Sunday, August 16, 2020
The 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMThat likely condemns a lot of venues to closure. “‘It’s shocking that they don’t just stay until they figure it out,’ says Audrey Fix Schaefer of the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24AMSunday, August 9, 2020
So many legends, so much art, and yet … “Rubbish collects in gutters, litter spills from over-stuffed communal bins, pigeons scavenge among fallen, leaking garbage bags. People w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMGrau, who won the 1965 prize for her fourth book, The Keeper of the House, wrote “stories and novels [that] told of both the dark secrets and the beauty of the Deep South.† 
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM“Maybe you’ve learned the seasons in a new way. Perhaps, in some way, you are a visitor in your city, state, land.†– The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMCarver, one of Canada’s great stage actors, “was an artist who demanded the most from himself, opening up his heart to reveal the pain and beauty of life. He was an inspiration …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMIn the year of the 500th anniversary of Raphel’s death, a 3-D reconstruction of his face, using a plaster mask of his skull, provides what may be “concrete proof that the skelet…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMA question for everyone who loves to read his work: “How should we now regard this pathbreaking, Nobel Prize–winning author, who grappled with our nation’s racial tragedy…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMSoria was the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and former editor of the Italian news weekly L’Espresso. He began his second term as president of the press associa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMNovelist Candice Carty-Williams is astounded and, she says, in love with the list, despite the ways that “Book Twitter was excited but baffled that the offerings we usually expect to b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMThe perfect holiday film? “First broadcast on ITV, at 9pm Christmas Eve 1989, it haunted all who watched it, thanks in part to Wise’s tense, economical direction, and one of the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMPaint what you see – including virtual realities that might just be based on paintings. – CBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMNothing will be the same, or at least for a long while, so why not try something new? “It’s easy to imagine many areas of a theme park resort being refashioned into a special-ev…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMGo back to the time when a switch flipped in Tolstoy’s head: “It’s as if Tolstoy woke up in Pushkin-world and put on his own seven-league boots and started striding over …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMAlan Dershowitz has sued CBS for aâ€defamatory†comment on the TV show The Good Wife. If the plaintiff were to win his lawsuit, it would be a real problem for TV writers and novel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMThe writer of the piece says, “Limitations foster creativity.†These specific limitations also foster free time to watch other people’s creativity, of course. – Dan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMThe Marvel and Star Trek actress, who was heavily criticized for playing the much darker-skinned singer in the 2016 biopic Nina (which has a 2% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, whew). Saldana said…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMAt Berkshire Theatre Group’s outdoor production of Godspell, things are different. “For the artists, it’s a brave new world. … They perform six feet apart in the mu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMNot that it would be easy to fix the issues with Twilight, but author Stephenie Meyer gives it a try with her newest book. So … how did that work out? Uh: “Meyer seems to think t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMArtist Ngarralja Tommy May, a Wangkajunga-Walmajarri artist, has won the major prize at the (streamed) National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art awards. Said another winner (for pai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMThe Condé Nast food magazine’s missteps around race and representation continue. “The departures came a day after three journalists of color said they would no longer p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMMany things have battered the city center over the past two decades. “German mayors have tended to turn to marketing in an effort to attract more people to the city center. With retail…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AMMonday, August 3, 2020
As the Civil War raged, Kentucky was officially neutral – but it was a slave state. Freedom lay just across the river in Indiana, says poet Hannah Drake, whose nonprofit is preparing …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PMAt the Moravian Music Foundation, librarian David Blum “was doing a routine cataloging of material that the foundation has owned for years, [when] he noticed the plate number of the pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PMSome stations have meditation minutes, and some have other ways to fill all of that time when they’d normally have stories about events (the events that aren’t happening right …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PMVÃctor’s hit was the 1991 “Mesita de la Noche,†but before that, his son says, the Dominican singer/songwriter/producer had “lived a double life. … He was w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PMA couple of the filmmakers: “This is where our brains went. Instead of making bread, we were like, ‘what can we do with how we’re creative?'†– NPR
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PMWhy? Perhaps this: “While Ulysses Kay shared stages with the greats of his day, his daughter said over time his compositions haven’t been performed as widely and are often progr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PMAnd, in the U.S., it may be just getting started. A cellist in Pasadena who performs weekly with his wife, a pianist, says, “We thought with so much suffering, and so much anxiety, thi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PMBlocked off seats, reduced capacity, and musicians wear masks and face shields, with dancers keeping far apart as they perform onstage. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AMShakespeare’s birthplace just reopened, and Jane Austen’s house is about to reopen – and some of the changes advantage the visitors coming now. “The cottage where …
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