Sunday, May 17, 2020
Ballet dancers don’t know when they’ll perform again, or even when they can dance with others again (aside from those in their own homes). One advantage to online classes: Dancers can jo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PMAt Tanglewood, “the organization explored various alternatives to canceling the season, at one point sending a drone up above the expansive lawn to think about how social distancing might …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMAuthor Robin Sloan: “I think you need to tread lightly, and really disguise your intentions—even to yourself, if possible—or you end up producing a sci-fi after-school special, the ‘…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMSure, it can be lonely – and nothing can replace being in the room where the art happens – but, well, it could be a lot worse. “I’m only being semi-facetious when I say that a Thursd…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMIf the internet has come to rely not entirely, but very near universally, on visual culture and then Facebook buys that visual culture, what does it mean? – The Verge
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMDelsarte’s large-scale public murals are his best-known works, but he also painted and created drawings and prints. His murals, though, they’re the ones that everyone in New York (and el…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMA funny, sweet message from a theatre in Oregon caught on with the Instagram crowd, and it’s not the only one. Its creator, who says his small movie theatre provides a true home for cineph…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMWith 93 percent of those polled saying they miss live theatre, it’s perhaps a surprise that only 19 percent of those polled said they would buy tickets immediately when theatres and other …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMIf you’re a Janeite, you already know this. If not, truly: “To be a woman of a certain class in Regency England was to be socially distanced by default—isolated in the country-side, li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMJayne Blanchard isn’t into the National Theatre’s (wildly popular) streams. He’s not thrilled with the general flatness of screens compared to, well, face to face. It is, he says, most…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AMMonday, May 11, 2020
Will publishers finally use their data to sell books themselves instead of relying on the fragile chain that is Amazon? Will indies survive? Will they survive if they combine forces? It’s …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMNana Ruby reads almost her weight in books every week, but the libraries are closed. Where to turn? – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM“What does it mean to be worth something? Or worth enough? Or worthless? What does it mean to earn a living? What does it mean to be hired? What does it mean to be let go? It’s May now. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMInstead of a virtual Cannes, though, the prestigious festival “will be organizing a ‘redeployment ‘outside the walls’ (of Cannes), in collaboration with fall festivals,’ said the s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMMost theatres won’t reopen until 2021 (if they can even open then), says the leader of Equity. “While it may be possible for some sections of the audiovisual industry to go back to work …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMRobertson loved classical lines, but “there was no inconsistency between his love of grand classical architecture and his passionate belief in cities: It was all about finding ways to turn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMIn Victorian times, long exposure times meant moms had to find a way to keep their little ones sitting still long enough to be seen, while also fading into the background themselves.” �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMFrench publishing, and its associated literary prizes like the (now somewhat disgraced) Goncourt, has long crowded the fall with a flood of titles (which has, in normal years, made the sprin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMSo Tenet is scheduled to come out July 17, which seemed like a long time ago when the lockdown began, but … wow, that’s soon. “The equation being pored over in Hollywood is whether pen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMFor students at performing arts schools, the lost senior recitals, plays, dance recitals and more are not just about losing the opportunity to share performances with family: This is their c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMOdell’s simply considering things, not worried about producing art during the lockdown. “I have been thinking about that redirecting of attention. Our grocery store has the usual spaced-…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMWright, whose first hit came when she was 17 and who produced and mentored scores of other performers as she aged, had 20 singles in the Billboard R&B Top 40 and a voice that blew other …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMLinda Boström Knausgard has some pretty good ideas about that. The writer, ex-wife of Karl Ove Knausgard, has published two of her own novels in quick succession. “It’s a fresh start. M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMWhat does he think will happen now? “Nothing will go back to how it was and the new normal will reflect some aspects of lockdown life. More people will work from home, more people will coo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMOr rather, misuses the textile, a late-18th-century military rank badge. “Byron Breedlove and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, authors of the cover feature ‘Auspicious Symbols of Rank and Status,’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMSunday, May 10, 2020
Little Richard, the pianist and singer behind “Long Tall Sally,” “Tutti Frutti,” and many more, was the epitome of early rock and roll. His musical influence was massive, but his “…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMActually, Marabar, the million-pound granite sculpture, isn’t the problem: The National Geographic Society’s plan for expansion is the problem. Artist Elyn Zimmerman isn’t happy with t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMThe innovative music executive founded Uptown Records and changed the sound of R&B and rap in the 1980 and 1990s. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMAfter many members of SAG-AFTRA and other Hollywood unions were locked out of a bill that was supposed to help freelance and self-employed artists, the unions are calling for changes. “Mus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM“‘Finally, there’s a glimmer of hope!’ wrote one enthusiastic cinephile.” – Variety
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PMAustralian writer Mem Fox knows what it’s like to worry about being well enough, surviving long enough, to finish a book. “She feels the terror in her body – something like cold sweats…
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