The 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMWhen directors, cast, and crew make decisions about a movie like High Note, they’re aimed at the big screen. So this weekend’s on-demand streaming release is a bit of a technical let-dow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PMCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom announced more than a week ago that counties could set reopening plans for the entertainment industry. That hasn’t happened because Hollywood’s various u…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMMorris on creating during the pandemic: “The idea that our lives are on hold irks him, he said. Or ‘the idea that you’re waiting to come back to your life, and I’m sorry everybody: T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMSome have become a combination book exchange and pantry. One is cat-focused; another (at a church) has mostly Christian texts. Says one LFL caretaker, “People have been adopting and donati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMIn short: “COVID-19 is likely to reshape the ways in which today’s architects design houses and offices, transit hubs and medical facilities. It will have architects reaching for new tec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMThis is the scintillating way auctions will happen this summer (and perhaps beyond, of course): “The Sotheby’s auctioneer, Oliver Barker, will be live, by video, in London, looking at sc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMHow bleak is it out there? Well, how many politicians are quoting Yeats’s “The Second Coming”? And the poet made it that way deliberately: “Early drafts of the poem illustrate Yeats�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMThe work is part of the controversial Panza Collection. “In the mid-‘70s Panza acquired from Judd a paper ‘certificate’ for an unconstructed work known as Untitled [Seven plywood box…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMDorfman began with the giant Polaroids in a pushcart in Harvard Square. When the police tried to chase her away, she won a civil rights case against them. “Her work is widely praised for s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMKendrick Sampson of Insecure and The Flash was streaming LA’s protest on Instagram Live “when the officers began firing rubber bullets at protestors. He was also hit by police multiple t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMTake a look at Taiwan: “A livestream of the May 24 concert offered a possible crystal ball for post-coronavirus concerts: temperature checks, face masks and enhanced disinfection protocols…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMWell, perhaps not orchestral music in Britain, but with club music of all kinds, “We transcend this realm. It is a secular spiritual experience. The energy with which Britain has pursued t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMAs the pandemic has wiped out all cultural programming at Lincoln Center for months, Moss has been thinking harder about something she’d been considering long before Covid-19 hit the city.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AMWhat’s the point, they say, when social distancing restrictions would mean they wouldn’t survive more than three months anyway? – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AMFirst of all, yikes. However, many of us miss the moviegoing experience, and so a few movie theatres in Texas are trying to “create an early blueprint for all the other theatres that are s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PMNo, theatre and dance and opera and concerts won’t be returning in the autumn. “‘I am 100 percent confident that it is not happening,’ said Nancy Umanoff, Mark Morris’s executive d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PMIt’s only shocking because it’s against everything about automatic payments and online sign-ups. “The general imperative of any subscription service is to wring a monthly payment out …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PMDoes this have implications for other systems that aren’t working well for the people who actually do the work? Perhaps. At the least, the industry “offers a very important lens to exami…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PMNot just for this year, when the change makes sense due to the coronavirus, but forever? Well, says one critic, “I believe there’s something sacred in the moviegoing experience that I ca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PMPerhaps that’s obvious, but a new book “will argue that many assumptions previously made about the origins of scenes from the sagas are wrong.” – The Observer (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMThe director of the National Theatre and the Tate convened (by screen, natch) to figure it out. “At the beginning, it was shocking but people thought the crisis would last three weeks. Pos…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMMacurdy’s rich voice and stage presence won him accolades over his 38-year career at the Met. “Though he achieved success in key roles like Gurnemanz in Wagner’s Parsifal, King Marke…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMAnd that’s partly because of who’s controlling the narrative. There’s a small, but perhaps growing, “cultural trend in which black women, especially those of medium-to-dark-brown com…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMThat’s what Orchestra Kentucky says, anyway. And if you don’t have your own instrument, no problem: “Even just listening to music and watching other musicians can have positive effects…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMDallas, who had pancreatic cancer, was a playwright, musician, teacher, and, most notably, a director. He led Philadelphia’s Freedom Theater, one of the nation’s pre-eminent African Amer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMNot everyone’s first reaction, is it? But: “After two of her most prized paintings were stolen, Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova came face-to-face with thief Karl-Bertil Nordland in a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMThe musicians asked to take a 50 percent pay cut. Instead, while two-thirds of the administrative staff stayed on with a 20 percent pay cut, “the board opted to temporarily stand down its …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMHonestly, we don’t know yet – but we do know that every past crisis has changed our urban lives and architecture. Some changes may be good, but others? Horrible to contemplate. Still: �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMSome things may change until there’s a vaccine – constant testing, small pods of workers instead of a huge crew, no craft services table – but others, like board meetings by Zoom, are …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMKazik Staszewski is a rock legend in Poland, and his song, “Your Pain Is Better than Mine,” hit a chord last week – or perhaps too many chords when it hit number 1 on a popular show. �…
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