Sunday, December 29, 2019
Inside 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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PMReal surprise here, but his designs were, mostly, uh, “too avant-garde” for the company. – Open Culture
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PMSinger, behind the scenes, was “instrumental in galvanizing federal officials, philanthropies and academics to seed the public airwaves with quality programming and to finance future devel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36PMEveryone from Harvey Fierstein to Chita Rivera has something to say about the man who deeply understood his craft. Betty Buckley, who played Dolly Levi in the 2018-19 national revival tour o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:00PMAnd, of course, in a larger sense, does it matter? Well, it matters for the money, of course. “Juliet Wilson-Bareau, a Goya scholar, told the Observer that museums must re-examine their …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMThe rest of the world already knew that, but now it’s official. – Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMIn Nieman Lab’s 2020 predictions, the founder of a collaborative journalism initiative says that some news organizations aren’t doing enough to make the case that they’re worth saving,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMHere’s the deal, not that you would know it from Amazon purchases: “The psychic center of American social life has shifted from buying things to feeling them.” – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMWhile Cambridge cut out its medieval requirement, Oxford – under the influence of Lewis and Tolkien – doubled down. That weirdly influenced the fantasy all over the English-speaking worl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMLook to streaming, of course, to lead the way. “Lucasfilm and Disney are now in a perfect spot: The Mandalorian is a success, Star Wars is ripe for more experimentation, and Disney+ is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMIn a country not exactly known for the free flow of ideas, delays and freezes in publishing have changed what’s available in China. “Publishing industry insiders describe a near freeze o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMOf course he did many other things in a long life of TV producing – many of them Peanuts-focused – but “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was one of the first and biggest and certainly, alo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMWhen Helena Bonham Carter got the call to play Princess Margaret in Season 3 of The Crown, she wasn’t sure she could follow the tall Vanessa Kirby, who had just won a BAFTA for the role. T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMMonday, December 23, 2019
Basically, it’s always Christmas in July in British Columbia, complete with fake snow, fake characters, fake love stories, fake Christmas and … er … yes, the whole schlockfest (BELOVED…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMWait, if you let yourself be photographed for a feature story, aren’t you already out of the running for being the “Banksy of” anything? Well, it’s Vegas, y’all. Frankie Aguilar sa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMThe headline: “Was this decade the beginning of the end of the great male white writer?” (#NotAllGreatMaleWhiteWriters, of course.) “Though few publications have reached parity, the ov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMBut let’s put it into context. “Just four percent down? At a time when the Star Wars franchise expanded into live-action television for the first time with The Mandalorian on Disney Plu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMLet’s talk more about what Andrew Lloyd Weber did with this music, and what’s been done to it since it premiered. Erm, the LAT‘s pop music critic isn’t a fan: “To hear the song’s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMThe organizers of the festival, almost all women, had to come up with Plans C and D after the Belarus KGB said no to showing films in the theatres or bank buildings. “The confidence to cov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMIf you know the recipes date back to Portugal and Spain during the Inquisition, does that tell you what the secret is? “One of the most unusual recipes … uncovered [was] a sugary dessert…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMUh, congratulations? That’s very advanced of Dancing on Ice, if we lived in, say, 1994? But of course, someone has to be first. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMThe issue of delayed wages has been a thorn in the side of arts workers for months – or years. While unionized workers have shut down several museums over it, this protest was organized by…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMLindsey started writing romance on a whim, and she wrote more than 60 novels – and sold more than 60 million books. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMWhat is Martha Cratchit thinking at the end of A Muppet Christmas Carol (and why hasn’t this ever been written about before)? “Your employer has brought an uncooked fourteen pound turkey…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMYou might as well just plan to stay for the entire year. Don’t forget your Beethoven-reality-enhanced sunglasses. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMYes, Amy March was a spoiled brat who burned Jo’s manuscript, and thus earned the ire of every creative person ever, and the films and series have reflected that. But Amy … was also a cr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PMIn all of academia, not only theatre, women who teach become support for students rather than only academic help – and it’s burning the women out. One recent Ph.D. discovered that she co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AMJust like Young Adult literature, YA theatre – or Teen theatre, perhaps – had an initially rapturous welcome, and a rapid cooling-off. “Critical consensus about Young Adult Theatre too…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AMSunday, December 22, 2019
“In the South Bronx at the dawn of the 1970s, all the creative components that would coalesce into what became widely known as hip-hop were beginning to take shape. At the center of them a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMStudents responded not only to one incident, in which the lecturer for the class was removed, but many other experiences at the college: “Some of the quotes and scenarios on the board read…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMMen are wimping out of seeing Little Women‘s award showings, which is tanking its chances; despite the awfulness of Cats, Ian McKellen’s chances are up; and more. – Vulture
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PM 
