Monday, 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 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMStockholm’s subway system is stocked: “Since construction began in 1950, some 250 artists have decorated 94 stations across 68 miles of track.” – Wired
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMWell, perhaps it’s the perfect time. “Readers, for their part, will emerge feeling doomed—yet oddly uplifted.” – The Economist
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMIt seems unthinkable that Saturday Night Live could go on right now, but April 11’s show may mark something of a milestone – and a cultural record that should prove to be invaluable for …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMThe poem is made up (artfully) of lines from corporate emails. One stanza: “Feeling Fiesta today? Happy Taco Tuesday!Calories don’t count during a pandemicGrocers report flour shortages …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMComic-book publishing, comics stores, the writers, the artists, and everyone are in serious trouble. “The industry has been throttled at every juncture. Comic-store owners have shuttered t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMWhen there’s another pandemic, your theatre can be the one making history with broadcasts on YouTube or, who knows, something on Quibi. – The Stage (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMWellbeing isn’t individual; it’s social. And in this, the Great Pause, we see that “It’s not quite a revolution, but it’s an epic conceptual awakening. … In some ways it’s like…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMThe opera singer says that the lyric arts are particularly at risk with the shutdown, and he addresses President Macron directly in his column. “I speak on behalf of troubadours and acroba…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMWell, why not? The original essayist might be the way to go. “On Solitude is one of Montaigne’s many small masterpieces. It’s an essay, typically short and, as always, disarmingly conv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMThe charity Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS was planning a stream of a November 2019 (remember those halcyon days?) concert that celebrated the 25th anniversary of Disney on Broadway. Prob…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMSoprano Vuvu Mpofu grew up surrounded by music in church choirs and school, but when she first heard an aria when she was 15, “the girl plunged into the library to find out where the music…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMArtists from San Diego, Chicago, Saskatchewan, New York, and more weigh in. Dia Bassett, for instance: “With the COVID-19 pandemic, my life as a mom to a toddler is more confined. My paren…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMNow it’s pretty much stopping with the garden pots as well as the artists can’t mentor young proteges in the studio. But the already created ceramics are serving a purpose: “We hope th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMDeborah Roberts, 57, who was set to have her first solo show in September, says, “My daddy hated art and said it was never going to be nothing. He would say, ‘What are you doing that for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMSunday, April 12, 2020
Truth: “Art meme-ing has long been with us, but some mix of quarantine creativity, idle isolation and the need to connect through humor in these uncertain times is sparking a stream of mis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMThe iconic San Francisco bookstore founded by Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti said in its GoFundMe appeal that it was continuing to pay salaries and health care for its employees, but that i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PMThe actor, who had success as a child and in her teens and early twenties, says that social isolation with her dog isn’t the worst thing. “This feels like heaven in a lot of ways because…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMNovelist Waubgeshig Rice: “It kind of blew my mind. … I wrote that plot point of Moon of the Crusted Snow just as a what if, not as a how-to guide.” – CBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMThe museum says it’s facing a $10 million shortfall and must furlough 92 people and reduce the salaries for 85 more. The furloughed staff members, “which union officials said include abo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMWho decided messing with Edna O’Brien was a good idea? Ian Parker of The New Yorker, that’s who. But “after a complicated relationship with her home country – in 2015 President Micha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PMIdled theatres can’t earn money, can’t meet grant requirement deadlines, and have nothing they can do with huge sets or out-of-work actors or stage crews. It’s not OK. “O’Gara conc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMPodcast from home, of course. (Or work in video games or animation – those industries, perhaps unsurprisingly, are doing just fine.) – Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PMPatchett isn’t actually alone because her co-owner and staff are still coming in, carefully distanced from each other, to work so they can ship books to all of those desperately wanting ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMAre books therapeutic? Is reading itself, with the concentration it requires, even possible now? Yes, but make it social. “The experience has been, by turns, surprisingly insightful and pr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMAt least in one West Coast city – though truly, everywhere in the U.S. – “It’s pretty grim. … Everyone is experiencing the worst.” – Oregon Artswatch
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMJohnson choreographed the film adaptation of The Wiz and won a Tony for his choreography for Purlie. He performed in both stage and screen versions of Damn Yankees, created works for the Alv…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMWhen the Archbishop of Turin, Cesare Nosiglia, announced the church would livestream the Shroud, things in the world of the mysterious sacred artifact got a bit weird. “Whether Nosiglia kn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PMNo, that’s not different from the U.S. or Nigeria, but Bollywood stars, directors, production companies, dancers and everyone else are trying to figure out what to do next. “Given the sp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMBaillie “personified the Bay Area experimental cinema of the 1960s as an independent filmmaker and consummate 16-millimeter craftsman whose most extraordinary movie is a single panning sho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMNo Lincoln Center Out of Doors, no Mostly Mozart Festival, no summer programming at all. – NPR
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