To protest prohibitions against women in public spaces, Jersualem’s last professional dance company opens back up. “No one has the right to exclude us in this way,” says the director of the company’s school. But some dancers are scared.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Size (Of Your Endowment) Does Matter. Ask The New Clyfford Still Museum
“All of the things that this museum hoped to do, we can now do — research fellows, publications, symposia and ultimately the care and accessibility of the collection,” said director Dean Sobel.
That 10,000 Hours Of Practice Meme Is A Myth (You Need Talent, Too)
“It would be nice if intellectual ability and the capacities that underlie it were important for success only up to a point,” say two psychology professors. “But wishing doesn’t make it so.”
Project The Lindisfarne Gospels On The Cathedral? Sure, Why Not?
Durham, England, is having quite the weekend. “For dynamic outdoor art to rival one of the world’s most spectacular natural-urban scenes is quite something; for the citizens, who must almost take Durham’s hilly location for granted, the festival offers a bewitching chance to renew a sense of awe about where they live.”
No, Joshua Bell’s Not The Best Violinist In The World (No One Is)
“The quest for technical best is a form of hiding. You can hide from the marketplace because you’re still practicing your technique. And you can hide from the hard work of real art and real connection.”
Two Elite Dancers, One RIsky Business
One left a principal position at American Ballet Theatre; the other did the same at New York City Ballet – in order to found their own company. Where will Ballet Next take them?
World-Class Sculpture Disintegrates – And Whose Fault Is It?
A Henry Moore sculpture worth £5 million ($7.9 million) sits vandalized in a site the sculpture once described as so perfect that he didn’t have to look elsewhere. Who’s responsible? (No one?)
Theatre Pays For Itself, But We Won’t Pay For It
Yes, the Theatre Communications Group released a report saying nonprofit theatres brought almost $2 billion to the country’s coffers. But if you think that means we’ll pony up tax money to support the art, you’re quite wrong.
How To Deal With Music In The Cloud: A Primer
Some suggestions for geeks, iPhone lovers, haters of digital rights management and the rest of us. (Also, what *is* the cloud?)
Film Is Dead! Long Live The Movies?
“The machinery of production and distribution is in the midst of an epochal change, part of the rapid and convulsive digitalization of everything under the sun. If you go to a movie theater, you are less and less likely to see a film in the traditional, literal sense.”