Sunday, February 14, 2021
Each lockdown has meant something different for the staff, especially of science and natural history museums. For instance, James Maclaine, senior fish curator at London's Natural History Mu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]The explanation of the current CEO and director of the Indianapolis Museum didn't, perhaps, help. Charles L. Venable said that "the decision to use 'white' had been intentional, and [he] exp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Maybe, but then again, the form has a way of shifting with new information to meet the times. However, it will have to be something other than documentary: "Unless there emerges a bizarre pu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Ballin started volunteering as a docent in the 1970s. "Whatever lucky group she had in tow was pretty much guaranteed a good show. Along with an extensive knowledge of the artworks, she cont…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Lana Condor on the To All the Boys I've Loved Before trilogy author Jenny Han: "When we first were talking years ago, she said, 'I just want you as Lana and as a young Asian-American girl to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]You know his work even if you don't know of the man. "Stalmaster's accomplishments are too numerous to list exhaustively, but among them: He became the first casting director to receive an h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Aime Césaire, whose Discourse on Colonialism remains (all too) relevant " and who protested to some effect in 2005after French President Jacques Chirac instructed schools to teach about the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]First there was Ratatouille: The Musical or Ratatousical, which raised more than a million dollars for actors, with the no doubt bemused blessing of Disney. Then TikTok went sea chanty. Now?…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Of course he did. "Like modern immigration laws, the [1921] Emergency Quota Act inspired a wave of pro-immigration activism, and Porter, who was born to the state's wealthiest family and liv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]The problem isn't earned income lost to tourism (that is, no tourism). The problem is the trustees. "Met trustees established a special fund to deal with the pandemic crisis. So far, accordi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM[SHARE]Of course, we've all probably been watching quite a few things during the past year, but have those things included Academy-honored movies? Time to start, perhaps. " The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Women Artists for Revolution (W.A.R., of course) weren't shy about their rallying cry in 1969. "The group ignited a robust movement against gender discrimination within, and widespread exclu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Turns out it might not be sitting on the couch behind your daughter in the TV room. (Who could have known, pre-pandemic?) " Fast Company
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Well, that sounds hokey. But it's powerful, a program from Georgetown that, a co-founder says, shows "there is a particular power that performance has, to allow us to listen deeply, bear wit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Dear Gavin Newsom, this makes no sense at all. Signed, a lot of LACMA and other art-lovers in California. Weirdly: "LACMA can open its Resnick Pavilion gift shop but not the galleries within…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]Not that left-wing art-lovers can't sympathize (and a socialist mayor in another town is planning to defy the national orders as well), but … well, honestly? This is another seemingly biza…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]Monday, February 8, 2021
For popular music fans, "rock created the music publications we read today. R&B created rock. Blues created R&B. And Mamie Smith made the blues a national sensation." " NPR
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Elton John says his tours can absorb the costs and the paperwork, so theoretically Brexit's horribly negotiated touring musician deals (note: what deals?) don't affect him. But, he adds, "I …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM[SHARE]Five Florine Stettheimer works showed up in 2020. But there was a bit of an issue: "Only two turned out to have been actually created by Stettheimer. Of the other works, two were removed fro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]Nemser started calling out sexism in the art and art history worlds half a century ago. "Her serious criticism and scholarship belied a whimsical streak she would occasionally indulge, as sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]Nothing against the (many) kick-ass, and asskicking, Black actresses of the science fiction universes, but for something closer to reality? Enter Queen Latifah. " Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]Warning people off doesn't work: "We hear a lot about inoculating people against fake news or 'prebunking' it, but new research shows that the best time to fact-check a false headline " a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]In Springfield, Oregon, if you see people wandering around with choose your own adventure-style art books in their hands, don't be surprised: "Three writers, an executive editor and an illus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]Mwazulu Diyabanza is a Congolese activist who would prefer France's museums were open so he could get some attention for taking African objects from their displays "to highlight what he sees…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]Paul Huntley has been doing wigs for so long that he can remember helping construct Elizabeth Taylor's braids for Cleopatra. He's been on Broadway since 1973. But now, after a fractured pelv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Lead singer Nadya Tolokonnikova, who has been imprisoned before for her music and activism: "Art is the most important weapon I have against a repressive regime." " BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Nomadland took top honors at the London Film Critics Circle on Sunday night. Zhao won for screenwriting, though; Steve McQueen took home Best Director honors for Small Axe, his anthology ser…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Hire some choreographers. "Choreo-roboticists (that is, roboticists who work choreographically) believe that incorporating dancerly gestures into machinic behaviors will make robots seem les…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Philip Kennicott: "Inflammation isn't just an actual symptom of the disease. It seems to be part of its etiology, its moral and social origins and effects. Covid makes bad things worse; itÂ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]One youth poet laureate: "She was given the platform to really pull people in and witness the magic of it, and I think that once you get that, you're going to be hooked." " BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]At least in the 18th century. "Wherever they were writing, these women had dared to move out of the conventional female role of service and self-sacrifice to pursue their own needs and drive…
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