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Sunday, June 2, 2019

Hurray, A Popular Art Festival, And Boo, The Popular Art Festival's Thousands Of Visitors by Artsjournal2

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…

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Will Netflix's New Rom-Com Change The World For Its Stars And Other Asian American Actors? by Artsjournal2

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…

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The Existential Fear Of Losing Your Online Self by Artsjournal2

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 …

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We're All Stuck In 'Corporate Stockholm Syndrome' With Disney's Endless Round Of Movies by Artsjournal2

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…

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That Proposed Harvey Weinstein Settlement Is Unlikely To Last by Artsjournal2

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…

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Artist Tells Facebook And Instagram To Free The Nipple by Artsjournal2

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

Hollywood Is Stressing Out Over The Elton John Biopic Because It's 'So Gay' by Artsjournal2

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]

James Arkatov, Founder Of The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Has Died At 98 by Artsjournal2

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…

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Shepard Fairey And 30 Other Artists 'Transform' An LA High School With Huge Murals by Artsjournal2

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…

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Sammy Shore, Co-Founder Of The Comedy Store, Has Died At 92 by Artsjournal2

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…

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Book Clubs Are Getting Rather Niche by Artsjournal2

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 …

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How The LA Phil Turned A Beethoven Concerto Marathon Into More Of A Relay by Artsjournal2

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…

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When Two Genre Writers Talk To Two Creative Writing Teachers, Sparks Fly by Artsjournal2

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…

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Elena Ferrante: Storytelling Has Been Wrested From Men, And Its Power Now Rests In Women's Hands by Artsjournal2

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…

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The Problem With Facebook And Twitter, And Politics? Flow by Artsjournal2

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 …

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A Theatre In Western New York Cast A White Woman To Play The Enslaved Character Tituba In 'The Crucible' by Artsjournal2

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…

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A Playwright Says It's Time To Dismantle Theatre's Hierarchy by Artsjournal2

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…

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Planets Are Piling Up, But There's A Size Missing by Artsjournal2

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,…

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At Cannes, The EU Examines Gender Disparity Among Critics by Artsjournal2

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…

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The Fruits Of Alexei Ratmansky's 10-Year Partnership With American Ballet Theater by Artsjournal2

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…

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After Trump Blacklists China's Huawei, Google Suspends Some Business With The Company by Artsjournal2

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 …

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Sunday, May 19, 2019

The Suburbification Of The Urban Landscape by Artsjournal2

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, "…

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Herman Wouk, Author Of 'The Caine Mutiny' And Perennial Best-Selling Writer, Has Died At 103 by Artsjournal2

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…

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For Decades, Cuba Exported Radio Soap Operas " And Now Their Post-Revolution Successors Are Going Digital by Artsjournal2

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]

Thomas Nozkowski, Who Changed The Course Of Abstract Art, Has Died At 75 by Artsjournal2

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…

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One Talent Agency Breaks Ranks, Sides With Writers by Artsjournal2

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…

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Fighting Visual Clichés About Africa by Artsjournal2

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…

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Ruth Beckford, Often The Only Black Dancer In Modern Dance Companies, Has Died At 93 by Artsjournal2

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…

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The Vanishing Stars Of Bengali Folk Theatre by Artsjournal2

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…

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LA MOCA Gets A $10 Million Gift To Make Entrance Free by Artsjournal2

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]

As U.S. States Strive To Make Abortion Illegal, Romance Novelists Pledge To Write About It by Artsjournal2

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…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]

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