Monday, April 20, 2020
Hepworth 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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMMargalit Fox: “Beard, a New York photographer, artist and naturalist to whom the word ‘wild’ was roundly applied, both for his death-defying photographs of African wildlife and for his…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMShooting may not resume until at least August for most productions – or it may be far later – but while most everyone in cast, crew, and production teams are out of work, some are franti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMBefore Twitter, before 24-hour cable news, before instantaneous visual information flooding our lives, there was the poster. “Produced and displayed on a massive scale, these posters used …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMHazama, in this podcast: “My main study back in Japan was to be a film composer. But at the time, computer was taking over the entire industry. My thing was to write for acoustic musicians…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMZadie Smith, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, Marilynne Robinson, Tayari Jones, and many more winners of what used to be the Orange Prize explain what it does. Ann Patchett: “Even now, I’ll be …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMContemplating Giotto as the virus closes in, the author says, “Assisi is a city where religious pilgrims come to pray, study, and convene. Before the virus, nuns, priests, monks, and frier…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMAfter the Italian shutdown, Marchini immediately “went viral” (but in a good, pre-Covid-19 way) when he performed from his balcony on March 13. He didn’t even know it because, he says,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMAre blockbusters over? Can galleries survive, and, if they do, will they be more important than museums? And can art-world social media come back from the thirsty ferret tweet? – The Guard…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMWhat started as a jokey way to help fellow cast members share dance moves turned into an emotionally moving performance with 44 different cast members dancing everywhere – alone with masks…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AMSunday, April 19, 2020
Bailey, who taught at the Yale School of Art for decades, created “pristine, idealized still lifes and female nudes [that] made him one of the leading figures in the return of figurative a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PMOf course, streaming services are dominating at the moment for whenever the industry can start shooting again. “The market is active enough that even companies with stacked-up development …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PMAs they fight viral virus misinformation, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others are making some choices that, while they may be good for public health in the short term, have some First Amen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMGreenwell, the author of What Belongs to You and Cleanness, compares his new book to Schubert’s Winterreise and says, “It’s not that I think writing sex explicitly is in and of itself …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMThe Tesla Quartet, founded in 2008, was doing OK, even well, at last. “The four players, aged 34 to 38, have long relied on relatives, friends and concert presenters for temporary housing,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMTurns out that many actors, writers, and producers were already in theatre – and that balancing the arts and sciences came naturally. Now that it’s all science, and all terrifying, they�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PMIt’s going to be quite some time. Why? “‘New York and Los Angeles are going to take a lot more time [to reopen] than Montana,’ predicts Jeff Bock, a box office analyst with Exhibitor…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMThe tapestry, which depicts in 100 medieval panels the Book of Revelations, is a vivid glimpse into how people lived through plague and war. And: “It is remarkable that the tapestry still …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMThe hosts of the podcast Were You Raised by Wolves? used to answer questions about the etiquette of using your cell phone flashlight to read restaurant menus. Then things they answered at th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PMThe MinaLima Studio worked on the Potter movies, founded a popup gallery that has become permanent, and now designs not only the Fantastic Beast movies but also fairy tales and a variety of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PMFicre Ghebreyesus, a chef who combined Eritrean and Ethiopian food, kept a studio where he painted, but didn’t exhibit his work. His widow: “The thing that was cool about Ficre as a chef…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PMIn other words, they weren’t going to issue refunds – but the “everyone” who was furious started to include lawmakers, things changed (to be clear, the company claims the change had …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AMThe actor, a Tony nominee and Broadway regular, has been through a lot while fighting the virus. Now, doctors had to amputate his right leg to stop clotting. – Variety
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AMMountains were long thought to be impermeable barriers between ancient communities – but this one, with finds ranging from horseshoes and sleds to wool tunics and mittens, is one of many p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AMThis is not a great time for writers (or anyone else, of course). Before this plot twist, “many were predicting writers would stage their first walkout since 2007, but WGA leaders recently…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AMSays Claude Romano, a French philosopher, “One can be tempted to read in order to escape, but one can also read to fully inhabit the present moment and make it the space of a meditation.�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AMSepúlveda, who died of complications from Covid-19 in Spain, was imprisoned by the Chilean dictator’s regime and then was released to house arrest before he escaped, living underground fo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AMAnd that’s a drive-in in Ocala, Florida. (Of course it’s Florida.) “the Ocala drive-in made up the entire revenue of the top-grossing film of last weekend, Swallow, which brought in $1…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AMThe world got louder, and so did the orchestra. After all, “before the Industrial Revolution, the principal sources of noise were thunder, church bells and cannon fire.” – The New York…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AMIt’s hard to describe this, but basically, actress Kathryn Hahn and her family are staging Glengarry Glen Ross with American Girls dolls, filming the results, and uploading them to YouTube…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AMMonday, April 13, 2020
Suddenly, La Pedrera in Barcelona went from tens of thousands of visitors per day to … no one. Ana Viladomiu is one of the few people there. “Two other tenants remain in another part of …
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