Sunday, January 5, 2020
Actually, 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMMarvel’s Miles Morales – the star of Into the Spider-Verse and a lot of comics, books, animated series, and a game – needed help as the decade went on. See, “despite Marvel’s finan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMSays one artistic director, “Addressing this issue can’t happen by simply replacing white bodies with those of color. ‘The storylines have to change,’ Vilaro says, noting that some n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMThe RWA is still embroiled in an ongoing and, it seems, widening scandal about its leadership. Karen Grigsby Bates says of the organization for the most lucrative sector of publishing: “If…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMTime’s Up is trying to prepare actors and would-be actors for situations that have been rather iffy in the past (by “iffy,” we mean “containing lots of possibilities for assault and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMAnthony Tommasini says new recordings are vital, no matter how many we’ve got from the past: “New takes on standard repertory works — if not as essential as recordings of works by livi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMDespite the threat of Disney+, BritBox, Apple TV, and so (very) much more, Netflix is killing it in Britain. And Netflix’s “2020 film slate is positively mouthwatering.” – The Guardi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PMDebts, staff resignations, and what the board described as a “national arts funding crisis” meant that the festival – which premiered more than 400 musicals in the summer, some of whic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24AMMonday, December 30, 2019
Foster, who served in the Korean War and helped produce movies including the Oscar-nominated McCabe and Mrs. Miller, “was part of the migration from New York to L.A. where Hollywood was Sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMBut a new show (not so ironically called the same thing as Dave Eggers’ book satirizing social media) displays exactly how much we’re all implicated in a world filled with flurries of ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMHe was fired, and, to his knowledge, nothing was done to protect the kids from the abuse he saw. The dance company didn’t have an HR team, for one thing. All of this brings up many questio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMAnd that’s a good thing, not something we should be worried about. Having a camera in your pocket all of the time is “an opportunity to capture your own life more honestly—a way to rem…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMThe Green Mountain Project, which has been devoted to producing end-of-year concerts of Monteverdi’s 1610 “Vesper of the Blessed Virgin since 2010, is coming to an end this year in New Y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMThis is bad. “From Bethune to Dijon, noted directors landed in the National Drama Centers – devoted to theatrical creation – thinking they were touching the Grail: a place and means to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMRemember when this lawsuit started, and we discovered that Audible was transcribing every word that its readers – who were, presumably, usually, reading the book word for word – read alo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMIn 2011, “the industry itself was broken, transformed from a system of honor and veneration into one of shame and denigration, which treated its products as little more than commodities to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMOn the Netflix show You, a character from New York moves to L.A. – and you can guess what happens next. (Macrobiotic coffee shops! Stand-up comedy moments! “Aspiring Instagrammers live-s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AMIndeed, it can help trauma victims and survivors start to heal. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMRight off the bat, you can say that Greta Gerwig’s version will make the most money. Then there’s the height of the actors playing the little women. – Slate
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMYes, it’s a made-for-reality-TV concept that indeed is reality TV in Britain and now in the US: “Without speaking, or even knowing each other’s names, two strangers share a choreograph…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMWhy hasn’t the EU acted to curb Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s clearly problematic takeover of the media? (Or theatre, for that matter?) Well. “European countries have dragge…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMThere’s so much – so many Best lists, so many ideas about gifts, so many essays about types in books – and then … “What have tweets and emojis done to the novel? According to the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMLyon went on acting until 1980, but – as is the case with many child stars – “she receded from acting and turned away from public life in her later years.” – Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33AMThe designers didn’t want an audience probably well-steeped in the Harry Potter movies to be either disappointed or blasé. In the two-part play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, “the r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33AMSunday, December 29, 2019
The massive strike, in its 24th day and spread throughout the country, went viral last week when dancers and the orchestra performed selections from Swan Lake in front of the Paris Opèra. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PMFraser “wrote or translated songs into Inuktitut, an Inuit language, [and] a key aim was to ‘use pop music as a platform to strengthen her language,'” her producer said. “She also wa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PMOr is it self-immolating? In any case, when the RWA suspended writer Courtney Milan, who had spent years on its ethics committee and pushing for more inclusion and equity, for calling a book…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PMPartly it’s by letting Canada be Canada. “While movies and TV series are shot across the country, the Canadian locations rarely stand in for themselves. Toronto might be New York. Or Van…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PMThey’re so early 2010s, basically. But culture is cyclical, or so it appears in tastemakers’ plans, and – according to a vampire literature scholar – “updated versions of these mon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PMAs usual, it’s “an eclectic mix of fiction and nonfiction,” and the former president included the collected works of Toni Morrison, who died in August. – Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PMInside the last days of Le Pont Traversé – and the economics of a flashy Paris encroaching on the heart of the literary city. The shop is especially known for its poetry. “A few months …
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