3,336 stories by "Artsjournal2"
If you're an English-speaker jaded about the City of Lights, head to the library. "As I learned more about the American Library and its place in the history of literary Paris, I recovered so…
OK, that's pretty cool " here's an explainer on what she picked, and why. " The New York Times
E.L. James says writing used to be her hobby. Then, well, then Fifty Shades of Grey happened. "Overseeing a wildly successful multimedia franchise left little time for James's one-time hobby…
Jeffrey Boakye (that's roughly "Bwaaaaah-ch," by the way, he says): "The Cool Black Myth helps the white mainstream to understand and handle black identity. There's something enigmatic about…
London is book-focused enough that, mirroring almost exactly the rise of Amazon, Persephone, a publisher (and recently a bookstore too) that focuses on forgotten early and mid-20th-century b…
When Eric Hebborn was found with a fractured skull near his home in Rome in 1996, his death was a mystery. But now, filmmakers making an 8-part miniseries about his life (and the more than 1…
Sure, dance is great in and of itself, and it needs to further reason to exist or for people to love it. But some rape survivors see it as one method of healing. "I can dance, and I can danc…
Andersson starred in 13 mid-20th-century Bergman films. "Her emotionally complex role in Persona (1966), the film that made her acting reputation, was one of the great stereotype reversals i…
It wasn't easy, and it wasn't fast, and it involved " shock " physical material. "The dreamy photograph represents a tremendous technological achievement, assembled using eight radio telesco…
Hollywood, you should be ashamed. "Even after years of being called to task for sidelining female filmmakers, studios as a whole continue to rely overwhelmingly on men to lead productions. W…
The problem is that "the plays can very easily function as a kind of confirmation bias, where we find exactly what we are looking for. The allure of such topical readings is ultimately narci…
The Palace of Fine Arts in San Sabastián has been threatened by a real estate developer for five years " and as a final move, UNESCO's International Council on Monuments and Sites has pla…
Krista Vernoff: "It was hard to part ways with [my agent] when the deadline expired for talks between the guild and the agencies. I say 'part ways' because I did not fire my agent. Instead, …
Sure, Hyperallergic was joking about overnights at the Met Museum, but this is real: The Louvre is offering a one-night AirBnB experience. Why? To try to make the museum "cool." " Le Monde (…
At the Met, "the typically villainous Alberich " the dwarfish Nibelung of the title " is portrayed with nobility and nuance by Tomasz Konieczny, in a stunning company debut." " The New York …
Basically, this is the fastest way … so far. Things still might change, but "it splits up digits, uses an improved version of the fast Fourier transform, and takes advantage of other advan…
The American Museum of Natural History said on Twitter that it was "deeply concerned" and "exploring its options" as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is set to be honored at a gala at the …
Ramona Quimby "is a plain girl in the suburbs. Nothing remarkable happens to her, no one notices her particularly, nor does she have the power to make her own magic." And yet. " LitHub
Stewart did a lot more than run Rhino and help get playlists onto iTunes as an Apple exec. He "advocated for lesser known, unjustly dismissed or overlooked music by artists including the Mon…
Molly Shannon, an actor who spent years on Saturday Night Live, didn't think much of or about Dickinson until she got the chance to play her in a new movie. Then things changed. Shannon: "We…
Wanuri Kahiu isn't happy with how much trolling and nastiness she's gotten since her film Rafiki was banned in Kenya because it positively depicted a same-sex relationship. But middle finger…
Dame Maggie Smith has to deal with glasses continually during her 100-minute monologue. " David Jays
According to the showrunners, without one woman, Game of Thrones on HBO would never have gotten far at all. Bernadette Caulfield, the executive producer, was in charge of all of this: "With …
Keeping up with "music of quality that deserves even greater attention." " Doug Ramsey
Apparently, cat poems are a thing, and LitHub wants you to know that the cats did not write the poems (in case anyone was confused). The list starts with the 18th century English poet Christ…
