Sunday, April 21, 2019
The colonial fairytale doesn't hold up at all in our contemporary world. Crusoe, to put it bluntly, was a slave trader " but somehow it became a children's story: "Educationists agreed that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM[SHARE]When Fiona Shaw decided to perform excerpts from T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" in (and near) an empty fountain in Central Park, she didn't want it announced " and there was only a brief menti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]The director is most known for the 1991 film Boyz N the Hood, but he's also a producer and screenwriter whose films include 2 Fast 2 Furious, Shaft, and the documentary LA Burning: The Riots…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Philippe Jordan, 44, has 15 hours of Wagner's Ring Cycle to get through " and try to shine through " at the Met. How does he do it? The man who has been in charge of Opéra National de Paris…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2019
Americans seemed to be into empathy from roughly post-WWII to the 2000s. Then things started going sideways. Now, it's "Empathy, but just for your own team. And empathizing with the other te…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AM[SHARE]If you're an English-speaker jaded about the City of Lights, head to the library. "As I learned more about the American Library and its place in the history of literary Paris, I recovered so…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]OK, that's pretty cool " here's an explainer on what she picked, and why. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM[SHARE]E.L. James says writing used to be her hobby. Then, well, then Fifty Shades of Grey happened. "Overseeing a wildly successful multimedia franchise left little time for James's one-time hobby…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:45AM[SHARE]Jeffrey Boakye (that's roughly "Bwaaaaah-ch," by the way, he says): "The Cool Black Myth helps the white mainstream to understand and handle black identity. There's something enigmatic about…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AM[SHARE]London is book-focused enough that, mirroring almost exactly the rise of Amazon, Persephone, a publisher (and recently a bookstore too) that focuses on forgotten early and mid-20th-century b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:15AM[SHARE]When Eric Hebborn was found with a fractured skull near his home in Rome in 1996, his death was a mystery. But now, filmmakers making an 8-part miniseries about his life (and the more than 1…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sure, dance is great in and of itself, and it needs to further reason to exist or for people to love it. But some rape survivors see it as one method of healing. "I can dance, and I can danc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:45AM[SHARE]Andersson starred in 13 mid-20th-century Bergman films. "Her emotionally complex role in Persona (1966), the film that made her acting reputation, was one of the great stereotype reversals i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM[SHARE]It wasn't easy, and it wasn't fast, and it involved " shock " physical material. "The dreamy photograph represents a tremendous technological achievement, assembled using eight radio telesco…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]Hollywood, you should be ashamed. "Even after years of being called to task for sidelining female filmmakers, studios as a whole continue to rely overwhelmingly on men to lead productions. W…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]The problem is that "the plays can very easily function as a kind of confirmation bias, where we find exactly what we are looking for. The allure of such topical readings is ultimately narci…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]The Palace of Fine Arts in San Sabastián has been threatened by a real estate developer for five years " and as a final move, UNESCO's International Council on Monuments and Sites has pla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Krista Vernoff: "It was hard to part ways with [my agent] when the deadline expired for talks between the guild and the agencies. I say 'part ways' because I did not fire my agent. Instead, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 14, 2019
Sure, Hyperallergic was joking about overnights at the Met Museum, but this is real: The Louvre is offering a one-night AirBnB experience. Why? To try to make the museum "cool." " Le Monde (…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30PM[SHARE]At the Met, "the typically villainous Alberich " the dwarfish Nibelung of the title " is portrayed with nobility and nuance by Tomasz Konieczny, in a stunning company debut." " The New York …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:00PM[SHARE]Basically, this is the fastest way … so far. Things still might change, but "it splits up digits, uses an improved version of the fast Fourier transform, and takes advantage of other advan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:30PM[SHARE]The American Museum of Natural History said on Twitter that it was "deeply concerned" and "exploring its options" as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is set to be honored at a gala at the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:00PM[SHARE]Ramona Quimby "is a plain girl in the suburbs. Nothing remarkable happens to her, no one notices her particularly, nor does she have the power to make her own magic." And yet. " LitHub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:30PM[SHARE]Stewart did a lot more than run Rhino and help get playlists onto iTunes as an Apple exec. He "advocated for lesser known, unjustly dismissed or overlooked music by artists including the Mon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:00PM[SHARE]Molly Shannon, an actor who spent years on Saturday Night Live, didn't think much of or about Dickinson until she got the chance to play her in a new movie. Then things changed. Shannon: "We…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:30PM[SHARE]Wanuri Kahiu isn't happy with how much trolling and nastiness she's gotten since her film Rafiki was banned in Kenya because it positively depicted a same-sex relationship. But middle finger…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00PM[SHARE]Dame Maggie Smith has to deal with glasses continually during her 100-minute monologue. " David Jays
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:43PM[SHARE]According to the showrunners, without one woman, Game of Thrones on HBO would never have gotten far at all. Bernadette Caulfield, the executive producer, was in charge of all of this: "With …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PM[SHARE]Keeping up with "music of quality that deserves even greater attention." " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:17PM[SHARE]Apparently, cat poems are a thing, and LitHub wants you to know that the cats did not write the poems (in case anyone was confused). The list starts with the 18th century English poet Christ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00PM[SHARE]How to make sense of Eliot's "Four Quartets"? The choreographer isn't sure, even after years of work. Pam Tanowitz: "It's massive, it's hard, it's abstract. I still don't understand the poem…
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