Sunday, October 6, 2019
Long before tourists came to Dijon in search of mustard ("Dijon" mustard actually comes from Canada, but never mind), pilgrims were heading to the area temple to buy mass-produced icons of a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Carroll was the first Black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series in the U.S. "NBC executives were wary about putting Julia on the network during the racial unrest of the 1960s,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]The last time The Beatles' Abbey Road was #1 on the charts, a U.S. president was laying the groundwork for his later impeachment, and Harold Wilson was Prime Minister of the UK. This return …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]If you're tired of other people's "Month of Gratitude" posts on Facebook, sorry to tell you this, but that's the secret " gratitude. Wildly, if you want to save for retirement or something, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Though many in France said Koons' sculpture "donation" " more on that in a minute " was "opportunistic and cynical," the artist said "he hoped his tulips would become part of the local lands…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Jane Campbell, who died in March at 87, served as the managing director of Honolulu Theatre for Youth for more than four decades. "At a time when theatre for children was seeking a place at …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]The National Theatre joins the Royal Shakespeare Company, which had been deliberating for quite some time before ending its longtime "relationship" with BP (formerly British Petroleum). Pres…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]And for the big sequel, Before Sunset, Delpy got half of her co-star's salary. For the third movie in the trilogy, Before Midnight? She refused to do it without equal pay. " Variety
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Argentine feminists are fed up with the patriarchal, rigid roles of traditional tango, and they've published a new protocol that breaks old rules " and reinforces new ones. "The protocol pro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]People love museum selfies, and here's the logical conclusion of that love: A museum designed expressly for uploading cute artsy self-portraits to Instagram. The museum in Vienna "joins a nu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]The French architect also designed the Olympic Pool and the vélodrome for the Olympics, a building that has become the Montréal Biodôme. The stadium was controversial at the time, and h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]Giordani sang hundreds of performances at the Met and, at a relatively young age, stepped back from the spotlight and began to mentor younger singers. He was the son of a prison guard who ow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2019
There's a sliver of space where audience members can start to consider societal change. "I keep coming back to the idea that, as theatremakers, our greatest weapon in the fight against clima…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:28PM[SHARE]Silicon Valley (and all of the tech people who inhabit it and its environs, on- and offline) doesn't have a political point of view, really. It's not conservative nor liberal. It's only alwa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Bernheimer, who was the music critic for the LA Times for more than 30 years, "was renowned internationally for the strong opinions he voiced in his reviews combined with a singular wit and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Whoa. For the new movie Abominable, Asian American and other actors of Asian descent play the Chinese cartoon characters. This, says a critic, is "an occurrence as rare as a solar eclipse.Â…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Mary Wilson says that those who weren't there don't quite understand that Motown "really was like walking into a Disneyland. All these creative people. People say: 'Motown, it was this big b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]It's been literally half a century since the show began trying to teach little kids not only the alphabet song but also how the alphabet corresponds with letters in their lives. Now Sesame S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Seriously, how has It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which started its life during the George W. Bush administration, survived? "The show strips away innocence for every character that gets…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]In this video, "the museum is using high-tech methods to carry out a forensic examination of exactly how Rembrandt painted the picture." What's the most 21st century thing about the research…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Show-don't-tell is a mantra for early writers, the training wheels on the bike, the interior wax holding up a bronze sculpture. But. "The real goal of 'show, don't tell' is to force a discip…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]To be fair, the architecture was a lot more barbaric at the beginning of the zoo. Now design is more focused on attempts to break down the human/animal barrier … invisibly. But is that eno…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Yes indeed, historically speaking. "Tap and jazz grew up together, and in the 1930s and '40s, it was assumed that the greatest jazz bands " Duke Ellington's, Count Basie's " would bring tap …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]That's right, streaming film criticism, in which critics break down scenes through clips and show how lighting, sound, or other effects add to the emotional and intellectual resonance of a m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Dewey is a legend " you know, the Dewey decimal system for ordering library books? " and perhaps was responsible for the entry of women into the profession. Yay, but, he also was censured an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tom Greyeyes' art career started in a jail cell after an activist installation he created was considered vandalism by the Flagstaff police. Now the artist, who has had residencies and big ga…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Sometimes, if you're a US person and have British friends, the Brits will enjoy talking about how long the US had slavery. An important discussion, no doubt " but guess what? The British are…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2019
Author Fatima Bhutto thinks so. "Hollywood is no longer the center. America is no longer the center. Now we have a multipolar world. So Turkey is a center. India is a center. Pakistan is a c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]His career spanned four decades and millions of albums, and the singer was nominated for six Grammys, though he never won. (The Los Angeles Times has collected five of the best of José's pe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]Bloom "was horn royalty. As Szell's principal horn in Cleveland for more than two decades, he appeared on many of the orchestra's celebrated recordings, and was the soloist in its classic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Conchi León and her touring cast and crew had been making Chicago-specific plans since March, building a special traveling set for her Yucatán- set play La TÃa Mariela. It was set t…
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