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Sunday, August 18, 2019

Katreese Barnes, Musical Force Behind The Scenes Of Careers And 'Saturday Night Live,' Has Died At 56 by Artsjournal2

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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In Germany, A Girl Loses A Gender Bias Lawsuit Against A Boys' Choir by Artsjournal2

The 9-year-old girl's parents sued the State and Cathedral Choir of Berlin after her application was rejected, but the court ruled that "the acoustic pattern of a choir is part of its artist…

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Memories From Ystad And Elsewhere by Artsjournal2

Remembering Bob Wilber, and celebrating Gunhild Carling. " Doug Ramsey

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Twenty-Five Years After Founding Native Voices At The Autry, Randy Reinholz Gets Some Major Recognition by Artsjournal2

Reinholz, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, also had a hit as a playwright with Off the Rails (an adaptation of Measure for Measure) at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in…

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What Happened To The Last Member Of The Harlem Renaissance? by Artsjournal2

Dorothy West was called Zora Neale Hurston's "Kid Sister," and her books were not immediate successes, partly, some say, because she wrote about the Black middle class. "She wrote 'posh blac…

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At Edinburgh Fringe, There's A Tremendous Amount Of Raw Talent That Needs Support To Thrive by Artsjournal2

Lyn Gardner says that "the fringe is like a machine churning out ever more raw talent, which is attractive to venues who buy it up cheaply. But the issue is they then offer very little ongoi…

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A Ballerina Adventures In Postmodern Worlds by Artsjournal2

It's not quite fair to call City Ballet principal Sara Means a force of nature because she's so hard-working and disciplined, but it's tempting. " Deborah Jowitt

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The Number Of Kids Taking A-Level Drama In The UK Has Dropped Below 10,000 For The First Time Ever by Artsjournal2

But drama is actually doing well, compared to the other arts. Yikes: "Entries for music fell by 6% to 5,125, and dance dropped 18% to 1,050." " The Stage (UK)

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]

Moving Art Out Of The Galleries by Artsjournal2

In Brisbane, the Trace show is taking art to bakeries, luggage repair shops, and mechanic shops. The point? To "democratize" the art. " The Guardian (UK)

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It's Fine " It's Great, Actually " To Take Photos In Museums by Artsjournal2

Don't get distracted by your feelings about obnoxiousness. Well … a little, maybe. "It's easy to see why phones can be annoying. They represent a sort of loud carelessness, the idea that s…

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Art Spiegelman Had To Withdraw From Marvel For Likening The US President To A Fascist Comic Book Villain by Artsjournal2

This week in comics news: "Cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his graphic novel Maus, withdrew his introduction to a new Marvel comics collection after its publisher …

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The World Is Getting A New John Coltrane Album by Artsjournal2

The music, to be released in September, was the Coltrane Quartet's soundtrack to the French Canadian film Le chat dans le sac (The Cat in the Bag), which is available online now. "Coltrane h…

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Update: Read Art Spiegelman's Withdrawn Marvel Essay In A British Newspaper by Artsjournal2

The cartoonist's essay about the rise of superheroes is online, and he makes his opinion clear: "International fascism again looms large (how quickly we humans forget " study these golden ag…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]

How London's National Theatre Live Changed The Landscape by Artsjournal2

Broadcasting live theatre changes the audience " and the theatre. But for the better? Directors try to "collaborate with the show's creative team and company. 'We've got to do it in such a w…

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Calls To Boycott Live-Action 'Mulan' Swell After Actor Tweets Support Of Hong Kong Police by Artsjournal2

The actor Liu Yifei, who plays Mulan in Disney's live-action movie, "this week reposted an image on Weibo, a Chinese social network similar to Twitter, that took the police's side. The…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AM[SHARE]
Monday, August 5, 2019

NYCharities Just Disappeared, Taking Thousand Of Small Dance Companies' Dollars With It by Artsjournal2

This is not a pleasant story. "In theory, NYCharities was a small dance company's dream. Free to use, the nonprofit acted as a clearinghouse for companies to accept credit and debit ca…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]

On Sunday, A 6-Year-Old Was Thrown Off The Tate Modern's 10th-Floor Viewing Platform by Artsjournal2

The 17-year-old who appears to have thrown the child " who was airlifted from the London museum in critical condition after landing on the fifth-floor roof " was arrested on suspicion of att…

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Some Ideology Can Kill, But How To Alter, Or Preferably Squelch, Those Ideas? by Artsjournal2

It's a mess. "In political violence, as in so many other parts of modern life, inspiration comes from an ever more bizarre range of origins. Portions of the [alleged El Paso shooter's] manif…

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What's The Matter With Renoir's Nudes? by Artsjournal2

Trying to sell Renoir as a progressive, or even a feminist … just no. " Hyperallergic

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Walter Benjamin Believed WWI Changed Human Nature, But Culture Gave A Little Hope by Artsjournal2

It seemed like a good time to republish this, LitHub decided. "In their buildings, paintings, and stories, humanity is preparing to survive culture, if it comes to that. And the main thing i…

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Listen To Cate Blanchett, And Don't Let Your Creativity Lapse After Having Kids by Artsjournal2

Well, not Cate, actually, but her character in Where'd You Go, Bernadette? That character hasn't been able to create anything for years. The movie's director, Richard Linklater: "Creativity …

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Tarantino And Women by Artsjournal2

He doesn't exactly have the best reputation when it comes to the women in his movies. And then there's his exchange with a reporter at Cannes this year. "His curtness in dismissing the conce…

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Television Critics Love, And Award, 'Fleabag' by Artsjournal2

Everyone loved the first season of Fleabag just fine, but then the second season went and added a hot priest to the mixture. The TCA Awards responded. (The entire list of other winners " yes…

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The Farewell May Be Culturally Specific, But The Issue Of Lying To Dying Relatives Is Cross-Cultural by Artsjournal2

A man who gained work in the movie business as an undocumented immigrant says that "it's the element of migration and the severed intergenerational connections it creates that modify the fam…

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The Hot Commodity For Celebrities: Scandal Insurance by Artsjournal2

Dick pic? Groping? Racist rant? It'll be fine. There are now "plans to sell 'disgrace insurance' to entertainment companies and commercial brands, making the risk of celebrity downfall as qu…

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Renée Fleming To Redesign And Co-Lead Aspen by Artsjournal2

Fleming and conductor Patrick Summers of the Houston Grand Opera will be co-artistic directors of the Aspen Music Festival and School's opera program, redesigning it. "Fleming, who will cont…

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Fifty Years On, The Ideals And The Reality Of Woodstock by Artsjournal2

On stage, musicians " the most famous of the era, the ones who would become even more famous from Woodstock " were flown in; extensive set changes occurred around frantic, angry, urgent hous…

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A Broadway Musical Gets A Very Broadway Post-Curtain Call Event by Artsjournal2

Though no one gets married in The Prom, the musical celebrates same-sex prom-going even as it lampoons celebrity culture, with a glitzy finale set (obviously) at the prom. "But all that glit…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:15AM[SHARE]

Paul Robeson's American 'Othello' by Artsjournal2

A new play about the play, and the man, and his affair with the woman playing Desdemona (who happened to be Ute Hagen), and also her husband (who happened to be José Ferrer) … well, there…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]

Making The (Big) Leap From Edinburgh Fringe To Broadway by Artsjournal2

The musical Six is about " what else " the wives of Henry VIII, a musical inspired by Beyoncé and Ariana Grande. That makes it an obvious candidate for Broadway, right? Yep: "The show start…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]
Sunday, August 4, 2019

D.A. Pennebaker, Documentary Filmmaker And Bob Dylan Mythmaker, Has Died At 94 by Artsjournal2

Pennebaker's documentary filmmaking stretched across more than six decades, and in that time, he "chronicled a who's who of other pop music and entertainment world figures and icons over the…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]

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