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Monday, August 17, 2020

Career Moves In 2020: Storming TikTok, Freaking Out The President, Hosting Late-Night, Getting A Netflix Special by Artsjournal2

Sarah 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 …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM

Minecraft Hosts A Massive Music Festival For Everyone Stuck In Quarantine by Artsjournal2

Well, why not let a video game provide a virtual mosh pit, virtual vendors, and a musical experience that lasts for days? “The super fans eat it up because they’re excited in a time when…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM

The Studio Behind This Year’s Oscar-Winning Animated Short Are Trying To School Hollywood by Artsjournal2

Lion Forge is a Black-owned animation studio, the only Black-owned animation studio. For founders and staff, that makes its mission different. “It’s representation on the screen. It’s …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM

Reshooting A Zombie Movie During A Pandemic Isn’t Actually That Easy by Artsjournal2

Comedian Tig Notaro is replacing disgraced actor Chris D’Elia in Army of the Dead, but how exactly does that play out during quarantine? It doesn’t. “The film will mix full reshoots of…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM

A Classical Music Host Says Music Is Keeping Her Alive After Emergency Brain Surgery by Artsjournal2

Clemency Burton-Hill works as the creative director at WQXR, New York’s classical station, and has been a BBC presenter, including a lot of Proms coverage. In early 2020, she had a massive…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM

Through Fiction, Humans Can Become Animals by Artsjournal2

Yes, obviously, humans are animals, and also obviously, we don’t truly know how to get into the mind of a hyena or a fox or a dog, but still: In these books, readers can “expand their ta…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM

University Of Oregon Library Says It Will Cover ‘Oppressive’ Murals by Artsjournal2

The murals were, as one versed in the history of white supremacist rhetoric in the U.S. might guess, created in the 1930s. In one, “Development of the Sciences by artist Albert C. Runquist…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM

Alan Alda’s Hawkeye Is A Flawed Hero With Something To Teach Us Now by Artsjournal2

In 2020, some things to remember about M.A.S.H., and especially Hawkeye: “Hawkeye taught us that when your world is disintegrating, it is not only possible but utterly necessary to crack a…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM

Giant Outdoor Mass Art Productions Aren’t That Risky And Shouldn’t Be Banned by Artsjournal2

Or so says the director of an arts production company in the UK. “It’s a brave new world out there, and we’re all going to have to adapt. There are no limits to what our artists, techn…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM

Now Is The Textbook’s Time To Shine by Artsjournal2

Remote learning isn’t all about what articles and resources teachers can cobble together from the internet – especially when a lot of students can only get online occasionally, or in the…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM

What In The Heck Is AMC Thinking With The 15 Cent Movies? by Artsjournal2

Basically, AMC is creating a breeding ground for viral spreading (and not the good kind of viral): “Look, no one wants to get back in a movie theater more than I do — well, OK, my 13-yea…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32AM

Luchita Hurtado, Influential Figurative Painter Of Women And Nature, 99 by Artsjournal2

Hurtado spent eight decades “resolutely committed to documenting the interconnectedness of human beings, nature, and terrestrial life,” according to her gallery. In the past two years, s…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32AM
Sunday, August 16, 2020

As Boston’s Art Museums Reopen, There’s A Sense Of Hope by Artsjournal2

During the height of the first wave of the coronavirus, it seemed this day would never come. Now, “it’s odd how the surreal can become de rigueur. At the Gardner I barely noticed the mas…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM

Buckingham Palace’s Private Art Collection Is Going On Display For The First (And Perhaps Only) Time Ever by Artsjournal2

Talk about your unprecedented times. Buckingham Palace needs a plumbing update, so the paintings, including Vermeer’s The Music Lesson and two Rembrandts, have to find a temporary home, an…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM

In The 2016 ‘Much Ado’ On PBS, Shakespeare Conveys How Much Black Lives Matter by Artsjournal2

This is a good time for some required quarantine viewing, no? And it’s always a good time to check out how good directors, dramaturgs, and designers (not to mention actors) can turn Shakes…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM

The Superheroes We Have, The Superheroes We Need by Artsjournal2

Thinking about what we’ve had – Batman, Superman – well, it’s time for a change. “A new guard of superheroism doesn’t simply mean diversity. It makes room for the possibility tha…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM

The Terrible Plight Of Music And Theatre Event Staff by Artsjournal2

Lighting designers, sound engineers, tour managers, caterers, bus drivers, and more – all laid off more or less permanently, nebulously, until a vaccine. Their unions and associations are …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM

Members Are Furious At SAG-AFTRA’s Plan To Change, And Limit, Health Coverage by Artsjournal2

Seriously, SAG-AFTRA? During a global pandemic that has a lot of members out of work? Well, trustees say, “By 2024, the Health Plan is projected to run out of reserves. We must prevent thi…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM

How A Writer Pays, And Then Loses, Attention by Artsjournal2

Novelist Helen Garner terrified her friends for years with what they called her pitiless writer’s eye – detached, curious, and omnivorous. But as she ages, she’s found it’s harder an…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM

What Power Lies In A Name by Artsjournal2

In northern Australia, indigenous people are reclaiming land and landmark names. “These changes are about time, mate, but we always kept the names when we worked on country anyway – they…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM

Julia Garner’s Newfound Netflix Fame And Lockdown Angst by Artsjournal2

A casting director’s dismissive “You should try indie movies, honey” changed Garner’s career, and life. – The Hollywood Reporter

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM

The Traditional Ice Cream Truck Song Has Racist Roots, So Good Humor Asked A Musician To Create A New Song by Artsjournal2

But will New Yorkers accept the new song? Musician RZA: “I can assure you that this one is made with love.” – Gothamist

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM

Think School Testing Is A Mess In The US? Take A Look At How The UK Shafted Students In The Pandemic by Artsjournal2

This is not to excuse the United States’ patchwork of school tests, the weirdness (and inequity) of the ACT or SAT, but … wow. “The coronavirus pandemic means exams were canceled and r…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM

As We All Know Now, Time Both Is And Isn’t Real by Artsjournal2

OK, let’s get metaphysical: “‘The true present is a dimensionless speck,’ Alan Burdick writes in his book Why Time Flies. ‘The specious present, in contrast, is ‘the short durat…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM

Writing With Radical Ordinariness by Artsjournal2

Emphasis on that radical, please, when you’re talking about author Carol Shields. – The New York Times

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM

The Pain And Dedication Of Being A Reality Show Camera Operator by Artsjournal2

The camera operators’ job applications asked them to list their skills at things like mountain biking, river rafting, and hiking. Those aren’t on the skillsheets for a lot of camera oper…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM

The Many Hatreds Of Horror Master H.P. Lovecraft by Artsjournal2

Lovecraft was clearly racist and clearly an anti-Semite – and guess what? He also thought the Irish were inferior. “Such prejudices weren’t simply background colour. They are front and…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM

Will Britain’s First Live Show To Return Actually Make It Back To The Stage? by Artsjournal2

Actors rehearsing for the musical Sleepless get test results within 45 minutes on an app. One of the actors says, “It does actually feel amazing to just be hearing people sing again. It’…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM

Billy Goldenberg, Composer For Stage, Screen, And TV, 84 by Artsjournal2

You may not know you know his work, but you definitely do. A partial description: “Emmy-winning composer who worked with Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley, scored Steven Spielberg’s ear…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM

Linda Manz, Who Starred In Terence Malick’s ‘Days Of Heaven’ At Only 15, Has Died At 58 by Artsjournal2

Manz also featured in Dennis Hopper’s Out of the Blue. – Variety

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM

To Find A Book That Charts Our Own Distressed Times, Try Doris Lessing by Artsjournal2

The Golden Notebook, published almost 60 years ago now, gets to the heart of almost everything (depressingly, still) going on right now. “Lessing — like Anna — is unafraid to dirty her…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM

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