Monday, December 9, 2019
And 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMJustin Chang is prepared for the inevitable backlash over some of the choices the LAFCA made. Prepared, but not pleased: “I’ve always been struck by the recurring phenomenon of LAFCA and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMDestouches defended the French writer, and their anti-Semitic and intensely pro-Nazi stance, for decades. “‘She followed him into the depths of hell with a love, an admiration and an aff…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMSuperman was “too chubby” to play James Bond, Kevin Hart (The Rock’s “non-ripped” co-star) starts at the gym at 5 every morning, and movie men are partnering, i.e. getting sweet bu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMThere’s dance, but then there are podcasts, and then there’s the international dance film festival as well. – Dallas Morning News
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMAuberjonois – Father Mulcahy in the 1970 movie M.A.S.H., iconic chief of staff in the 1980s sitcom Benson, and Odo in the 1990s show Star Trek: Deep Space 9 – was also a stage star who e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24AMThe now-18-year-old said he did it because “he had to prove a point ‘to every idiot’ who said he had no mental health problems, asking police if it was going to be on the news.” – …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24AMSunday, December 8, 2019
Spinney created two indelible characters, and, in his long tenure on Sesame Street, assisted in the creation of many more. “His Big Bird had a childlike innocence, sometimes goofy, sometim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMOrlando, a new opera based on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, a time-traveling, gender-bending love letter to her aristocratic lover Vita Sackville-West, “is the first opera commissioned from …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMPeter Kalivas says his PGK Dance Project, begun 25 years ago while he was working as a professional dancer in Munich, “must always be attempting to resolve the three main barriers the prof…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMThis isn’t the why, but a result: “Guy Williams and his fellow visual-effects artists have spent so much time staring at Will Smith’s face, they’ve practically memorized his every p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMTalking NY Phil: “I’d wish for less attention and money to be squandered on overhauling the hall and more on improving the mix of musicians (guest soloists and visiting conductors) and o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMThe author of Ducks, Newburyport (yes, the 1,000-page, one-sentence novel) has some ideas. Lucy Ellmann: “I find the annual celebration of contemporary writing, the Xmas lists of 2019 book…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMDigital taxes are only a start, says France’s digital affairs minister. “More important? Targeting the biggest tech companies—most of which are American—with new regulations to preve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMLA’s MOCA employees now won’t need to go through additional certifying steps – or employer “education” either. MOCA Director Klaus Biesenbach said recognizing the union was “in f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMFilms and filmmakers from Africa and the Middle East have had a good year at A-list film festivals, including Mati Diop and her Atlantics, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes. “The ‘new w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMIn the early 20th century, Spiritualism was at its peak, and so were fake psychics who fleeced people who just wanted to communicate with a dead loved one. Into the breech between weird and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMIronically, the New York Film Critics Online meet in person to vote on the awards. (Also awarded: Lupita Nyong’o, Joaquin Phoenix, Laura Dern, and Joe Pesci.) – The Hollywood Reporter
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMWho buys 80 percent – that’s a super, super, super majority – of novels? You knew it: Women. But our love for novels, as the narrator in Anna Burns’ The Milkman experiences, seems to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMA judge for next year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction probably won’t be awarding multiple prizes, looks like: “If you can’t get past this inherent flaw in the business of prizegiving �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMGrant said in one candidate’s video, “I, for the first time in my life, am getting active politically, because I think that the country is on the edge of a true abyss.” He’s campaign…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMLeibman won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Roy Cohn in the 1993 Broadway production of Angels in America. At that point, he had Drama Desk Awards and an Emmy, but it was as Cohn that his …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMTruly, if you’ve seen the movie trailer, there’s no missing the multitude of jokes just sort of … oh, let’s say it … hanging there to be batted around. However, Angels in America w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMThe New York-based performance artist David Datuna recorded for Instagram (of course) the removal and eating of the banana, a much-discussed artwork by Maurizio Cattelan. But, plot twist: �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AMOlga Tokarczuk, in a lecture in Sweden, said it’s time for a sort of fourth-person narration: “We can regard this figure of a mysterious, tender narrator as miraculous and significant. T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AMThe styling is in the ties. And there are … let’s say a lot of different ties in this movie. Says one of the costume designers, “The language of how the tie greets the shirt greets the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AMRachel Brosnahan, who plays Midge Maisel, says that season three changed things for her – and made the actor a better comedian too. “While the first and second season, most of the major …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AMPeter Englund, the former permanent secretary for the Swedish Academy and a current member, said, ““To celebrate Peter Handke’s Nobel prize would be gross hypocrisy on my part” He is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AMMonday, December 2, 2019
One science fiction writer and futurist says we can – but a lot will need to change. “The issue isn’t technical. It has to do with the way business is being done in Silicon Valley. The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMMaybe not 29 movies in a row, of course. But. One writer explains that she opened Netflix in the depths of a serious depression and started watching Christmas Prince. “The movie was terrib…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AMOf course she was; Tacitus’ Annals “described the high politics, treachery and debauchery of the Roman elite.” – Reuters
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM 
