Publishing has rather a lot to do to catch up in the diversity, equity, and inclusion fronts. Lisa Lucas, the outgoing director of the National Book Foundation, who is Black, says, "What do …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Popova, who died of Covid-19, lived a dramatic early life and found stability, if not joy, on Broadway and TV before becoming a ballet teacher. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]Hepburn wasn't well-known in the U.S. before William Wyler cast her against Gregory Peck in the bittersweet rom-com. But "her star rose so quickly after this movie. That is crazy. This movie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]As the pandemic exposes massive historical cracks in the U.S. along class and race lines, it also exposes what state universities have been dealing with for a few decades " and it's causing …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"Two of Domingo's managers and a spokesperson briefly cut off the interview when the singer was asked to respond to the fact that both investigations had found the sexual harassment accusati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Heidi Pitlor: "Ghostwriting is a form of acting, method acting really, as well as improvisation. You must become your subject, whether they are a Kennedy, a congresswoman, or a guy who espou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]The idea was to figure out what could make for a safe return to live music, using healthy volunteers who had tested negative before the concerts. "The first of Saturday's three concerts aime…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Thuy Van Vu's empty classrooms feel eerily familiar right now, almost photographic. "The spaces she portrays are vast and full of potential, and also of a great, yawning absence. Where are t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48PM[SHARE]Turns out not everyone loves mansion tours, or even castle tours. "The trust's visitor experience director proposes putting thousands of artworks and other items into storage in order to 'fl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]It's bad from the singer side " 51 percent of the top 100 songs were by solo male acts, and only 19 percent were by solo female acts " but it's shockingly horrible from behind the scenes, wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]The drivetime listeners are gone, sending NPR's radio ratings into the sub-sub-basement. Yet NPR is reaching 10 percent more people than at the same time last year. What gives? "Bringing a y…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]His team sprang into action and got censor-free footage that seems impossible. "The hardest footage to shoot was inside the I.C.U., Ai said, but he could not divulge how it was filmed. He sa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]And what an author " Marcie Rendon, an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, is an "award-winning poet, playwright, author of children's books, short stories and the popular Cash Blackb…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Police tear-gassed the gathering before the march began, killing L.A. Times columnist and KMEX news director Ruben Salazar (two others also died during the tear-gassing and shooting). "The M…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Can they? Yes. Will they? Hm. " Slate
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Reassuring: "The theaters are pushing hard the argument that moviegoing is safe more broadly, or at least as safe as going to a restaurant, flying on an airplane or worshiping in a church." …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Kanstantsin Shyshmakou, the 29-year-old director of a military history museum in Vawkavysk, refused to sign anything certifying the re-election of Lukashenko " and was found dead in a river …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]It wasn't easy to film Love in the Time of Corona. But it was doable, with a lot of care " and a lot of house-cleaning for the actors whose homes hosted the shoots. Some of the details: "Fil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]So here we have a movie, Cuties, that "has been praised for questioning how society and social media pressure young children into acting in sexually explicit ways." Best way to advertise it,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Shutdown theatre cool idea number 458: "A postcard slips through the letterbox and lands lightly. While rural touring can't take place, Nottingham-based company New Perspectives have c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00PM[SHARE]Assuming that it ever ends " with a vaccine or some kind of terribly expensive, in human life terms, herd immunity " Covid-19 may leave a theatrical legacy that's hard to shake, at least for…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]Horror movies sure seem to think so. A lot of them seem to exhibit "this idea that if you have enough free time, you're going to just start rounding people up and killing them." " Wired
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]And then there are the outdoor performances, with masks: "When a performer speaks a lot onstage, … masks become damp and stick to the skin, so each cast member goes through four or five of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:42AM[SHARE]The Hollywood Bowl couldn't have audiences " but the musicians could be there, distanced, and the orchestra took advantage of its city's geographical advantages. The concerts were only "poss…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]Unless you already live in Venice, in which case, sorry, you'll have to read something other than Invisible Cities. " The Economist
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:42AM[SHARE]The first concert since lockdown is definitely special (not that it's weird to be masked and distant anymore; it's simply exciting to be there). "It's been difficult but clarifying to see ho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]In the UK, for instance, with social distance requirements in full force as they should be, "only around 100 of the country's 900 small music venues would be able to operate." And it's not a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:36AM[SHARE]When Aesha Ash got hired as a City Ballet dancer, she felt the weight of her people on her back. "I wasn't just dancing for myself, and I wasn't just dancing to rise through the ranks and be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Sure, one might wonder why one of the United States's greatest traitors has a statue in the United States Capitol Building, but that's a long (racist) story. In any case, it's time for the s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]How he feels playing to an online audience: "You can't touch, you can't hug, you can't shake hands. But what music does, its sound moves air molecules. So when air floats across your skin an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Sarah Cooper is a UX engineer who, during lockdown, decided to take advantage of TikTok and the United States president's, er, unique response to the pandemic, earning her a huge response an…
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