Monday, February 3, 2020
The book isn’t due to be published until June in English translation. The writer Martha Cooley asks her husband to read the novel – a first-person account by a woman – to her. “Low i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AMThe 19-year-old leapt to his death around 6 pm on Saturday, with hundreds of tourists near him. “On Sunday, dozens of visitors waited in line to enter the sculpture. No areas appeared to b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33AMMinari, which is an autobiographical feature based on Lee Isaac Chung’s childhood in rural Arkansas, won both Audience and Grand Prize. “All four of the jury directing prizes went to fem…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33AMFirst of all, kids’ shows now have merchandise baked in from the beginning – Paw Patrol being only one of the offenders. Then there’s YouTube, where many kids get almost all of their s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33AMSunday, February 2, 2020
Rowan Moore spares no words in this scathing overview of Tory-approved developments – and finds the Tory architectural guru, the late philosopher Roger Scruton, useless on this count. “B…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMSome professors and grad students are trying to change that, but right now, the situation is this: “The four films that the organizers are hoping to digitize (Fabrication Des Chapeaux De M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PMSounds like the Tanztheater Wuppertal might not be the easiest place to run: Adolphe Binder, who was dismissed in 2018 after only a year in the job, was the fourth person to run the troupe s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMLet Ivan Brunetti break it down for you: Comics are “an incantation beckoning us to enter their world. The simplicity of their superficial concision can reveal surprising density, layers, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMWriter Abi Daré wasn’t planning to deal with a new novel, and a normalized practice among middle-class families in Nigeria, when her 8-year-old wouldn’t unload the dishwasher. But inspi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMLe Carré, as he accepted the Olof Palme prize: “I want a Palme for my country, which in my lifetime hasn’t produced a single statesman of his stamp. I want him now. I’m not just a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMThe answer, students say, is absolutely yes – and the #MeToo movement hasn’t yet begun to filter through many conservatory halls. “Over the past year, The Atlantic talked to more tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMThey’re not at all the same – and the internet is more distracting from books than TV is – but: “As with classic unread novels, certain TV shows have begun to carry with them a hint …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMWell, this is interesting. As the series gets closer and closer to the present, perhaps some members of the Royal Family have expressed strong displeasure. One wonders. In any case: The role…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMSure, there’s been a lot of buzz around this Ivan van Hove production, with new choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. But: “There’s another buzz gathering around the show—and n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMAll 56 of her books were bestsellers, according to her publisher. “In her memoir, Kitchen Privileges (2002), Ms. Higgins Clark described herself in her younger years as ‘aching, yearning…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMSerkin, who “was descended from storied musical lineages on both sides of his family,” seemed at an early age destined to follow their path. But he found the expectation a burden, and we…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMLiz Garbus and Todd Phillips both won Sundance awards for documentaries in 1998, and they’ve both been working filmmakers ever since. But Phillips is about to go to the Oscars with an obsc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMThough we’re not sure why they would, considering the book’s sales, Slate takes a gander at what publishers are saying about #ownvoices books. Or, well, they’re not; they mostly seem t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMDirecTV must have seemed like a good deal in 2015. Now, it’s absolutely hemorhagging subscribers – nearly 3 million last year alone. It’s been a dizzying fall. “DirecTV was an invent…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMIt’s not an easy line to walk, and there’s a question of how far back they should go to “restore” the original work. Now, some conservation studios are also starting to work with con…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMFeldman took the classic doily craft and turned it into fashion and art. She sold her creations mostly “at Studio Del, a boutique she opened in 1965 on East Seventh Street in Manhattan’s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMSo this is how Great Britain’s time in the EU ends, not with a bang, but … “Edward Gregson, the British composer charged by Radio 4’s PM programme with the tricky task of composing a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMAlexa Maxwell is the girlfriend of Amar Ramasar, the dancer who was fired, and then rehired, by City Ballet for his role in sharing nude photos and videos of dancers – including Maxwell. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMWhile Disney wants to “integrate” Hulu into its own streaming services operations, Hulu isn’t going anywhere – yet. “Hulu, known for original series such as the Emmy-winning The Ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PMMonday, January 27, 2020
A couple of ideas: Give more to regions, and have the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera tour the entire nation. – The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMThis series of unstaged performances of Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust was an accident – they were meant to be seven fully-staged performances. But what a happy accident, and what the M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMAustralia’s Aboriginal poets had some ideas as Australia Day – or #InvasionDay, as it’s known by many on social media – fever hit the country over the weekend. Problem: “Australia …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMCan any other film win the Oscar? Doubtful. “The strongest best-picture spoiler is likely Parasite, the South Korean thriller that prevailed at the Screen Actors Guild Awards this mont…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMOf course, it was for the sequel to the young adult rom-com To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, and of course, the place was packed with superfans who could answer obscure trivia questions …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMHe’s not a big fan of artistic cowardice. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s all about the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. End of. To get to that, you have to go in clo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMTom Huizenga explains opera to NPR listeners: “It’s one of the most complicated art forms because, if you think about it: you’ve got drama, you’ve got music, you’ve got singing, yo…
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