Monday, January 27, 2020
Tom 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMThe other things Schoonmaker, who is nominated for the eighth time for an Oscar for The Irishman, says, have more to do with Netflix as a studio, and the long experience of trying to get the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMKeys was not playing the “sweep this mess under carpet for the awards show” game: “I’t’s a new decade,’ she said. ‘It’s time for newness. And we refuse the negative energy. W…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMThe answer seems obvious, and it seems like it must be no. And yet, says a (supposedly) liberal and progressive architect who recently agreed to work with the homophobic and environmentally …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMWhen the actor playing Lady Macduff injured her knee a few minutes into a performance at the Watermill Theatre in England, the production stopped – until a woman who toured nationally as L…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMThe Indigenous Art Code, established in 2008, is a voluntary code “designed to protect artists by getting dealers to commit to treating them fairly and honestly. Sanctions can be imposed o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMThe St. Paul’s Park Square Theatre had a budget issue due to expected donor funding shortfalls and lackluster ticket sales. Now it has a leadership issue. “For ‘at least two years,’ …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AMEilish, whose 22-year-old brother produced her album (and who won Producer of the Year), won Best Song, Best Record, Best Album, and Best Artist. Dudamel and the LA Phil won a Grammy; Jennif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18AMSunday, January 26, 2020
Not to be confused with the autobiographical Shia LaBoeuf feature Honey Boy, of course. But seriously: The film, a documentary about a woman in North Macedonia living in isolation with her d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMThat may sound weird when Netflix also has Scorsese and Noah Baumbach out with Oscar-nominated movies at the moment (not to mention last year’s Roma), but: “The idea is to forge relation…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMYou’ve probably heard of Harry Belafonte’s connection to the Civil Rights Movement, but … McDonald’s? Yes. The history of McDonald’s includes a large number of Black-owned franchis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMPerhaps writers are out of love with romantic love, not only marriage. “If the romance fantasy was long doled out to women as a compensation for powerlessness elsewhere, contemporary write…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMPublic sector workers, dancers, and musicians have been on strike since December, with cancellations costing the Paris Opera nearly 15 million euros. But Saturday night, the production of Ta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMAs controversy continues to swirl (for instance, as HuffPost recounts the ways American Dirt takes passages from Latinx writers’ nonfiction books on immigration) and as the book itself cli…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMLast night, the night before the 62nd Grammys, Sean “Diddy” Coombs called out the awards for their lack of diversity – and a decades-long refusal to recognize rap and hip hop. The NYT …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMThis move has “raised a business question about what kind of platform Amazon wants to be.” In part, it’s problematic because Amazon bought the big review site Goodreads in 2013. One wr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMThey create, sustain, and promote inequality – and a lack of public funding is increasing the issue. “The trend of putting on safer exhibitions by established artists to guarantee high v…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMLion was the main producer for Hairspray and Jelly’s Last Jam, and she also played a major role in bringing Angels in America to Broadway. The artists she worked with remember how warm and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PMIn the heart of Chinatown, the collection was central to the history of Chinese Americans – and, because the building is structurally unsound, no one can go in to retrieve the water-soaked…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMShe’s a rising star of Season 3 (and 4) of The Crown, an executive producer for Killing Eve, and – oh yes – a writer and director of a movie whose trailer has been viewed more than 3 m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM“In a field that so far has relied largely on show-by-show contracts for intimacy directors, a salaried position with benefits is a significant step. … ‘It confirms that the company ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMCombining recent controversies – a statement King made about the Oscars and the reaction to American Dirt – author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez explains what publishing is like for many Latinx…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMJimmie Allen, who hit the charts with “Best Shot” in 2019, says, “I was excited and a little sad to be the first Black artist to launch a career with a number one in country just becau…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMWith past colleagues backing her up (that story here), the ousted head of the Recording Academy says that she didn’t want to be the story as the 2020 Grammys get underway – but she could…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMThe Denver Art Museum has cast Monet as a sort of Romantic painter, looking for the truth in unalloyed nature – and perhaps finding it. But instead of demonstrating oneness with pure natur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMSasha Waltz and Johannes Ohman had signed five-year contracts to lead the young ballet company (that was, in 2004, created as a consolidation of three opera ballets), but the protests agains…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMGrime is a music style that came from London hip hop and electronic dance music – and now a grime artist, Lionness, has decided to team up with a London ballet company to “merge two worl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMThis is a hot time for symphonies showing Harry Potter movies while performing, live, John Williams’ scores. But, well, why? John Jesensky, who works for CineConcerts and has conducted man…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMTuesday, January 21, 2020
Just capitalism and sheer wackiness, or what? (Paltrow’s “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle costs $75 and sold out almost immediately, for one thing.) But there’s more. “The Goop …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:54PMMonday, January 20, 2020
Just a list, with no interpretation (look for that in another post). – Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PMHis management company announced the conductor’s retirement from public performances. At the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, where he became Conductor Laureate last year, “Ashkenazy launched …
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