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Sunday, August 16, 2020

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

Congress Adjourns With No Help For Live Music Venues (Or Anyone At All) by Artsjournal2

That likely condemns a lot of venues to closure. “‘It’s shocking that they don’t just stay until they figure it out,’ says Audrey Fix Schaefer of the National Independent Venue …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24AM
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Our Collective Dreams Of Rome by Artsjournal2

So many legends, so much art, and yet … “Rubbish collects in gutters, litter spills from over-stuffed communal bins, pigeons scavenge among fallen, leaking garbage bags. People walk casu…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Shirley Grau Has Died At 91 by Artsjournal2

Grau, who won the 1965 prize for her fourth book, The Keeper of the House, wrote “stories and novels [that] told of both the dark secrets and the beauty of the Deep South.” – Los Angel…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM

Even When We Can’t Travel, Postcards Exist Outside Of Email And Texts To Create Connection by Artsjournal2

“Maybe you’ve learned the seasons in a new way. Perhaps, in some way, you are a visitor in your city, state, land.” – The New York Times

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM

Brent Carver, Tony Award Winner For ‘Kiss Of The Spider-Woman,’ Has Died At 68 by Artsjournal2

Carver, one of Canada’s great stage actors, “was an artist who demanded the most from himself, opening up his heart to reveal the pain and beauty of life. He was an inspiration to everyo…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM

Raphael Probably Was Buried At The Pantheon by Artsjournal2

In the year of the 500th anniversary of Raphel’s death, a 3-D reconstruction of his face, using a plaster mask of his skull, provides what may be “concrete proof that the skeleton exhume…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM

How Do We Solve A Problem Like William Faulkner? by Artsjournal2

A question for everyone who loves to read his work: “How should we now regard this pathbreaking, Nobel Prize–winning author, who grappled with our nation’s racial tragedy in ways that …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM

Lorenzo Soria, President Of Golden Globes Group, 68 by Artsjournal2

Soria was the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and former editor of the Italian news weekly L’Espresso. He began his second term as president of the press association …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM

Weird 2020 Moments Continue, With A Booker Longlist That People Actually Want To Read by Artsjournal2

Novelist Candice Carty-Williams is astounded and, she says, in love with the list, despite the ways that “Book Twitter was excited but baffled that the offerings we usually expect to be on…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM

Britain’s Scariest Horror Film Disappeared For Decades by Artsjournal2

The perfect holiday film? “First broadcast on ITV, at 9pm Christmas Eve 1989, it haunted all who watched it, thanks in part to Wise’s tense, economical direction, and one of the greatest…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM

Visual Artists Stuck At Home Are Using The Virtual World As Source Material by Artsjournal2

Paint what you see – including virtual realities that might just be based on paintings. – CBC

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM

Some Creative Ways To Reopen Theme Parks Safely by Artsjournal2

Nothing will be the same, or at least for a long while, so why not try something new? “It’s easy to imagine many areas of a theme park resort being refashioned into a special-event space…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM

Reading The First Drafts Of Anna Karenina Is Revealing by Artsjournal2

Go back to the time when a switch flipped in Tolstoy’s head: “It’s as if Tolstoy woke up in Pushkin-world and put on his own seven-league boots and started striding over the heads of a…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM

Can A Fictional Character Defame A Real Human? by Artsjournal2

Alan Dershowitz has sued CBS for a”defamatory” comment on the TV show The Good Wife. If the plaintiff were to win his lawsuit, it would be a real problem for TV writers and novelists. CB…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM

Six Of Dance Magazine’s Favorite Quarantine Digital Dance Projects by Artsjournal2

The writer of the piece says, “Limitations foster creativity.” These specific limitations also foster free time to watch other people’s creativity, of course. – Dance Magazine

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM

Zoe Saldana Apologizes For Playing Nina Simone by Artsjournal2

The Marvel and Star Trek actress, who was heavily criticized for playing the much darker-skinned singer in the 2016 biopic Nina (which has a 2% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, whew). Saldana said…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM

Theatre Kind Of Returns With (Of Course) Godspell by Artsjournal2

At Berkshire Theatre Group’s outdoor production of Godspell, things are different. “For the artists, it’s a brave new world. … They perform six feet apart in the musical about Jesus …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM

Trying To Fix A Deeply Flawed Trilogy More Than A Decade After Its Publication by Artsjournal2

Not that it would be easy to fix the issues with Twilight, but author Stephenie Meyer gives it a try with her newest book. So … how did that work out? Uh: “Meyer seems to think that acco…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM

In A Very Abnormal Year, Indigenous Art Persists by Artsjournal2

Artist Ngarralja Tommy May, a Wangkajunga-Walmajarri artist, has won the major prize at the (streamed) National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art awards. Said another winner (for pai…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM

Bon Appetit’s Only Two Black Editorial Staff Members Quit In Continuing Controversy by Artsjournal2

The Condé Nast food magazine’s missteps around race and representation continue. “The departures came a day after three journalists of color said they would no longer participate in t…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM

Can German (Can Any) City Centers Be Saved During The Coronavirus? by Artsjournal2

Many things have battered the city center over the past two decades. “German mayors have tended to turn to marketing in an effort to attract more people to the city center. With retail mov…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM
Monday, August 3, 2020

Putting Up A Monument To The Unknown Enslaved People Of The United States by Artsjournal2

As the Civil War raged, Kentucky was officially neutral – but it was a slave state. Freedom lay just across the river in Indiana, says poet Hannah Drake, whose nonprofit is preparing to in…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM

That Time A Research Librarian Discovered His Library Owned A First Edition Of Beethoven’s Sixth by Artsjournal2

At the Moravian Music Foundation, librarian David Blum “was doing a routine cataloging of material that the foundation has owned for years, [when] he noticed the plate number of the printi…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM

Is That Dead Air Time? No, It’s Deliberate Peace And Quiet On The Airwaves by Artsjournal2

Some stations have meditation minutes, and some have other ways to fill all of that time when they’d normally have stories about events (the events that aren’t happening right now). Some…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM

Victor Victor, Musician Who Brought Music, Dance, And Theatre To The Underprivileged, 71 by Artsjournal2

Víctor’s hit was the 1991 “Mesita de la Noche,” but before that, his son says, the Dominican singer/songwriter/producer had “lived a double life. … He was writing romantic songs a…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM

There’s A New Genre In Town: Quar-Horror by Artsjournal2

A couple of the filmmakers: “This is where our brains went. Instead of making bread, we were like, ‘what can we do with how we’re creative?'” – NPR

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM

It Took 80 Years For This Piece By Composer Ulysses Kay To Have Its World Premiere by Artsjournal2

Why? Perhaps this: “While Ulysses Kay shared stages with the greats of his day, his daughter said over time his compositions haven’t been performed as widely and are often programmed for…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM

Neighbors Performing Music For Neighbors Hasn’t Stopped by Artsjournal2

And, in the U.S., it may be just getting started. A cellist in Pasadena who performs weekly with his wife, a pianist, says, “We thought with so much suffering, and so much anxiety, this is…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM

Tokyo’s Kabuki-Za Theatre Has Reopened by Artsjournal2

Blocked off seats, reduced capacity, and musicians wear masks and face shields, with dancers keeping far apart as they perform onstage. – BBC

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM

The Literary Museums That Made It This Far Are Slowly Reopening by Artsjournal2

Shakespeare’s birthplace just reopened, and Jane Austen’s house is about to reopen – and some of the changes advantage the visitors coming now. “The cottage where Austen revised, wro…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM

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