Sunday, March 1, 2020
The whistleblower account Scene and Herd took down its 2018 posts accusing artist Subodh Gupta of sexual harassment, and the courts in Delhi allowed the creators to remain anonymous. " Hyper…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]Obviously. If you had to pick a country for this, Ireland would be high up on the list."Though the centenarian tree's stubborn, and frankly rude, refusal to stop growing has caused some of t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]Mohammed Rasoulof won the Berlin Film Festival's highest honor for his film There Is No Evil, which is about the death penalty in Iran " and for which he was imprisoned and banned for life f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]Hall and her husband created two mainstays of daytime TV " the soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. Yes, many people laugh at them, "the dramas have attract…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]Why Leicester Square for the statues commemorating various decades of film (including Mary Poppins, Gene Kelly, and Paddington Bear)? "Leicester Square was first home to a cinema in 1930, wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Jane Alexander, the 80-year-old actress who has starred in Ibsen, Shakespeare, and Chekhov, and, not incidentally, who was head of the NEA during the (first) culture wars, is onstage again, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2020
The Earth Harp is a massive stringed instrument that its inventor, William Close, says makes audiences feel like they're "inside the instrument" during performances. Indeed, because he has t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]The dancers, including lead dancer Wu Husheng, aren't finding it easy to train and rehearse with masks on. "Wu, 33, says he can normally train for an hour at a time, but he feels breathle…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]The objection: "The series depicts fictional atrocities taking place in Nazi death camps, including a game of human chess in which people are killed when a piece is taken off the board." And…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]And it's Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House, almost destroyed in the 1940s. " Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]At least, that's true in Australia, according to the results of a recent survey. The more services you subscribed to, the more likely you were to pirate. That's a little weird, right? Well …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]Once Haenel publicly accused film director Christophe Ruggia of harassment and "inappropriate sexual contact" that began when she was 12, women in France began speaking out in large numbers.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]But can anything? Between big multinational publishers with software aimed at the U.S. market " that doesn't differentiate between U.S. and Canadian authors, for instance " and the emphasis …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]A mystery voting system, a government that has passed laws harming people in the city where the awards are held, and a ton of wins for only one film " that's just the beginning of the issues…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Indeed, Ireland didn't even get its own national poet or fiction laureate until 1998 and 2015, respectively. "Laureateships, like prizes and bursaries, recognise a coherent tradition built o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]The British got a lot wrong as the empire spread, and one facet of colonial mistakes was how to look at Tibetan religious and art objects made of skulls or thighbones. "To British colonial o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Sure, sure, Hollywood has tried it before " but, along with Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog is reaping big bucks. That means "video game movies are really having a moment." " Sydney Mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Carlo Rozzi, conducting the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff on February 22, stopped Verdi's Les Vêpres Sicilienes twice " and he wasn't afraid to go directly to the audience about why. Sa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Is this a city-led marriage made in heaven? One city councillor claims, "If we lose the DIY spaces we lose the next generation of live musicians." " CBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Here's why it matters that a new Dickenson series feels so modern, and why it matters that new scholarship refutes the old lies about the poet. "If the 'real' person of Dickinson is translat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 23, 2020
The dance itself, and Irish dance in general, is obviously older " but it débuted as an interval act at Eurovision, and its appeal has never gone away. Its newest star says, "It's all I've …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PM[SHARE]K-Pop and K-Drama success wasn't by accident. "The wave spread across Asia before reaching a global audience thanks to savvy social networking strategies and a steady stream of media with in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PM[SHARE]The good: Leadership. "Its festival directorships were shared equally between men and women, and … its executive board was similarly balanced." The less good: Director numbers. "The majori…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PM[SHARE]Cerny, said Henry Louis Gates Jr., was "the proverbial dean of American genealogical research, … [whose work was] transforming raw data into narratives and metaphors about diversity and ou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12PM[SHARE]Well, that's a fraught subject. Phoebe Waller-Bridges, who wrote the show and plays the character, says, "Actually, she wishes she were more perfect, and that feels like it was an attack on …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]But no one really knew it because her husband kept it one of her carefully guarded secrets. Now, "searching the archives for Amelia Earhart's lost poems is a study in fragments"every tucked-…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]The find is in the Roman Forum, where authorities revealed on Friday that they believe this may date to the 6th century B.C.E., 200 years after Romulus was said to have lived. That means it'…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]They're different from the quality of movie soundtracks, many of which don't stand alone, and they're "a marvelous untapped source of experimental instrumental electronica. … The context o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]Sound stages of the 1930s and 1940s needed lots of stage sets, and at MGM, George Gibson was the man in charge. "The backdrops he created appeared in films such as The Wizard of Oz (1939), A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]This is the weirdest possible sentence to write, but director Céline Sciamma says that Portrait of a Lady on Fire isn't considered erotic in, of all places, France. What? WHAT? Quoi?? Sciam…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42PM[SHARE]Vine was introduced in 2012, bought by Twitter, and killed in 2016. But in its time, it "turned everyday people into stars on other platforms and beyond. Its musical whims warped the music i…
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