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Monday, December 9, 2019

The Blogosphere Is Shrinking Again by Artsjournal2

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 …

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Parasite Racks Up Another Best Picture Win, This One At The Los Angeles Film Critics Awards by Artsjournal2

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…

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Lucette Destouches, Widow Of Paul Céline, Has Died At 107 by Artsjournal2

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…

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The Impossible Body Standards Of The Modern Superhero by Artsjournal2

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…

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Here's Something For Our Era: A 'Digital Dance Company' In North Texas by Artsjournal2

There's dance, but then there are podcasts, and then there's the international dance film festival as well. " Dallas Morning News

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René Auberjonois, 'Star Trek' and 'MASH' and 'Benson' Actor, Has Died At 79 by Artsjournal2

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…

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Teenager Admits Attempted Murder In Throwing Boy From Tate Modern Balcony by Artsjournal2

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

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Sunday, December 8, 2019

Carol Spinney, Long The Voice Of Sesame Street's Big Bird And Oscar The Grouch, Has Died At 85 by Artsjournal2

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…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM[SHARE]

Styling 'Orlando' by Artsjournal2

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…

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Trying To Leap The Three Big Arts Barriers With A Dance Company In San Diego by Artsjournal2

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…

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Why Hollywood Is Obsessed With De-Aging Its Stars by Artsjournal2

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. '…

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Geffen Gaffes by Artsjournal2

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…

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How Would An Ideal World Look, And Why Were Books Better Before The Nuclear Bomb? by Artsjournal2

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,…

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France Wants To Rein In Big Tech by Artsjournal2

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 …

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The Los Angeles Museum Of Contemporary Art Voluntarily Recognizes A New Employee Union by Artsjournal2

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…

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African And Arab Filmmakers Put Their Focus On Genre by Artsjournal2

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'…

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Houdini's Undercover Ghostbuster by Artsjournal2

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 …

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Online Film Critics Give 'Parasite' Best Film And Best Director Nods by Artsjournal2

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

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Women Keep Novels, And Reading In General, Alive by Artsjournal2

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…

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One More (Rather Judgmental, As Is The Point) Voice Against The Collective Turner Prize by Artsjournal2

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…

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Hugh Grant, Not Actually The Prime Minister, Arrives At Britons' Front Doors In Election Campaign by Artsjournal2

Grant said in one candidate's video, "I, for the first time in my life, am getting active politically, because I think that the country is on the edge of a true abyss." He's campaigning stra…

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Ron Leibman, Star Of Screen But Especially Stage, Has Died At 82 by Artsjournal2

Leibman won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Roy Cohn in the 1993 Broadway production of Angels in America. At that point, he had Drama Desk Awards and an Emmy, but it was as Cohn that his …

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The Best 'Cats' Joke, Among Quite A Few Contenders, Is In 'Angels In America' by Artsjournal2

Truly, if you've seen the movie trailer, there's no missing the multitude of jokes just sort of … oh, let's say it … hanging there to be batted around. However, Angels in America won the…

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A Performance Artist Ripped The $120,000 Banana Off The Wall At Art Basel Miami " And Ate It by Artsjournal2

The New York-based performance artist David Datuna recorded for Instagram (of course) the removal and eating of the banana, a much-discussed artwork by Maurizio Cattelan. But, plot twist: "G…

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This Nobel Prizewinner Says The World Demands A New Narrative Style by Artsjournal2

Olga Tokarczuk, in a lecture in Sweden, said it's time for a sort of fourth-person narration: "We can regard this figure of a mysterious, tender narrator as miraculous and significant. This …

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Turns Out It's Tough To Make Scorsese's Guys Look Different From Each Other by Artsjournal2

The styling is in the ties. And there are … let's say a lot of different ties in this movie. Says one of the costume designers, "The language of how the tie greets the shirt greets the bel…

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For The Stand-Up Act On 'Mrs. Maisel,' Almost Nothing Is Spontaneous by Artsjournal2

Rachel Brosnahan, who plays Midge Maisel, says that season three changed things for her " and made the actor a better comedian too. "While the first and second season, most of the major stan…

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Longstanding Member Of Swedish Academy Boycotts Nobel Ceremony For Peter Handke by Artsjournal2

Peter Englund, the former permanent secretary for the Swedish Academy and a current member, said, ""To celebrate Peter Handke's Nobel prize would be gross hypocrisy on my part" He is the onl…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AM[SHARE]
Monday, December 2, 2019

Can We Make A Better Social Media World? by Artsjournal2

One science fiction writer and futurist says we can " but a lot will need to change. "The issue isn't technical. It has to do with the way business is being done in Silicon Valley. The probl…

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Depressed? You Could Do Worse Than Watch Cheesy Holiday Movies On Netflix by Artsjournal2

Maybe not 29 movies in a row, of course. But. One writer explains that she opened Netflix in the depths of a serious depression and started watching Christmas Prince. "The movie was terrible…

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Elizabeth I Has Been Revealed As The Translator Of An Ancient Roman Text Into English by Artsjournal2

Of course she was; Tacitus' Annals "described the high politics, treachery and debauchery of the Roman elite." " Reuters

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