Thursday, August 29, 2019
Mary-Kay Wilmers, co-founder and longtime editor of the London Review of Books, takes apart the ways that book reviewers do their work. " Literary Hub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]In a Q&A, the director of St. Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys, Flatliners, Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, and Phantom of the Opera talks about his own wild youth (he began drinking at 9 an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]Content, a seven-episode series produced by the other ABC (that's the Australian Broadcasting Corp.), "is a comedy about a narcissistic millennial determined to become an online influencer, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]"Shaker dance both embodied and performed a gender-egalitarian community, one whose primary method of reproduction was not sexual." (They increased their numbers through recruitment, for whi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM[SHARE]"Like many of his fellow composers in the 1950s and '60s, Mr. Davidovsky was drawn to the new possibilities offered by technology. But he was uneasy with the prospect of music that was immun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]"An elite team of film archivists here is working to conserve [reels of film] as part of a years-long government program that aims to digitize about a century's worth of Afghan documentaries…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]Staff writer Andrew Ferguson: "By play's end, it's become clear that if the young [Heidi] Schreck did indeed love the Constitution, it's because she misunderstood it; and if her passion for …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]The proposal, which has the support of London mayor Sadiq Khan, comes from the Fabian Society, a socialist organization that dates back to 1884. The Fabians say that a slavery museum would e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"The museum said Tuesday that the 'caterpillar' escalator as well as the sloping stone plaza in front of the iconic structure were closed to the public Tuesday for work expected to last unti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"A snapshot survey of the West End in 2019, 2014, 2009 and 1999 has revealed the proportion of original plays is at its highest now, accounting for more than a fifth (21%) of all productions…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"'I am fascinated by the feeling of flying a plane," said the 43-year-old, who has just stepped down as music director of the Orchestre de Paris. "In the spring I will join Air France as a c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]It's a truism that, as aesthetic movements go, the visual arts get there first. Think of Impressionism, which didn't begin to inflect music until Debussy and Ravel " decades after Monet. Exp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2019
He almost single-handedly turned the fading Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye into one of the world's secondhand book capitals and a model followed by towns in more than a few other countries. " T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]The Wizard of Oz's Glinda the Good Witch of the North was the first sorceress figure not to wear black, cackle, have a cartoonishly ugly face, or do evil " and so became the grandmother of S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]"There's a long, tangled debate over how to teach engineers ethics " and whether it's even worth doing. … But Team Ethics is making a comeback. With the morality of Big Tech again called i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"Working in a highly visual art form, [Chad] Allen managed to create an auditory experience that closely mimics the sensation of reading a comic book. A whooshing sound occurs whenever a pan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]"No longer do household machines merely bing or plink or blamp, as they might have in a previous era when such alerts simply indicated that the clothes were dry or the coffee was brewed. ……
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]A proposal discussed by the French President Macron and Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis would see a "temporary exchange," timed for the 2021 bicentennial celebration of Greek independence, o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"A record overall tally of 3,012,490 for Fringe events was announced as the international and book festivals also reported a surge in business at the box office. The combined audience for cu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"The dance field isn't immune to the 'gig economy' that's disrupting everything from buying groceries to getting a ride to the airport. … So it's no surprise that artists feel anxious abou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]"A new study [commissioned by Arts Council England] has quantified just how much arts offerings influence people's choice to relocate or stay in a particular city. And as it turns out, the p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]For years, standing and sitting in that hours-long queue for free Shakespeare in the Park tickets has been almost as much a part of the experience as the performance itself. But not everyone…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]Headphones can enable an intimate listening experience even in a busy venue such as a train station. They can make up for the acoustic inadequacies of a room (or the outdoors), so that there…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 27, 2019
"Netflix may have been the first to crack the key European market, with locally produced hit Money Heist, but the streamer is now facing heated competition from the likes of Amazon, HBO, Via…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:54PM[SHARE]"Brian (Rizzo) Frankel, … a veteran of both the Air Force and Broadway " he's been in the business since 1980 " is long-haired and goateed, with necklaces, bracelets, a wildly patterned sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:01PM[SHARE]"Uganda was once at the fulcrum of African literature. It was at Makerere University, on a hill above Kampala, that giants such as Chinua Achebe and NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong'o gathered in 1962 …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:48PM[SHARE]On Monday morning, as Good Morning America host Lara Spencer was trying to make amends for her faux pas of last week, Travis Wall (of So You Think You Can Dance) and Robbie Fairchild (former…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]A self-effacing conductor may seem almost impossible in itself, but in the job held by Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado and Simon Rattle? Kirill Petrenko " who was e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]Guardian arts editor Alex Needham started a Twitter tempest with this: "Dear curators, in the same way that I don't get a byline when I commission and edit a piece, chances are you won't get…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]"In 2015, Italy unveiled a series of reforms that had the potential to transform the country's storied museums. For the first time, foreign museum directors took the helm at major institutio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]In late June, Gov. Mike Dunleavy exercised a line-item veto over the $3.87 million in funding for the Alaska State Council on the Arts. An attempt to override that veto in July failed and th…
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