Solanas is most famous for having shot Andy Warhol, of course, but she had an artistic life long before that moment. In the beginning, the writer and Warhol Factory superstar Ultra Violet wr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMThe Federalist organized the 150-person protest at the statue. “Speakers supporting the statue used the protest to rail against a broad range of issues including abortion and religion. One…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMThey’ve been trying for years to bar Trump from using “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” as his walk-off music at rallies – and their efforts have always been in vain. Until now,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMPublic funding was the way. However: “Back then there was even less agreement on a public role for creatives. The Writers’ Project assigned them a public role in producing travel guidebo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMFrom just about everything on TikTok to Broadway performers singing Sondheim on YouTube, there’s a lot of culture on the internet right now – and very few of the creators of that culture…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMPeople are right to be frustrated about the lack of diversity backstage, says the president of the Broadway League, which is ready to perform a “diversity audit” of many parts of Broadwa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM“I’ve survived,” tweeted Michael Rosen. “The 74-year-old author, performer and broadcaster is one of Britain’s most beloved writers, the author of more than 140 books including We…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AMThe form of “novel” is young, but its conventions are mostly clear – and the novel of ideas is different. “Whether executed as science fiction, bildungsroman, or more recently, the s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM“Lewes’s major work, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality (1988), traced the evolution of the prevailing view that homosexuality was a curable illness and explored what he c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AMWell, maybe something is salvageable (though very possibly not, as numbers of infections continue to mount): “If audiences show faith in theaters’ revamped safety, social-distancing, and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AMWithout the small stages, emerging voices in British theatre don’t have much of a chance. One playwright: “Uncertainty is dreadfully demotivating. I intended to use the lockdown to write…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AMA new “museum” in Sydney is intended to be built on a flood plain, with no clarity about permanent collections, no storage on site, and so much more that’s even worse. “The new Power…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03AMMost of the statues are bad art in any case, with the Confederate ones intended to pave the way toward a white supremacist future. “Even if most of the hero statues remain standing, we sho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03AMThe government issued a five-step roadmap to reopening … a roadmap that “did not come with dates or monetary help attached.” One theatre executive said the roadmap was “‘as useful …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03AMStone “was enjoying a moderately successful career as a singer and actress when she jumped to a new level of fame in 1968 as part of the wildly popular musical revue Jacques Brel Is Alive …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03AMSix people were arrested in France, with two accused of organized theft and four of concealing the theft. “The artwork, part of a series made by Banksy during a visit to Paris in 2018, was…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03AMSpinks was working as a school librarian in Pontiac, Michigan, when “she and a friend, also a librarian, contacted the U.S. Library of Congress and volunteered to visit Washington, D.C., t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03AMWhy would Silas Farley leave the stage at New York City Ballet when he was absolutely at the top of his game? “My hope is to become a leader in a really substantive way in the art form. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03AMThere’s truly no way to perform the craft of being an orchestra conductor right now. So they, like most of us, are doing other things: “For conductors with steady work before the pandemi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMThe actor who played Burr in the original off-Broadway and Broadway casts on negotiating better pay for the soon-to-be-out movie: “You want to be an ally? You make sure that Black people a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMSome streets are pedestrian-only now, zoned for restaurants to spread into the middle of the street where cars once crowded. Though this design is new and pandemic-related, research shows �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMThey’re busier than ever, but “as Black bookstore owners race to meet their demands, many are dealing with complicated, sometimes painful feelings about what the new business means,” a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMAluna Francis: “We not only need to give credit to the artists that created the genre, we also need to establish a long-term plan to secure a healthy future for dance music that is cultura…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMSudden, massive fame may seem grand – but it’s not so easy to live through. “My life exploded and I’m still trying to put it back together. I jumped on the rollercoaster, it’s been…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMOf course, there will be plastic between customers and food workers; there will be spaces between people in the theatres; and … there will be Singing in the Rain, at least until new movies…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMJose Solís: “As an insider who still holds a little bit of hope about the possibility of change happening within these overly white spaces, I would like to propose some things the Drama D…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMYay for all of the many, many, many, many, MANY ways bookstores have figured out ways to stay afloat and, in some cases, paying all of their staff (shout-out to you, The Ripped Bodice in Cul…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMAnd can brainwaves explain it? There’s a place at “the frontiers of biotechnology and experimental music” trying to figure it all out. – Aeon
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMGlaser, a co-founder of New York Magazine and designer of iconic images and styles, “changed the vocabulary of American visual culture in the 1960s and ’70s with his brightly colored, ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMThe actors explain how being part of major TV series set in science fictional universes doesn’t relieve the pressure of being Black men in a racist society. Mackie: “We have the power an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMSince the very first Butoh performance, in 1959, “queer themes and imagery have been reoccurring, if not instrumental, in Butoh. The concepts of otherness and ambiguity, particularly with …
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