Sunday, November 17, 2019
This 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMWhen Maar died at 89, Le Monde forgot to give her an obit until 10 days later, and The Independent said she’d be remembered forever as Picasso’s muse and his Weeping Woman. Now the photo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMBaltimore Museum of Art Christopher Bedford: “This how you raise awareness and shift the identity of an institution. …You don’t just purchase one painting by a female artist of color a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMMary-Louise Parker, of Fried Green Tomatoes, Weeds, and Angels in America fame, has returned to Broadway in a play that requires her to be onstage (and speaking) for the entire 90-minute spa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMOr actually, from the birds. Composer Diane Moser: “My goal was to become a member of their band, so to speak. I listened deeply to their singing, and carefully infiltrated their ensemble.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMBrightman first published an acclaimed biography of Mary McCarthy, and edited the letters between Hannah Arendt and McCarthy, before she started to become fascinated by the world of the Grat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMOr at least that’s the warning right now. Bristol Old Vic’s artistic director Tom Morris: “It is harder to make shows that are specific to your audience, though it doesn’t mean it’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMErin Morgenstern’s second book debuted at number three on the bestseller list after she spent years working on her sophomore venture. How did she work, especially after the events of 2016?…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMSore throat? All the time. Bored with what you’re reading? No doubt. Even when it’s your own work. And let’s not talk about the difference between words authors know how to write and w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AMKara Swisher has been writing about companies and the internet for even longer than Disney has been trying to figure out how to deal with the contemporary world. Swisher: “Forget the dashi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMThere’s a bit of a problem: At least one study has shown that we remember less about the places and things we photograph. Going outside can combat our phone addictions and calm our brains …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMGoldin joined another group at the protest: “About 30 protesters arrived at the recently redesigned £2m entrance in Kensington, London, and placed bottles of pills and ‘Oxy dollar’ bi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AMThere are festivals just about all of the time now, and that means there’s waste. “Garbage has long been the uncomfortable fallout of the festival world, and as these gatherings multip…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33AMBut, he says, it was worth getting the info about the U.S’s WWII Japanese American camps into wider view. And he explains he’d invite all of his colleagues from Star Trek to dinner with …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33AMMonday, November 11, 2019
On the agenda for Tuesday’s Los Angeles Supervisors board meeting: Having the L.A. Philharmonic take over the outdoor Ford Theatre. According to the supervisor who made the proposal, “It…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMWell: “That depends on how much you value your time — and what you expect of art in the age of Instagram. The smartphone, with its ever-finer cameras and ever-shinier screens, now shapes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMApparently, it’s not the money. There’s diplomacy, there’s prestige, and there’s the desire of areas of the world – China definitely included – to be seen as supporting Western c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMSeriously, it seems to be almost a new genre. “These performances were rendered with a disarming, self-interrupting casualness, suggesting a happy ham at home among friends. And they often…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMBut is it worthy? The sculpture started out with the name “We’re No. #1” and moved to, uh, “Unity,” a little less focused on the longstanding animosity between Brooklyn and Manhatt…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMVijay Seshadri, who became poetry editor for the legendary literary magazine in August, says that going through the Review‘s slush pile is invigorating. “You kind of feel that something …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMHolly Mulcahy hasn’t performed with the orchestra since April because of a contract dispute – a dispute so intense that one board member has resigned over it. That board member, film com…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMWas it kids? Maybe, if they truly love music. It was shiny, with a ton – a ton – of celebrity appearances, as befits, well, a show that’s on HBO. That’s a problem: “The celebration…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMImagine photographing the people lining the streets for 28 different parades in the U.S. – in 2016. “The very existence of each group portrait produces an illusion of unity, as if the pe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMThe director says, “At the end of the day, what we really want people to know is the movie is about love and friendship, the veterans that served in the Vietnam War and especially the dogs…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMShe’s at the intersection of race, gender, and social media. “Kim’s particular fame derives from a cherished place in the American racial imagination that, combined with wealth, preven…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMHere’s the deal: It’s a movie that laughs at the Nazis and laughs at Hitler. “The controversy — or, at least, the orchestrated illusion of it — is built into the film’s faux outr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMThe person doing it takes nonfiction books about Trump or guns – specifically the ones that aren’t favorable to the 45th president or gun enthusiasts – and hiding them. “‘I am goin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMThe 2019 BP Portrait Award will still take place in December, but that will be the last time NGS will host that show (at least, as sponsored by BP). The holdouts, that is, those arts organiz…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMGriggs, who played Ivanka in ONCE: The Musical for 17 months after making her Broadway debut at age six in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, died from a massive asthma attack. – Variety
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PMSunday, November 10, 2019
Barnett founded Black Arts/West in Seattle in 1969, and “was a vocal advocate for contemporary theater, pursuing funding for new work and training and opportunities for African American pe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PMYou’d think authors would have things like, oh, the titles of their books, links to buy said books, maybe a list of book tour dates, press contacts, etc. Sure, sure, but there’s so much …
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