Sunday, June 21, 2020
After 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMWriter Elizabeth Alexander: “Seeing is important, and helps you understand. But I think the repetition of that image without thought to who’s watching it and how it affects them is somet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMMalcom Procter, street artist and clothing designer, as he paints the plywood covering Nordstrom’s in downtown Seattle: “Never did I think I’d get a canvas like this. … This is a dre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMBolton’s lawyer; “The full story of these events has yet to be told—but it will be.” – Slate
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AMSorry, Cats!, “It’s the ultimate cult movie. The first. The biggest. The one cult movie to rule them all.” And despite the Covid-19 shutdowns, Rocky Horror Picture Show devotees have f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AMMonday, June 8, 2020
Economic support already wasn’t great before the pandemic in Oregon, ranked 39th in the country for its support of the arts. “The subscription model, which has been the life-blood of so …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMIn the late 1950s, Northern joined the Metropolitan Opera symphony, “where, he later recalled, as the only African-American member he was often subjected to racist abuse — reminiscent of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMTheatre workers who design and build productions are perfect for this moment, some of them say. “‘For anyone who has arts training, they are taught early on how to collaborate with peopl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMIn a sign that the lockdown really is loosening up, and perhaps that art can’t be stopped, “anyone wandering along a quiet street in central Seville at 8:30pm on Saturday would have witn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMNew lidar technology revealed the formerly hidden, at least from the ground, site. The “lidar survey found 21 other monumental platforms, clustered in groups around the region. But Aguada …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMNot that authors didn’t know; or rather, not that authors of color, especially Black authors, didn’t know – but the numbers are stark. The hashtag #PublishingPaidMe, started by author …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMQuarantined during a cholera epidemic 190 years ago, the poet excelled. “Pushkin, who would never be allowed to travel outside Russia and was now stranded in the countryside amid ‘rain, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMThere’s no clarity about it. One responder from Los Angeles: “Without a vaccine or a cure, to attend a performance would not be a rational choice. The issue is not the statistical prob…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMHow should food writing work? “On the one hand, it should communicate the demands of craft, expressing the physical skill of cookery with words on a page; on the other, food writing should…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMWhy do people tend to think crime has increased or stayed at a high level? Well, perhaps it’s the many cop shows on TV. And those series have some issues. “Of the 26 series from the 2017…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMWho are the great writers of Spain’s Golden Age? Well, they’re men, of course … or, wait a second, we’ve been missing a whole bunch of information. “Recognition of these women and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMBut many murals – like one to Eric Garner, who gasped out, “I can’t breathe” before he suffocated as an NYPD officer held him in a chokehold in 2014 – get painted over or destroyed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMHere’s the issue with the issues, at least around race: “Such efforts to meaningfully contribute to the conversation are especially sensitive because many of the institutions are led by …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMIf you’re not worried about Covid-19, now may be the time to visit Rome and the Vatican, where the museums have a limited number of people allowed per hour and many other coronavirus preca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PMMany theatres have put out statements of support for Black Lives Matter protesters, and some have put up posters saying the same things on their boarded-up windows. Then New York Theatre Wor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18AMThe Black Death “was the most devastating incident in human history. It altered not only human society but the imagination itself. Its traces can be perceived today, and perhaps more lucid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03AMWhy did the protesters pull down Edward Colston’s statue? “The 18ft bronze statue, erected in 1895, has long been a focal point for anger at the city’s role in the slave trade and th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03AMSunday, June 7, 2020
Restaurants are reopening in France and elsewhere, and thus social life may be (somewhat) reborn. But how did the modern restaurant become the heart of social life in Paris, London, New York…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMAnd the museum’s new director will have to decide what to return to the former colonies, as well as giving the museum a new direction. (One might wonder why these tasks are given to “the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMThe actor – known to American audiences as a Sherlock and Doctor Who writer, and Mycroft Holmes on Sherlock – says, “There’s always a debate about how London-centric theatre is,” b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMIn the 20th century, thousands of people worked together on large projects with a vision of a better future. What’s our vision now? “In the hands of technology entrepreneurs, driven by t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMEva Yaa Asantewaa, senior director at the Gibney Dance Company, and expert writer about dance, says, “We’ve gone too long doing a lot for very little, and now we’re all completely scre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMFor musicians, that is. Two meters (roughly the USian-advised 6 feet) of distance is just too far to be practical for performing musicians, according to Musicians’ Union leader Horace Trub…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMDifferent counties may recommend different start dates, with Los Angeles County being one of the hardest-hit by the virus, but June 12 is the first day filming may resume in the state, with …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMWhat’s happened in the movie industry during the time David Rooney has been reviewing for THR? A little, and a lot. “The sheer multiplicity of themes and styles, of representations acros…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMThe theatre group tweeted out something that said Black Lives Matter. Then former SCT employee and actor Dwayne Perkins weighed in, sparking a series of tweets from Black actors and other ac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM 
