Monday, March 25, 2019
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]Yes, it's about sex tapes. But in a music world of K-Pop dominance, it's time for a reckoning: "The Burning Sun scandal, as it's been called, comes in the midst of a national conversation ab…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:15AM[SHARE]The Spanish Royal Academy (RAE), the institution in charge of defending and defining the Spanish language, had been reeling under cuts for more than a decade. Then it got a new director " an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM[SHARE]Add one back: A painting at the Wadsworth Atheneum, questioned by an art historian in 1990 and then shelved, has been re-confirmed as a Van Gogh. " The New York Times (AP)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:45AM[SHARE]And the internet is extremely pleased " the photos. The video. The too-real tension. "Also, apparently the entire play was crafted on the cheap out of recycled materials, which is awesome in…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM[SHARE]And in specific, stop harassing Asian Americans authors. Listen to author R.O. Kwon (The Incendiaries) discuss her experiences at literary events: "Aside from the colorist comments about my …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]Writers focusing on the time period itself, and its long aftermath, have a lot of conflicting desires for their books. "What comes across in all of the writing on the Atlantic slave trade is…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]Cohen, writer and director of It's Alive and Hell Up in Harlem, created cult classics. "By stocking his movies with sly social commentary and tongue-in-cheek humor, Cohen's work felt edgier …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]Though some on Twitter said this was actually no surprise, pundits were surprised " it was predicted to do about $40 million during its first weekend. Us broke several records in its first w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Playing Eliza Doolittle right now on Broadway, Laura Benanti (whom people might know as the actor who has played Melania Trump on The Late Show) says, "If I could wave a magic wand, ticket p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM[SHARE]Sure, you've got your Harry Potter scores and your Star Wars celebrations (that's all John Williams, of course), but the real hot trend with film composers now is getting their non-film work…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2019
We don't mean Oklahoma! either, though, yes, there's a ballet in it. This is something different: "It's very difficult to cast a ballet musical; the Marie ensemble requires dancers with a st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:30PM[SHARE]The issues concern who gets fees for packaging TV shows and movies (the agents get those fees now), and whether agencies have conflicts of interest around certain shows. But the point is tha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:00PM[SHARE]This story has a lot of questions attached, about money and selling to someone who has had other companies go bad, etc., but " "First, it's worth asking why piers in general are so troubleso…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:30PM[SHARE]What can be done for the non-New Yorks, the non-San Franciscos, the non-Seattles? "Left to their own fate, state and local policymakers often end up shoveling money at companies in the hope …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:00PM[SHARE]The more German history you know " no, not only about the Nazis, but yes also about the Nazis " the more you'll understand how very, very much cultural work this movie is doing. The movie "e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:30PM[SHARE]Mitchell Kaplan founded Books & Books in 1982, a time when Miami was seen as a place of drug running, diet culture, and political unrest " and certainly not literary culture. But, well, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:00PM[SHARE]Junya Ishigami + Associates allegedly sent an email to a student interested in interning in their Tokyo office laying out the conditions for internship: "No pay, a six-day working week and o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:30PM[SHARE]The poor and middle-class can't escape screens, and the data they hoover up both mindlessly and with (scary) intention. But the rich can, and do. " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00PM[SHARE]Spoiler alert, perhaps obviously. But really, whom are the Kree meant to represent? It's unclear, or variable, perhaps, but for sure: "The Kree become a scapegoat, an oppressive empire that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PM[SHARE]And there's not enough " hardly any " video of him performing, but here's one. " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Well, indeed: "'There has been a whole parallel universe that existed that people had not tapped into,' said Valerie Cassel Oliver, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Mus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00PM[SHARE]As Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100, a tribute to the first decade and a half of the beloved bookstore he founded. " Jan Herman
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:43AM[SHARE]They are supposed to perform in Chicago on Tuesday, but they say they "will join striking Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians on the picket line if the labor conflict hasn't been settled by…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]Here's a gathering of 1940s Los Angeles all-stars. " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:20AM[SHARE]Today, she apologized for much of the interview wherein she blamed the parents of the men who say Michael Jackson abused them when they were kids, and saying such things as "You can say 'mol…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AM[SHARE]Mirga GražinytÄ—-Tyla became the music director for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 2016. She says, "British orchestras, the CBSO included, don't have an easy life. They w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]Charlotte Perkins Gilman has become a go-to feminist author with her clear, understandable, and terrifying short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," forgotten after her death but rediscovered in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM[SHARE]Of course it's not because that intimate scene has two men in it. No, no, of course not. It's … the swearing. And the drugs. "According to one source close to the production, filmmakers an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AM[SHARE]What's the Whiting Award " and who are these people? (It's a $50,000 award for early-career writers, so no surprise you don't know most of them yet.) " NPR
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM[SHARE]The move comes after Britain's National Portrait Gallery and Tate (all of them) said the same thing. "The Guggenheim announced its decision on Friday in a brief statement that did not mentio…
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