Sunday, April 12, 2020
No Lincoln Center Out of Doors, no Mostly Mozart Festival, no summer programming at all. – NPR
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMWhen should Hollywood start up again – and can it fix all of this? “Until now, lackadaisical hygiene has largely been accepted as part of the job. While production was shut down in an …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMNo matter how bad the technology may be, actors gonna act; singers gonna sing; and a theatre-loving public may get some benefit from the many performance livestreams. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMOrganists and cantors prepare to play for live streams instead of live services. On the other hand, sometimes that’s a bigger crowd: “Fewer than 600 people would tune in to watch the cat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMRodriguez, a writer, actor, and former associate artistic director at Center Theatre Group, died of cancer on Friday. “‘Diane was an incredibly disciplined artist, with equal talent as a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMMonday, April 6, 2020
The writer prompted the National Arts Center of Canada to launch virtual book tours for authors with new books out during the pandemic shutdown. Authors are “‘really pinched,’ Atwood s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:03PMWhenever that is, of course. Some movie theatre owners expect that they will: “We strongly believe there will be a rush to cinemas to see all kinds of movies because people will just want …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMAnd now it wants to win over its critics by being honest about how many of its artifacts had tainted histories – or were entirely fake. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMEmily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven was much recommended in the coronavirus’ early days – but even she thought people shouldn’t be reading it right now. Her new novel is about the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMSebastian Barry goes for the real classics: “It seems uncanny that there is a radiant book for these times, although it was written 2,000 years ago.” – The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMWhy not? It’s National Poetry Month, after all, and poems can refocus the mind, bringing it gently back to focus. You might even try memorizing a poem or two. – The Atlantic
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMBosworth, who was part of the Actors Studio with Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroes, gave up acting to write instead – and write she did, about Diane Arbus, Jane Fonda, Montgomery Clift, Ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMThat’s right, it’s not a portrait: It’s a doortrait. – The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMBut this year, another plague broke the record. “This year’s Passion Play, scheduled to premiere in May and run through the summer, had to be abandoned because of the coronavirus. An ep…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM“You’re a pony; you’re a firecracker; you’re a shape-shifter; you’re using your bookshelf as a stabilizer for butt wiggling. Given humanity’s terminal uncertainty now, I feel par…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMHow can a film like Never Rarely Sometimes Always get an audience in the age of social distancing and sheltering in place? Well, contemporary events might actually help. “Given that multip…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMWhy? “He recommends everyone drawing with open eyes. ‘I would suggest they really look hard at something and think about what they are really seeing.'” – The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMOne Met Opera dancer said that his counterparts in other cities should “get to know your rights under the newly passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (known as the CARES…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AMThe dancers, especially the freelancers, are facing terrible losses of income and camaraderie, not to mention fitness opportunities. “Self-training isn’t anything new to dancers, but in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32AMBurmann, who died of renal failure after testing positive for COVID-19, was “a revered ballet master and teacher who trained generations of dancers, including Alessandra Ferri, Julio Bocc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32AMSunday, April 5, 2020
Via this year’s deeply reimagined Sydney Biennale, now called NIRIN: “The impact of COVID-19 is both a significant challenge and a threshold for new beginnings. An international art worl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PMMcKinnell was a 26-year-old graduate student and a teaching assistant for architect Gerhard Kallmann when the city hall competition arose. Their “heroically sculptural and democratically o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMThe founder of Opera Povera posted the idea to perform an Oliveros opera, and the opera world responded quickly and in numbers. The plan for the participant opera and fundraiser for musician…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMWhat a music critic who lives close to a major hospital hears in, and beyond, the now-constant sirens. “Most American ambulances contain an ‘electronic box in each vehicle, which comes p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMThe author is on her 111th novel – she long ago stopped buying her signature chunky silver rings for each book – and this one might be her most personal. “Wilson is the fairy goth-moth…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PMSure, Shakespeare and the Bible outsell Agatha Christie, but otherwise, she’s the tops. “Agatha Christie’s novels have sold more than one billion copies in the English language and ano…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMTens of thousands of Hollywood and theatre workers are out of work right now. But they’ve found a rallying cause: “With no end in sight to the crisis, costumers — whose job is to creat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMDance classes, “clubbing” from home, and other dance-related videos (and Instagram Stories, Zooms, etc.) are keeping loneliness at bay as nearly everyone has orders to shelter in place. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMThe influence of Schnitzer – whose name is on the Oregon Symphony’s hall – on the Portland and Pacific Northwest arts scene can hardly be overstated. “Schnitzer was a towering cultur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMQuibi – whose ads you’ve likely seen if you’ve been online at all in the past four months – was meant to be a short-form video platform that people watched in moments of their commut…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PMAlvarez, the author of In the Time of the Butterflies and the new Afterlife, isn’t trying to be facetious or to downplay the importance of health care workers or grocery clerks. But, quoti…
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