Sunday, September 29, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]In 2013, in the war-ravaged town of Daraya, people collected books after shelling and wrapped them in blankets to take them to a secret basement location. "The self-appointed chief librarian…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]A "comic strip" of the time shows that "although the work of the great Italian was popular in his time, an extensive new study of the artist to be published this week has outlined evid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]And so, it seems, are audiences. What's the deal with these less than biopics, more like thanatopics? Ah: "Each movie is too enamored of its legend, of her talent and beauty, to acknowledge …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]Seriously, excuse us? "A prison in Ohio blocked an inmate from receiving a biology textbook over concerns that it contained nudity. In Colorado, prison officials rejected Barack Obama's memo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:36PM[SHARE]The Canadian Opera Company is trying to figure that out, but it's complex. The pseudo-Asian characters Ping, Pang, and Pong have been renamed in Toronto, but tenor Julius Ahn, who sings Pang…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Who could say it better than Philip Kennicott? "The old-fashioned, ceremonial unveiling of a statue is mostly extinct as a cultural spectacle. New art works are generally introduced quietly,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]True, the Guerrilla Girls famously asked if women had to be naked to get into the Met (the percentages are not great), but the unseen labor of women artists and women museum professionals is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]So we're pursuing "joy" instead " something that comes and goes and that we don't feel we need to sustain. Could this actually be a boon for the arts as we start to realize that collective e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Sure, there's more craft beer and more restaurants than there were 10 or 15 years ago " and there are also a lot of Millennials who left Columbus for the city, and then returned because Colu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]Kickstarter, where thousands of artists and writers and circus performers and musicians and etc. have gotten millions of dollars of funding, fired two union organizers a couple of weeks ago.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]We don't know who he is, or at least many of us don't, but one instructor says it's time for writing students to take lessons from his clear prose. He has great topic sentences! He knows how…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]College students actually do just fine without it, or so Cal State says. This probably won't shock a lot of humanities majors, but an administrator says, "The traditional pathway, where we h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The answer is yes. Yes, they sure are. And it's not just Harry Potter or And Tango Makes Three. "Our government doesn't actually ban books, does it? Sure it does! The federal gov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]As the end of WWI led to economic crises, many German towns and villages issued their own emergency cash, or "notgeld." The designs range widely from local legends, including fairytales, to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AM[SHARE]A post about race and racism from The Relevant's former managing editor went viral, and the fallout "has already led to a 'sabbatical' for Relevant Media Group's founder and CEO, an outpouri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:33AM[SHARE]At City Ballet, the master is coaching other dancers in a piece created for him by Jerome Robbins. "Dance, to Mr. Baryshnikov, is about five points:Â the head, the two hands and the two fe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18AM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2019
Patchett, author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder (and the new The Dutch House): "It was a funny thing to throw a book out. People seemed much more upset about it than I was. Some people sai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Of course, that would mean it might need to release numbers because, after all, what is "successful" for Netflix? Bonuses for awards, however, might also be in the works at the streaming gia…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]In Europe, an entire way of life is ending. "Around 1960, there were still about 110,000 nuns and monks in Germany. Twenty years ago, there were 38,348. Now, there are about 17,900." But wha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The recent #BoysDanceToo discussion " and the need for that discussion " highlighted the issue that boys and men who become dancers, especially ballet dancers, face bullying and homophobia o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]These photographers have the covers of (American) Vogue or (British) Vogue, gain access to their subjects for portraits on social media, and change the way the people they photograph are tho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Blamey was an utterly prolific illustrator of wildflowers. She "contributed all the colour illustrations, amounting to many thousands of paintings, for a succession of distinguished field gu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Agree, disagree, tick off the ones you've read on a list … whatever, here they all are, from nonfiction to poetry to doorstop novels to graphic novel memoirs to everything else that won th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Eisenberg's character Nog was supposed to be a joke, like all of the Ferengi. But Eisenberg helped change all of that. (And here's a Twitter thread that explains it more beautifully than a n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The New Museum planned a whole festival about climate change. "Â IdeasCity Bronx … was supposed to feature a series of discussion panels, artist talks, performances, and workshops," but …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Not really, but let's try: Strictly "is a lightheartedly competitive dance show that is still rigorously ruled by ancient stone tablets engraved with edicts and stored in a holy room at the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Well, let's start with the snubbing of Veep and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but there were others. (Here's the complete list of winners, too.) " Variety
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Williams, who won for playing Gwen Verdon in Fosse/Verdon, said, "The next time a woman " and especially a woman of color, because she stands to make 52 cents on the dollar compared to her w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]When playwrights get company residencies, they learn a lot " how seasons are put together, what kinds of casts theatres are looking for, and how not to take it personally when their plays do…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]How can that be real? Chemistry, biology, physics … "The real measure of whether two people hit it off is how much they synchronise internal bodily functions, like heart rate and sweating.…
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