Sarah Cooper is a UX engineer who, during lockdown, decided to take advantage of TikTok and the United States president's, er, unique response to the pandemic, earning her a huge response an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Well, why not let a video game provide a virtual mosh pit, virtual vendors, and a musical experience that lasts for days? "The super fans eat it up because they're excited in a time when the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Lion Forge is a Black-owned animation studio, the only Black-owned animation studio. For founders and staff, that makes its mission different. "It's representation on the screen. It's repres…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Comedian Tig Notaro is replacing disgraced actor Chris D'Elia in Army of the Dead, but how exactly does that play out during quarantine? It doesn't. "The film will mix full reshoots of Notar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Clemency Burton-Hill works as the creative director at WQXR, New York's classical station, and has been a BBC presenter, including a lot of Proms coverage. In early 2020, she had a massive b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Yes, obviously, humans are animals, and also obviously, we don't truly know how to get into the mind of a hyena or a fox or a dog, but still: In these books, readers can "expand their taxono…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]The murals were, as one versed in the history of white supremacist rhetoric in the U.S. might guess, created in the 1930s. In one, "Development of the Sciences by artist Albert C. Runquist, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]In 2020, some things to remember about M.A.S.H., and especially Hawkeye: "Hawkeye taught us that when your world is disintegrating, it is not only possible but utterly necessary to crack a j…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Or so says the director of an arts production company in the UK. "It's a brave new world out there, and we're all going to have to adapt. There are no limits to what our artists, technicians…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Remote learning isn't all about what articles and resources teachers can cobble together from the internet " especially when a lot of students can only get online occasionally, or in the par…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:48PM[SHARE]Basically, AMC is creating a breeding ground for viral spreading (and not the good kind of viral): "Look, no one wants to get back in a movie theater more than I do " well, OK, my 13-year-ol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32AM[SHARE]Hurtado spent eight decades "resolutely committed to documenting the interconnectedness of human beings, nature, and terrestrial life," according to her gallery. In the past two years, she's…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:32AM[SHARE]During the height of the first wave of the coronavirus, it seemed this day would never come. Now, "it's odd how the surreal can become de rigueur. At the Gardner I barely noticed the masks, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Talk about your unprecedented times. Buckingham Palace needs a plumbing update, so the paintings, including Vermeer's The Music Lesson and two Rembrandts, have to find a temporary home, and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]This is a good time for some required quarantine viewing, no? And it's always a good time to check out how good directors, dramaturgs, and designers (not to mention actors) can turn Shakespe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Thinking about what we've had " Batman, Superman " well, it's time for a change. "A new guard of superheroism doesn't simply mean diversity. It makes room for the possibility that especially…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Lighting designers, sound engineers, tour managers, caterers, bus drivers, and more " all laid off more or less permanently, nebulously, until a vaccine. Their unions and associations are tr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Seriously, SAG-AFTRA? During a global pandemic that has a lot of members out of work? Well, trustees say, "By 2024, the Health Plan is projected to run out of reserves. We must prevent this …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Novelist Helen Garner terrified her friends for years with what they called her pitiless writer's eye " detached, curious, and omnivorous. But as she ages, she's found it's harder and harder…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]In northern Australia, indigenous people are reclaiming land and landmark names. "These changes are about time, mate, but we always kept the names when we worked on country anyway " they nev…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]A casting director's dismissive "You should try indie movies, honey" changed Garner's career, and life. " The Hollywood Reporter
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]But will New Yorkers accept the new song? Musician RZA: "I can assure you that this one is made with love." " Gothamist
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]This is not to excuse the United States' patchwork of school tests, the weirdness (and inequity) of the ACT or SAT, but … wow. "The coronavirus pandemic means exams were canceled and repla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]OK, let's get metaphysical: "'The true present is a dimensionless speck,' Alan Burdick writes in his book Why Time Flies. 'The specious present, in contrast, is 'the short duration of whi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Emphasis on that radical, please, when you're talking about author Carol Shields. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]The camera operators' job applications asked them to list their skills at things like mountain biking, river rafting, and hiking. Those aren't on the skillsheets for a lot of camera operator…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Lovecraft was clearly racist and clearly an anti-Semite " and guess what? He also thought the Irish were inferior. "Such prejudices weren't simply background colour. They are front and centr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Actors rehearsing for the musical Sleepless get test results within 45 minutes on an app. One of the actors says, "It does actually feel amazing to just be hearing people sing again. It's ma…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]You may not know you know his work, but you definitely do. A partial description: "Emmy-winning composer who worked with Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley, scored Steven Spielberg's early w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Manz also featured in Dennis Hopper's Out of the Blue. " Variety
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]The Golden Notebook, published almost 60 years ago now, gets to the heart of almost everything (depressingly, still) going on right now. "Lessing " like Anna " is unafraid to dirty her hands…
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