Monday, December 16, 2019
The 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMOrganists are not happy not to have seen pipes in the renderings of the remodeled Geffen Hall. They see it “as a chance to right a historical wrong, especially at a time when many of the w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMAnd literally no one who has ever bought a ticket through them is sad. But more seriously: “The impending civil action… is expected to claim that Live Nation violated terms of its 2010 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AMSunday, December 15, 2019
Not nudity (though that may, of course, be involved), but naked emotional truth. “Authenticity can’t exist without artistry. Truth in life doesn’t automatically morph into truth on the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMThe majority of music students in the US don’t listen to classical or “Western art” music at all, except in classes. For those who teach music theory, questions emerge: “How can we j…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMSifton was also an author, including of a memoir that cemented her father, Reinhold Niebuhr, as the author of the Serenity Prayer. The authors she edited – burnished, as The NYT puts it �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMIt’s not just a coincidence or an accident: “Sondheim references and homages are hardly new. While there happens to be a bit of a pile-up at the moment, that’s because Sondheim’s son…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMYannick Nézet-Séguin says that after many years of wanting to conduct the Mass, he decided one day when he was 10 to play-act at conducting Mozart’s Symphony No. 40. That day, everything…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMThere are really only two rules, says a man who knows a particularly painful story of an inscribed book that had been passed on. “‘The first is, always save a receipt’ – the reason b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMJones, who played the Anansi-inspired character Mr. Nancy, posted the video to Twitter. He said that new showrunner Charles Eglee, who is white, “thinks that Mr. Nancy’s angry get-shit-d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMTimberg was a beloved and ferocious reader, writer, and arts lover. He was a Los Angeles Times reporter for years “before writing Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class, a 2015 b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMAfter WWII, “the past century was undoubtedly an American century. … America was positioned as the global emblem of progress, liberty and modernity. This chimera was largely achieved thr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMBreaking down his award-winning “A Thousand Mountains, a Million Streams” – and hearing from the composer himself: “It’s a challenge to see myself as a vessel, as an imaginative an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMThe magazine, an icon of culture, “played a critical role in forming the culture and image of lowriding, its lifestyle and aesthetics. Particularly popular among Mexican Americans, the m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMThe boom in streaming has led to massive content demands – and nowhere is that more obvious than “in Denmark, where thanks to years of rising demand, there are many more critically-prais…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMSure, for those who love the Regency era, nothing has changed (though the politics certainly have). But for contemporary books, writers must figure how to navigate the ever-changing technolo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMZola, the wedding planner site that was running the ads, was not OK with the channel’s response to the anti-gay freakout from a notoriously homophobic group. “‘All kisses, couples and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMCan the Recording Academy’s new plan change that? – Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMOh, well, why not dance, listen to music, and party into your 70s? After all, Mick Jagger still does it. “For those who do keep dancing, it can be much more than just a night out. What sta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMIn The New York Times‘ dance coverage, this week’s Instagram video hashtagged #SpeakingAboutDance features solos, duets, trios, and ensemble work to pianist Simone Dinnerstein’s perfor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMSinéad Gleeson, an Irish Book Award-winning author, says that reading offers connection and perhaps an escape – unless you’re slogging through the “great American” canon. – The Gu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMSteve Lazarides also recalls the early days, including the day Banksy strapped a helium-filled sex doll to a McDonald’s-branded balloon and released it into the sky. Many different police …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMActors and audiences alike participated in protests against Viktor Orban’s new law around who controls theatre funding. “The change comes as Mr. Orban’s government has become increasi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AMMonday, December 9, 2019
It’s a candy Venice. A Venice of candy and gingerbread, royal icing (“basically like glue”) and buttercream for decoration. And when roofs collapse? The teams soldier, or solder (with …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMAnd Greta Gerwig’s new movie version of it makes an attempt to reflect that. “We may these days … be surrounded by books containing extraordinary girls – Lyra, Hermione, Katniss – …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMLet’s go deep: “You are not a hopeless philistine if you find this all a bit foolish. Foolishness, and the deflating sensation that a culture that once encouraged sublime beauty now only…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMLisa Taddeo thinks her success is partially luck, and partially that she really digs into the nuances of women’s desire, and their relationships with men, at least before the Weinstein sca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMPen Parentis has lasted for more than a decade in a literary world that is decidedly unfriendly to working parents. “‘The way you hear it is in the people who don’t have kids and when …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMArchitecture critic Rowan Moore is not thrilled with the thoughtless, crass commercialism filling Trafalgar Square. “It is not the presence of the market, precisely, that’s the problem, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMThat’s not about radical parents or radical kids – it’s about changing theatre at its roots to reflect the reality of working parents in the industry. Not surprisingly, parents have so…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMAnd not just any blog is closing, but Feministing, one of the only remaining feminist blogs from the heyday of the 2000s. One of the site’s former editors says, “It was unclear how we co…
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