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Monday, August 31, 2020

How ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Changed Some Of Its Actresses’ Lives by Artsjournal2

“Eight years ago, Samira Wiley and Uzo Aduba were struggling New York actors working service jobs when they auditioned for a new series from a movie-rental service-turned-streaming site ca…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM

The Racial Anxiety Behind Music Reaction Videos by Artsjournal2

Sure, they’re joyful, but … “the viral popularity of this display of intergenerational sympathy — Black 20-somethings professing love for a white boomer’s pop-rock chestnut — may…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM
Sunday, August 30, 2020

The Hollywood Bowl In The Time Of The Pandemic by Artsjournal2

There’s no summer season of music for the L.A. Phil at the Hollywood Bowl. But there are food banks, a take-out restaurant from those who usually make food for the concerts, and a lot of m…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM

How To Keep The Memory Of WWII Alive Now? by Artsjournal2

It’s 2020, so video games, of course. “History games can spark interest in learning more, says Bob Whitaker, a professor of History at Collin College and host of the podcast History Res…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:32PM

Alice Koller, Author Of ‘The Feminist Walden,’ 94 by Artsjournal2

Koller, author of An Unknown Woman, inspired many women to consider their lives as full and complex – but she wasn’t necessarily pleased with her own experience. “It is a paradox that …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM

Disabled Theatre Workers Want More Than Just A Discussion Panel by Artsjournal2

Truly, one more discussion? As a Gen-Xer might say, big whoop. Here’s a list of action points for when theatre resumes – or to work on right now. – American Theatre

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM

The Joys Of Music Reaction Videos by Artsjournal2

Is it time for, say, Beethoven reaction videos? Because this was the experience of someone hearing “Bohemian Rhapsody” for the first time: “Watching the full gamut of human emotions �…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM

Falling In Love With A Poem Across The Centuries by Artsjournal2

This is the way of powerful literature, across hundreds (or thousands) of years. “It landed in the hands of a schoolgirl who would one day fall in love with it. At first, she pushed it awa…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM

Studios, Unions Closer To Deal For Return To Work In The U.S. by Artsjournal2

Sources say that the “major issues are testing protocols, sick pay and travel to work sites.” Studios cautiously say they hope to resume shooting after Labor Day, September 7. – Variety

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM

The Complexities Of Black Speculative Fiction Can’t All Fit Under Afrofuturism by Artsjournal2

The term was coined, by a white writer, in 1993. It might have been a good start, but there are issues: “It lacks room to conceive of Blackness outside of the Black American diaspora or …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM

The Leonard Cohen Estate Is Considering Legal Action After RNC Uses Hallelujah – Twice by Artsjournal2

The RNC asked for permission, and the Cohen Estate said no. According to estate’s legal representative, “if the organizers had requested to use Cohen’s 2016 song ‘You Want it Darker�…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM

In London, South Bank Arts Workers Rally For Their Jobs by Artsjournal2

Workers from the Tate, the Southbank Centre , and the National Theatre rallied for their jobs and against what they call callous job cuts on Saturday. One explained that now, “You’ve got…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM

What Happens If Studios Decide They Truly Don’t Need Movie Theatres? by Artsjournal2

First of all, this timeline is a terrible one; can we jump to another one? But basically, this all hinges on how Tenet performs in theatres versus how Mulan performs on Disney+. – Vulture

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM

Writing About A Movement, Not A Moment by Artsjournal2

What we think we know about the fight for women to get the legal right to vote is only a sliver of the history – and of our present. “There’s a lot of that still hanging in the balance…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM

Rewriting Irish Dancing’s Weirdly Strict Gender Rulebook by Artsjournal2

Trans dancers are challenging the conventions. Hayden Moon says it’s not easy: “I’d spent years learning to be high on my toes and not make any noise and never let my heel touch the gr…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM

Nervous Eyes, Hand Sanitizer, And No Run On Popcorn by Artsjournal2

What it was like to watch Tenet in Toronto: A little nervewracking, a little weird, a lot enjoyable. “For 45 years, the summer blockbuster has given us something to orbit around, a Movie E…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM

Getting Anti-Black Language Out, While Retaining The Core Ideas And Beauty, In Shakespeare by Artsjournal2

This may not be easy, and a lot of theatre artists may not want to think about it – but a Google Doc can help. “If there’s an instance where the word ‘slave’ does harm and the word…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Musicians Sign A Contract Through 2025 by Artsjournal2

Just a year after a protracted and bitter lockout, the musicians approved a multiyear contract that, while it includes COVID-19 related wage cuts (for administration as well as for musicians…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM

For The First Woman To Lead A Prestigious Paris Theatre, Accusations Of Bullying Lead To Her Firing by Artsjournal2

Ruth Mackenzie was the first woman to run the Théâtre du Châtelet, the first woman to hire a Black artist to direct a play at the French theatre, and also, she says, the first woman direc…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM

The Coronavirus Has Made It Clear How Desperately The U.S. Needs To Provide Internet For Everyone by Artsjournal2

To be blunt, as kids go back to school, it’s more obvious than ever. “Despite the truly heroic efforts in some communities, 17 million children in our country still do not have the tec…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM

The Filmmakers Of ‘Honeyland’ May Never Leave The Balkans by Artsjournal2

What do documentary filmmakers owe their subjects? What if the documentary wins multiple awards, grosses a lot of money, and makes the subjects (and documentarians) famous?  Staying involve…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Chadwick Boseman, King In ‘Black Panther’ And Jackie Robinson In ’42,’ Has Died At 43 by Artsjournal2

The actor, who also played James Brown in Get on Up and Thurgood Marshall in Marshall, was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016, but had never spoken publicly about the diagnosis, and kept on…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PM
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

‘Unhinged’ Made $4 Million Its Opening Weekend, And That’s Seen As A Major Success by Artsjournal2

With cinemas in many of the big U.S. metros still closed and many potential customers still unconvinced that multiplexes are safe from the coronavirus (despite the efforts of the National As…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM
Monday, August 24, 2020

The Grim Silence Of The Present Makes For An Eerie Vacation by Artsjournal2

The NYT‘s classical music critic isn’t truly enjoying his time off because there hasn’t been very much time on. “The shutdowns have been devastating for American classical music, g…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PM

The Race To Collect The History We’re Living by Artsjournal2

There’s a lot going on right now. “Archivists, curators, and librarians nationwide are assembling the record of how the pandemic is impacting their communities in real time, collecting e…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM

Stand-Up Comedians Aren’t Finding The Whole Situation Very Funny Right Now by Artsjournal2

Should stand-up comedians play drive-in gigs, participate in Zooming, try to start YouTube channels or wait, somehow, for live audiences to return? It’s a bit of a mess for them, and sitti…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:02PM

Black Artists In Portland Create A New Map For Cities Confronting Their Past, And Present by Artsjournal2

Portland doesn’t exactly have the best history with its Black populations, including forced gentrification after decades of intense redlining. A 69-year-old artist says, “They tried to s…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM

What Democracy Looked Like, In Ballot Form by Artsjournal2

Even before the colorful public ballots of the early United States, actually, “people used the viva voce system, rooted in ancient Greece, where voters announced their candidate to a clerk…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM

Mercedes Barcha, Vital To The Publication Of Her Husband’s One Hundred Years Of Solitude, 87 by Artsjournal2

Barcha held the landlord off while Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote the book, and when he emerged with the manuscript, “pawned her hair dryer and the couple’s blender so she could pay the po…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM

Can Reading Fight Racism? by Artsjournal2

The pandemic changed some things, and then came the murder of George Floyd – and the largest civil rights movement in U.S. history. “Anti-racist manuals have been cleaned out from virtua…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM

The Ongoing Reckoning In The Publishing World by Artsjournal2

Publishing has rather a lot to do to catch up in the diversity, equity, and inclusion fronts. Lisa Lucas, the outgoing director of the National Book Foundation, who is Black, says, “What d…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM

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