3,336 stories by "Artsjournal2"
Let's go deep: "You are not a hopeless philistine if you find this all a bit foolish. Foolishness, and the deflating sensation that a culture that once encouraged sublime beauty now only per…
Lisa Taddeo thinks her success is partially luck, and partially that she really digs into the nuances of women's desire, and their relationships with men, at least before the Weinstein scand…
Pen Parentis has lasted for more than a decade in a literary world that is decidedly unfriendly to working parents. "'The way you hear it is in the people who don't have kids and when you sa…
Architecture critic Rowan Moore is not thrilled with the thoughtless, crass commercialism filling Trafalgar Square. "It is not the presence of the market, precisely, that's the problem, so m…
That's not about radical parents or radical kids " it's about changing theatre at its roots to reflect the reality of working parents in the industry. Not surprisingly, parents have some ide…
And not just any blog is closing, but Feministing, one of the only remaining feminist blogs from the heyday of the 2000s. One of the site's former editors says, "It was unclear how we could …
Justin Chang is prepared for the inevitable backlash over some of the choices the LAFCA made. Prepared, but not pleased: "I've always been struck by the recurring phenomenon of LAFCA and oth…
Destouches defended the French writer, and their anti-Semitic and intensely pro-Nazi stance, for decades. "'She followed him into the depths of hell with a love, an admiration and an affecti…
Superman was "too chubby" to play James Bond, Kevin Hart (The Rock's "non-ripped" co-star) starts at the gym at 5 every morning, and movie men are partnering, i.e. getting sweet but addictin…
There's dance, but then there are podcasts, and then there's the international dance film festival as well. " Dallas Morning News
Auberjonois " Father Mulcahy in the 1970 movie M.A.S.H., iconic chief of staff in the 1980s sitcom Benson, and Odo in the 1990s show Star Trek: Deep Space 9 " was also a stage star who earne…
The now-18-year-old said he did it because "he had to prove a point 'to every idiot' who said he had no mental health problems, asking police if it was going to be on the news." " BBC
Spinney created two indelible characters, and, in his long tenure on Sesame Street, assisted in the creation of many more. "His Big Bird had a childlike innocence, sometimes goofy, sometimes…
Orlando, a new opera based on Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a time-traveling, gender-bending love letter to her aristocratic lover Vita Sackville-West, "is the first opera commissioned from a fe…
Peter Kalivas says his PGK Dance Project, begun 25 years ago while he was working as a professional dancer in Munich, "must always be attempting to resolve the three main barriers the profes…
This isn't the why, but a result: "Guy Williams and his fellow visual-effects artists have spent so much time staring at Will Smith's face, they've practically memorized his every pore. '…
Talking NY Phil: "I'd wish for less attention and money to be squandered on overhauling the hall and more on improving the mix of musicians (guest soloists and visiting conductors) and on re…
The author of Ducks, Newburyport (yes, the 1,000-page, one-sentence novel) has some ideas. Lucy Ellmann: "I find the annual celebration of contemporary writing, the Xmas lists of 2019 books,…
Digital taxes are only a start, says France's digital affairs minister. "More important? Targeting the biggest tech companies"most of which are American"with new regulations to prevent them …
LA's MOCA employees now won't need to go through additional certifying steps " or employer "education" either. MOCA Director Klaus Biesenbach said recognizing the union was "in full alignmen…
Films and filmmakers from Africa and the Middle East have had a good year at A-list film festivals, including Mati Diop and her Atlantics, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes. "The 'new wave'…
In the early 20th century, Spiritualism was at its peak, and so were fake psychics who fleeced people who just wanted to communicate with a dead loved one. Into the breech between weird and …
Ironically, the New York Film Critics Online meet in person to vote on the awards. (Also awarded: Lupita Nyong'o, Joaquin Phoenix, Laura Dern, and Joe Pesci.) " The Hollywood Reporter
Who buys 80 percent " that's a super, super, super majority " of novels? You knew it: Women. But our love for novels, as the narrator in Anna Burns' The Milkman experiences, seems to be a ch…
A judge for next year's Women's Prize for Fiction probably won't be awarding multiple prizes, looks like: "If you can't get past this inherent flaw in the business of prizegiving " that ther…
