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Monday, June 24, 2019

Britain Gets Its First Play About Vietnamese Immigrants By A Second-Generation Writer by Artsjournal2

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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Sunday, June 23, 2019

What's The Future For Arthouse Films In China? by Artsjournal2

Wang Jingchun, who won the Best Actor award at Cannes, says, "The rising box office is a really good thing. At its worst, we hardly had a box office to speak of. There also used to be a prob…

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Music Publishers Are Pondering New Methods Of Digital Distribution For Orchestras by Artsjournal2

The Music Publishers Association may long for the past, but they're also trying to plan for the future. "There still is not a lot of 'jumping to digital' at professional orchestras since the…

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Making Sculpture A Force For Change In Yorkshire by Artsjournal2

In 1977, artists fought for a sculpture park in Yorkshire " but it was a very, very uphill climb. "More than 40 years later the stubbornness appears to have paid off. The YSP is at the heart…

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Book Banning Is Becoming A Prison Epidemic by Artsjournal2

It's for security, officials say, as they ban books about coding and cybersecurity off of lists of books prisoners can receive. But some on the lists date back to the 1990s " and no one's ha…

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The Director Of 'Crazy Rich Asians' Says The Young Don't Have Self-Hatred Baggage by Artsjournal2

Jon Chu, on Asian and Asian American actors in Hollywood: "What's great about this whole movement is that instead of getting one shot at this next time, maybe we get five. I just hope we get…

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Will Omaha Become A Center For Children's Theatre Development? by Artsjournal2

That's the hope as Rose Theater gets a large new building and plans to open one of the country's biggest theatre academies " a "game-changer" for Omaha, but perhaps for the wider theatre wor…

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Books And Social Media Actually Do Mix by Artsjournal2

Surprising no one who has pr-oordered, ordered, put on reserve at the library, or flat-out bought books mentioned by friends and authors on Twitter or Instagram or Facebook, the consensus is…

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The Day The Music Stopped by Artsjournal2

Jacobin Magazine's take on the Baltimore Symphony musicians' lockout emphasizes worker solidarity, even for elite musicians. "A lockout is probably the nastiest of tactics used by orchestra …

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Suzan Pitt, Wildly Inventive Filmmaker, Has Died At 75 by Artsjournal2

Pitt "created phantasmagorical worlds in ingenious animated films that dealt with miracles, mortality, depression and women's sexuality." " The New York Times

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Why Should We Read Beowulf In The Bathtub? by Artsjournal2

This is actually advice for parents: "We don't read Ramona, or Junie B. Jones, or The Wild Robot in the bathtub. Those are bedtime books. Bath time is for epics, myths, and class…

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The Woman Behind A Lost Velasquez Was A Baroque-Era Feminist " And The Pope's Lover by Artsjournal2

Now this is a worthy portrait subject: "Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj was the power behind the papal throne, and the reputed lover as well as sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X. Nicknamed Papes…

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St. George Gets Unrestored, And Everyone Breathes A Sigh Of Relief by Artsjournal2

The original "restoration" in a small town in Spain reminded many people of, well, Tintin. This is different, and better. " The New York Times

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Amy Sherald Painted The First Lady's Portrait, And She Also Captured This 19-Year-Old Girl In A Six-Story Mural by Artsjournal2

Sherald knew she had the mural space on a Target in Philadelphia, and she wanted to paint someone who, to her, represented the community. A young woman in an arts program provided the spark.…

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Another Woman Accuses President Donald Trump Of Assault (And The NYT Puts That News In Its Book Section) by Artsjournal2

Though much of the online discussion featured some questions for how the paper decides what's front-page news, it quickly shifted to the content, and, well, this became front-page news. " Th…

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Here's How Home Shows Get You Now: You're Essentially Watching Unlimited-Budget Therapy by Artsjournal2

Yes, there's even a new home redecoration show called "Unspouse My House." What the … oh, there's a reason for this. "If shows like The Bachelor provide a narratively satisfying, intention…

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Something New From Greta Matassa by Artsjournal2

The singer's first album since 2011 shows off the depth and layers of her career. " Doug Ramsey

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The French Really Like Elton John by Artsjournal2

So much that President Macron just awarded him a Legion d'Honneur, France's highest award for civilians. " BBC

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The Massive Mistakes Of Art History Include Missing The Reality Of Joan Mitchell by Artsjournal2

We can't say it better than this: "The career of Joan Mitchell, who once likened Clement Greenberg to a 'toilet seat,' ought to remind us of how tribal the art world continues to be. There a…

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Oxford Elects Its First Female Professor Of Poetry by Artsjournal2

So progressive! "After three centuries of Broets (I'm not sorry) hogging the big chair, Oxford University"arguably the world's most venerable institution of higher education"has elected its …

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The American Film Industry Has To Learn To Deal With Fire, And Climate Change by Artsjournal2

When people have a hard time seeing climate change as real, Hollywood could step forward " but it could also cause more problems. "While Hollywood's version of climate change might bring a m…

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Dancing In The Green by Artsjournal2

Fertility in the arts at the Jacob's Pillow Gala. " Deborah Jowitt

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Peter Selz, Curator And Art Historian Who Shaped The Berkeley Museum And MoMA, Has Died At 100 by Artsjournal2

Selz's views strongly shaped MoMA's take on European and non-Abstract Expressionist art during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and his time at Berkeley made the museum "a locus of activity i…

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Monday, June 10, 2019

The Iraq Museum, Once Looted And Then Partly Restored, Has Antiquities And Art That Can't Be Found Elsewhere by Artsjournal2

The museum lost about 15,000 items " but its collection is huge, luminous, and important. "Art historians and archaeologists know how exceptional the collection is. But despite Baghdad's rel…

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Two Actors On Their Way To Perform Assaulted In Homophobic Attack In England by Artsjournal2

The two actors were embracing in the street when "'assailants verbally abused them and thew stones at them from their car window,' with one of the actors being hit in the face by a stone." "…

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Is Notre-Dame's Restoration Becoming A Symbol Of Macron's Gung-Ho Presidency? by Artsjournal2

Ah, of course. Of course. "Instead of being a unifying project, the vexed question of the restoration of the Notre Dame has become a metaphor for the battle between Macron's modernising 'sta…

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Television And The Stories Of Refugees by Artsjournal2

One of the writers of Jane the Virgin says, "What is Game of Thrones if not the story of Jon Snow, who saves a bunch of refugees, gets killed by his people for doing so, gets brought back fr…

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What If You're A Fiction Writer, But You Need To Write About Science? by Artsjournal2

Well then, you become obsessed with theoretical physics, of course. Just ask Nell Freudenberger. Freudenberger "was, like so many other young women, encouraged to believe she didn't 'have th…

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The Art Of Protest In Putin's Russia by Artsjournal2

To put it bluntly, Russia is terrible for activists and artists. Both? Wow. So, for the ones who haven't fled the country, it's necessary to find new, creative ways to protest the repression…

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The Director Of 'Hadestown' Won A Tony And Ripped Into The Reasons She's The Only Woman Directing On Broadway This Year by Artsjournal2

It has nothing to do with who is ready to direct, Rachel Chavkin said. "There are so many women who are ready to go. There are so many artists of color who are ready to go. … This is not a…

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Moving, By Choice, From Ballerina To Administrator by Artsjournal2

Kathleen Breene Combs has been with the Boston Ballet for decades. now, she's packing up her pointe shoes, putting on the business shoes, and moving to Rhode Island's Festival Ballet Provide…

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