Sunday, December 22, 2019
Men 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 06:36PMKeita Takahashi, an artist and an “unconventional” game developer, is beloved for his game “Katamari Decency,” and now he’s got a new game out – ostensibly about golden poop. The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMIndeed: “The catastrophe of climate neglect, the toxic politics, the tangible sense of so many things worsening in your own lifetime, along with a sense of your obscure or outright complic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36PMThis is the calm before the storm of 2020 – a year sure to see a deluge of Beethoven for his 250th birthday. Opera was neglected shamefully, while Clara Schumann, Offenbach, and Berlioz ga…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMThe popularity of older formats is growing, including black and white and things like Canción sin nombre‘s 4:3 format. – Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMHistoric England has released a new list of 500 additions to the built environments it accords “enhanced” or new status. Why does anyone care? “They grow not only ever more surprising …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMIt’s a tough selling environment for fiction; the numbers are bleak and falling fast. But Where Late the Crawdads Sang has been going, and going, and going, and going … “Crawdads has s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMMusic critics may resist the idea, but “what if the genre killers are right? What if it doesn’t matter whether they’re right, but it’s happening anyway? Start to finish, 2019 gave …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMThe author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and 10 other novels, along with much nonfiction and several children’s books as well, Winterson says, “People always say ‘let’s get the t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMPerhaps that won’t improve its dismal showing at the box office this weekend, but at least it might improve the moviegoing experience. Director Tom Hooper “has been upfront about the fac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMSimon “was often called a pianist’s pianist — greatly admired by musicians and critics if not strictly a household name. Known in particular for his interpretations of the Romantic lit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMDespite rather lackluster reviews, the film is on track to take in almost $400 million internationally. And wow, does that benefit Disney. “Disney said that it had booked The Rise of Skywa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMPerhaps many of us – at least those who depend on Amazon and the wide world of other online shopping options – have forgotten, but department stores still exist. At least, a few do. “T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMTwenty-two years after the groundbreaking production had its U.S. debut in Los Angeles, it returned – “as gloriously relevant as ever.” And here is a photo gallery of what happens back…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMAnd, famously, short story writers. Why? “It’s a chance to bring together a wide cast of characters at a time when the sense of occasion allows them and the novelist to take the long vie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMRoger Cohen misses the world of the landline. “In the landline world there was down time. You left the house, you looked around, you saw people, you daydreamed, you got lost, you found y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMThe movie was supposed to be about her, or be “her movie,” according to The Rise of Skywalker director J.J. Abrams. But she died long before this one started shooting. The way it worked …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMIt’s for Netflix, y’all. For The Two Popes. – Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMMonday, December 16, 2019
Sure, some art has been dependent on wealthy patrons for centuries. But in the age of expansion and renovation, and deep income inequality, that reliance has returned with a vengeance. Take …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMNot experts in art – experts in serving those populations. – Hyperallergic
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMBut it might be awhile after The Rise of Skywalker before we know more. “‘We’re literally making this up from whole cloth and bringing in filmmakers to find what these stories might be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMBut will the U.S. take that opportunity? With more than a quarter of rural lands and nearly a third of tribal lands unable to get internet access, the public sale of the spectrum could make …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMLong before virtual reality, and less digital (and perhaps less nausea-inducing), camera enthusiasts with money could create 3-D panoramas. “The technology was introduced commercially in 1…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMThe Jazz Museum in Kansas City has had financial and leadership struggles during the past couple of years, but it’s clearly hoping that Rashida Phillips (a performer herself) will right th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMSurvivors of that night at Pulse and their families aren’t interested in a $45 million memorial and museum, “They seek a simpler memorial and argue that the money would be better spent h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMHello, capitalism? An audience is calling. Watchmen on HBO was, for black superhero fans, even stronger than the next-best thing, Black Panther. So what will comics properties do with this a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMKarina became a star of French New Wave films as a teenager starring in Jean Luc Godard’s The Little Soldier and went on to star in more of Godard’s movies (and to marry him). She was a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMThe past year has been shocking and a reversion to old, terrible ways, say the artists, galleries, and other prominent people in the Australian art scene. For instance: “‘We have called …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMDespite – or perhaps emboldened further by – Misty Copeland’s criticism of the Bolshoi’s use of blackface, the theatre’s general director says, “La Bayadere ballet has been perfo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMWhen she was an 11-year-old performing as a local dancer filling in at a Mariinsky Ballet performance in LA, Dana Nichols didn’t know she would be asked to perform in blackface until just …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMThe movie (which had the worst opening weekend of any Clint Eastwood-directed film) is Eastwood in chair-ranting mode, and then there’s the issue of the lie that a reporter from the Atlant…
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