Sunday, July 21, 2019
Sure, there are a lot of mothers (or, as The Guardian has it, mums) in opera, but Rosa Mamai in L'arlesiana has a command and power that's all too rare. " The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]A lone loan of Jerome for Leonardo's 500th anniversary. " Lee Rosenbaum
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Pelli, born in Argentina, was the former dean of Yale's architecture school. He designed the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and architecture critic Paul Goldberger called him "an architect…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]Yes, that's pretty damned alarming for anyone who knows history. "Many cultural leaders in the state Baden-Württemberg, of which Stuttgart is the capital, saw the inquiry about artists' nat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]It's the same one that makes Kendrick Lamar's soundtrack for Black Panther less than ideal, but it's even more glaring for a film inspired by the geography and culture of Kenya and other Eas…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2019
The Spanishisms, or Spanish words, or words that are a mix, are making Catalan purists and separatists angry. Ironically, "there are also a few English words thrown into the song but, amid t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Last year, an economics professor suggested killing off the public library and replacing it with Amazon. The backlash was swift " and it's ongoing. Why? Libraries are free, providing a refug…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Lulu Wang's family didn't want to tell its matriarch that she was dying of cancer " and the resulting efforts to get everyone to say their goodbyes, without letting her in on the reason, tur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Kathryn Morgan had to leave City Ballet in the fall of 2012 after an autoimmune disease screwed up everything from her hair to her balance, starting a couple of years earlier. "What Morgan i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]The African American and Black musicians who make up the Re-Collective Orchestra recorded a chamber-music version of Black Panther's "All the Stars Are Open." Hans Zimmer heard it, and then …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Shafak wants the world to pay attention to what Erdogan has been doing since the failed 2016 coup: "Much has been said about the anti-liberal nature of authoritarian populism, but relatively…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48PM[SHARE]Into Harry Potter houses, that is. Way to go, Philadelphia. " Philly Voice
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Did the voters love the final season of Game of Thrones more than mere mortals did? And how many nominations can the second season of Fleabag get when the first season got exactly zero? " Lo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]In short, Sarah Moss says, "I think it's called the Great American Novel." Zing! " The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]When a team decided to adapt Sue Monk Kidd's 2002 book The Secret Life of Bees into a 2019 musical, and the only African American person on the production team was playwright Lynn Nottage, w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Roberts-Joseph was an icon in the Louisiana capital city, and she devoted her life and work to historical memory " and making Juneteenth a national holiday. Then there was "the Odell S. Will…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Hmmm: "Every era in Hollywood has a symbolic epicenter, a place that sums up everything, especially power and sometimes absurdity." Apparently, that's now Netflix. "An 80-foot by 12-foot vid…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Yeah, doing work "for the exposure" and vague promises of pay isn't really great. "Some dancers were going for that because it was a good opportunity and gives you more of a profile and help…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]And are they OK for the brain? Some studies show that people retain information from a printed page much more than from an audiobook. "it might be that the particular cadences and timbre of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]Theatre criticism, like every other kind of critique in the age of the internet, appears to be booming, but that's not really true. "How is the average theatregoer to sort quality from digit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 14, 2019
A contingent of science fiction writers " that is, novelists, to be clear " are being hired by companies to predict the future. Yes, really. "Mega consulting firm Price Waterhouse Cooper pub…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM[SHARE]That's the idea of the search, truly. Historian Geoff Marsh "concluded from cross-referencing various tax and leasehold documents of the time … that the playwright " then in his early 30s …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM[SHARE]Sure, Twitter has issues. And then it has this: "At 58, [Karita] Mattila, who is currently onstage here at the Aix Festival in Weill and Brecht's "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,"…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:42PM[SHARE]In her new bookstore in Chicago " the only one owned by a Black woman " owner and curator DL Mullen has more than books. "What might be most visually striking about the space is the art itse…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]Alfaro met a 13-year-old promising playwright in 1999, but she was in a program for felons: She had killed her mother, who had put a hit out on her father. Then he started re-reading Electra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]It COULD get fixed, but it probably won't. Why? Engagement. "As the AI improves, it will be able to more precisely predict who is interested in this content; thus, it's also less likely to r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]Ouch, why did you have to zing all of us who have ever been on vacation, NYT? " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]Cressida Cowell, laureate for children's literature and a writer whose fame has greatly benefitted from film and TV, says, "Books are a kind of transformative magic that offer magical things…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]The kid who solved the mystery was simply obsessed " and lucky, thanks to a tweet, to find the right timeline. "'The entire time I was trying to figure out who painted it, I thought it was f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]The mystery lasted a long time, and criss-crossed the internet " partly because everyone wanted to buy a Bob Ross original. Good luck with that. (Also, come for the mystery, but stay for the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]Showrunner David E. Kelley had a plan, but he didn't share it with British filmmaker Andrea Arnold before shooting began … or finished. "There was a dramatic shift in late 2018 as the show…
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