Sunday, June 2, 2019
In the planning for New York's Figment Arts Festival, moving from Governors Island to Roosevelt Island this year, "'Everything was fine,' Judith Berdy, a longtime resident said. 'And then ca…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]That wasn't 100 percent the plan when comedian Ali Wong and actor Randall Park wrote and starred in Always Be My Maybe, but … well. "As writers and producers they give an unprecedented arr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]The return of the paper diary may be at hand. "Contrary to what I'd like to believe, media that lives 'on the internet' is not actually floating above our heads in a cloud, like Mike Teavee …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]Let's look a little more deeply into Avengers: Endgame. (Yes, it's been covered, but this is different.) "It's a reality-bending cultural phenomenon that proudly wallows in its own mind-numb…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]No, a $44 million settlement is not going to satisfy everyone " or, more likely, anyone at all. "Attorneys for two of the alleged victims rejected the proposal outright; while another questi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Spencer Tunick takes photos of choreographed crowds of naked people at monuments and in natural settings all over the world. He calls them "flesh architecture," and he'd like it if Instagram…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Monday, May 20, 2019
No pressure, but if this movie doesn't do well, Hollywood might force itself back into its (extremely long lasting, tight, and transparent) closet, or at least that's the threat. "Rocketman …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]Arkatov was "a child from Russia who landed in San Francisco, befriended violinist Isaac Stern " whose fame was still to come " took up the cello and decided to pour his life into making mus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]The buildings of Dr. Maya Angelou Community High School was drab gray and green until Saturday, when the artists got to work. "The Maya Angelou school project, which includes prominent artis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]Shore, a stand-up comedian who opened for Elvis' comeback and comeback tour, and for everyone from Barbra Streisand to Sammy Davis Jr. to Bobby Darin, spent the last 20 years touring with hi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]They're niche, and sometimes they include industry professionals, but also, they're more than that. "These expanded horizons imply responsibility: 'You know these meetings are a tryout. The …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]This music story has more sports metaphors than most sports stories, but let's just run with it: Lang Lang got injured and could only perform one of the five concertos, and now, 'four pianis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]For a podcast " transcribed here " writers Daniel José Older and Marlon James (Booker prizewinner for 2015) talk with creative writing profs about what genre even is, and why it's better no…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Ferrante: "I chose to write out of a fear of handling more concrete and dangerous forms of power. And also perhaps out of a strong feeling of alienation from the techniques of domination, so…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]You know Flow. It's a psychological idea that basically, psychologists say, describes "a state of engagement that arises when people are completely focused on an activity, such as tennis or …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Here's how the play's director responded to a mild backlash: "All I was doing was trying to put on a show. … It's a community theater and the community of people that showed up to audition…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]And, she says, it's time to stop seeing playwrights as god. Morgan Lloyd Malcolm: "What I enjoy more as a creator is to be in a room with a bunch of people working it out together. … We ne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Seriously. There are small planets, Earth-sized planets, huge planets, and humongous planets. What there aren't are planets that are 1.5-2 times as big as our Earth. Uh? Where are they? (No,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03AM[SHARE]Last year, the festival kicked off a 50/50 pledge " but there's much work to be done, and the EU commission will gather Europe-wide data and report on best practices. As for now, a report sa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03AM[SHARE]Ratmansky has been with ABT longer than anywhere else " and it shows. "By now, some Ballet Theater dancers have spent their entire careers performing his dances; the famously difficult chore…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03AM[SHARE]Google said it's reviewing the orders; meanwhile, it's complying. "The move could hobble Huawei's smartphone business outside China as the tech giant will immediately lose access to updates …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 19, 2019
Are cities urban anymore? Or are the suburbs moving in? New buildings across the country are offering parking, private entrances, "parks," and other perks of suburban life " downtown. Yes, "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]Wouk shot to the top of the lists with The Caine Mutiny in 1951, and he remained there "for most of a career that extended past his 100th year thanks to page-turners like Marjorie Morningsta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]Plot twists, bingeing, and deep curiosity about characters are nothing new. Cuba exported tons of radionovelas, as they were called, from the 1930s through the 1950s. After the Revolution, "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Nozkowski's "small, insistent, richly hued abstractions upended the heroic scale of postwar New York art and helped push painting in a more accessible, personal and wryly self-aware directio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Will this start some dominos falling or reinforce the agencies' intransigence? "Verve, a young Los Angeles agency focusing primarily on writers, is the biggest agency so far to make peace wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Aïda Muluneh once worked as a photojournalist for The Washington Post. That didn't go perfectly. "'Are you an artist, or are you a journalist?' her boss asked." By now, the answer is clea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Beckford danced with the companies of Florelle Batsford, Anna Halprin, and Welland Lathrop " and "when Beckford came onstage, the audience would gasp in surprise." In 1947, for the Oakland D…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Jatra stars used to be major celebrities, but now they have to work second (or third) jobs to make ends meet. "Jatra originated in Bangladesh and the eastern Indian states of Odisha and Biha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]A board member made the announcement of her gift at a quasi-40th birthday party for the museum on Saturday night. That fits with new director Klaus Biesenbach's vision. "'We are not aiming a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Why? Because of some not so great romance novel tropes. Novelist Liz Lincoln: "We need to start putting abortion in our books. … As an alternative to marrying virtual strangers after a sur…
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