing is really about, anyway.
Author: Matthew Westphal
So What’s Yannick Going To Do At The Metropolitan Opera??
“So it finally happened: After years of speculation, the Metropolitan Opera appointed Yannick Nézet-Séguin to replace James Levine as music director. Naturally, the opera world wants to know what that will look like. And they want to know now.” David Patrick Stearns, who dislikes trying to predict the future but knows YNS’s work well, makes some educated guesses.
Women Make Progress – Slowly But Steadily – In Stand-Up Comedy
“There’s a lot more work to be done before the comedy world reaches real gender parity, but as more paths to recognition have opened for stand-ups around the country, there have already been heartening results.”
The Real Concerns Of Women Conductors
Dallas Opera CEO Keith Cerny shares some excerpts from the personal statements of the current round of applicants to his company’s Hart Institute for Women Conductors.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda Gets The Full Rolling Stone Treatment
“I get it 50 times a day: ‘Please film [Hamilton]! Please film it so we can watch it!’ And I understand it’s hard to get to New York and it’s hard to get a Broadway ticket. At the same time, filming is an act of translation. It is not being in the room with us. It’s different. You will get the forest, you will not get the trees.”
Using Graphic Design To Guide Concertgoers Who Don’t Read Music Through An Orchestral Work
“The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s ‘listening guides’ make use of symbols and Morse code-like notation to aid the experience of a live performance. We talked to their creator, Hannah Chan-Hartley, about how she is helping the TSO to visualise its repertoire.”
BBC’s The Space Moves Away From New Digital Art, Back to Live Events
Following political controversy over some of its original projects last year, “The Space – the Arts Council England and BBC joint digital art venture-– is reverting to its original brief … [of] projects that capture and distribute live art events and those using technology to enhance artworks.”
A Multi-Colored Drone Ballet At Mount Fuji
“In Sky Magic, from Japanese advertising company MicroAd, 20 drones with LED lights attached to them dance in a choreographed light show against the backdrop of Mount Fuji. Shamisen players serve as their orchestra.” (video)
Ten Of The World’s Absolutely Coolest Elevators
“Whether it’s the gothic ironwork of Brazil’s Santa Justa Lift or the futuristic pods of the Mercedes-Benz Museum or the Aquadom lift that carries riders straight through a massive aquarium, some elevators are so amazing, they become destinations in and of themselves.” (Not to mention the elevator that’s a moving cocktail bar.)
Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.06.16
Sorry – A (Respectful) Dissent On A Well-Meaning Statement On Arts Equity
I would say based on the thousands of stories we sift through every day at ArtsJournal, diversity and cultural equity (along with funding) are right now probably the biggest issues being talked about in the … read more
AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-06-06
The Ax Falls At The Met, Again…More to Come
Today the Metropolitan Museum announced a significant layoff: Cynthia Round, the senior vice president of Marketing and External Relations – who was hired by Thomas Campbell, the director, only in 2014. Her department, remember, was … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-06-06
Why The Cornet? (Revisited And Revised With Video)
Because of circumstances too complicated and mundane to relate, there will be no Monday Recommendation today. Stuff happens. Maybe there will be a Tuesday Recommendation tomorrow. In the meantime, here is a Rifftides post that … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-06-06
What’s Happening Here? The Enigmatic Bhupen Khakhar
Tate Modern is holding the first international retrospective of the interesting Indian artist Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003). Their publicity says … read more
AJBlog: Plain English Published 2016-06-06
Silent retreat
On Saturday afternoon I went directly from Penn Station to New York’s Center for Italian Modern Art to see an exhibition of some forty-odd paintings and works on paper by Giorgio Morandi. His work has… … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2016-06-06
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