Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Reasons for synchronising release dates globally, such as minimising piracy and coordinating marketing, hardly seem like priorities given present circumstances. The US is still the largest s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PMThis debilitating, isolating historical moment should make us rethink our attitudes, priorities and national policies with regard to our criminal justice system, health and education infrast…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM“Williams is a courtly, soft-voiced, inveterately self-effacing man of eighty-eight. He is well aware of the extraordinary worldwide impact of his “Star Wars” music—not to mention hi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMThe growth in nonfiction stands in contrast to fiction. Despite the publication of highly anticipated novels such as Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, sales fell to £582m in 2019, down 5.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PMTuesday, July 21, 2020
Laszlo Surmeyan danced lead male roles before becoming, in 1986, one of the company’s first principal character artists. This season has marked his farewell to the company after a remarkab…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PMNetflix’s once heavily guarded vault of secret statistics has slowly opened up over the last couple of years, a gradual juicy reveal of viewer habits with some major caveats. – Irish Tim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM“It’s not an uninteresting moment to be part of CalArts,” said dance dean Dimitri Chamblas. “The school is ready to re-question, reinvent … innovating in this particular moment of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMThe coronavirus pandemic and the administration’s botched response to it are damaging the engine of American innovation in three major ways: The flow of talented people from overseas is sl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMThe Authors Guild said its members had lost on average 43% of their regular income since the start of the crisis. The Freelancers union said over 80% of its members were reporting loss of in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMIt took a pandemic to stop the gluttonous consumption of other places, trips that relied centrally on the have-nots—armies of hotel workers, cleaners, food preparers, bartenders, pool atte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMHoward Reich: “Should the organization succeed in presenting live events, it will deliver us from the current deluge of online performances by every musician who happens to own a smart pho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM“They parked all too easily; slung their fold-up camp chairs over their shoulders; and waited obediently in a socially distanced line to enter the grounds, cracking jokes behind their mask…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMIf there’s one lesson to be learned from the pandemic, it’s the benefits of flexibility. In a matter of months, we’ve converted parking spaces into cafés, restaurants into food pantri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMFor decades, the P in NPR stood for “public,” as in publicly supported, noncommercial radio and digital news. Yet with its growing dependence on corporate advertising, NPR has found itse…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMMonday, July 20, 2020
The one-story, three-bedroom cottage was built in 1913 as a temporary home for Wright’s lawyer, Sherman Booth. Booth developed a cluster of Wright houses, including one for himself, in the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PMWritten by two former employees and one current staff member and signed by almost 70 others, the petition alleges sexual and racial harassment at the federally funded institution and calls f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PMScience fiction writers have, indeed, always embraced globality. In interplanetary texts, humans of all nations, races and genders have to come together as one people in the face of alien in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PM“We keep hearing that this is a post-truth era, that feelings beat facts, people no longer care what’s true, and we’re heading for ruin. Opponents of Brexit and Donald Trump not only f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMFor those wanting transformation, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. But will hardship economics allow for new possibilities from our most prominent venues or will it just be a matter of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMThe Broadway program publication hasn’t printed programs since Broadway went dark. Website and social media traffic is up, but advertising has collapsed. “Just as it would be impossible …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMThe politics of nostalgia doesn’t capitalise on people’s memories of particular past events they might have experienced. Instead, it makes use of propaganda about the way things were, in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMAlthough I spent college and most of my NBA career in Los Angeles, it wasn’t until I retired from basketball and began my second career as a writer specializing in African American history…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMParker was a huge supporter of civil rights and gave most of her estate to Martin Luther King (whom she had never met) when she died in 1967. When King died, the estate was transferred to th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMAccording to the publisher’s own history, Elliott founded the magazine during a summer holiday from Keele University, where he was studying. “He produced the first edition on the kitchen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMFriday, July 17, 2020
Gary Garrels is the fifth senior official at SFMOMA to depart over the past few weeks. Also gone are Nan Keeton, deputy director of external affairs; Marisa Robisch, director of human resour…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMAlthough the museum calls Hiroshi Sugimoto’s design a “revitalization” of the sculpture garden, its critics feel it is much more than that. They are especially concerned with the propo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM“The systemic racism that runs like rot through the structures of the classical music world exists somewhere between broad statistical data and intimate personal disclosure. And right now,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM“Bad habits may be broken. Theater companies large and small will be weaned off the conservative commercial values of Broadway, freed of the timidity of white theater artists and audiences…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMWhen Kristin Makholm took the helm in July 2009, the museum was virtually bankrupt and had been closed for about 18 months after losing its lease at the Ramsey County Government Center. But …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMYou might argue that furloughs are inevitable, given the inability of theaters to perform indoors in front of more than 50 people under current city and state guidelines. But it’s not the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM“In a way, the screen now represents a bit of an insult to those who are making the decision as to who will join the orchestra. Do we really believe that today’s musicians cannot come to…
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