Kazik 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. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMOf course, it all begins in Texas, where (as in other areas), Houston’s Fine Arts Museum has coordinated with other museums to create shared ideas of just how to do this. “The Fine Arts …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMTyler Perry wants to start filming in early July, and Georgia seems amenable – as long as the actors follow guidelines including dealing with clear barriers between them until just before …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMTake Daughters of the Dust, for instance. ” Julie Dash’s astonishing debut is a portrait of a multigenerational South Carolina Gullah family as they prepare to migrate north in 1902.”…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMYou might (or might not) consider wolf erotica a niche market. It’s a bigger niche that is now walking through a minefield of copyright questions, with larger implications for genre writin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMThe Strip may be closed, but Las Vegas is so much more than gambling – or at least that’s what its chroniclers show. “In the absence of take-my-hand influencers, creative control of In…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PMThe grants, which are also available for live performance spaces, “will take arts fees paid by developers in support of now-canceled or planned cultural events and instead make the money a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PMIt’s not “strictly legal” to be out during lockdown (though it’s not strictly illegal either), so most of the artists will only speak anonymously. “One of those behind some of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMTurns out, no. But here are several reasons to reread, including missing your favorite characters: “I miss the them—miss their superegos, their relatable pride, their all-too-human folly…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMActor Leslie Jordan is just fine with all of the attention to his “pillow talk” tales of working with more famous – and often much more highly paid – actors and performers. “What w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMWhat’s special about midsize groups? The perfect storm: “these organizations have greater overhead costs than small groups and fewer deep-pocketed donors than large organizations, [so] t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMIt’s not as if the 8th graders will get another chance. The Olympics were postponed; the Spelling Bee was canceled. They have been working much of their entire (short) lives for this. Desp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMAt least for magicians. For instance, one new show, “with a stringent ticket allocation — only 25 Zoom logins per performance — felt more like pre-isolation theater than anything I hav…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AMOne illegal downloader: “Just streaming is not enough, I mean, people want to watch those fresh, hot films that are just not on streaming.” – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMYes, this is real. The cherry tomatoes get snipped once a week, and a hundred pounds at a time are donated to City Harvest. “They were written about in the Southeast Produce Weekly, which…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMBasically, it’s tough to plan for anything. “What does our season look like if we start in January of 202? What if there is no theatre for a full season? … What if the government says …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMSome directors say they’re not truly created for stressful times. “Calling an endowment a ‘rainy day fund’ is ‘grossly inaccurate,’ said Brent Benjamin, Saint Louis Art Museum di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMEliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always was never tipped to be a blockbuster. Her heavily realistic, light on the swelling music movie of two young women in search of at least tempor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMThe masked audience members lined up, 6 feet apart, at the concession stand. People were grilling. There was at least one birthday party going on. Then the movies began – and then the stor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMNo one – certainly not the federal government – will be saving the arts, it appears. And that’s horrible. Also, it’s time for all kinds of thinking. “How about we make possible som…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMA computer playing the Goldberg Variations backwards sounds, yes, like a counter-counterpoint, but “at the same time, it sounds eerily familiar, starting with the upside-down Aria — the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AMThe eternal debate about what books are good for – “I feel that literature is rarely of immediate practical help. I think the kind of knowledge reading fiction imparts is stealthy and sl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PMKirchherr, a 22-year-old art and photography student, captured the young lads when they were in Hamburg, playing scruffily in the red light district. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PMProfessional playwrights still need commissions, and honestly, people still need theatre even when we can’t go to the theatre, so: “Theater companies big and small across the country, in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PMShelton created and directed many small-scale, intimate indie films, funding those well-reviewed passion projects with tons of TV show work, including, recently, four episodes of Little Fire…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PMHis collaborations with Christopher Guest and Guest’s mockumentary ensemble were epic. “He played an Air Force colonel in This Is Spinal Tap (1984), then was travel agent/amateur actor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PMCarefully, with medical staff on set and stringent guidelines, and in one case, by essentially taking over a small town in Australia. “For Foster, who said that the extra precautions added…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PMOr, more usually, why writers instruct others to do it after their deaths. “The elemental annihilation of destruction by fire is so absolute, and this is where the horror lies for me. If w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PMOr maybe … exhibition catalogues are created for whom, exactly? “Most catalogues, however, no matter how good they may be, are fairly formulaic: introduction, essays, works shown, works …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PMThe Getty won’t open even though it has quite a few outdoor spaces, because those must be access from indoor spaces. But elsewhere: “The Huntington will institute a timed ticketing syste…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PMBallet dancers don’t know when they’ll perform again, or even when they can dance with others again (aside from those in their own homes). One advantage to online classes: Dancers can jo…
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