Monday, April 29, 2019
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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:15AM[SHARE]The Film Society at Lincoln Center isn't that anymore " it's simply Film at Lincoln Center, a move that is intended to appeal to a younger, and broader, crowd. Society, so old-school. " The …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM[SHARE]Otherwise, everything else collapses " and you don't need to be writing science fiction to use science. "Science provides a clear and pragmatic framework with which to view the murkier and l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:45AM[SHARE]Tenured professors, perhaps? This article thinks so. "As far back as 1972, The New York Times reported that the [American Historical Association] was 'facing open discontent in its ran…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM[SHARE]The author of The Trust Exercise was doing research about cults, Scientology, and some of the power of repetition in molding disparate people into one focused group. But, she says, that wasn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]No, it's not an issue, but it might be soon. Median usage is 200GB a month of streaming data (the Comcast limit is one terabyte a month, and then users have to pay). Sure, "200GB a month is …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]The internet has democratized many things, including, in some case, criticism that isn't thoughtful. But professional critics still take their knowledge, and their craft, seriously. "Lively …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]Perhaps France, awash in donations for its cathedral, could help its former colony of Haiti with the rebuilding efforts for Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Port-au-Prince. " The Atlantic
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Tayari Jones had several well-reviewed books before American Marriage too off last year. She remembers, "I published my first book in 2002 and I remember that I was at Bread Loaf [Writers' C…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM[SHARE]"A handful of self-proclaimed white nationalists interrupted an appearance by an author at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Northwest Washington on Saturday afternoon, chanted 'This land …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 28, 2019
The hated pop stars are, of course, almost all women. And, by the way, "isn't there an inherent irony in cinema offering a 'serious' take on mass culture while seeking commercial gain? Few o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:00PM[SHARE]Bernardine Evaristo co-founded Britain's Theatre of Black Women in the 1980s, and she's not shy about using her experience in a new novel " or the experiences and lives of other Black Britis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:00PM[SHARE]At least, that's what tenor Andreas Schager claims. "But his path to singing Siegfried at the Met … was unusual. Mr. Schager, who was born Andreas Schagerl in the small town of Rohrbach an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:30PM[SHARE]"Trumpeter Jason Palmer made it clear with his substantial tone, wide range and flexibility that he had the potential to become one of the new century's outstanding trumpeters" " and now he …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:15PM[SHARE]When a critic sees 12 plays in 10 days: Theatre "restored my vision, or at least handed me a roadmap of our location, emotionally and psychically speaking " one that extended beyond Manhatta…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:00PM[SHARE]So … Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" is sitting at number one in the UK " and in the US, but despite its utter yeehaw-ness, not on the country charts because Billboard claimed it didn't "embra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:30PM[SHARE]Melissa Young began her career as a dancer with Dallas Black Dance Theatre, and since then, she's been rehearsal director, academy director, associate artistic director, and interim artistic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00PM[SHARE]And yes, it was an inside job: "The Bible was among hundreds of rare books, maps and other items, worth about $8 million in total, that the authorities have said were stolen by the archivist…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PM[SHARE]Media were removed from the courtroom for a while during Friday's proceedings as well. Why? "Prosecutors want to call additional women with similar allegations to help establish a pattern of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00PM[SHARE]A woman who keeps only 5-10 physical books in her personal library at any time wonders, "Why are we so attached to our books? As I held and decided the fate of each book, I kept coming back …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]When every site, production company, and channel seem to be creating their own streaming services, and when Disney decides it might want to sell its own bundle, it's time to acknowledge that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AM[SHARE]First, of course, you need to be familiar with the original. Russell Howard, who's playing the Duke of Cornwall to Glenda Jackson's King Lear on Broadway, also had to help figure out how goo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]You'd think an ill-conceived, badly written mini-screed might not be worthy of worry for critics. You'd be wrong " dangerously so, when it comes to stars "taking on" the low-paid people who …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM[SHARE]Final Draft, a widely used software for screenwriters, now has a free add-on to help writers measure everything from gender and race to age, ability, and more The software can even analyze w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AM[SHARE]Well, the directors did ask people not to spoil the movie. (Obviously, the answer is not violence, but it does indicate the seriousness with which audience members treat spoilers for movies …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM[SHARE]Or call them "dramaturges" after the research supporters of the theatre world " or, heck, call them collaborators: "Some choreographers have turned to a more collaborative process, using dan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM[SHARE]First, don't think too much about writing a book. Second, cheat. " LitHub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]The strike lasted for seven weeks and, though the musicians didn't get everything they wanted in terms of gaining wages and pensions, at least they stopped losing. As one musician (and negot…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2019
For those over a certain age " people who can remember the first years of the Clinton administration " "Waco" used to mean one thing: Branch Davidians. Now it's all about the empire of the c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AM[SHARE]Without Robert Hooke's keen drawing eye, and the microscope, who knows what might have happened? You can read "the story of British art through a scientific looking glass. The Royal Society …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]This happened: "At a forum in January, Yale's top librarian outlined a seemingly uncontroversial proposal: to relocate tens of thousands of books from the heart of the undergraduate library …
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