Sunday, August 25, 2019
Téa Obreht took her time after The Tiger's Wife struck the bestseller list and stayed for many, many months. She says, "It was appropriate to let the wrong books go and wait for the right o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Yes. It's weird, and it's true: He's a "mentor" of some sort in a new Star Wars TV show. Luckily, the show looks super-grim. Still: What? " Vulture
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]The Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Italy, may never be a Salzburg, but it sure changed Rossini's reputation. Most of the composer's "operas were long dormant. For much of the 20th century, R…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]New York's major arts organizations, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Lincoln Center, are now intertwined with the Koch name for decades. Not that there wasn't dissent " from the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]The reports are to the BBC and other media, and to an actors' union as well, but not to police. A lot of the harassment takes place on the Royal Mile as women flyer for their or their compan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]Like a lot of coastal areas in a whole lot of countries, Cornwall isn't all sweetness and ocean and light. There's a "tension between tradition and progress," and 20 years ago, a filmmaker w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]When it came to making the new Dora the Explorer movie, the production company worked hard to get things right for indigenous representation. Did it pay off? "Live-action still-pan-Latina Do…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]When host Lara Spencer of Good Morning America decided to go after Price George (of the UK) for his 6-year-old studies, she made especial fun of his ballet studies. And her apology Instagram…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2019
Bodies have changed " we're bigger, with a lot more markings " and times have changed: It's actually less legal to be nude on national beaches now than it was during the summer that saw both…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Work stopped entirely on July 25 to ensure that tests were done and the workers were safe, because many tons of lead burned or melted when the spire fell in the fire in April. But work will …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Martin, famously far, far behind on his books in The Song of Ice and Fire series (which became The Game of Thrones on HBO), says, "Having the show finish is freeing, because I'm at my own pa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Sciorra has said that Weinstein attacked her in 1993, which is outside of the statute of limitations " but the prosecutors want her to be able to tell the jury her story anyway. "Prosecutors…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Do you want a serious look at the world of dance; a more lighthearted, behind-the-scenes glance; or some potentially weird but eclectic and innovative podcasts involving hosts and guests? Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]No, really, go watch the crews move the wall " moved so more musicians could eventually fit on the stage-to-be " and enjoy: "It took about six hours for construction crews to move a seven-st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Here's the deal: "Some 19 million tourists visited the Netherlands last year, more people than live there. For a country half the size of South Carolina, with one of the world's highest popu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Is the phone booth a thing of art? Of commerce? Or is it just a piece of trash from an older age " a piece of trash no one, including the phone companies, wants to deal with? While Spaniards…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Sure, some of this is funny " "One edition of Animal Farm: A Fairy Story referred to itself on the back cover as Animals Farm: A Fair Story. The preface referred to another great Orwell work…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Singer/songwriter Lucy Dacus: "Music is magic, yes, and many people use it as an outlet for their animal emotions, but I just wish people would let loose their feelings while still keeping t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Kimberley Rampersad was a dancer who started to sense that dance jobs would dry up " and it was time to move into directing. Now, she's got Man and Superman, all six hours of it, on her plat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Olivia Laing won a £10,000 prize for her novel Crudo over the weekend. But Laing said, in her acceptance speech, "Crudo was written against a kind of selfishness that's everywhere in the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]War and Peace? Bring it! Every single word of Silas Marner? Amateurs! What about 72 hours of Sherlock Holmes? Bliss! "'There is an appetite for the epic that has simply surpassed our expecta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]The claim: The event takes up an incredible amount of time and money, and the symphony says "our understanding of our role in the community has begun to change." Therefore, "the staff is eva…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Alvin Baltrop only had a few shows while he was alive, one of which was at a gay nightclub. Now that he's getting more attention, we can see some of the "real" New York of the 1970s and 1980…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2019
Whoops, forgetting (or neglecting to worry about) maintenance isn't going to cut it anymore, or at least not in this case. "The five judges on a Roman court overseeing the use of public fund…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]How long can this last? "This market brings together two groups who normally don't socialize: critics and collectors. There are the exotic-seeming rich people, as any reader of Henry James w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]India is a huge country with many different regional cuisines. But cookbooks haven't reflected that " until now. "As the publishing industry's view of Indian cuisine approaches homogenizatio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]Yes, that finishes as "stay together," of course. Though it's a bit unusual in the cosplay community, these women have a different idea. "It was just so nice to share our resources. It made …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]Marshall, the child of immigrants from Barbados, wrote novels and short stories that connected the US African American community and the communities of the Caribbean " and influenced many wr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]Magdalene Odundo, a Kenya-born British ceramicist who hand-builds her work, says clay is a natural substance for creating bodies and other shapes. And no, she doesn't find the word "craft" o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]The company is part of Killing Eve, the movie Book Club, and around 100 other media properties, to date. Their spin: "In a world of media consolidation at an unprecedented scale, the size an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]Barnes served as a studio musician and producer for some of the most popular acts of the 1990s, including Roberta Flack, Sting, and Chaka Khan " and she propelled SNL to early viral fame on …
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