The 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 02:54PMTaub, a composer who has written music for the Public’s Twelfth Night and As You Like It, was cheering on a peaceful protest on her street, from her own stoop, when she and her husband wer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMNo huge crush at the Javits Center and no real timeline for rescheduling a live event meant one of publishing’s biggest events had to move, at least partially, online – in this case, to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMBut the adaptation isn’t easy or OK. “‘This is the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do,’ [Nicole] Carroll said of working in the theatre. ‘It feels like a grieving process, letting…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMEdwards started writing when she was 7, but published her first novel almost 50 years later. She wrote six detective novels, “mysteries set in Harlem starring a female cop turned sociologi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMOne Canadian library director said, “It was very, very good news in a very dark period.” (But the cheaper prices are set to end mid-June, when physical libraries may be partially opening…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMNormally, for spring’s Bear Dances, “groups of dancers would sway back and forth, shoulder-to-shoulder, with the lines of men and women closely facing each other before they split off in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMThe Swiss art fair held out for a long time. Then, on May 30, dealers sent a letter. “‘Art Basel is the most important and powerful art fair in the world but even in the best possible sc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMPodcast host Akilah Hughes on Twitter in response the news that the 2011 white savior movie The Help is topping Netflix’s most-watched lists: “If you watched the Help this week you have …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMThe recording studios in London, which didn’t close even during WWII, had been shuttered for ten weeks during the coronavirus lockdown. Managing director Isabel Garvey: “Ordinarily we wo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMApril Gornik and Eric Fischl want to make the Sag Harbor Methodist Church into a community arts center … whenever people can gather again. Fischl: “We have to stop thinking about art as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMYay women doing TV! Also, having to “yay” this means it’s not going that well with the whole ending of inequality thing. “The good news: The number of women working behind the scenes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMThe virus has devastated the jazz community in New York. But “there’s a funny thing about jazz: It keeps roaring back to life. Live music returns to Smalls on June 1, in a socially dista…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMAt that time, says Hilary Mantel, we would have been quarantining more seriously. “Speaking at the Hay literary festival, which is entirely online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMFive artists finished the mural in 12 hours last week after the officers involved in George Floyd’s death weren’t all four arrested and charged with a crime. “The mural has quickly bec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMThere’s DJing with the dance glitterati on Instagram Live, there’s the brewing of kombucha, and, of course, there’s learning how to make pancake tutus. – Dance Magazine
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMIn Prague, the opening is going in fits and starts, but theatre companies like the Czech National Theatre are more than ready. “The drive-in theater at Prague’s vegetable market was an a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMThe pianist Igor Levit played a livestream of Erik Satie’s famous, mysterious work, consisting of four lines repeated 840 times, on Sunday. And, well: “The fascinating livestream occasio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMIn a sudden shift, Asolo Theatre in Florida had to figure out whether to keep going with its education programs even as students and parents were competing for limited Wi-Fi and screen time,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMSarah Maldoror was “a Euro-Caribbean filmmaker trained in the Soviet Union” – and the director, who died of the coronavirus in April of this year, never stopped; “she kept fighting i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMThe Book Industry Charitable Foundation (called “Binc”) is a nonprofit created to help booksellers. “Since the pandemic started, Binc has seen requests for assistance increase by 321%.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMIn other words, it doesn’t work very well for writers. The Writers Guild of Great Britain: “‘Things are stacked up, not necessarily in favour of the writer.’ It added that funding, w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03AMOK, that’s nice and optimistic, but “Telluride organizers promised that safety would be paramount. ‘We are not ignorant of the devastation facing the world,’ festival organizers wrot…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03AMRacists would love to co-opt the term “for their ethno-historical myths,” but that doesn’t mean historians and archaeologists have to abandon it altogether, argues one. “When researc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03AMChristo, who with his wife Jeanne-Claude created massive art projects requiring dozens of years to pull off, including wrapping the Reichstag and creating The Gates in Central Park, has died…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32AMJessica Blank and Erik Jensen, whose The Exonerated and Coal Country are powerful documentary theatre, talk about how it all works – and why it works. – Slate
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PMThe power of one man’s divine vision … and the internet. – The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PMHey, parents, when your kids are using video games to deal with the pandemic, you may think they’re not doing schoolwork. True, but games like Assassin’s Creed, Minecraft, and Roblox hav…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMAmos’s “careerlong belief in art as a form of ethical resistance carries new weight when the promises of the civil rights era seem again under threat.” – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMNote to authors: Don’t go on GoodReads. Just don’t. But when a dog-themed book group reads your book on Instagram, well, things might be different. – The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMThe awards, announced in a socially distant livestream, contains “A final work that continues on like a river” and poems that “bloom with the beauty the world has to offer as well as t…
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