Friday, May 1, 2020
Iceland has tested its population widely for virus, and has had few cases so it could be safe for shooting. The country, with its sparsely populated but spacious North Atlantic geography, ad…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Leonard Susskind argues that we don't. He says that "dating back to the Ancient Greeks, what's often been perceived as elegant simplicity was almost always a fiction or an approximation cove…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]Online platforms are not equally useful, and the class options are dizzying, especially when the "I don't want to humiliate myself" barrier is gone. (Who's looking?!) " Dance Enthusiast
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Street artists get their juice from the urban landscape. But performers don't have crowds to perform for. And while street painters have plenty of urban canvas, there's not many out to see i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]The coin shows an artist's rendering of the coronavirus overlaid on a world map, and reads (with characteristically Trumpian capitalization), "World vs Virus: We Fought the Unseen Enemy. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]While much of the future is uncertain, one thing is clear: The industry will be gutted without major federal help. Arts nonprofits have already suffered $4.5 billion in losses as a result of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2020
"We are the literary magazine for Taco Bell literature. I also say celebrating the Taco Bell arts and letters. We're not a gimmick, we're not a viral sensation. We are real fiction, real ess…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM[SHARE]More than 50% of malls anchored by department stores could close permanently by the end of 2021. Of the roughly 1,000 malls still in operation throughout the U.S., 60% are anchored by depart…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM[SHARE]The LA Times looks at what a new Hollywood might look like when it reopens. On the table: everything. How movies are shot, how they open in theatres (if they do), what movie theatres might l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06PM[SHARE]On paper, the practice of logging on to a video-conferencing site to sit with strangers for an hour without communicating may hold limited appeal. In practice, silent Zooms have become a lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]"It turns out that being in a dangerous situation with others fosters a new social identity. Boundaries between us, which seem so salient when things are normal, disappear when we perceive w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]The city's mayor: "I say in all firmness that it is out of the question that we allow ourselves to be invaded by cars, and by pollution. It will make the health crisis worse. Pollution is al…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]With its relief funding, the NEA is switching tack from supporting individual art projects to ensuring that non-profit institutions and organisations are able to reopen. "We want to preserve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]Guided by pins on a digital map and a downloaded soundtrack " featuring songs, poetry, a couple of old voicemail messages and mysterious clues " ticketed audience members drive through the c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]Dave Voorhees estimates that the store's chockablock bins hold half a million recordings of rock, R&B, jazz, classical, country and other musical genres " an inventory his business manag…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]"Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures." A good picture "takes away our certainty, because it deprives a thing of its meaning and its name. It shows…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2020
The 10-day "We Are One: A Global Film Festival" will feature content curated by the Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Sundance, Toronto and Tribeca film festivals, among others, starting on May 29, or…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18PM[SHARE]Will the current pandemic change human attitudes to death? Probably not. Just the opposite. Covid-19 will probably cause us to only double our efforts to protect human lives. For the dominan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18PM[SHARE]Comfort has won, and most formality is gone. But the freedom of informality comes at a cost. Formality is the bulwark against some of the nastiest human impulses, and acts as a vaccine again…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18PM[SHARE]The next phase is set to start on May 4, with museums slated to welcome visitors again on May 18. They must follow safety guidelines drawn up by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]Talk to a fan or performer, and they usually have a moment, a performance, a recording that got them hooked on whatever the art was. The Times asked 14 famous opera-lovers what their moments…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM[SHARE]Their argument is that there is no better way to become visible than through pop culture. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]To be sure, video calls are great for letting toddlers blow kisses to their grandparents, showing people what you're cooking for dinner or maybe demonstrating how to make a face mask out of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"The next couple of months are very unknown. But times of this kind of catastrophe are times for really reimagining what you can do and bringing people along to dare to make those choices." …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]"We don't have to look far and wide to see how disease has challenged and shaped our increasingly cosmopolitan world. The modern epidemics of cholera, typhus, yellow fever, measles, smallpox…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]The American writer"so goes the transatlantic stereotype"addresses the general public deliberately and democratically. Rapidly clarifying her argument and the research or experience behind i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2020
What separates Americans is not just income, but whole frames of reference: Cordoned off, the wealthy live in a world apart from the less-well-off, no longer sharing the same experiences. " …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]"An outpouring of support and encouragement from potential partners and charitable organizations " along with protests by students, faculty, alumni and staff " convinced the Board to take ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]Ramsey not only died young but lived too early, or so it can seem. He did little to advertise the importance of his ideas, and his modesty did not help. He was not particularly impressed wit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]The truth, sad or bad or however one wishes to characterize it, is that both contemporary visual art and contemporary poetry no longer hold anything approximating the central place in cultur…
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