Monday, June 22, 2020
Since 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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMCannes is online, and so are movie sales, in two digital marketplaces. “Both digital markets were initially conceived as being mainly initiatives to reconnect industry players. Three month…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMIs Spotify the new Disney? While film production is paused or barely resumed, the music subscription service has made a deal to be the new home of audio tales of DC superheroes. Perhaps this…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMWorking on a socially distant set hasn’t made her exactly content. “How are you going to get hair and makeup done when you can’t get near each other?” – The Observer (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMNo matter what a mother says, Spike Lee’s movies might just have more impact. “As I watched the police take the life from Radio Raheem, everything my mother had been trying to tell me wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMOne suspects it might otherwise have been targeted for a less gentle removal. The museum says it’s the statue, not the man, that it objects to, but critics see TR “as an imperialist whos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMBakari Sellers’ new book is about race in the United States. Sellers: “When I wrote the book, I thought: This can be the spark to conversations about race. I didn’t know I was going to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMThe museum is facing a deficit of $45 million over the next year with the massive loss of ticket revenue – and that’s a big problem: “Earned revenue, mainly museum admissions, covers m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMBefore the virus hit, there was Rainbow Litfest in December. “Drawn by the promise of themes long pushed under the rug — non-normative sexualities in religion and mythology, history and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMThe judge noted that without the pandemic, their sentences would be significantly more severe. “The stolen items included a 1787 first-edition book signed by Thomas Jefferson, a rare copy …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMThe open letter says, in part, “A direct line can be drawn from the stories and voices that are silenced and ignored, to the discrimination and biases that are pervasive in the entertainme…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMPlaywright and director Edward Einhorn on adapting his in-person creation for the virtual world: “I have never witnessed the audience member witnessing the performance. Which, I must say, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AMDancer Sara Komatsu says it’s time for massive change in ballet. “If we believe in this art and want it to succeed, we must be willing to open our minds, have honest conversations, and p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AMSo here’s how choirs are reinventing themselves. – CBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AMLook to Black Bookstagram for recommendations on everything from history to science fiction to romance. – BuzzFeed
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AMSunday, June 21, 2020
In New York, the epicenter of Black drag ball culture, dance and performance has always been a protest and a claim, say founders and members. Jack Mizrahi Gucci of the House of Gucci: “Doi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMAt least, until we get a vaccine? – The Atlantic
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMComedy culture before Pryor, that is, white comedy culture, depicted copys “as clownish bullies, and their violence, divorced from any racial context, played as a kind of shtick. When they…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMBut the smaller museums may not be interested in risking everything. The Underground Museum, “in L.A.’s Arlington Heights neighborhood, sounded a voice of caution about a pandemic that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMMusic that unites protestors is not new, and it wasn’t new in the 1960s either. “Music at protests reminds dissenters of their humanity, even when the powers-that-be attempt to strip awa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMChika Okeke-Agulu, professor of art history at Princeton, says that the sale of the two alusi would “perpetuate the violence” of the 1960s civil war, when the sculptures were “removed�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMReni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race was a sensation when she first published it, but it took a lot of police brutality for her book to top the lists. S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMZafón, who had been dealing with colon cancer for two years, wrote The Shadow of the Wind after a visit to a book warehouse in Los Angeles. It became the second-best-selling Spanish book of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMFrancesco and Grazia Lotoro have spent their lives collecting and cataloguing “symphonies, operas, scores and songs that were composed and performed under conditions so horrible one imagin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMFor one thing, it’s really time to change the name of “Father Serra Park” in Los Angeles. But taking down the statues to the architect of the mission system, which brutalized thousands…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMBanes’ writing “paired a vivid and inquisitive approach with a lack of agenda and a belief that dance was a crucial part of cultural history.” – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMIt doesn’t seem clear what will happen until there’s a vaccine, but perhaps – “Museums will reopen, and galleries can stop pretending their online viewing rooms are actual shows. Exh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMOur brains, working at home: “The kitchen is a mess. How can I concentrate when I know that two rooms over, the kitchen is a mess? The sink is filled with plates and glasses that couldn’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMJohn Wilson’s student mural The Incident made such an impression on David Siquieros that the famous muralist and head of Mexico’s Department for the Protection and Restoration of Murals …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54PMThe director in lockdown says he reads and watches everything: “WrestleMania. The Kardashians. I’m fascinated by it. So I don’t say read Tolstoy and nothing else. Read everything. See …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMAfter the murders in Charleston and in Charlottesville, the National Trust for Historic Preservation encouraged contextualization of monuments to the Confederacy. But now, “we thought long…
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