Sunday, December 1, 2019
Broadway is … people, of course, and despite how touristy some of the shows can get, “there’s still a weird, gritty New York patina in there somewhere,” says one of four photographer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMThe Cuban artist has been making important work first in Cuba and then in Puerto Rico for decades. “But outside the Caribbean archipelago, she has been largely ignored. Until the mid-80s, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMPlaywright Aleshea Harris, who won the Obie Award in 2018 for Is God Is, “is part of a vanguard of young, African American playwrights boring into questions of race and history through hum…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:33AMMonday, November 25, 2019
Eliot’s work on Spinoza’s Ethics, one scholar says, “was the last thing she did before she wrote her stories and became George Eliot. A large part of Spinoza’s Ethics gives this ins…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMPerhaps, and also perhaps by design. In 2010, Instagram (before it was bought by Facebook), “that free photo-sharing app with a hipster sheen, hit the iPhone. Several months later, Justin …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMFreddy Tsimba uses all kinds of materials to respond in sculpture to his hometown of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. “In 2014 he took a house he had built from 999 machetes to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMThis seems like a pretty solid idea for a company that has a lot of young women involved. And, of course, “earlier this week the duke announced he would be not be undertaking public duties…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMAs a record number of people want more than just Spotify or YouTube videos, well, the logical result is that “music cruises are one of the interesting growth areas of music tourism. There …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMThe 28-year-old was a member of one of the first big K-pop girl groups, Kara. She had attempted suicide in May. In her solo career, she had some hits and also some TV and movie roles. – Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMAw, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, we appreciate the attempt. “The Contract for the Web is a global plan of action created over the past year by activists, academics, companies, governments and ci…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMUh, wow, Dresden: “The exact details of the operation, and what was taken, are not yet clear, but local news outlets report the thieves targeted the jewelry section of the historic Royal…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AMWilson’s “outlandish, often ghoulish cartoons added a bizarrely humorous touch to Playboy, The New Yorker, National Lampoon and other publications in the era when magazines propelled the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AMKappe founded the Cal Poly Pomona architecture program and was fired for being, as he called it, “free-swinging.” But, unlike many a faculty member could or would do now, he picked up hi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AMSuburban communities lose their coverage; attitudes about national outlets taint how people feel about their hometown newspapers; reporters cover way too many beats at a time; and other very…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AMGuy-Blaché is well-known among film scholars, but the film world and the world at large? Not so much. Quick summary: “Starting out as a secretary at Gaumont Studios in Paris, she began di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AMAmericans deride dubbing, but for much of the world, it’s a lot more pleasant than subtitles. They’re extra good at it in Italy, and thus there are awards: “The dozen-odd categories re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AMTheir canvases are houses, specifically the canvases of one working-class neighborhood called the Médina. “The neighborhood has welcomed street artists from all over the world to practice…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AMThe deal is this: “It’s picturesque. You have a very old city flooded with water. Visually, it’s beautiful. For tourists, it’s another attraction. Tourists don’t realize what a dis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AMSunday, November 24, 2019
Some major organizations have been trying to figure out how to help communities use the arts and culture to create strong, shared values. – Margy Waller
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMShe says it’s with the purest of pure artists: Preschoolers. “Barry is pushing the envelope on understanding how the brain creates and responds to words and pictures — a scholarly enve…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMWell, no, no wardrobe or fur coats, but “9,000 square feet of nooks, alcoves, labyrinths, and warrens.” Its customers really love it, including the way thousands of books crammed togethe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMIt’s not that preservationists don’t understand the need for housing – that’s obvious in L.A., as in most cities and towns on the West Coast. “It seems to me that we should fight t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMThere are many, many tensions between the two countries, but “the orchestra’s rock-star status in China offers it unique possibilities for bridge-building. Even youngsters are aware that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMThe Broadway veteran, perhaps best known as the original Wiz in the musical, won a Tony in June for his portrayal of Mercury in Hadestown, and he gave an “instantly iconic speech in which …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMAs Russia’s population faces a steep decline, Moscow is growing – but there’s no room in the city center. One curator: “We got used to viewing the suburbs as strange, remote areas we…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:03PMChristian settlers and missionaries feared and banned throat singing, so the choice to make a Christmas album wasn’t exactly obvious, they say. “At the same time, they say some of their…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMOnly 16 artists still practice the art of Cheriyal – but they’re working hard to expand (re-expand) their ranks. To grow the popularity, one artist says, “We began making tissue boxes,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMAnd it’s bigger than mountain folds, valley folds, and damp-paper shaping: “A few years ago, NASA engineers were able to create foldable telescopes and a flower-shaped shade to block o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMSir Stephen Cleobury conducted the King’s College Choir for nearly 40 years and instituted the annual commissioning of a new Christmas carol. He retired two months ago. “He was influenti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMLauren E. Turner, founder of the New Orleans theatre company No Dream Deferred, says that she was deeply lucky as a kid. “I was taught creating space was my duty. The idea of what was out …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMThe metal detectorists found a hoard, didn’t report it, and sold most of it – and now they’re jailed for a very long time. “The hoard — much of which is still missing — could she…
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