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 08:54AMAudre Lorde’s 1977 piece “Poetry Is not a Luxury” seems prescient right now. “Poems have alchemized death and imagined the continuation of lives cut short by racist violence. The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AMBurrows is an actor, playwright, producer, and activist who started her career as a kid on a radio show. In 1968, she was favorably written about in The New York Times, and she says, “It p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AMRupert Murdoch’s son James, who has championed environmental causes and helped force out Bill O’Reilly at Fox after the host’s past with sexual harassment came into the open, “abrupt…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AMAuthor Robin Stevens on writing for kids: “What book changed your life? What stories made you think about the world? I couldn’t tell you much about what was in most books I read last mon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AMFleisher famously spent 30 years mastering piano’s left-handed repertoire after an injury to his right hand – and then reintegrated his right hand when it recovered after three decades. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AMWhew: “If HBO’s Game of Thrones was the last great piece of TV monoculture, then the pandemic has popularized a series of forgettable productions that each offers a fleeting, miniatur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AMThe planned reopening date is September 9, but of course not if infections start to crest again in New York. And, of course, “when it reopens, it will limit capacity to 25% and reduce its …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PMNovelist Kathleen McMahon says she’s tired of flowers on publication day. “MacMahon says she does not like that writers are treated ‘like show ponies . . . I’m not comfortable with t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMArvind Ethan David is one of very few Broadway producers of color, and he (famously) gave a TED Talk comparing his path to becoming a U.S. citizen to his path producing the show Jagged Littl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMIn December of 2015, British novelist Ali Smith proposed an idea to her publishers: Four books in four years, as close to the time news events happened as possible. “I’d try to write one…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMThere are the familiar objects that suddenly seem to glow with importance – toilet paper rolls, Lysol wipes – and then there are the new objects: the to-go cocktail pouch, the ultra-larg…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMGayl Jones’ debut work, Corregidora, “had a marked effect not only on [her editor Toni] Morrison’s subsequent novels but on an entire generation of writers, whether they realized it or…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMEusebio Leal Spengler so loved the old city that he found ways to save it. “Never a priority in the 20th century, old Havana fell into disrepair. By befriending Fidel Castro, Leal began th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMAsk choreographer Sarah Crowell. The artistic director emeritus of the Destiny Arts Center. “The inquiry requires that we look at all levels of society. We have a particular way of seeing …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMTsitsi Dangarembga, an activist and award-winning writer who was just chosen for the Booker longlist, has been arrested in Zimbabwe while she was protesting the arrest and imprisonment of in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMThe actor excelled at playing cantankerous characters but came to fame playing an assistant engineer at a nuclear plant in The China Syndrome. Later, he became famous for his spokesperson ro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMNot surprisingly, different readers had passionate (and passionately differing) opinions about their book collections and an essay recreating a cull. “While it is fine to move so-so books …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM“These systemic barriers – no one seemed to notice, no one seemed to care, and so we felt like we had to say something,” says Jennifer Holness, who adds that even as the most senior Bl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMThough the theatre tried hard to attract smaller, socially distanced crowds as it reopened in June, no one was ready to return to an indoor space, and tickets didn’t sell. The now common r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMThe U.S. president’s TikTok flipout might not just be because of its security issues; indeed, there’s a lot more to it, including free speech … and Facebook. “It’s a rare feat to u…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMMorgan Jerkins wanted to know more about where her people came from: “I hated the fact that I didn’t know much about land. I didn’t know about harvest, high tide, low tide, the levees,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMKeenan Scott II explains: “We tend to be rewarded for depicting the harshest realities of the Black experience while ignoring its beauty. In art, our trauma is fetishized and romanticized …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMAlyssa Cole, author of books about the Civil War and contemporary life, decided to write a thriller. One of the issues she has faced: “There are people who find the idea of Black people in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMPlush toymaking, giving dancing lessons (via Zoom, of course), selling skincare products … stagehands, costume designers, actors, and everyone associated with Broadway are trying to figure…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMClassic Hollywood movies are getting spitshined and put out again, so why not video games as well? “‘Nostalgia is the major driving force for the success of a remake,’ said Doug Clinto…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AMIn China, some areas of the country can require movie theatres to give an intermission in the middle of movies that are more than two hours long. Hurray for bathroom breaks? “There is not …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AMRosenfeld, “through the simple act of creating a line on a street in Chile, mounted an important artistic and political intervention against an oppressive government.” – ARTNews
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMIf you’re Los Angeles artist Michael Gittes, you paint 1800 small pieces of work, one for each worker, and deliver them to Brooklyn. The artist: “I decided to paint flowers because even …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMWhoops, not an eight-episode season; a seven-episode season. That standalone can come later, if at all. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMEspecially, it seems, the bookshelves of celebrities. Take Regina King: “Tupac Shakur Legacy, by Jamal Joseph: Curated by a family friend, this “interactive biography” of the rapper i…
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