Sunday, February 16, 2020
Jordan Casteel paints portraits – huge portraits. And that means something to her subjects. “‘I knew I wanted to use this opportunity to place my mom and I in the art historical canon,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PMWoodard invites Academy Award nominees from past and present – and, she says, “those who, in a perfect world, should have been.” She also says the Oscars don’t have an impact on good…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMYikes: “A picture shared on social media showed ‘BCC wankers’ scrawled across the artwork, which shows a young girl firing a slingshot filled with flowers.” – The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMWill Parasite‘s best picture win goose more international fare from the big studios – as opposed simply to Netflix – or will it only help both Bong Joon-ho and then other films that se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMCohen was a veteran stage and screen actor who found extra fame late in life as Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon)’s housekeeper and nanny on Sex and the City (and both movies). “On Broadway…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMMassey claims the separation of ways was a mutual decision and adds that “the job was not what he expected when he came to Louisville a year ago from Florida, where he had been the presid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMAnd the Writers Guild is ready to crack down on their wayward members. The WGA president wrote, “‘For any writers breaking the rules there must and will be accountability.’ He added: �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM“The list is full of classics, of course, but it’s also got a few refreshing surprises in there.” – LitHub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMNope. Take a look at this Gulliver’s Travels (yes, Gulliver’s Travels) fanfic. “In the 18th century, as now, fan fiction was usually more explicitly sexual than its source material.”…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMHotchner was “a novelist, playwright, biographer, literary bon vivant and philanthropist whose life was shaped and colored by close friendships with two extraordinarily gifted and well-kno…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMA billion dollar industry dependent on one factory in California? That’s physical manufacturing, so perhaps not. The factory, where 75 percent of the world’s blank lacquers were made, bu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMAfter massive fallout from accusations of racism and pandering to a small (possibly racist) publisher, Nora Roberts weighing in on the homophobia of the organization, Twitter-led discoveries…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMCasei “in the 1960s and ’70s could be reliably heard as Suzuki, Maddalena, Lola and other bread-and-butter mezzo-soprano characters at the Metropolitan Opera before transforming hersel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMThey found no cash, but there was alcohol. “Front and back windows at Gay’s the Word, which became the UK’s first gay bookshop when it was opened in 1979 and which featured in the fil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMIt’s not clear who sprayed the irritant, or what it was, exactly. “Two people were treated at the scene for breathing difficulties following the 4:15 p.m. incident at the Broadhurst Thea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AMRemington famously hadn’t read the books when she created the covers, leading to missteps including lions on the original cover. “While working as a freelance illustrator, she also did w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32AMMonday, February 10, 2020
When journalists tried to pigeonhole her as a “new hot blonde” on the scene, well, Margot Robbie took control. “Robbie has refigured the terms of her agreement with the media. She’s …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMThe thing about Parasite is that even before it became the first non-English language film to win a Best Picture statue, it “had already earned all the accomplishments that really matter; …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMBrandon Taylor always felt that he had to choose between science and writing. “Throughout his undergraduate years at Auburn University at Montgomery and graduate school in Wisconsin … sc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMIt’s not just politicians, of course, in our age of surveillance and social media. “Here is someone who – by concealing their identity – can reveal the complete and shocking truth. M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMBanderas may be a Spanish speaker first, but the actor “is from Málaga, Spain, and does not identify as a person of color. There are nonwhite Spanish people, but this isn’t the case for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMLaura Dern won best supporting actress for her role in the Noah Baumbach Marriage Story, and Netflix also got an award for the Obamas-supported documentary American Family. “This is disapp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMQuentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Theatre, which has regularly been selling out his Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood since last year, is but one of many arthouse cinemas being bought, refur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMThe Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert “is the great night bird of modern art. Restless, insomniac, and suffering from stomach ulcers from a very young age, he would rise in the small hours a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMGudnadóttir won for Joker. She said, “To the girls, to the women, to the mothers, to the daughters who hear the music bubbling within, please speak up — we need to hear your voices.” …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMThe critic, Avelina Lésper, shattered the installation by Mexican artist Gabriel Rico with an empty soda can. – The Guardian (UK) (AP)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMThen there’s the part about taking a “curly-wurly” book and turning it into direct chronology. But she also says, “There are various threads that are out there that if I was a sociol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMThe women of English theatre are not happy. Sphinx Theatre artistic director Sue Parrish: “All along we’ve been given assurances that our concerns were being taken very seriously and bei…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMThe Korean writer and director of the dark comedy and class parable Parasite wasn’t prepared to win best director, which he did, or for his film to win best picture, which it most certainl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24AMFreni had a “special claim on [the Italian] tradition, which valued bel canto principles of producing rich, unforced sound; of shaping even, lyrical lines across the range of a voice; and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24AMSunday, February 9, 2020
With films like Birdman and last year’s The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open and Oscar fave 1917 edited to appear as if they’re single shots, what’s the deal? The “single-sho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PM 
