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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 09:54AMPopova, who died of Covid-19, lived a dramatic early life and found stability, if not joy, on Broadway and TV before becoming a ballet teacher. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMHepburn wasn’t well-known in the U.S. before William Wyler cast her against Gregory Peck in the bittersweet rom-com. But “her star rose so quickly after this movie. That is crazy. This m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMAs the pandemic exposes massive historical cracks in the U.S. along class and race lines, it also exposes what state universities have been dealing with for a few decades – and it’s caus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM“Two of Domingo’s managers and a spokesperson briefly cut off the interview when the singer was asked to respond to the fact that both investigations had found the sexual harassment accu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AMHeidi Pitlor: “Ghostwriting is a form of acting, method acting really, as well as improvisation. You must become your subject, whether they are a Kennedy, a congresswoman, or a guy who esp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AMThe idea was to figure out what could make for a safe return to live music, using healthy volunteers who had tested negative before the concerts. “The first of Saturday’s three concerts …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AMThuy Van Vu’s empty classrooms feel eerily familiar right now, almost photographic. “The spaces she portrays are vast and full of potential, and also of a great, yawning absence. Where a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PMTurns out not everyone loves mansion tours, or even castle tours. “The trust’s visitor experience director proposes putting thousands of artworks and other items into storage in order to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMIt’s bad from the singer side – 51 percent of the top 100 songs were by solo male acts, and only 19 percent were by solo female acts – but it’s shockingly horrible from behind the sc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMThe drivetime listeners are gone, sending NPR’s radio ratings into the sub-sub-basement. Yet NPR is reaching 10 percent more people than at the same time last year. What gives? “Bringing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMHis team sprang into action and got censor-free footage that seems impossible. “The hardest footage to shoot was inside the I.C.U., Ai said, but he could not divulge how it was filmed. He …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMAnd what an author – Marcie Rendon, an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, is an “award-winning poet, playwright, author of children’s books, short stories and the popular Cash …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMPolice tear-gassed the gathering before the march began, killing L.A. Times columnist and KMEX news director Ruben Salazar (two others also died during the tear-gassing and shooting). “The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMCan they? Yes. Will they? Hm. – Slate
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMReassuring: “The theaters are pushing hard the argument that moviegoing is safe more broadly, or at least as safe as going to a restaurant, flying on an airplane or worshiping in a church.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMKanstantsin Shyshmakou, the 29-year-old director of a military history museum in Vawkavysk, refused to sign anything certifying the re-election of Lukashenko – and was found dead in a rive…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMIt wasn’t easy to film Love in the Time of Corona. But it was doable, with a lot of care – and a lot of house-cleaning for the actors whose homes hosted the shoots. Some of the details: …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMSo here we have a movie, Cuties, that “has been praised for questioning how society and social media pressure young children into acting in sexually explicit ways.” Best way to advertise…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMShutdown theatre cool idea number 458: “A postcard slips through the letterbox and lands lightly. While rural touring can’t take place, Nottingham-based company New Perspectives have c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00PMAssuming that it ever ends – with a vaccine or some kind of terribly expensive, in human life terms, herd immunity – Covid-19 may leave a theatrical legacy that’s hard to shake, at lea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AMHorror movies sure seem to think so. A lot of them seem to exhibit “this idea that if you have enough free time, you’re going to just start rounding people up and killing them.” – Wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMAnd then there are the outdoor performances, with masks: “When a performer speaks a lot onstage, … masks become damp and stick to the skin, so each cast member goes through four or five …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMThe Hollywood Bowl couldn’t have audiences – but the musicians could be there, distanced, and the orchestra took advantage of its city’s geographical advantages. The concerts were only…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMUnless you already live in Venice, in which case, sorry, you’ll have to read something other than Invisible Cities. – The Economist
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMThe first concert since lockdown is definitely special (not that it’s weird to be masked and distant anymore; it’s simply exciting to be there). “It’s been difficult but clarifying t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AMIn the UK, for instance, with social distance requirements in full force as they should be, “only around 100 of the country’s 900 small music venues would be able to operate.” And it�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AMWhen Aesha Ash got hired as a City Ballet dancer, she felt the weight of her people on her back. “I wasn’t just dancing for myself, and I wasn’t just dancing to rise through the ranks …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMSure, one might wonder why one of the United States’s greatest traitors has a statue in the United States Capitol Building, but that’s a long (racist) story. In any case, it’s time for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMHow he feels playing to an online audience: “You can’t touch, you can’t hug, you can’t shake hands. But what music does, its sound moves air molecules. So when air floats across your…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMSarah Cooper is a UX engineer who, during lockdown, decided to take advantage of TikTok and the United States president’s, er, unique response to the pandemic, earning her a huge response …
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