Sunday, January 19, 2020
Streaming was barely a thing back in the day of the last big strike – but it still cost everyone a lot of money and time. “Studios, production companies and guild members are all eager t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AMLarkin won four Tonys for his work as a designer on Broadway. “Larkin won his Tonys in a remarkable run in the mid-1950s, for Ondine, The Teahouse of the August Moon, No Time for Sergeants…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMThe protestors are angry about the government’s proposed pension reforms, and they’ve shut down much of Paris on and off over the past six weeks. “‘Closing the Louvre to prevent tour…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12AMMonday, January 6, 2020
She won for The Farewell, the film’s only win of the night. She thanked director Lulu Wang – who was not nominated, one of several snubs to women from the Hollywood Foreign Press Associa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMBaldessari’s decades of teaching and witty art-making in Los Angeles helped define it as a visual arts cultural capital. “Inspired by the spirit of Marcel Duchamp, who overturned traditi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMAnd really, did it ever? The problem (in the U.S., at least): “Though exhibitions might have a progressive point of view and artists themselves might be making radical statements, as insti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMMattei’s voice and stage presence have made him a popular Figaro or Don Giovanni, but the 54-year-old “was cast against type as Wozzeck, a soldier who is ground down by poverty and oppre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMAs they say, he could just have said nothing, and no one would have had to figure out that complicated dance of dealing with sexist whining from a(nother) beloved filmmaker. Instead, he”ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMThe speech, which introduced Ellen DeGeneres as that comedian won the Carol Burnett Award, made it clear that Ellen was a trailblazer. McKinnon said, “She risked her entire life and her en…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMLegal observers warn that the tweets themselves could be considered threats of war crimes; “the 1954 Hague Convention, of which the US is a party, bars any military from ‘direct hostilit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMGiichi Matsumura died during a freak summer snowstorm when other members of his hiking group went on to fish in a lake, and he stayed back to paint. Though the family knew roughly where his …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMWell, one writer: Rachel Syme, who, every once in a while, calls herself the Perfume Genie – and people on Twitter ask her for recommendations. She thinks, “When people are saying, I wan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMAnd Lloyd Barnes, the founder of Wackie’s, wants his reggae studio and label to live on after he retires – but more than that, the sound and the style. “His concerns now are ensuring t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMThe V&A’s collection of women’s hats from the time has a lot of feathers, and those feathers were preserved in arsenic salt. Yikes. – The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMAfter Nipsey Hussle was killed on an L.A. street in front of his shop last March, fans wanted to figure out how to honor him. Shop at his store? Paint his face as murals on walls? Yes, and s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMVigdis Hjorth’s novel, in which a woman in her 50s reveals to her family that her father sexually abused her as a child, has touched off a debate in Norway – and fury in her own family. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMChristopher Acebo, who spent 14 years working with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, starting the Latinx Play Project and and helping found the Latinx Theatre Commons, says the only way forwa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:45AMNetflix had 34 nominations, but HBO – and Sony – topped the list. – Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AMSunday, January 5, 2020
Why is Knives Out selling out movie theaters more than a month after it was released? Basically, the cause is that it’s “a pretty good movie that’s exceeding people’s expectations be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMWill Netflix rule the night? How terrible will Ricky Gervais be? Who will win Best Actor? And why, why, why are all of the Best Director nominees men, AGAIN? – NBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMSays the chief registrar at the Denver Art Museum, “It’s a lot. … There are many, many spreadsheets.” – NPR
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMTwo 24-year-old monks have founded a breakdancing troupe that, they think, may bring Buddhism to other young people. “Break dancing has spread around the world due to its nature of getting…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PMStephanie Carlisle: “While architects are not fully responsible for steel manufacturing or concrete production per se, there is a direct line from the material specifications that architec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PMIn advance of tonight’s Golden Globes, the National Society of Film Critics has given Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite a Best Picture nod, but they also gave Best Director to Little Women‘s Gre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PMGeorge Elliott Clarke’s talk at the University of Regina was supposed to be about the murdered and missing Indigenous women of Canada, and poets who wrote about them. But his original refu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PMThe Oscar-shortlisted documentary Maiden wasn’t easy to make – in some ways, it was almost as hard to make as the incredible, history-making voyage it depicts. For one thing, all of the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMWhile some in recovery opt for yoga or prayer groups, the group that chooses to connect with Kentucky’s musical heritage is doing well. “The art of crafting an instrument by hand require…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMRight now, Meyerbeer is out, and Korngold is definitely in – and the historical reasons are complex, revealing much about 20th century history. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMWe know it’s a little late to tell you this, but it might be time for take-backs – and a plan to make those resolutions during a better month (especially for those in the Northern Hemisp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMSeriously, WTF, 2020 awards season? Last year, 2019, was “a year in which a slate of female-driven and directed movies topped the box office – Hustlers, directed by Lorene Scafaria, rake…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMActually, no one truly knows how to do it. “It’s also a real evaluative mystery. How do you know good writing that, as a moviegoer, you can’t see and, as Academy voters, you’re not o…
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