Especially, 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMThe Broadway star – the only performer to win six Tonys, in all four available categories – says it’s her job to create more space for other African American actors, and call for insti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMThe actor, who died yesterday, went up against an entrenched system, and won. Her successful 1943 lawsuit against Warner Bros. “destroyed the indentured servitude that was the studio syste…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMVictor Sen Yung started in Hollywood as a “Chinese peasant boy” in The Good Earth, and his last role was 43 years later, in The Man With Bogart’s Face. He was credited as Sen Yung, Sen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMThe mystery and TV writer says maybe we’ll be better at responding to dangerous events in the future – or at least some of us will be. – LitHub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMMartha Gonzalez sings with the band Quetzal and has a new memoir out as well. When the band was nominated for (and won) a Grammy, “Quetzal never showed up to the pre-Grammy gala. Instead, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMWith fresh spikes in the virus in the U.S., studios delay releases again, and “hopes for a speedy substantial resurgence at the global box office were dashed.” – The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMThe volunteer’s lawyer: “He bitterly regrets his actions … My client is consumed with remorse,” after admitting he set three small fires that destroyed the organ and stained glass da…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMHands convey meaning, and they have for eons, but they’re not our primary means of communicating to each other. “People gesture, but their gesture is clearly a secondary supplement. Peop…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMThe argument to Congress: “We are over 675,000 small businesses and organizations in every town, city, and state, employing 5.1 million hard-working Americans who are now desperately strug…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMJust as some of the Boomers and Gen-Xers first encountered opera on Tom and Jerry, and just as some Millennials first found memorized U.S. presidents or learned the nations of the world from…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMWhat does she think of how the British government is doing? What’s she doing during the pandemic? How will the arts recover? And so much more (including the fact that yes, of course she co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMThis isn’t a new issue at the library, but protests and action finally got the staff some of what it’s been asking for for a very long time. “Workers have raised concerns about racial …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PMNo, seriously: Can we? Landscape architects say yes. – Fast Company
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PMThe BBC isn’t mincing words about the money: “The amount available for grassroots music, worth 1/700th of the total relief package, will go to venues at ‘severe risk of insolvency’ a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMSince quarantine, a lot of us have been doing a lot more walking in our neighborhoods or wherever we can find to go outside without a bunch of people nearby. Austen would understand. “A sp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMA huge number of Britain’s theatres are in serious trouble:”Julian Bird, chief executive of UK Theatre and the Society of London Theatre, said 70 percent of theatres and production compa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMYou can take one of two paths through the 20-year-old museum as it reopens, and nothing is comforting – not that that’s new. “Tate Modern has never been a relaxing place to visit. But …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMPhilbin hosted everything from Regis and Kathie to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, but was far more than that. “He also wrote five books, appeared in movies, made records as a singer, gave …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMThe Avatar sequels are delayed – again. That’s the seventh delay, in case you’re counting. Will they ever happen? And what’s going on with James Cameron? – Vulture
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMRapid development in India is threatening knowledge of how humanity came to be. Sites are crumbling into rivers, being turned into rice fields, and being destroyed for buildings. “With sit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMJörg Widmann is a composer, clarinettist, and conductor of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. What did the musician and conductor to do during lockdown? “I always wanted to have some months off…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMNew Orleans has more than 130 live music venues, most of them smaller (some far smaller) than the average size venue in the country. The city’s restaurants and tourist industry rely on the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMThe Kilroys list this year goes beyond what should be in the future to commemorate what we lost this year. It’s “a heartbreaking timeline of lost art, necessary art, groundbreaking art,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMSome images of New York’s abandoned schools: The final, haunting date on the calendar that says “Today is … “; lessons still up about the coronavirus on science classroom whiteboards…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMHow will the online Artist Alley affect their chances at recouping at least some of what they’ve lost by not being there and at other canceled cons? – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMSure, sure, Arthur Conan Doyle died long ago, and both the BBC and CBS versions of modern Holmes have hung up their deerstalkers, but there’s always new Holmes material out there. Except �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMPodcasts were hot before the virus killed the commute, but even as their popularity takes a perhaps momentary break, true crime remains popular among listeners (yes, yes, Serial, but there a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMThe Paycheck Protection Program is drying up, unemployment checks are about to stop (without a miracle from Congress), and 12,000 arts organizations in the U.S. say they may not survive at a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMDe Havilland died at her home in Paris. “The striking brunette won best actress Oscars for The Heiress and To Each His Own in the late 1940s, and was Oscar-nominated for Gone With the Wind…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMThe school said in March that it was likely to close, but after more than $4 million in donations, the 149-year-old institution says it can open in the fall for one more full year. But it wi…
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