Monday, March 9, 2020
What if you just looked away instead? Another radical idea from Great Britain. –The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMGuess that’s “appropriate social distance.” (For more about how hard the book fair cancellation is hitting Germany’s, and the world’s, book industry, click this link.) – Süddeut…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMLyn Gardner takes a look at history. “Shakespeare’s fellow thespians toured out of London, far away from the plague’s more deadly ravages. But that is not an option for theatremakers i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMWhy is Leeds University a hotbed for feminist art and artists? Well, it’s down to one woman: “Griselda Pollock, professor of social and critical histories of art at Leeds University. Wit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMOne theory about why: “Pandemic fiction is about how people behave in response to acute, sudden-onset helplessness. When we’re confronted with that helplessness in real life, watching so…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMThe Djoser pyramid (built under the famous ancient architect Imhotep) was damaged in an earthquake in the 1990s, but restoration didn’t begin until the early 2000s. Interrupted by the “A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMWhy? Because they’re in city-owned buildings, and “San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced on Friday, March 6, that War Memorial and Performing Arts Center venues, including the Lou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMAfter Hachette canceled its original secretly arrived at plan to publish Allen’s memoir, the horror writer tweeted “The Hachette decision to drop the Woody Allen book makes me very uneas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMThat’s partly because of a craze for exploring abandoned buildings – and partly because the buildings were abandoned in the first place, attracting people who have done everything from k…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMThere’s a lot of plastic in the ocean – and a lot of demand for the nonprofit group Washed Ashore’s large-scale art, including at the Oregon Zoo, the Florida Aquarium, and the Oakland …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMSunday, March 8, 2020
Artists who fled the 1979 revolution with their families – especially if they were young – are seeing a renewed interest in their work from British and US buyers. But there’s “a grow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PMThe neighborhood response is not going well for the museum. “Preservationists and community members called the proposed changes ‘cultural vandalism.’ ‘Why buy a church if you don’t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMSeriously, this book has a lot of endings. – Sri Lanka Mirror
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMAs everyone who’s glanced at anything Guerrilla Girls-related knows, collections across the U.S. are less than welcoming to women and nonbinary artists. A new initiative seeks to change th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMBasically, access to tech could become more equitable if the conferences go online. “There are developers across the U.S. and around the world who get shut out when the conferences get sol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMCathal McNaughton was returning to Delhi after winning a Pulitzer Prize for his photography of desperate Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar. “Without explanation, the Indian authorities esc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMMaïa Mazurette says the times have changed because our context has changed: “Not only does the recognition of our sexual, artistic and worldly continuity allow us to protect ourselves, to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PMThe issues are layered. “Black auteurs frequently don’t get to just worry about making art that speaks to their own interests. Because of discrimination in Hollywood, creators also shou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMThe exhibitor’s email to the curator: “Your presence on the stand would unfortunately create hesitation on the part of the audience to enter the exhibition space.” When it came to ligh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMIt seems that Europe and England aren’t as interested in supporting the singer quite as strongly as they were a year ago. Their support in the face of allegations of sexual harassment “b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMKaren Russell: “When I fixate on this math, I begin to have the panicked sense that I gave up time with my son to delete three paragraphs; suddenly writing badly feels like stealing from h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMChris Emile does DIY dance all over LA, bringing in audiences who normally might stay away from spaces like museums, or from traditional dance stages. He says, “It was really important for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMAs festivals in the US, France, Italy and elsewhere cancel because of fears of COVID-19, producers struggle to stay positive. Kelly Oxford, whose movie Pink Skies Ahead was supposed to premi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMPicture doing this job: “Alicia Rodis walks onto set in New York with a mission: to oversee the shooting of a very complex – and daring – group sex scene for a TV series on a major US …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMTurner drew on surrealism, abstract expressionism, and much more for his works. “In recent years, spurred by cardboard shelters in the homeless encampments along the Tiber River that he sa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PMDespite the issues of the past ten years – forest fire smoke, some ugly moments in the town between a small business owner and some company members, not to mention that beam collapse in 20…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMAn exhibition that covers 1000 years is going to have some unknown artists, but in addition, “native women’s art was usually anonymized and identified by tribal affiliation when exhibite…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMSure, the Armory Show is a big one, but every fair needs its gimmick. “As fairs proliferate, to about 300 worldwide, their organizers introduce new features, like panel discussions and con…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AMAnd not just because thousands of partying music fans are heading their way – or rather, yes, because of that, and the potential for all those possible carriers of COVID-19 to be in one ho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AMThe short-video media service debuts in April with 50 shows and a lot of Hollywood stars. But seriously: What is it? First of all: Quibi is short (of course) for Quick bites. Cute. – The N…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AMMonday, March 2, 2020
What’s new? Well, a new Dutchman (Bryn Terfel got hurt, preventing him from singing at the Met again), a new Senta, and an entirely new production that’s dream-like, “a heady mixture o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM 
