http://www.artsjournal.com Copyright 2012 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:13:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "Conflicts of interest, which used to be the third rail of journalism, now seem to have become like herpes instead: something you disclose if you want to build a real relationship, but maybe not if a brief assignation is all you've got in mind. And in an age when people are blithely receiving information straight from politicians and companies - Starbucks has a direct channel to 28-million latte lovers through its Facebook page, who can decide for themselves whether they agree with the message - perhaps it's only crusty journalism profs who care about such things."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/do_we_no_longer.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/do_we_no_longer.shtml publishing Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:13:28 -0800 "The older actress barely walks our British stages and it would seem, unlike the British public, our theatre community does not think this state of affairs warrants any changes."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/a_call_to_emplo.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/a_call_to_emplo.shtml theatre Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:09:59 -0800 Dancers working for English National Opera are calling for an overhaul of pay conditions, claiming their rate of less than £10 an hour is "disrespectful and absurd".... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/dancers_at_engl.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/dancers_at_engl.shtml dance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:08:36 -0800 "Adam Mars-Jones, the novelist and critic, was last night named the winner at a booze-up held in Soho's Coach and Horses pub, for his wielding of the literary hatchet over By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham. Cunningham, a Pulitzer winner for The Hours, made the error of filling his latest novel, the tale of an art dealer's midlife crisis, with repeated references to earlier, and possibly greater works in the literary canon."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/ward_for_the_mo.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/ward_for_the_mo.shtml issues Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:04:16 -0800 "Artists and art dealers around the country who have argued over the legal rights of artists to collect royalties in California have been chewing over a settlement this week between the collector Dean Valentine and the painter Mark Grotjahn."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/california_deal.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/california_deal.shtml visual Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:00:42 -0800 "In the last few months, dozens of brass sousaphones -- smaller tubas used in marching bands -- were taken from schools in Southern California. Though the police have not made any arrests, music teachers say the thefts are motivated by the growing popularity of banda, a traditional Mexican music form in which tubas play a dominant role."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/the_great_tuba.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/the_great_tuba.shtml music Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:54:27 -0800 The restructuring largely slashed the Grammy trophies for ethnic and minority genres, though some pop, rock, country and R&B categories were consolidated as well (for instance leaving male and female artists to complete in a single category).... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/excluded_musici.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/excluded_musici.shtml music Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:43:42 -0800 Just over a week after The Australian fussed publicly about how long it was taking the Art Gallery of New South Wales to hire a director, the museum has announced its choice for the job: Michael Brand, an Australian who was formerly director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/director_found.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/director_found.shtml visual Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:07:53 -0800 "His death comes less than three weeks after the ambiguous end of his criminal trial in Rome on charges of trafficking in looted antiquities. Since the 1990s, Hecht had been at the center of an Italian investigation that traced objects looted from tombs in Italy through a network of smugglers, dealers and private collectors to museums across the United States, Europe and beyond."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/robert_e_hecht.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/robert_e_hecht.shtml people Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:07:07 -0800 "Videos submitted by instrumental soloists will be up for anyone to watch. The top four vote-getters will get a chance to audition for musical director and conductor Manfred Honeck. The winner - if Honeck picks one at all - gets $10,000 and a paid trip to perform with the orchestra at Heinz Hall this fall."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/pittsburgh_symp_31.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/pittsburgh_symp_31.shtml music Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:06:15 -0800 "The Louisville Orchestra has issued a formal offer to its musicians to arbitrate for a resolution to the labor impasse in negotiations for a new contract."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/louisville_orch_29.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/louisville_orch_29.shtml music Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:05:24 -0800 "Four in 10 children have never seen the inside of an art gallery, while 17 per cent haven't visited a museum with their parents. The research ... also revealed that a quarter of children haven't been to the theatre, while six in 10 have never heard or been to a classical music concert. ... And half of parents admit they make little effort to educate their children on culture or history, relying on schools to do so."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/startlingly_hig.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/startlingly_hig.shtml issues Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:04:33 -0800 With relatively stable finances, recent artistic successes and artistic directorships to fill, West Australian Ballet and Queensland Ballet have plans to raise their game by hiring more dancers, doing more touring in their regions and (if possible) overseas, and performing innovative choreography that keeps them from looking like mini-mes of the Australian Ballet.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/australias_top_3.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/australias_top_3.shtml dance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:03:42 -0800 "Being on the road a lot, going across the country every two years to so many different places makes us unique in that there is a real kind of rugged quality - and I mean that in the best possible sense. ... [My] dancers here deliver first-class performances in sometimes less-than-ideal conditions, and that's something that makes me proud."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/ethan_stiefel_o.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/ethan_stiefel_o.shtml dance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:02:59 -0800 "My aim is to bring a personal belief to everything I do, and avoid routine and duty as much as I can. ... What I want to avoid is the dutiful rendition of a new piece placed first in the programme so it can be got out of the way quickly. That attitude was all part of a certain corporate feel, which [the New York Philharmonic] has suffered from in the past, and which I'm keen to get away from."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/alan_gilbert_i.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/alan_gilbert_i.shtml music Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:02:12 -0800 Last Sunday, the actress-playwright-documentarian gave her first sermon as artist-in-residence at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco; she presents a new play on the theme of grace next weekend. "Both Ms. Smith and the Very Rev. Jane Shaw, who became the cathedral's dean last year, share a vision of bringing together art and religion, historically-linked pursuits that are sometimes at odds in modern America."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/anna_deavere_sm_4.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/anna_deavere_sm_4.shtml theatre Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:01:28 -0800 "Is it really morally wrong to kill someone? That question, strange enough on its own, is downright bizarre when it's asked in the Journal of Medical Ethics. In 'What makes killing wrong?', a paper in the Journal's January issue, [two scholars] argue that there isn't, fundamentally, anything wrong with killing another person. Killing is only incidentally bad because of one of its consequences: 'total disability'."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/when_medical_et.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/when_medical_et.shtml ideas Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:01:01 -0800 "Radio drama was thought to be nearly extinct when Yuri Rasovsky launched the National Radio Theater of Chicago in the early 1970s, and he emerged as a major voice in its revival." In the 1990s, Rasovsky - nicknamed "El Fiendo" for his exacting standards and sharp temper - moved to Los Angeles and produced a string of award-winning recorded audio dramas.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/yuri_rasovsky_w.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/yuri_rasovsky_w.shtml people Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:47 -0800 A cynic might assume that writer David Seidler wanted to adapt his screenplay for the stage just to cash in on the film's enormous success. As it happens, Seidler wrote the piece for live theatre.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/the_surprise_ab.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/the_surprise_ab.shtml theatre Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:59:45 -0800 "Founded nearly 70 years ago by the husband and wife team of Iliko Sukhishvili and Nino Ramishvili and initially named the Georgian State Dance Company, the troupe" - currently called the Georgian National Ballet and not to be confused with Nina Ananiashvili's State Ballet of Georgia - "has travelled from the back offices of suspicious state and party officials in 1945 to some of the greatest stages in the world."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/a_family_affair.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/a_family_affair.shtml dance Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:57:07 -0800 "The Mikhailovsky Theater of St. Petersburg, Russia, scored a coup last fall by luring two of ballet's biggest stars" - Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev - "from the Bolshoi, and it was to have brought them to the United States this summer for a run of shows at Lincoln Center. But those plans have been scrapped ... because American Ballet Theater exercised a no-compete clause involving those very same dancers."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/karma_bites_mik.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/karma_bites_mik.shtml dance Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:56:20 -0800 "The Cats of Copenhagenis a 'younger twin sister' to his published children's story The Cat and the Devil, which told of how the devil built a bridge over a French river in one night." Both stories originated as letters from Joyce to his grandson.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/james_joyce_chi.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/james_joyce_chi.shtml publishing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:55:27 -0800 "Films that embody 'conservative' values such as capitalism and Christian belief are more likely to prove profitable than those which take a more 'liberal' standpoint, according to a US group called Movieguide, which promotes the former."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/conservative_mo.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/conservative_mo.shtml media Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:54:41 -0800 Kevin Salatino, who has worked on the staffs of LACMA and the Getty and is currently director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Maine, will be the next director of art collections at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles. Among Salatino's claims to fame: of all his (very popular) lectures and gallery talks, only one has not referred to sex in the title.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/huntingtons_new.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/huntingtons_new.shtml visual Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:53:14 -0800 "Cannes will bristle. The bigwigs at Venice may twirl. There's a major new cinema event on the scene: the inaugural moustache film festival, to be held in Portland, Maine on 30 March. The festival is an offshoot of the annual Stache Pag, a moustache pageant showcasing the best in east coast facial hair."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/a_sundance_for.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/02/a_sundance_for.shtml media Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:52:23 -0800