Monday, August 17, 2020
Sarah Cooper is a UX engineer who, during lockdown, decided to take advantage of TikTok and the United States president’s, er, unique response to the pandemic, earning her a huge resp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMWell, why not let a video game provide a virtual mosh pit, virtual vendors, and a musical experience that lasts for days? “The super fans eat it up because they’re excited in a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMLion Forge is a Black-owned animation studio, the only Black-owned animation studio. For founders and staff, that makes its mission different. “It’s representation on the screen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMComedian Tig Notaro is replacing disgraced actor Chris D’Elia in Army of the Dead, but how exactly does that play out during quarantine? It doesn’t. “The film will mix fu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMClemency Burton-Hill works as the creative director at WQXR, New York’s classical station, and has been a BBC presenter, including a lot of Proms coverage. In early 2020, she had a ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMYes, obviously, humans are animals, and also obviously, we don’t truly know how to get into the mind of a hyena or a fox or a dog, but still: In these books, readers can “expand…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMThe murals were, as one versed in the history of white supremacist rhetoric in the U.S. might guess, created in the 1930s. In one, “Development of the Sciences by artist Albert C. Runq…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMIn 2020, some things to remember about M.A.S.H., and especially Hawkeye: “Hawkeye taught us that when your world is disintegrating, it is not only possible but utterly necessary to cra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMOr so says the director of an arts production company in the UK. “It’s a brave new world out there, and we’re all going to have to adapt. There are no limits to what our …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMRemote learning isn’t all about what articles and resources teachers can cobble together from the internet – especially when a lot of students can only get online occasionally,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PMBasically, AMC is creating a breeding ground for viral spreading (and not the good kind of viral): “Look, no one wants to get back in a movie theater more than I do — well, OK, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32AMHurtado spent eight decades “resolutely committed to documenting the interconnectedness of human beings, nature, and terrestrial life,†according to her gallery. In the past two …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32AMSunday, August 16, 2020
During the height of the first wave of the coronavirus, it seemed this day would never come. Now, “it’s odd how the surreal can become de rigueur. At the Gardner I barely notice…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMTalk about your unprecedented times. Buckingham Palace needs a plumbing update, so the paintings, including Vermeer’s The Music Lesson and two Rembrandts, have to find a temporary hom…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMThis is a good time for some required quarantine viewing, no? And it’s always a good time to check out how good directors, dramaturgs, and designers (not to mention actors) can turn S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMThinking about what we’ve had – Batman, Superman – well, it’s time for a change. “A new guard of superheroism doesn’t simply mean diversity. It makes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMLighting designers, sound engineers, tour managers, caterers, bus drivers, and more – all laid off more or less permanently, nebulously, until a vaccine. Their unions and associations…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMSeriously, SAG-AFTRA? During a global pandemic that has a lot of members out of work? Well, trustees say, “By 2024, the Health Plan is projected to run out of reserves. We must prevent…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMNovelist Helen Garner terrified her friends for years with what they called her pitiless writer’s eye – detached, curious, and omnivorous. But as she ages, she’s found i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMIn northern Australia, indigenous people are reclaiming land and landmark names. “These changes are about time, mate, but we always kept the names when we worked on country anyway �
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMA casting director’s dismissive “You should try indie movies, honey†changed Garner’s career, and life. – The Hollywood Reporter
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMBut will New Yorkers accept the new song? Musician RZA: “I can assure you that this one is made with love.†– Gothamist
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMThis is not to excuse the United States’ patchwork of school tests, the weirdness (and inequity) of the ACT or SAT, but … wow. “The coronavirus pandemic means exams were c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMOK, let’s get metaphysical: “‘The true present is a dimensionless speck,’ Alan Burdick writes in his book Why Time Flies. ‘The specious present, in contras…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMEmphasis on that radical, please, when you’re talking about author Carol Shields. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMThe camera operators’ job applications asked them to list their skills at things like mountain biking, river rafting, and hiking. Those aren’t on the skillsheets for a lot of c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMLovecraft was clearly racist and clearly an anti-Semite – and guess what? He also thought the Irish were inferior. “Such prejudices weren’t simply background colour. They…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMActors rehearsing for the musical Sleepless get test results within 45 minutes on an app. One of the actors says, “It does actually feel amazing to just be hearing people sing again. I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMYou may not know you know his work, but you definitely do. A partial description: “Emmy-winning composer who worked with Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley, scored Steven Spielberg�
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMManz also featured in Dennis Hopper’s Out of the Blue. – Variety
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMThe Golden Notebook, published almost 60 years ago now, gets to the heart of almost everything (depressingly, still) going on right now. “Lessing — like Anna — is unafrai…
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