3,336 stories by "Artsjournal2"
In a country not exactly known for the free flow of ideas, delays and freezes in publishing have changed what's available in China. "Publishing industry insiders describe a near freeze of re…
Of course he did many other things in a long life of TV producing " many of them Peanuts-focused " but "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was one of the first and biggest and certainly, along with …
When Helena Bonham Carter got the call to play Princess Margaret in Season 3 of The Crown, she wasn't sure she could follow the tall Vanessa Kirby, who had just won a BAFTA for the role. The…
Basically, it's always Christmas in July in British Columbia, complete with fake snow, fake characters, fake love stories, fake Christmas and … er … yes, the whole schlockfest (BELOVED s…
Wait, if you let yourself be photographed for a feature story, aren't you already out of the running for being the "Banksy of" anything? Well, it's Vegas, y'all. Frankie Aguilar says that on…
The headline: "Was this decade the beginning of the end of the great male white writer?" (#NotAllGreatMaleWhiteWriters, of course.) "Though few publications have reached parity, the overall …
But let's put it into context. "Just four percent down? At a time when the Star Wars franchise expanded into live-action television for the first time with The Mandalorian on Disney Plus?…
Let's talk more about what Andrew Lloyd Weber did with this music, and what's been done to it since it premiered. Erm, the LAT's pop music critic isn't a fan: "To hear the song's dreary open…
The organizers of the festival, almost all women, had to come up with Plans C and D after the Belarus KGB said no to showing films in the theatres or bank buildings. "The confidence to cover…
If you know the recipes date back to Portugal and Spain during the Inquisition, does that tell you what the secret is? "One of the most unusual recipes … uncovered [was] a sugary dessert c…
Uh, congratulations? That's very advanced of Dancing on Ice, if we lived in, say, 1994? But of course, someone has to be first. " BBC
The issue of delayed wages has been a thorn in the side of arts workers for months " or years. While unionized workers have shut down several museums over it, this protest was organized by n…
Lindsey started writing romance on a whim, and she wrote more than 60 novels " and sold more than 60 million books. " The New York Times
What is Martha Cratchit thinking at the end of A Muppet Christmas Carol (and why hasn't this ever been written about before)? "Your employer has brought an uncooked fourteen pound turkey to …
You might as well just plan to stay for the entire year. Don't forget your Beethoven-reality-enhanced sunglasses. " The New York Times
Yes, Amy March was a spoiled brat who burned Jo's manuscript, and thus earned the ire of every creative person ever, and the films and series have reflected that. But Amy … was also a crea…
In all of academia, not only theatre, women who teach become support for students rather than only academic help " and it's burning the women out. One recent Ph.D. discovered that she could …
Just like Young Adult literature, YA theatre " or Teen theatre, perhaps " had an initially rapturous welcome, and a rapid cooling-off. "Critical consensus about Young Adult Theatre took a sh…
"In the South Bronx at the dawn of the 1970s, all the creative components that would coalesce into what became widely known as hip-hop were beginning to take shape. At the center of them all…
Students responded not only to one incident, in which the lecturer for the class was removed, but many other experiences at the college: "Some of the quotes and scenarios on the board read: …
Men are wimping out of seeing Little Women's award showings, which is tanking its chances; despite the awfulness of Cats, Ian McKellen's chances are up; and more. " Vulture
Keita Takahashi, an artist and an "unconventional" game developer, is beloved for his game "Katamari Decency," and now he's got a new game out " ostensibly about golden poop. The game "was i…
Indeed: "The catastrophe of climate neglect, the toxic politics, the tangible sense of so many things worsening in your own lifetime, along with a sense of your obscure or outright complicit…
This is the calm before the storm of 2020 " a year sure to see a deluge of Beethoven for his 250th birthday. Opera was neglected shamefully, while Clara Schumann, Offenbach, and Berlioz gain…
The popularity of older formats is growing, including black and white and things like Canción sin nombre's 4:3 format. " Los Angeles Times
