Monday, September 16, 2019
Instead of the royalties authors might expect from book sales, "what comes trickling back are mostly email alerts about websites in brazen violation of copyright law, offering free downloads…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]Maurizio Cattelan, whose gold toilet called America was ripped from its pipes in Blenheim Palace, flooding the palace and causing rather a lot of damage, says that he didn't steal it, despit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]In Seattle, the Columbia City moviehouse Ark Lodge Cinemas has seen box office receipts drop by as much as 60 percent this year. "Its struggles illustrate the challenges of operating an inde…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]DiDonato works with inmates at Sing Sing and tours with a project aiming to bring harmony and peace through music. And right now, she's singing the title role in Agrippina, the scheming wife…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]Of course it does. "With its time-sequence ticketing and Sensorio-branded hoodies for sale, Field of Light joins a coterie of art entertainments at wineries and related establishments seekin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]Ocasek wrote and was lead singer on nearly every song The Cars recorded, including hits like "Best Friend's Girl" and "Shake It Up," and after the group broke up, he had a second career as a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is repetitive, redundant, with reformulated ideas in every chapter " but sometime it works. (At least once you're already also in rehab.) " LitHub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]It's a quiet war, but it's fierce. Macmillan is planning to block libraries from buying more than one digital copy of new books for eight weeks after the book comes out, starting in November…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]The season opener was pushed from September 14 to September 21, though the musicians of the BSO, not under the name of the BSO, played a free concert on opening night at a different venue. T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 15, 2019
Why is this such a secret? "Without the essential first step, without a creative reimagining of nature, a conceiving of hypotheses for what might be going on behind the perceived surface of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Oh, you thought it was just painting collections, or the sculpture garden? Nope: "Gender bias in favor of males extends to fossil and museum collections of mammals." " Hyperallergic
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]No, and it's wild that we think there is one. "Technology has improved the world, and our lives, in plenty of ways. But it often seems we are willing to overlook significant potential downsi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Celebrity in the 21st century: The actor Jeremy Renner was nominated for Oscars two years in a row, with The Hurt Locker and The Town. Then Marvel came calling. Then he got his own app. Then…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Here was the situation the day before Saturday's opening night: "With Domingo staying away from Los Angeles while an internal investigation is underway, the company pushed ahead Friday on se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Though a man has been arrested "in connection with" the burglary, Maurizio Cattelan's artwork hasn't yet been recovered. "The golden lavatory, named America, drew large crowds when it was ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Theodore Seuss Geisel died in 1991, but his widow was cleaning out a closet in 2013 when she came across a box of his unpublished, and some unfinished, manuscripts. Or, as the Times headline…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Girls outnumber boys up to 20 to 1 in ballet classes, and so it seems like ballet would be one place " maybe the only place " where women would have the majority of leadership roles. Nope. "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]The crisis is this: As in the U.S., the number of teacher-librarians or librarians in schools has declined precipitously. Why? "Many principals opt to replace them with cheaper 'library offi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Used to be, the U.S. TV landscape had a few reality shows, nothing spectacular, nothing great. But 1999 changed things: "The drama, the spectacle and arguably the artifice of reality televis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]The promise " unlimited films for $10 a month " went far beyond its founders' capital and far beyond what the market could support. But for a limited time in 2017, MoviePass was poised with …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]Taylor's sundial sculpture Timepiece has been used " or, as she thinks of it, co-opted " by a pro-Brexit party called the Time Party, who are using it both on their website and in their merc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]Smith not only cleared up the reputation of President Ulysses Grant " showing that "Grant's poor reputation as president had been fostered in part by biased graduate students at Columbia Uni…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]Barbara Newhall Follett saw her first book " about a wild little girl who longs to be free from structures of brick and glass " published when she was 12. By the time she was 25, "Barbara be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]Well, that's poetic, and sounds incredibly Irish. The director of the new Museum of Literature Ireland says, "We're in competition with a lot of venues backed by private drinks companies, wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]Siddons was an advertising copywriter before her buddy Pat Conroy, author of Prince of Tides, urged her to write about Atlanta " which she did. But that wasn't her only topic. "'The South is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]It's an important question as The Goldfinch, based on a rather lengthy novel, hits theatres. And then … what about movies based on Stephen King books? "The more sophisticated the source ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Sometimes you just need a study to back up what seemingly everyone (at least the women) already knows: "The fields of design, production, and technical theatre are the most male-dominated…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]The painting, by Daniel Buren, is described as "a cotton canvas with white and red vertical stripes," and the attacker was being held for psychiatric evaluation. " BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]For one thing, there's a limit to what you can portray on screen (who knew?): "The film depicts only a fraction of the staff required for similar occasions, as they would simply not fit o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2019
Constance Wu is about to star in the movie Hustlers alongside Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, Lizzo, and some rising stars on the film scene " and it's a film directed by a woman and written by a w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]But … they do. The theme: Flamin' Haute. Why, though? "To be a brand in 2019 isn't to be just a brand. Everything, our individual selves included, is now so online. Brands must be pe…
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