Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Philosopher Tim Sommers makes the case that, “in general, it's very hard to not involve yourself in some kind of ‘performative contradiction’ " where what you do contradict…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:12PM[SHARE]Reporter Cintia Lopez joins members of the Boston ensemble Sarasa for one of their performance/workshops at a Massachusetts Department of Youth Services facility. " WBUR (Boston)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]“Merton was a remarkable man by any measure, but perhaps the most remarkable of his traits was his hypersensitivity to social movements from which, by virtue of his monastic calling, h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]Gillian Flynn (Widows) on how to write a thrilling heist, Christopher McQuarrie (Mission: Impossible " Fallout) on how to write high-stakes action, John Krasinski (A Quiet Place) on how to w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04PM[SHARE]Of the five that WQXR has chosen to cite and congratulate, one is well-established and well-known, one is newer but has made the news, one’s unglamorous but very useful, one’s an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]A Q&A with Lucas Lixinski, a scholar of international cultural heritage and human rights law, argues that the UN body’s project to designate important pieces of cultural heritage i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]Notwithstanding the fact that she won Oscars for two of her scripts (A Room with a View and Howards End) for the filmmaking couple, she considered herself primarily a prose writer. Historian…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]“In drawing attention to the breadth of contemporary Indigenous performance " with works spanning dance, theater, performance art and genres in between " the [First Nations Dialogues N…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]An artist calling himself Frizk says that he snuck a Banksy painting of a half-peeled banana onto the wall of the Mamma Andersson: Memory Banks exhibition at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]“Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom” is a piece Plath wrote when she was 20 and submitted to Mademoiselle magazine, which rejected it (too dark!). Faber, which is publishing it i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]One piece that Peter Marks saw there let the audience do exactly that. “But the activity struck me as a vocalization of what I’ve been sensing in theaters all year: a potential f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]“What did our readers care about most in 2018? Judging by our top-clicked stories, topics as broad as confronting a bullying teacher, investigating how Instagram has impacted the dance…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]In one episode of the comedian’s Netflix series, Patriot Act, Minhaj let loose on the Saudi government’s murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Said government, unamused, demanded…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]“The decision has been welcomed by Christie’s France, which is behind the move to pass on the expense to the buyer. The auction house is ultimately responsible for paying the lev…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]He recorded and toured the world as a soloist and chamber musician through the 1960s and ’70s, but he’s best remembered for his 60-year tenure on the faculty of the Yale School o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]There especially aren’t enough stalls for women. For the average West End venue, a full house would mean the intermission would need to be an hour long to give every woman the chance t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36AM[SHARE]An excerpt from City Limits: Memories of a Small-Town Boy, my first book, published in 1991. " Terry Teachout
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06AM[SHARE]“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” (Mark Twain) " Doug Ramsay
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06AM[SHARE]Friday, December 28, 2018
“The current generation of fictional drugs, rather than bubbling up from nature’s underworld, parachute into stories and novels from the corporate-technological top down. The rec…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Among the other things he says: “The National Brainiac, that's what I really wish I could edit. Imagine me being the editor of a tabloid for intellectuals. Imagining hiding outside the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]The 49-year-old is a Broadway veteran, with leads in Urinetown and Little Shop of Horrors under his belt, but he didn’t start directing in earnest until five years ago, at Bucks County…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:32PM[SHARE]“Scandals rocked some of its biggest institutions; around the fountain there was a twilight-of-the-gods feeling. … And it was not just Lincoln Center's independent constituent organi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]“The author of 18 books in Hebrew and a longtime candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature, Oz was best known for novels including Black Box, In the Land of Israel and A Tale of Lov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]“If there are members of the UK cinema community who think Brexit is a good thing, they are all but impossible to find. Actors and film-makers were virtually unanimous in their advocac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]The 91-year-old theatre legend talks about stepping in for Diana Rigg as Mrs. Higgins in the Broadway revival of My Fair Lady. (No, she wasn’t at all insulted, and she found the prospe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]The Lord really does move in mysterious ways, it seems. Not only has tourism to the Spanish town of Borja more than quadrupled, but revenues have funded places for the indigent in the local …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]The justice’s nephew, Daniel Stiepleman, wrote the script; her grandson has a part; her daughter reviewed drafts of it, as did RBG herself. (“As if it were a contract.”) As…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]As a 12-year-old on Chicago’s South Side, Solomon Dumas was interested in the arts but had never thought much about dance. Then his mother sent him to AileyCamp. “After that camp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]The BBC’s Jennifer Scott reviews a history that goes back to the very invention of the phonograph. " BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]“The Rockettes are all about power and cheery domination " they are a glittering army in heels " but there is no hierarchy. Their power is group power. It’s a collective whose up…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]“There have been breakthroughs and positive changes in the dance climate this century. They’ve made me happy. Yet, Cassandra-like, I foresee ills ahead. … We’ve now enter…
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