Sunday, November 10, 2019
You’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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PMWhy? It might actually be good for some people – the youth, as they say, or those chasing social media influence. “The hope is that the change can reduce anxiety among Instagram users,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PMSeventy-five years ago, in a San Francisco busy with Naval activity in the middle of WWII, the San Francisco Ballet staged the first full-length Nutcracker in the U.S. The snow is still fall…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33PMHere’s why you should do that: “Your interest in a title will indicate to booksellers that it’s worth checking out! Maybe they’ll read it. Maybe they’ll love it and give it table s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMWell, if the flutist is Eugenia Zukerman, she writes a memoir chronicling what happens to her brain. Now three years into her Alzheimer’s diagnosis, she says, “music for me is a second l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMHappy 21st, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. How the heck do you stay so funny over some exceedingly unfunny years? One editor interviews another to find out. – Inside Higher Ed
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMIn the French newspaper Le Parisien, the photographer and former actress and model says that in 1975, the director raped her at his ski chalet in Switzerland. “She said she remembered fear…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMIn a lot of Asian countries, “hip-hop rose to popularity as a form of self-expression and resistance, sometimes in the face of colonialism and oppressive regimes.” But current Asian Amer…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMPerego was an Italian puppeteer who came up with the 10-inch tall mouse puppet/marionette in the 1950s – and then the Ed Sullivan Show came calling, and calling, and calling. Of the puppet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMThe staffers walked a picket line in front of the former Scottish Rite Temple on Friday. “We’re here to work! We want to work!” they chanted, and “Let us in! Let us in! Let us in!”…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMBecause the language isn’t “foreign” enough – it’s English. The Academy is changing what the category is called – Best International Film instead of Best Foreign-Language Film �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMSo, Manet’s “off-the-cuff spontaneity” took a little more work than he, and art historians following his words, ever claimed. “Most of these things seem to have been traced from more…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMSimone Lia is a comic-strip artist, but one day she noticed that she couldn’t stop drawing worms. Her “worms look like demob-happy frankfurters. They have floaty bodies, dazed smiles. �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMJagger used the natural world as inspiration, and her work related to Land Art, ecofeminism, and Post-Minimalism without aligning to any one specific movement. The artist “hit upon one of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMGarden and art history books tell a specific story that leaves some important bits out. “In a few short decades, what became known as the ‘English style’ had spread across Britain and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMMust be nice to be able to say that people wanting bestsellers can just “ge them elsewhere.” Another Story Bookshop in Toronto was founded with a mission of social justice, with the purp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMRemember how Carrie Fisher (RIP, General) used to punch up scripts? It’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s time now. She’s the second woman – only the second – to get a writing credit on a Bo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMIsabella Madrigal, a tribally enrolled member of the Cahuilla Band of Indians in California, and a 17-year-old, figured out, as she had a hard time finding good roles, that she could shape h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMMichelle Tea, author of several memoirs and novels, says (in her new book called, er, Against Memoir) that it certainly is. “Examining the need to record her experiences in the title essay…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMMonday, November 4, 2019
Autumn is “Oscar season for books” in France, and that’s not a super feeling for the authors. “For all the finger food that will be gobbled up and all the champagne flutes that will …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMWashington starred in the play on Broadway. So why take it to Netflix, of all places? Washington: “Not everybody has $200 to go and see a play on Broadway. … The economic diversity of ou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMThis may be the last bow for the idea of fall TV. “The more that streaming becomes the default way people watch, the less that the concepts of time on which TV has operated — seasons, sc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMTarantina was known on New York stages before he got involved in movies and TV shows including The Gilmore Girls and, more recently, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMStephen Beagley was a leading classical ballet dancer in the 1970s and 1980s in Britain, and starred in CATS as well. He’s been jailed for 10 years for molesting girls ages 9-13. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMSays one 79-year-old dancer, “While I am dancing, I am very focused. I listen to the music and the lyrics. I also think about my movement: How can I dance beautifully? I actually forget th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMVincent van Goat, of course. – Hyperallergic
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMIt’s not because she likes the publicity or the effort to stay balanced with her hands zip-tied behind her back. It’s the planet. “She hopes to inspire others to flood the streets and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMChildren aren’t reading for their brand, and they’ve got something adults often don’t: Time. Also, “children’s books are where we first encounter myriad aspects of life. Such inten…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMSo says Andrew Marantz, the author of a new book on the topic. “We casually make the analogy between the internet and the public square, or the internet and a town hall, but it’s not rea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMBoth students and alums want a public apology, an independent investigation – and change. “Their allegations include claims of physical intimidation and inappropriate remarks about stude…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AMRhys, who starred opposite American actor Keri Russell in The Americans – and eventually became her partner in life as well – asked her who Rogers was. Rhys: “And then she launched int…
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