Sunday, May 3, 2020
Allen was a Nigerian drummer who perhaps didn’t invent Afrobeat but certainly popularized it and took it everywhere. “Allen’s swirl of jazz, Yoruba and highlife was unlike anything the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36PMThe U.S. and other countries have been looking to China and Italy to predict what the pandemic would be like during the most intense times of infection. Now, take Wuhan as an example, the sl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36PMThis isn’t a great time for teachers and performers of improv comedy. Caroline Martin, who taught at Upright Citizens Brigade: “I have seen and been invited to do improv shows online on …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30PMStreetscapes aren’t looking too great right now in many cities. And “museums and galleries around the world have locked their doors as people wait out the coronavirus pandemic in isolati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMIn Oregon, arts organizations know Ronni Lacroute, and she knows what they need – usually. Right now, says the philanthropist, things are just a bit different: “The way I donate hasn’t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMN.K. Jemisin won three Hugo Awards in a row for her Broken Earth trilogy, a science fictional world where the protagonist is a middle-aged Black woman (and mother). But to get to that point,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMKhan, who was only 53 when he died earlier this week, had a quality common in French cinema but rarely embraced in Bollywood: He was jolie laide, beautifully ugly or ugly beautiful, but more…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMAnd that trust took him to some weird places in Lorrain’s newest movie, Ema. Bernal: “All films are mysteries; you don’t know how they’re going end up . . . but this one had mystery …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMDavies was also a fierce advocate for the art form at the Photographers’ Gallery, intended to be democratic in its shows and its audiences. “School parties were encouraged, as were discu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMThere’s even a Twitter account to analyze exactly what’s going on: “As the broadcast industry shelters in place, the bookcase has become the background of choice for television hosts, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMThe reactions of AMC and other chains to NBCUniversal’s touting of a streaming-only release of the movie Trolls: World Tour is head-shakingingly weird. Almost everyone is stuck at home –…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMIntimacy comes from much more than the sound design for sex scenes, intense though they may be in Hulu’s 12-part Normal People. The music throughout the series, as with other audio queues,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM“It is a documentary not about the coronavirus, but about the intimate experience of the confinement that is obviously transformed into a film with dramatic, comical moments, especially to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMChoreographer Paul Taylor once wrote of McGehee, “She is basically a lyric dancer but she can turn into a spark-ejecting demonette when cast in dramatic roles.” She taught the Graham tec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMPhotographer Robin Schwartz is used to quarantine, having dealt with being isolated during cancer treatments, but it’s only intensified lately. Luckily, her subjects are the same as ever: …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMThe concert hall was empty; the musicians were greatly reduced in number and sitting far from each other; they wore masks backstage and were tested before the event. “Though the seating ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMThere’s literally nothing to report for the box office this week of 2020, so why not go back in history and see what was going on 98 years ago, during the first year of box office reportin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMJonas ran the English National Opera and the Bavarian State Opera in his career, emphasizing “bold interpretive approaches to the great yet elusive and multilayered operas of the past.” …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMPerry (The Essex Serpent) couldn’t even go into her study at first; books seemed items of contempt. But: “Recently I have concluded that all this amounts to a kind of failure of courage.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMThe dancers rehearsed at home and performed on streets and beside canals. “I like this project because we can show what we want to do, and what we’re waiting to do again. … Art, right …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMMonday, April 27, 2020
“We have all sometimes taken opera, and opera houses, and opera singers, for granted. No longer.” – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMSerge Alain Nitegeka can’t travel even when there’s not a global pandemic: He lives in South Africa, but he was born in Rwanda, and his family fled during the massacres in 1994. So for a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMMight there be a massive shift in the cultural zeitgeist – and might New York not be quite such a playground for millionaires, billionaires, and real estate firms anymore? If so, the arts …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMWhat timing: “It was an exuberant, whirlwind stretch for Jader Bignamini in late January, when the young conductor was unveiled as new music director for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.”…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMThose who signed the appeal to the government include Rufus Wainwright, Anish Kapoor, and Simon Callow. The letter calls “for urgent funding for creative organisations and professionals wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMEven though it’s hard to teach hula online – first the hands, then the feet, then the body, on Zoom calls – one instructor says it’s “giving us an opportunity to see each other, �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMThe alt-right troll army has found, and targeted, the author of a book about abuse. She says, “I knew the book needed to be written – but I didn’t know it needed to be written this bad…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMThe staff want to more info, and they want to see more sacrifices from the folks at the top. “Although the federal loan received by the museum may offer some relief, SFMOMA’s workers con…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMAxel Sheffler is used to being alone at home as he works on illustrating books. But his publisher had heard from a teacher friend that kids weren’t doing as well. The result: A swiftly pub…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMThat is, until its Buddhist monk owner developed dementia and decided to let his collection go. – The Observer (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMAside from drive-ins, we can’t go to the movies. A trickle are coming out online, but “if you thought choosing a film at the multiplex was difficult, finding that same new movie in the c…
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