Sunday, February 14, 2021
Each lockdown has meant something different for the staff, especially of science and natural history museums. For instance, James Maclaine, senior fish curator at London’s Natural History …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMThe explanation of the current CEO and director of the Indianapolis Museum didn’t, perhaps, help. Charles L. Venable said that “the decision to use ‘white’ had been intentional, and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMMaybe, but then again, the form has a way of shifting with new information to meet the times. However, it will have to be something other than documentary: “Unless there emerges a bizarre …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMBallin started volunteering as a docent in the 1970s. “Whatever lucky group she had in tow was pretty much guaranteed a good show. Along with an extensive knowledge of the artworks, she co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMLana Condor on the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy author Jenny Han: “When we first were talking years ago, she said, ‘I just want you as Lana and as a young Asian-American g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMYou know his work even if you don’t know of the man. “Stalmaster’s accomplishments are too numerous to list exhaustively, but among them: He became the first casting director to receiv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMAime Césaire, whose Discourse on Colonialism remains (all too) relevant – and who protested to some effect in 2005after French President Jacques Chirac instructed schools to teach about t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMFirst there was Ratatouille: The Musical or Ratatousical, which raised more than a million dollars for actors, with the no doubt bemused blessing of Disney. Then TikTok went sea chanty. Now?…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMOf course he did. “Like modern immigration laws, the [1921] Emergency Quota Act inspired a wave of pro-immigration activism, and Porter, who was born to the state’s wealthiest family and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMThe problem isn’t earned income lost to tourism (that is, no tourism). The problem is the trustees. “Met trustees established a special fund to deal with the pandemic crisis. So far, acc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMOf course, we’ve all probably been watching quite a few things during the past year, but have those things included Academy-honored movies? Time to start, perhaps. – The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMWomen Artists for Revolution (W.A.R., of course) weren’t shy about their rallying cry in 1969. “The group ignited a robust movement against gender discrimination within, and widespread e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMTurns out it might not be sitting on the couch behind your daughter in the TV room. (Who could have known, pre-pandemic?) – Fast Company
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMWell, that sounds hokey. But it’s powerful, a program from Georgetown that, a co-founder says, shows “there is a particular power that performance has, to allow us to listen deeply, bear…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMDear Gavin Newsom, this makes no sense at all. Signed, a lot of LACMA and other art-lovers in California. Weirdly: “LACMA can open its Resnick Pavilion gift shop but not the galleries with…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AMNot that left-wing art-lovers can’t sympathize (and a socialist mayor in another town is planning to defy the national orders as well), but … well, honestly? This is another seemingly bi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AMMonday, February 8, 2021
For popular music fans, “rock created the music publications we read today. R&B created rock. Blues created R&B. And Mamie Smith made the blues a national sensation.” – NPR
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMElton John says his tours can absorb the costs and the paperwork, so theoretically Brexit’s horribly negotiated touring musician deals (note: what deals?) don’t affect him. But, he adds,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMFive Florine Stettheimer works showed up in 2020. But there was a bit of an issue: “Only two turned out to have been actually created by Stettheimer. Of the other works, two were removed f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMNemser started calling out sexism in the art and art history worlds half a century ago. “Her serious criticism and scholarship belied a whimsical streak she would occasionally indulge, as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMNothing against the (many) kick-ass, and asskicking, Black actresses of the science fiction universes, but for something closer to reality? Enter Queen Latifah. – Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMWarning people off doesn’t work: “We hear a lot about inoculating people against fake news or ‘prebunking’ it, but new research shows that the best time to fact-check a false headli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMIn Springfield, Oregon, if you see people wandering around with choose your own adventure-style art books in their hands, don’t be surprised: “Three writers, an executive editor and an i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMMwazulu Diyabanza is a Congolese activist who would prefer France’s museums were open so he could get some attention for taking African objects from their displays “to highlight what he …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AMPaul Huntley has been doing wigs for so long that he can remember helping construct Elizabeth Taylor’s braids for Cleopatra. He’s been on Broadway since 1973. But now, after a fractured …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMLead singer Nadya Tolokonnikova, who has been imprisoned before for her music and activism: “Art is the most important weapon I have against a repressive regime.” – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMNomadland took top honors at the London Film Critics Circle on Sunday night. Zhao won for screenwriting, though; Steve McQueen took home Best Director honors for Small Axe, his anthology ser…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMHire some choreographers. “Choreo-roboticists (that is, roboticists who work choreographically) believe that incorporating dancerly gestures into machinic behaviors will make robots seem l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMPhilip Kennicott: “Inflammation isn’t just an actual symptom of the disease. It seems to be part of its etiology, its moral and social origins and effects. Covid makes bad things worse; …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMOne youth poet laureate: “She was given the platform to really pull people in and witness the magic of it, and I think that once you get that, you’re going to be hooked.” – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMAt least in the 18th century. “Wherever they were writing, these women had dared to move out of the conventional female role of service and self-sacrifice to pursue their own needs and dri…
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