Monday, April 27, 2020
Aside 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMThe Oscar nominee (for Stand and Deliver) is quarantining alone and promoting a virtual film festival in Los Angeles. Of his friends who are Latino actors, he says, “We want to be known as…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMA virtual reality piece released last October seemed like a wild, enjoyable experiment at the time. But now, the piece (which, not incidentally, is keeping at least 18 actors employed) “sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AMPlease immediately click on this link. Just do. – The Hollywood Reporter
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AMYes, 50 is a lot, but we’re already in week *checks notes* a zillion of this lockdown and no live theatre, so might as well get started, right? – The Stage (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AMSunday, April 26, 2020
Everyone’s concentration is shot right now, and for some, it’s just too hard to focus long enough, either physically or mentally, to read a novel. But “there’s something about readin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM“It’s a mad idea.” Indeed: 50 writers and 50 actors have a virtual mandate. “For Abbey dramaturg Louise Stephens, who works with writers on developing scripts for stage, 100 artists …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMA Facebook group started in Moscow now has tens of thousands of members worldwide, making art of the mundanities of lockdown. “They have been posting their work at a clip of more than 1,00…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM“We can only welcome a massive return of heritage cinema to France Télévisions in this very special period. Let us hope that this frantic desire continues in post-confinement,” they w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PMBasically, the National Theatre has better camerawork than most theatres trying to do broadcasts – and that creates intimacy, the kind of intimacy you might otherwise find only at a life p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMAnd then write essays about them. On the other hand: “The other night I tried Wings of Desire. That really didn’t go well. You could see the kids’ minds were blown by the concept of a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMShe had her retirement dress and her finale plan. She’d stretched and was ready for rehearsal for the performance on March 13. “Suddenly, the carefully choreographed end to Kuykendall’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMThat is the question. The Booker delayed its prize not because it couldn’t have a virtual ceremony, but because book distribution is in a bit of a crisis right now. “According to a state…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMThe Handel and Haydn Society has been around, performing Baroque concerts on period instruments, since 1815. And now it’s time to diversify their programming – and acknowledge the divers…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMAt issue in the SAG-AFTRA talks with the studios is everything from scheduling to residuals, and certainly health insurance as members deal with loss of jobs to the coronavirus shutdown. –…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMParis without tourists looks and feels different – and is a reminder of other traumatic times. “In this stage-set Paris, the monuments still brilliantly illuminated, it is easy to imagin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PMThough the troupe has cut back on performances, it’s still going (Japan has encouraged people to stay home, but hasn’t shut down places like theatres – at the time of writing this post…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMRichard Nelson introduced the Apples in 2010, and then wrote a whole cycle around them in the early 2000s. He moved on to other families for a while. But “for many who met them at the Publ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMWall, longtime professor at Rutgers, changed the world of literature. She “championed racial diversity both in the curriculum and the classroom. She encouraged more black students to major…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMJulie Kent, who played Kathleen: “I do remember talking to Nicholas [Hytner, the film’s director] at the audition about why he wanted to do this movie. . … He said he loved the art for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMThat’s right: Families that quarantine together are starting to dance together (and record the dancing as well). – CBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMIn the protests that followed the death of Freddie Gray, who was in police custody, some artists (of all types) found inspiration and a platform for a country suddenly interested in Baltimor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMLogical, right? (Maybe? Who actually knows?) The New York Public Library’s CEO says that “libraries once they reopen may impose a quarantine period on books that lasts as long as scienti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMICA Watershed in East Boston is closed, of course – but then the staff of the ICA learned that East Boston had one of the area’s highest rates of Covid-19 infection and that the people o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMIn another Hollywood blow, the studio laid off about 50 of its remaining staff – and made those cuts permanent. “We are reconfiguring certain divisions of the studio to allow MGM to oper…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AMMonday, April 20, 2020
The chairwoman of Sotheby’s fine art division says, “In effect, we’ve been in the live theater business. Now we’re segueing into what is more like live streaming. The truth is, that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMAnd everything else about our location, as well; you can download huge files of randomized info about the entire US, if you’d like. “If you’re wondering whether data from your phone is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMThere’s just nothing left, really. “The temporary halt to playing live removes the one dependable way musicians can make money. Royalties from music being played in pubs, clubs and sho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMNow is truly a time when the world could use an update to the beloved C.S. Lewis series. But only 75 copies of the sequel, written by a Narnia lover and scholar, exist. “It may never be co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMThe writers scrambled to end the last episode on a cliffhangar from footage they’d already shot. This is a first: “Neither military dictatorship nor the Rio Olympics halted production of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMHepworth has, for decades, been thought of as a cold and uncaring parent who sent her triplets away when they were four months old so she could get some work done. Surprise: The letters tell…
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