Sunday, November 24, 2019
The 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMInstead, it’s about the dark abyss of the adult soul. “Adulthood, for most of us, is about acquiring the skills to feel no feelings at all. Feelings are distracting, inefficient, unopti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMNottage: “Yes, I have to go sometimes to where my audience is, rather than being confined by the proscenium—which forces us to have a certain level of engagement, which means I have to s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMAnd that’s true in weapons and swordfighting theatre classes as well. Ask one student-turned-devotee: “In theatrical swordfighting, you’re following choreography and working with your …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMAnd, obviously, blockbusters are killing them. (The cheap little awards-bait movies, the under-$20-million movies, might be OK.) – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AMThe movie was supposed to be Apple’s big first narrative film release, a movie that would enter the awards discussion. Instead, the film – which stars Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Macki…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AMHere’s the deal: “Each section has a reputation based loosely on the personality types drawn to certain instruments and the parts they play on the field. Trumpets generally own the melod…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AMListen, a ballet school with an extra $800,000? We don’t think so. Not surprisingly, the woman – hired to handle the accounts of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon-founded Kirov Ballet Academy …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AMWalls can be psychic wounds to those who suffer on either side, but artists try to make them “sites of exploration and evolution.” – Hyperallergic
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AMMonday, November 18, 2019
Not when it’s in the hands of artists of color, especially Black women. The chief curator at Whitechapel Gallery says that, for many artists, “painting minority ethnic subjects was a way…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMEven when it’s the Royal Air Force Museum, a lot of parents are saying that’s a no. – The Observer (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMBoth Constance Wu and Mindi Kaling say their most recent films – Hustlers for Wu and Late Night for Kaling – benefited from having women as directors. Kaling about Wu’s Hustlers: “No…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMThough the Met is still perilously close to the percentage that so angered the Guerrilla Girls in 1985, things may be slowly changing – and they may be accelerated just before the U.S.’s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMStreaming services – Netflix, Amazon, etc. etc. etc. – have been challenging Hollywood for years, but before now, the three biggest old companies weren’t involved. Now they’re “all…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:24PMDid Banksy or Banksy’s associates re-steal the ‘kidnapped” statue? Why aren’t the police interested? And how did those who are selling it at Sotheby’s get into the artist’s garde…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMRight after two writers on Carol’s Second Act spoke with HR about inappropriate behavior from executive producer David Hunt (who is married to the star of the show), “they were told that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMWhew. All of this: “The response has been that there’s been a couple of very successful books about Trump, but if you’re not writing about Trump, you know, where does that take you? Wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMO’Neill photographed everyone from the Beatles to Brigitte Bardot, but, he said, the Queen was the only person who ever made him nervous. “I researched some horse-racing jokes to break t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMDisney is planning to raise the price of Hulu Live by $10 per month, which might not seem like a lot, but it – and AT&T – are bellwethers as “the cost of watching live TV via strea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMAnd the problem is that men somehow still think that no matter what women write about, it’s “domestic.” One playwrighting contest judge: “There is still an element of surprise when a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMA researcher in the 1940s suggested that the tablets had recipes on them, but – shocker! – her fellow researchers didn’t believe her. And yet, she was right. “So far, the cooking tea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMIt’s a holiday miracle: People willing to part with their money for a classical music-prog rock mashup, especially at the holidays. But how did we get to this elaborate two-band tour setup…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AMMarion Stokes, a former Communist activist who turned into a recluse, recorded MSNBC, CNN, FOX News and many other news programs, more than 70,000 of them, on Betamax and VHS tapes. “Stoke…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AMThe writer/director of the hit indie, which played to surprisingly robust crowds this summer, says that it was a difficult process to get her film made – no one could figure out where to c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AMSunday, November 17, 2019
That’s right, the Colorado Ballet has turned to crowdfunding to get new Nutcracker costumes; the old ones were created for the San Francisco Ballet in 1986, and Colorado Ballet bought them…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PMArt historian Chaédria LaBouvier, who was the first solo Black woman curator in the museum’s 80-year history, said that she was cut out of her own show, “Basquiat’s ‘Defacement’: …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PMSpearheaded, and named, by Dorothy L. Sayers, the name of Mutual Admiration Society “both captures the spirit of the group and misrepresents it. They supported each other boldly and emphat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PMA small art nonprofit, LAXart’s mission includes social consciousness. The protesting workers were laid off after they unionized and the Marciano Art Foundation abruptly closed. They asked…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMThe Clockenflap festival was supposed to run Nov. 22-24, but after yet another death in the protests (and no signs of that stopping), the organizers canceled one of the most high-profile mus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMThe new laws also criminalize all kinds of antiquities theft. “Earlier this year, an Egyptian man climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, removing parts of a 19th-century wooden …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PMThis comes after its longtime artistic director, Burgess Clark, resigned and was then accused of sexual misconduct by many former students. The theatre has canceled its holiday production an…
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