Monday, 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 03:06PMSnapchat is trying to figure it out, but guess what? Condensing narrative into tiny, smart-phone-attention-span-sized pieces is a challenge. “There’s no time for slow builds on mobile.�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMUnsurprisingly – but not a great look for the men of French cinema – mostly women have supported Adèle Haenel after she walked out when Roman Polanski was awarded for his film about the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMAs the Iranian government grows more repressive of artists, director Mohammed Rasoulof was banned from leaving the country and jailed for a year. “Punishment like Rasoulof’s is an all-to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMSo of course there are floats and princesses and the requisite Disney Doing Disney Things going on with the Magic Happens parade, but: “The stars of Magic Happens are the dancers, signific…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PMOn Sunday, the museum closed “after workers expressed fear of being contaminated by the stream of visitors from around the world. Staffers were also concerned about museum workers from Ita…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMWhen the mayor saw the sprinklers turned on in a place where people had been camping all winter, the city got involved. “After people from the mayor’s office tried to contact officials a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMThat’s not going over well at the Museum. “In response to the first rejection of a proposed British Museum trustee by No 10 for many years, the museum is understood to be planning to tak…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMThe Strauss family were outraged by the 1970 film, which aired on the BBC, and withdrew permission for Strauss’ music. Now it’s out of copyright, and showing again in England. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMJust keep clicking “Play next” (or don’t click the auto-play off, maybe) because the original figures about streaming were overestimated by a factor of, scientists now say, 30-60 times…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMMcBride is also a realist, which is why he loves novels. “In the real world, villains too often succeed and heroes, too often die. … In novels you can move matters around … you get to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMThe Oakland-based painter, who has a current solo show after a curator saw one of her paintings in Baltimore last year, says that she fought for recognition in New York when she was young. B…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMArtemnesia Gentileschi was raped by a co-worker of her father’s – what a surprise, right? They took the rapist to court, where she, an artist, was tortured to see if she was telling the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMCan the musical be redeemed? “Grafting sociological precision onto a musical that, from its start, traded facts for rhyme is tough. … The problem with treating the musical’s stylized r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMIts company director said that although the direct reason was a redevelopment scheme by the landlord, the store couldn’t find another place in the West End. She said, “At present, an ind…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AMSunday, March 1, 2020
Well, probably not, but that’s about how much footage the Russian director shot of the DAU project, “a multiyear experiment in which hundreds of nonprofessional actors lived and worked i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM“If you are not sure what you think about something, the most useful questions are these,’ she says. ‘Are you being kind? Are they being kind? That usually gives you the answer.'” �…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PMThe director, calmly: “It’s certainly been strange. … This synergy between what we’re working on and what’s been happening in the world, with the quarantine line getting closer.”…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMAt some point, academics and scholars but also fiction lovers have to face the facts: Kids or other descendants aren’t going to want all of those lovely books. What happens to them? (And, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMKing is generally regarded as a white nationalist; he has a decades-long history of xenophobic and racist comments which earned him censure from other Republicans. One of the comedians said …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMStressed by prestige TV on streaming networks? Hey, here’s the solution: Just go with the networks. “It’s a soft parade of uniformly telegenic people in clothes that always fit perfect…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMKrone was a theatre producer and manager who joined with Douglas Turner Ward, an actor and playwright, and Robert Hooks, an actor and producer, to found the company in 1967. The company won …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMWhile most of the César ceremony was predictable (and perhaps this was too), “the ceremony’s most notable moment was only indirectly related to what was happening on its stage, as Port…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMWhen Iger, who suddenly stepped down as CEO of Disney last week, took over at the top 15 years ago, no one expected much from him – and they said so in the press. He was called “a loyal …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMPerhaps you haven’t yet watched the Gillian Anderson-fueled comedy (it’s streaming in the US on Netflix), but you should know that there’s a high school girl who is a love interest for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMThe San Francisco Ballet School is facing an unpleasant reality for its dancers – and (finally, say some) changing up the way it operates. “For the San Francisco Ballet to operate both a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PMSure, yes, we all love (reading about) Thomas Cromwell, but there’s a lot more history out there. “A novel set centuries ago has a freedom denied to fiction that goes back only decades, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMMacArthur winner Yuval Sharon says it’s time for opera to reckon with the past. “Sweet Land has been described by its creators as ‘an opera that erases itself.’ It achieves an effect…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMThough it might seem like common sense that, like “Happy Birthday,” the iconic Woody Guthrie song “This Land Is Your Land” should come out of copyright anytime now, that’s not what…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMWell, Tom Steyer did drop out after the South Carolina primaries, but it will be hard to forget what happened onstage the night before: “At a Friday night rally at historically black Allen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMThe whistleblower account Scene and Herd took down its 2018 posts accusing artist Subodh Gupta of sexual harassment, and the courts in Delhi allowed the creators to remain anonymous. – Hyp…
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