Monday, February 18, 2019
The alternative? The artist yanks her “prestigious new exhibition of work.” Goldin said, “What is the museum for? Art is transcendent and that makes it very, very dirty if …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]The actors are OK with all of this: “The nudity has struck some theatergoers as so extreme and the sex so prolonged that the actors can hear members of the audience gasp when it begins…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]The producer: “There are so many things to balance. Some viewers want to see glamour. You have to pay attention to where there is humor and where there is music. When do we guess that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]Koyama covered jazz in Japan throughout the 1960s and 1970s, was an avid interviewer of New York jazz musicians in their homes and wherever they played, and then he became a producer of jazz…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]Everyone’s looking, in a city like London. Also, “it takes a special kind of confidence to blow millions on a flat with a swanky glass exterior " one that is positioned a stone's…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:12AM[SHARE]Winter made the city’s architecture come alive for the people he taught (at Occidental) and those he took on quirky, packed bus tours of the city he adopted. “Winter's gift to th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]“Given the amount of time a modern human being spends watching film and television, a little familiarity with the form doesn't seem like a bad thing.” So, here are all of the lin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]The chairman of the board also happens to be New York City Opera’s biggest benefactor. And: “Its board is down to a mere three members. It has largely spent the more than $5 mill…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]The Garden Bridge, somewhat, one might say, like Brexit, has so far not appeared (and the bridge, at least, never will). “An itemised bill for its failure has just arrived: …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Yes, minstrel shows started in the 19th century – and were one of the U.S.’s first popular forms of entertainment. But they were never seen as harmless, at least not by African A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 17, 2019
The BBC has a new series about a Chinese family running a restaurant – but the writers aren’t from the community. Writers and actors from film, TV, and theatre have signed a l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]So many things could have gone wrong. For instance: “As ideally situated as it seems today, many officials charged with building the Memorial did not want to locate it at West Potomac …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]The man with expert knowledge on everything in the company’s past has died at 78. “In an industry that's notorious for neglecting its past, Smith stood out as perhaps the most re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]The film, with major Bollywood stars in it, centers on the love story between two women, but they’re under pressure to be in opposite-sex marriages. The film’s director, Shelly C…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM[SHARE]Cardinale’s voice was “too husky” and also too French (she grew up in Tunisia) for Italian cinema when she started. But then came 8 1/2. – Los Angeles Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]He doesn’t have anything of his own on his living room walls (though he does own, and display, four fakes that were sent to him for authentication). “It's nice to come home and l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]The original advertising campaigns for the theremin included it as a home music-making instrument. “This campaign primarily targeted middle and upper-class white women, a demographic f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]Take a look at Battersea Arts Centre, which “no longer focuses on creating the ‘future of theatre’"a laudable purpose, but not one of much interest to the many who doubt th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Oslo has Litteraturhuset – a place for readers and writers to “to meet, write, debate, read, and discuss writing, ideas, and politics over food and drinks, all with the mission o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Some props have long lives, and others, well: “The celery and carrot, the cabbage and water melons, all make a distinct if self-immolating impact.” – David Jays
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]“Welcome to a primordial world that's fiercer than anything religious texts ordain.” – Deborah Jowitt
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]The NYT‘s Carpetbagger: “These categories are an island unto themselves, whereas a nominee from any other race " be it an animated feature or a foreign-language film " can concei…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]For the second time, the Academy reversed itself about something it planned to cut from this year’s Oscars broadcast. “The announcement came after an outcry by some of Hollywood&…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]Everyone was in on the joke, or at least everyone on stage was. But the audience wasn’t sure what to do or how to react. “The concept, whatever its good intentions, tempts compar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]Imagine all of the contestants on Top Chef being buddies, or baking cakes for each other’s weddings. (Alert: This story spoils the season that had Selasi and Val on it.) – The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]Half and half. Equal. “Of course, there would be disputes about who gets what. But those aren't disputes that can't be resolved. The marbles don't consist of one major piece and a lot …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]Levy didn’t start writing until she was in her 30s, but her fourth novel, 2004’s Small Island, won the Orange Prize and made her a household name in Britain and the U.S. ̵…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:12AM[SHARE]Seriously, connecting the dots is a little bit intense. Bezos’ affair and associated selfies, and his post to Medium last week, “has revealed more than just a series of leaked te…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]One night, a young man in dance school worried about his future walked by an Army recruitment center in Manchester – and joined up. Alex Smith “says that, despite appearances, da…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]That’s a bit of an exaggeration – audiences still enjoy seeing comedies at the theatre. But stand-up specials are eating theatre’s lunch. “TV was long seen as the ene…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]Yes, his angry Hitler from 2004’s Downfall was memed millions of times, but many of us remember him best as the angel Damiel from Wim Wenders’ 1987 masterpiece about divided Berl…
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