Sunday, March 10, 2019
The owner of City Books in Hove says the record-breaking £30 million self-help book business is new, but not confusing. "In 25 years of business, [Paul] Sweetman says he's never known cus…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:30PM[SHARE]Carolyn Keene didn't exist; nor did Franklin W. Dixon, purported author of the Hardy Boy series. Who the writers actually were isn't germane, really. "What was important was the author as a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00PM[SHARE]The older production, familiar to millions, is the one threatened by the Broadway play and planned national tour. The problem? Too many agreements. "The latest dispute, over whether and when…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PM[SHARE]Stuart Murphy isn't hiring consultants, just making immediate change at the English National Opera. " Greg Sandow
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:15PM[SHARE]Last week's utter foolishness over Oscar-nominated Roma star Yalitza Aparicio (Yeka Rosales, a TV personality for the Mexican-based Televisa network wore a prosthetic nose and thick lips to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00PM[SHARE]"We come to know the choreography's codes, if not always certain what they conceal." " Deborah Jowitt
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:45AM[SHARE]No, not with director's cuts, but with literal remakes of their own earlier movies. "For the studio heads tasked with squeezing as much money out of the project as possible, it's a can't-fai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]Violence against women and girls, and lack of access to abortion services, led the list of things activists and artists were protesting. The artists " a group known as Nosotras Proponemos " …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AM[SHARE]Jessica Raine is not impressed with her school career advisor. Keep in mind that this was Britain, of course, so when she said she wanted to be an actress, "The attitude that you could do an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]And by that, we don't mean "worrying about your instrument all of the time," but rather, if you have the money, "you can simply donate money to your favorite nonprofit " amounts seem to star…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM[SHARE]And it will be about messaging. For more than a decade, they didn't compete: "People bought iPhones, downloaded Facebook and Instagram, and spent large chunks of time on those social network…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AM[SHARE]Leonardo da Vinci died in 1519, and in the last 500 years, no three-dimensional works of art by him have come to light. "The 20 inch-tall sculpture, made of red clay, depicts the Virgin Mary…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM[SHARE]Pinar Toprak was the first woman to score a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, a brass ring that she won after an extraordinary effort: "I went and hired a 70-piece orchestra and did a big pro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM[SHARE]The actor, who claimed that two men wearing Make America Great Again hats shouted homophobic and racist slurs attacked him in a Chicago restaurant, was indicted in what his lawyer called "no…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]The musicians are not happy with management's offer on retirement benefits. Time is running out: "The CSO musicians voted to go on strike Sunday if a new agreement is not reached by 3 p.m. T…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]First of all, the main theme of these reviews is not the novel itself, but Jane Eyre. Then things keep on getting worse, and more hilarious: "While everyone stands around choking down a ball…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2019
Maybe. Experiments with some human-robot interactions show that mistake-making robots who apologize for themselves can spread flexibility throughout networks. "Groups with mistake-prone bots…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AM[SHARE]The Centro SCOP's murals were created with pride and hope in the 1950s, but two earthquakes, and the vagaries of politics, may consign them to rubble " or to be moved, as some recently have …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]Harper Watters says that sharing his story, including the viral video where he and another dancer wearing pink stilettos dance on treadmills, is good for his dance with the Houston Ballet. "…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM[SHARE]The year was 1966. "It seemed full of promise. Houston, the vibrant, growing city that had become the center of manned spaceflight and medicine, and André Previn, the wunderkind Oscar winne…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:45AM[SHARE]By the time of her early death, she had been the subject of many dark rumors, most of which she had initiated. But Landon was one of the first modern poets, who "explored the art of performa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AM[SHARE]This story is complicated, but basically, Fox executives, including two who are in line to be top executives at Disney, just got hit with a $179 million ruling that they committed fraud agai…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:15AM[SHARE]Perk those ears up, sniff the wind, and trot on over to, yes, a new museum for humans' best friend. When you enter New York's Museum of the Dog, "right away, you'll stand before a large scre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AM[SHARE]But a lot more needs to happen " and not just for filmmakers like Nadine Labaki, whose Capernaum (Lebanon) was up for Best Foreign Film, or Talal Derki, whose Of Fathers and Sons, filmed in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:45AM[SHARE]What took so long, and is Captain Marvel going to help fix the problem? Maybe. It certainly helps a bit: Captain Marvel stars a woman, of course, but it's "also the first Marvel movie to hav…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM[SHARE]So how's the project, which Alex Poots was first approached about in 2014, going? It's going OK: "Poots and his board have … doubled the scale of the Shed so that, when it opens this sprin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]Li, who wrote more than 40 books and 1000 articles, had to walk the line, including attacking his mentor both personally and professionally during the Cultural Revolution. But inside China, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AM[SHARE]The author Akwaeke Emezi's debut novel, Freshwater, is on the 16-book longlist for the Women's prize for fiction. Emezi identifies as a non-binary trans person and uses they and them as pron…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]Unbelievably, the run of Sonja Frisell's grand, gaudy, beloved (and reviled for its length) Aida is coming to an end this week as the Met updates Aida to be sleeker and, yes, shorter. Zachar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AM[SHARE]Ejiofor, known in the U.S. best for his starring role in 12 Years a Slave, has now directed (and is starring in) a new film for Netflix, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. He wanted to be caref…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:15AM[SHARE]So the Louvre decided not to buy the canvas, found in an attic in Toulouse in 2014, despite the fact that art experts have made a pretty convincing case. " The Guardian (UK)
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