Sunday, March 29, 2020
Since many of us are having to use Zoom for work and choosing to use it for seeing family and friends, that’s a good change. And we’ll take good news right now, honestly. – Vice
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMThe classical music critic got to watch a rapper marched offstage after verbally assaulting a host and throwing a drink at the crowd. She said, “I was surprised he had his shirt off and tr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMFor actors, writers, directors, and all of the many, many thousands of craft workers, there’s a little help: “The act includes a provision known as Pandemic Unemployment Assistance that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PMDespite her nomination being rejected by Downing Street last year, the British Museum appointed her anyway. “The Cambridge don, who will take up the role for an initial period of four year…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMRemember last fall and winter? Well, there were plans: “Months ago, in what now feels like another era, publishers planning their 2020 schedules hoped to avoid releasing books in the fall,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PMThere’s no touring, no practicing for Coachella, no videos filming. There’s nothing. “As the entertainment business comes to a halt, commercial dancers and choreographers — the perf…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMBosé won the Miss Italy beauty pageant in 1947, which eventually led to her acting career. She worked with Italian neorealists, Jean Cocteau, Juan Antonio Bardem, Federico Fellini and many …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMNot everyone is happy about this. “Opponents of LACMA’s building project have zeroed in on county funding that includes $117.5 million released last April, arguing that the money should…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AMWhy now? “As an adult, I’ve try to keep my performing past under wraps. Being a theater nerd was never cool to begin with, but … polite society seems to find something sad about being …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMCould some of this be the future of online theatre? “In response to this crisis, Actors Equity Association created a new, temporary streaming agreement available for select producers t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMDaniels, once a leading countertenor and now facing a separate criminal charge for sexual assault in Texas, “was deemed not eligible for severance pay. According to the university, Daniels…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMBen Brantley: “Remember that plays — even those lofty classics that show up on college reading lists — are meant to be spoken and heard. And saying their lines aloud, no matter how clu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMDespite petitions with thousands of signatures and attempts at local legislation, many galleries aren’t eligible for small business loans and other relief. “April 1 is quickly approachin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMSo what are they doing instead of booking, acting, producing, and bartending? Hosting livestreamed music classes for kids in the morning and asking watchers to donate $5 if they have it; bui…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AMDespite a $25 million stimulus package for the Kennedy Center, the musicians of the NSO were told late Friday night that their April 3 paycheck would be their last, and their health care wou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24AMMonday, March 23, 2020
Founded by a playwright, the Social Distancing Festival has, not surprisingly, already gotten hundreds of submissions, with more coming by the minute. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMMo Willems, Grace Lin, Gene Luen Yang, Amie Kaufman and so many others are offering drawing lessons, read alouds, virtual book tours and so much more online. Oliver Jeffers: “We are all at…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMWho needs Netflix when you’ve got the Canadian Film Board, right? (Also, if you like Canadian work, Kim’s Convenience is on Netflix.) – CBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMDisney is so big it’s even creating metaphors about itself in its many, many, many, many properties. “Disney’s gravitational pull is warping the very space-time continuum of the media …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMIn addition, as a huge show in London is suspended because of the COVID-19 outbreak, he says, “Cultural institutions are probably the last to be damaged, but the first to show how severely…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMSays one freelance photographer and bartender, “All my jobs have been canceled at the photo studio, and now my safety job has disappeared too.” One academic who studies the music industr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMMiles founded Women’s Project and eventually the WP Theater, where she and others “produced more than 600 plays written and directed by women over a 42-year history, nurturing artists li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMTen picks from the NYT include podcasts from curators, artists, and critics in Los Angeles, London, Australia, Canada, Italy, and more. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMWhen fire, smoke, and water pumped in for more than 20 hours ripped through the archives at the Museum of the Chinese in America in late January, the staff thought all of the more than 85,00…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMNo one is comfortable buying tickets yet (literally no one, as in zero people, in two of the provinces where theatres reopened), but the distributors had a plan for that: “Most of the film…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PMMarsha Hunt, who “never wanted to do anything but act,” was on the list when the “Red Channels” were published, claiming she was a Communist or “fellow traveler.” Why? Because sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMThe sudden loss of community is especially marked in theatre. “As companies cancel productions that were months to years in the making for the sake of social distancing and self-quarantini…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMBanff laid off 75 percent of its staff members as classes closed, and the Stratford Festival (reported in a separate CBC story, here) “laid off 495 people Friday and says another 440 will …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMAfter multiple sketches and a cold open, not to mention a quarantine-themed title sequence, Ian Abramson might be just a bit exhausted. “If it doesn’t kill him, Abramson should do this a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AMThe singer “said that he is currently in good health but decided to get tested after experiencing ‘fever and cough symptoms.'” – CNN
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:12AMSunday, March 22, 2020
Er, maybe move online this year, film festivals? “Cannes organizers are looking at the possibility of postponing the event by about six weeks, until late June, in the optimistic hope that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM 
