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Monday, April 1, 2019

What Drives Actor Dev Patel by Artsjournal2

Patel, star of Slumdog Millionaire, Lion, and now Hotel Mumbai, says that when he finds a new project, "after that initial excitement, you're just drenched with fear of, now I have to actual…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]

The Search For An Iron Throne Above The Arctic Circle by Artsjournal2

The masterminds behind Game of Thrones wanted to garner even more excitement for the series' final season, so they sent people off on random quests for, well, thrones. Here's the wild, weird…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]

Guess Who Probably Didn't Make 'The Fountain' Out Of A Urinal? by Artsjournal2

Siri Hustvedt: "Masculinity has a purifying effect, femininity a polluting one. The chain of associations that infect our thought dates back to the Greeks in the west: male, mind-intellect, …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]

Instagram Is For Vacations, Facebook Is For Family Photos, And TikTok Is For … Work? by Artsjournal2

Though honestly, no one understands the mysterious algorithm of this app, it has created a weird new window into work: "TikTok, which encourages users to contribute short videos to hashtags,…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM[SHARE]

Jeff Bezos' Security Chief Claims That Saudi Arabia Hacked Bezos' Phone by Artsjournal2

There's a lot going on here. And then there's the layer wherein The National Enquirer's parent company tried to make sure Bezos and his security chief signed a contract saying they wouldn't …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]
Sunday, March 31, 2019

Genevieve Oswald, The Soul Of The New York Public Library Dance Collection, Has Died At 97 by Artsjournal2

Oswald started curating the collection when it had about 350 items in 1947, and built it into this: "You can walk into the dance division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Ar…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30PM[SHARE]

Exploring A Different Way To Paint, And Center, The Black Body by Artsjournal2

Painter Elizabeth Colomba's goals include getting Black women into Western art history " and changing how people look at Black women in general. "When you think about black women wearing a p…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:30PM[SHARE]

Science Fiction Is Trying To Imagine A Way Out Of, And After, This Time Period [AUDIO] by Artsjournal2

Tobias S. Buckell: "Nora K. Jemisin  was just saying on Twitter the other day that in science fiction we have this venerable tradition of using metaphor to dig at some of these problems"l…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:00PM[SHARE]

Agnès Varda Made The Invisible Visible by Artsjournal2

In The Gleaners and I and Faces Places, Varda paid attention to the France that feels left behind by the powerful and rich. But there was a secondary benefit as well: "She had wanted to pay …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:30PM[SHARE]

Butterworth's Post-Atomic Wasteland by Artsjournal2

Two new collections of Michael Butterworth's early short stories " stories he thought lost for good " show his early days as a literary SF writer. " Jan Herman

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:20PM[SHARE]

Shaking my head by Artsjournal2

A press release that touts a a composer who became famous nearly 100 years ago as "contemporary" has us smiling. " Greg Sandow

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:05PM[SHARE]

The Music Stars Of Social Media by Artsjournal2

How are these young people, in their teens and young twenties, getting so much streaming play on Spotify? "These artists have virtually no media profile, no radio play, most don't seem to ha…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:00PM[SHARE]

France Is Becoming A Refuge For American Noir Novels " And Novelists " Who Can't Hit It Big On Amazon by Artsjournal2

Le Monde isn't mincing words here. While the U.S., at least one novelist claims, has a blockbuster mentality, France is much more welcoming, a place where "several of these authors, who no l…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:30PM[SHARE]

First, Reality Influences Epic Fantasy Novels, And Then You End Up With English Watchers On Hadrian's Wall by Artsjournal2

Turns out that the watchers on the wall " that is, the members of English Heritage who staff Roman sites along Hadrian's Wall, the border with Scotland " have been answering Game of Thrones …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00PM[SHARE]

The Latest Dust-Up In The Uneven Battle Between Talent Agencies And Writers by Artsjournal2

At a time when the Writers Guild of America is trying desperately to get its members better positioned in the industry, suffice it to say that the union is not impressed with the Endeavor ag…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PM[SHARE]

Contemporary Cancer Books Force Us To Address Grief In All Of Its Forms by Artsjournal2

There are a lot " a lot " of new cancer memoirs out right now. "As these memoirs suggest, individually and together, there's no way to eliminate the risk of cancer and or be spared from grie…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00PM[SHARE]

Architects Need To Choose The Planet First by Artsjournal2

This piece is a fine, furious, anguished, specific call for action. "Our civilisation faces its end date. Cities are expanding refugee camps for a species in crisis. Every particle matters."…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]

So, Where Is That 'New' Leonardo? by Artsjournal2

Seriously, where? "Few works have evoked as much intrigue, either in the world of art or among the courts of Persian Gulf royals. First, its authenticity as the product of Leonardo's own han…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AM[SHARE]

The Major Cinema Chains Are Badly Exploiting Their Cleaning Staffs by Artsjournal2

This is bad: "The major chains " AMC, Regal Entertainment and Cinemark " no longer rely on teenage ushers to keep the floors from getting sticky. Instead, they have turned to a v…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]

LeBron May Not Be Playing Much Basketball, But He Is Starting To Be A Big Player In Hollywood by Artsjournal2

Possible the most Company Town thing in this story: "Studios, networks and production companies all over town want to be in the LeBron James business. And not only for his screen presence " …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM[SHARE]

A Newly Discovered Photo Of Harriet Tubman Goes On Display by Artsjournal2

This is a great discovery because it's of a young, casually seated Tubman, wearing elegant clothing. Obviously, there's wrong with a freedom fighter looking older and more pensive when she's…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AM[SHARE]

Britain's National Theatre Changes Structure At The Top by Artsjournal2

Rufus Norris, who was the National Theatre's director, and Lisa Burger, who was the theatre's executive director, will now be sharing power as co-directors. OK, but what does that actually m…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM[SHARE]

Eleven Movies That Influenced The Look And Feel Of 'Us' by Artsjournal2

You know, The Nutcracker is an obvious one. (And, of course, Dead Again " you probably knew that from the scissors.) " Los Angeles Times

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM[SHARE]

How The Heck Does An Art Detective Find A Stolen Picasso? by Artsjournal2

Basically, you gain the trust of, to put it politely, some shady folks. "There comes a point, you know, when a stolen artwork that's circulating in the criminal community " security in a dru…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]

Why Are We Still Talking (And Making Documentary Art) About This Man, Jailed For Murdering His Ex-Girlfriend? by Artsjournal2

Yes, if you've listened to all (or even most) of NPR's wildly popular true-crime podcast Serial, you might not be ready for an HBO special on Adnan Syed. But would you be if the story concer…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]

How To Pick The Perfect Seat In The Movie Theatre by Artsjournal2

You'll know the worst seat " i.e., the front row. "The existence of a worst, then, must suggest its opposite: The ideal seat. The perfect focal point that maximizes your visual and aural exp…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]
Monday, March 25, 2019

Poet, Playwright, And Sociologist Eve Ewing Is 'The True Mayor Of Chicago' by Artsjournal2

Well, not really, but she does have more than one finger on the pulse of Chicago's fiery cultural heart, and she writes about it in more than one way. "Part of me is an extremely argumentati…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AM[SHARE]

Why We Procrastinate by Artsjournal2

It's not about self-control. Instead, it's more like (not very good) emotion management. "Procrastination isn't a unique character flaw or a mysterious curse on your ability to manage time, …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]

Artificial Intelligence Can Now Write Fiction. Should Novelists Be Worried? by Artsjournal2

Maybe not, not yet. Garbage in (this AI was fed a lot of Reddit recommendations, ahem), garbage out: "Right now, novelists don't seem to have much to fear. Fed the opening line of George Orw…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM[SHARE]

The Strategies That Helped Lupita Nyong'o Make Her Voice Super Creepy For 'Us' by Artsjournal2

Nyong'o heard a speaker (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) with a neurological order that makes the larynx spasm involuntarily " and then, of course, she worked with a vocal coach to inject the emotion…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:45AM[SHARE]

How Can We Put Theory And Context Behind Video Games And The Worlds Of Gaming? [AUDIO] by Artsjournal2

Yep, videogames, gamers, and their lives online need to be placed into context by … well … folklorists, of course. Says one, a gamer and a writer: "We all want to be part of a community,…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AM[SHARE]

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