Sunday, May 12, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Yes, Las Vegas: "The Strip is still, and ever shall be, as Joan Didion described it, 'bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification.' But a recent infu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Penguin Random House acquired Salamandra on May 3, and some see it as the start of a large rivalry with multimedia firm and publisher Grupo Planeta " but the real rivals to both publishing c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]Ann Powers re-listens to all of Michael Jackson's work in the wake of Leaving Neverland. "If culture builds itself through revelations, explorations, secrets and lies, any response that does…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]Whew, Friday's cancellation news was intense, so bad that Vulture called it a "bloodbath." What's left? Fresh Off the Boat got renewed " but star Constance Wu flat-out stated that was nothin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:06PM[SHARE]As 43-year-old ballerina Crystal Brothers prepares to retire from Ballet Memphis, here's what she has been doing each day to keep her body going in the brutal sport, er, art, of dance: She s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]Three Lithuanian artists won the prize for an opera performance piece "on an artificial beach, in which swimsuited performers break from sunbathing to sing warnings of ecological disaster." …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:03PM[SHARE]The man in question is 55-year-old West Yorkshire poet Simon Armitrage, who's aware of the issues. "Armitage told the BBC that he believed there had been 'a lot of discussion behind th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]When Natasha Tynes tweeted a photo of a Washington, D.C., Metro employee eating on the train " the same behavior that gets non-employees tickets and is the subject of many online discussions…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]Wow, ugh, and this sure messes with those trying to remember Indiana a year after he died. "The complex legal battle surrounding the estate of Indiana began the day before he died at his hom…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]This seems … weird: The fewer people watch, the more money comes in from ads? But OK: "A strong economy has sustained robust ad spending in recent years. But another reason the upfront pot…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]Shamel Pitts, who grew up in Bed-Stuy and danced in The Ailey School and at Juilliard before leaving to dance with an Israeli group he saw at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, has moved back ho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]It's not magic. But it does require some effort (& also, do read Frog and Toad aloud): "Children have never been famed for taking sensible advice, but are superb at following a poor exam…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]OK, from low orbit, anyway. Still, potentially cool (and creepy? All at once?): First of all, Elon Musk's SpaceX has a plan for something called "Starlink," and now, "government filings h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]Sargent was the master of the adapted screenplay. "One of Hollywood's most versatile writers, Mr. Sargent, who adapted screenplays from books and stories, wrote or collaborated on scores of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54AM[SHARE]While actual prop money is pretty well regulated, let's just say there's a lot of fake prop (or fake fake) money flooding the market. By the way, with prop money, "One type is for 'fanning, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33AM[SHARE]Hart's creative journey began in " and probably before " kindergarten. Then, "encouraged by her parents and refusing to be confined by the contours in coloring books, she made the walls of h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:33AM[SHARE]Monday, May 6, 2019
Camp relies on a sensibility that is deliberately not mainstream. So: "Is camp still 'lots of fun' when everyone's on board, aboveboard? The 'fugitive sensibility' Sontag hoped to capture is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]It's got the collection of the former Museum of the Confederacy, so can it ever truly tell all of the stories suppressed and neglected over the years? Well, that's the plan: "It's unpreceden…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]Did the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why *cause* the spike? Bit of an issue with a recent study that claims it did: "Importantly, the researchers don't know if the people who died by suicide watc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]Well, why not? "'Come and convince our showrunners that they can't just make six episodes of things. Like you guys, they should make 200 episodes,' she recalled him saying. Fey rejected the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]Amber Gray auditioned as well as she could for the Broadway-bound Hadestown: She "couldn't read sheet music but had prepared for the tryout by diligently listening to the assigned song from …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]Is it too soon after this year's Tony nominations came out? So what? Bring 'em on: "When it comes to new musicals, looking beyond Broadway can reveal productions that may yet be players in t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]The artist was SKU and "the exhibition, Rainbow Scenes, was billed as exploring 'how we, as individuals, are subjected to wider cultural, economic, moral and political forces in society.'" "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]Heller blurred the line between collector and dealer " and caused an international incident because of it. "Heller's sale of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles to the National Gallery of Australia…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]Hoang's first novel, The Kiss Quotient, had an autistic main character " and so does her second. She says, "There was this website I looked at " I don't want to tell you what it is, because …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]The 1990s really did last into today: "Must See TV veterans have helped shape some of the most groundbreaking shows of the Peak TV era, including Homeland, The Handmaid's Tale, Atlanta, The …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]If you ignore the controversies surrounding some "sloppiness" in the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Emmy awards last year (and maybe this year too), you can just focus o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]Really. "The botanist David Hosack transformed this landscape into the country's first public botanical garden in 1801. His creation, the 20-acre Elgin Botanic Garden, would come to contain …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]But there's a pretty strong reason to read " or attempt to read, or annotate " difficult works. "So is it an indecipherable ruse or a harbinger of hypertext? Could it even be … therapeutic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]Amy Sherald: "With a successful career, you have to hire some assistants to help, otherwise I can imagine that you would have to snort a lot of cocaine and drink a lot of coffee to just, lik…
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