Sunday, June 30, 2019
Rauch, who came into the festival wanting to change the audience and the acting company demographics (and who has succeeded in the latter; the former is stickier, as he also acknowledges in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Artist Donna Huanca uses semi-nudes to claim space in what she says is still a very male space. "I'm trying to distort the male gaze, to have it be so powerful that it reflects back in a dif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]As Emily Temple notes in LitHub, that 2010 cover was also the first in about 10 years " and as she also says, "Maybe in 2029 it will be a woman! (Just kidding, there definitely won't be maga…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Well, of course it's free " it's a library! " but more than that, "The Free Black Women's Library, a mobile pop-up library and community for black women, is creating spaces [across Los Angel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]Well … it's an important piece of cultural history. "This provocative show about domestic tastes was a landmark in changing national attitudes " and especially the section of it the newspa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]The Uffizi in Florence was never shy about saying what happened to the painting Vase of Flowers by Dutch master Jan van Huysum, but soon it won't need that "STOLEN!" label on a reproduction …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]The story is about 50 memoirs from the last 50 years, but The New York Times has also ranked them. Want to know what number one is? (You know BuzzFeed would make this a quiz, asking how many…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]The writers/agents fight hit a new level of ugly in the last week of June. "After being slapped this week with lawsuits from two of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies, the Writers Guild of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]The vote, in which 57 voted to join the union and 20 against, will see more than 90 arts handlers and facilities staff join the same union that represents roughly the same folks at MoMA PS1.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]What a so-called "private" Sotheby's would really mean for the art world, and for art. " Lee Rosenbaum
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]In this short video of a bookbinding house in England, "from folding pages to sewing and gluing paper to the leather spine, skilful human hands are front and centre throughout." " Aeon Magaz…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]She was most recently the executive director of the Children's Museum of the Arts in Manhattan, but "that was just the latest stop in a career that included leading Visual AIDS, an organizat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Nah, say UK booksellers, who reported a drop in fiction-buyers last year " but who expect a couple of new books to drive strong sales soon. " The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]And trying to avoid them all: "Intrepid visitors have sometimes overstepped the boundaries, forcing Ms. Viladomiu to add a barrier outside her apartment, to keep tourists at bay." " The New …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Toni Morrison, of course, and Helen Oyeyemi, and books that make her laugh, and The Beatles. Also, Smith on how useless it is to try to rate books or authors. " The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Yes, yes, AMC has done plenty of gobbling of arts theatres, or so say the (former) owners of those theatres, but now they're concerned about the films. Well, not just now: "This is not the f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2019
As in other countries, poetry sales rose by double-digit amounts last year in Northern Ireland, with the bulk of that purchasing coming from people under 34. Why? Let a poet explain. " BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]Possibly! Studies certainly show that singing in groups forms cohesion quickly and increases warm feelings toward strangers both quickly and strongly. Even group singing across hundreds or t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]Given virtual reality, Snapchat filters, and so much more, is it any surprise to think that we might all walk around looking like heart-eyed puppies soon? All but those being placed in conce…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]Star power " even stars like Thor and Valkyrie, er, Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thomson; even Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling, for heck's sake " is crashing and burning on the big screen this s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]Author Mona Awad: "Iwas definitely interested in leaning into that and the horror of it, the scariness of that kind of groupthink. It is scary. I guess it's one of the risks you take when yo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]When the parent company for 18 different Art Institutes closed without warning earlier in 2019, students were supposed to get their loans discharged under the Closed School Discharge program…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]The fashion industry in Africa is on the rise, especially in cities like Kinshasa and Capetown. But while fashion designers might get noticed in Paris and New York, models have a different s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]And it's not only reporters. "A cohort of countries is moving toward digital authoritarianism by embracing the Chinese model of extensive censorship and automated surveillance systems." This…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]That seems a little impractical, no? Well, marry someone who makes a good income, stop taking massive holiday trips, and focus on small things in the present, says one artist. " The Guardian…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]And what was Universal Music Group doing in the 11 years between the fire and the news of the fire? Hmmmm. The lawsuits claim UMG was reaping hundreds of millions of insurance damages in con…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]Jaffee and his wife Kay founded the group after taking a graduate class in early choral and instrumental music, and the Waverly Consort sparked interest in early music all over the world " a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]Now it's rare for animated shows on Netflix not to be unionized. "The last few months have seen the show's team organize protests, a 10-minute walk-out, and solicitation of support from both…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]Uh, not good: "Amazon takes a hands-off approach to what goes on in its bookstore, never checking the authenticity, much less the quality, of what it sells. It does not oversee the sellers w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]Taring Padi have been inspiring change in Indonesia since the late 1990, and they're not stopping yet. Why? Well, governmental corruption turns out to be not only the province of one overthr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33PM[SHARE]The stereotypes of "boat people" and "nail girls" persist in Britain, but playwright and actor Tyumen Do wants British people to think about the new generation and its concerns, and if she h…
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