Monday, May 6, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]They're learning to sing without a voice box, and they literally do have a choir. " BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 5, 2019
Well, British Film Institute, you wanted to "start a conversation," and you sure have. " BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]What a heartbreak her life was after To Kill a Mockingbird, and her attempted true-crime book turned out similarly: "Despite amassing more than enough Maxwelliana for a book, she could not g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:33PM[SHARE]There's some massive underrepresentation, and certainly underfunding. For the new El Chicano, for instance, the filmmaker says, "It took a bunch of Canadian hockey fans to get behind an all-…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]The seductive intelligence of a manifesto. " Jan Herman
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Vulture somehow found time to photograph and interview a lot of people on the list: "The nominees spoke about their shows, their collaborators, their group texts, and their reactions to bein…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]The Delos experiment: "In the absence of human contact " only guards and archaeologists have inhabited Delos in more recent times " the remains of a sanctuary and entire city have survived l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Are abandoned malls a special category, or are they more like abandoned warehouses, boarded-up downtowns, left-behind elementary schools? Right now, they seem to be bleak " and a growing iss…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Congrats to the Jazz Journalists Association award winners! " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Spooner made her name with a photo of the woman at the center of the John Profumo scandal, but she did much more. "'Who'd ever imagine a woman might be a photographer on a national newspaper…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]At Rosmersholm, "there is a slight problem with damp." " David Jays
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]The movie Where Hands Touch is about a young adult romance " about what happened to the generation of biracial young Germans who were born to white German mothers and French colonial African…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Some have suggested it was as stroke, but he showed no other signs of impairment. His injury suggests it may have been something else: "The ulnar nerve runs from the shoulder to the little f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]The fault lies in contemporary politics, of course, but also in the origins of the discipline: "In Europe, academic study of the Middle Ages developed in tandem with a romantic nationalism t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]David Bedella says he has to focus on LA instead of London. "TV offers celebrity and financial security and these things are important in an age where you don't know where your next job is c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]Poet Imtiaz Dharker had been tipped by several British news sources as the next poet laureate, following Carol Ann Duffy, but she said no: "I had to weigh the privacy I need to write poems a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:12PM[SHARE]The comic, or maybe graphic novel series, Love and Rockets is "the rare pop cultural artifact that renders Latinas not as archetypes, but as rich and profound human beings full of messy cont…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]It's a pop music festival, of course (where are we with that equal rep, classical and new music festivals?). But not of course, because no other festival has achieved anything like parity. S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:48AM[SHARE]A volunteer usher: "We don't realize the richness this music brings into our lives until we don't have it. … Our souls were hungry." " Chicago Tribune
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]In her writing on her site and in her massively popular books, Evans "confronted every controversial issue in American evangelical culture. She wrote about biblical literalism, racism, abort…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]That is to say, occasionally trans women get cast as women, no need to elaborate, and sometimes trans men get cast as men, ditto. But. "While television has made great strides in L.G.B.T.Q. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Margo Martindale, who is so famously called that name that it's her official title on the Netflix show Bojack Horseman: "Sometimes you do things for money, and sometimes you do things for mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Carmichael's is the oldest independent bookstore in the city, and the founders just passed over the reins to their daughter and niece. How do you "modernize" a bookstore " or do you? " The N…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Or so says a reviewer of the entries: "Like most creaking institutions built upon the cursed ground of a prize named for a self-hating, racist xenophobe, it's also haunted." " The Guardian (…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2019
Ahmed Joudah began life in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, auditioned for the main ballet company in Damascus as a completely self-taught dancer when he was 16, then had to flee Syria w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AM[SHARE]As anyone who's read The Iliad knows, it's about men being mad at each other and going to war. That results in some great writing, true, but there's a lot more left to say about the cost of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]The abuser, who hadn't had anything to do with the festival, or so Sundance says, since 1993, went on to make religious and family-themed movies for the Mormon Church " until one of his vict…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM[SHARE]What will happen to classical in this world where labels have to get the algorithms on an artist's side side " and appeal to a bunch of people making the playlists on Spotify. "Last year the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:45AM[SHARE]A young director who had three weeks to devise a musical with 14 over-50 LGBTQ-identified actors says that her generation needs to hear more about the past, and that they're good for theatre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AM[SHARE]Scottish crime writer Denise Mina says it's not possible. "I think a lot of people are wanting to run, to get the fuck out of here, so I wanted to write a really engaging world for them to b…
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