Sunday, May 19, 2019
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]It's time to stop being angry about classical music's place in the world, and move toward acceptance. " Greg Sandow
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]Or, if not to blame, then to illuminate how we understand our moon. "If technologies once found only in SF do sometimes become real they do not, in so doing, always cease to be science ficti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]There is, however, downward pressure on the market " which may eventually hit actors, directors, and everyone else working on films in the pocketbook. And " let's face it " Disney is a chall…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]On the night of the Whitney Biennial opening," a crowd of over 150 activists gathered at the Whitney Museum for their largest action yet: a culmination of Nine Weeks of Art and Action, a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]Longtime editor Gary Fisketjon, founder of Vintage Contemporary and a vice-president at the company, was asked to leave after a suspension and an investigation because of "a breach of compan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:06AM[SHARE]You know how many vendors want us to leave email addresses when we buy online? Well, Google knows all about that. It says it doesn't do anything with the data. Maybe! "Google offers users a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]The show, which has earned a lot more viewers in its contentious final season, "was a mass-market hit for the era of no social consensus. … It divided its audience from start to finish, ri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]Hardline Hindu activists, empowered by the 2014 election of Narenda Modi as prime minister, have been doing things like this to plays they deem unpatriotic: "Hours before the show was due to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]Kyo was discovered by a film scout in 1949 while she was performing in a dance revue. She worked with Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Teinosuke Kinugasa, and she continued to ac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:03AM[SHARE]It's true that those movies don't make much money. "The movies may be great, but the financial returns just aren't there. If a foreign movie makes more than $2 million in the States, as Magn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]Let's start with the most contentious thing: Iceland, whose song seemed popular on Twitter, displayed Palestinian flags while live cameras were on the band during voting. The contest was hel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]Monday, May 13, 2019
Yes, Stanford, we're talking about you, but not only you. Even a libertarian agrees: "What is the point of a university press? Its main task, quite simply, is to publish works that expand ou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]And then, the radical (as in, going to the root kind of radical) act of figuring out what's OK to write about " and what's a step too far. "To present ourselves as flawed is one thing, but t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]That's what worked for Katherine Chandler, "one of the most vital voices in Welsh theatre," who took advantage of a Thatcher-era work for welfare opportunity, got placed at a theatre, fell f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Gushi FM is a show that strains at the boundaries of acceptable in a highly censored society. "A worker for a Chinese construction company describes a harrowing escape from war in Libya in a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]The drama cleaned up in several categories, including best supporting actress, best actress, and best drama series. See the full list of winners, including Benedict Cumberbatch over Hugh Gra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Sculptor Mary Spencer Watson left Dunshay Manor to Britain's Landmark Trust, but a woman who grew up in the house claimed that she was due part of the value of the house as her inheritance f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]And for the 1000th issue, the comic book team had to assemble its own creative superheroes. "While most comic books are created by one writer and one art team, Issue No. 1000 will have 80 " …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Sure, she was married to a guy who became pretty famous, but Krasner was prodigiously talented and, long after the guy died, tenaciously working on her own space and art. " The Observer (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Wow: "A 700-year-old fractured moa egg sits at the heart of the exhibition, cocooned in a 70-square-metre, four-metre-high bird's nest woven from recycled materials. Inside, the songs …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Truly not an exhibition space you see every day. " BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Day was a star who reinvented herself several times. She "achieved indelible fame in big-screen bedroom farces and put a sunny face on the working woman in postwar America," and walked away …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]It's the festival's "sensibility" that must be maintained, after all. (Cue eyerolls.) "If your shoes are deemed unworthy of the Cannes red carpet, you can console yourself with the thought t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Ah. Ouch: "We will be hearing a lot about Leonardo this year, the 500th anniversary of his death. … A wealth of Leonardo will be on display. Also on display"it never really stops"will be t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Lipton, also a former model and the mother of actresses Rashida and Kidada Jones, earned a Golden Globe for her role on The Mod Squad, "one of pop culture's first efforts to reckon seriously…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Australian Aboriginal artist Richard Bell " a member of the Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Gurang Gurang communities " has commissioned "a sculptural replica of Australia's official Biennale pa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 12, 2019
Happy, or something, Mother's Day, from The Rumpus. "Mother's Day is a Hallmark holiday, and often the celebrations it inspires reinforce our static and outdated ideas of what it means to be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]The series became a juggernaut in the 1990s, but it's not over by any means. As the years have gone on, "the books have continued to multiply, to such an extent that the titles are now, by n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]Lillian Gish appeared in more than 100 movies, but one stands out as a dangerous, racist movie that inspired the spread of the Ku Klux Klan " The Birth of a Nation. And she never seemed to g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:33PM[SHARE]Yes, Chris Hughes' argument that Facebook needs to be broken up is strong. But it may simply be too late. "In effect, all media lives downstream of a large attention river where Facebook has…
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