Sunday, January 27, 2019
And not just skulls, but also entire skeletons: “For centuries, African bones have lay in boxes all across Europe, placed under microscopes or displayed in some attempt to better under…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:18PM[SHARE]Though The Wall Street Journal‘s critic doesn’t seem to enjoy having Native American historians comment on Native American art, the labels speak for themselves. – …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]But not if the books don’t get published – and, says the author of the wildly popular novel The Hate U Give (which also became a popular 2018 movie), that’s …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Director Alfonso Cuarón and Netflix sent letters to assure authorities that actor Jorge Antonio Guerrero MartÃnez, who played FermÃn in the movie Roma, wasn’t going to the U.S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:06PM[SHARE]Some are trying. One, who has written a book called Happiness, thinks that “happiness should become the goal of policy and the progress of national happiness should be measured and ana…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]Werr, an expert on Mesopotamian stone seals, helped assess the damage to the Iraqi National Museum and its art, and also helped “catalog the objects that remained, found storage facili…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]Choreographer Donald Byrd, artistic director of Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Company, creates dances that spark discussions about the magnificence, and the problems, of African Americans i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:06PM[SHARE]It was a bad – even terrible – week for journalism, with layoffs left and right and center. Then Johns Hopkins bought the D.C. building that houses the Newseum. – NPR
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]Despite the fact that the shredding didn’t work as planned, the buyer agreed to purchase it – and now it’s going to the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie. But “Banksy being Ban…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE]The 2008 law has been a problem for Facebook, Google – and Six Flags, which very much wanted to overturn the law when parents sued it for taking their 14-year-old’s fingerprints …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Kienholz, founder of the California/International Arts Foundation, fiercely advocated for the artists of Los Angeles, and she hosted dinner parties to connect them with “writers, polit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Knoll Bassett was “a pioneering designer and entrepreneur who created the modern look and feel of America's postwar corporate office with sleek furniture, artistic textiles and an uncl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Seriously. The Danish start-up is meant for artists to be able to take some control over their careers, no matter what their agents do. “Truelinked will feature digital profiles of art…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]The imprint, founded by Cindy Spiegel and Julie Grau, had one of its most successful years in 2018, but even if it hadn’t, the imprint had a prestigious run of best-selling nonfi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]One theory: “These awards are more about what the academy hopes to communicate by endorsing a movie and less about the movie itself. The academy wants to say it hates tyrannical dictat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]Has the U.S. learned nothing since Driving Miss Daisy? Well … the Academy likes Spike Lee a tad bit more now, 30 years later. – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Can an ice dance couple – both of whom are out, with one in a same-sex relationship – help break that trope? (See also the sibling Shibutanis, whom some commentators find uncomfo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Legrand won three Oscars and created around 150 scores, including the legendary Jacques Demy Umbrellas of Cherbourg, “a landmark film in which all of the dialogue is sung and whi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]This will come as a real shocker, but a lot of these people are men such as Clint Eastwood. Eastwood wrote and directed The Mule, and … well: “All those closeups of himself lo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]Online gaming has a terrible history of bad behavior toward women players, or those who appear to be women. And that’s wild: “e-sports pose no physical barriers to mixed-gender c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]Young Virginia Stephen’s quick and fierce tongue, her nickname of Goat, and her ability to pierce her siblings’ consciousness with deeper thoughts and questions than they had …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24AM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2019
We’re all going to be driving an Uber before long, and everyone who’s not will be freelancing at something else, right? Or maybe the gig economy isn’t growing so fast ̵…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]After a six-part documentary series on Lifetime in which dozens of women and women’s families came forward to accuse the singer of abusing and molesting young women and teenage girls, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Chinatown Fair Family Fun Center is a video arcade – and not a new, hip, bar-focused pinball arcade, but an old-school video arcade, which has survived Manhattan’s rising rents a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:48AM[SHARE]Whether or not most lit professors agree with that (Roland Barthes) statement now, “authors certainly had it coming.” – Los Angeles Review of Books
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]Tracy K. Smith, author of Life on Mars and Wade in the Water, started a podcast in November. Now it’s moving up the podcast chain to the motherlode of podcasting success…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]Roma depicts the relationship of a woman doing housekeeping and nanny work to the family for which she’s working. They like her a lot, but they treat her with an off-handed sense of ow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]People. Last week, Netflix asked us all – begged us, really – not to take the “Bird Box Challenge” – but someone wasn’t listening. “A teenager wi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]Reading: It’s a lifestyle thing. “Candles are also now a common impulse purchase at independent bookstores, along with tote bags and coffee. There are shelves upon shelves of lit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]This is what happens when you poke around in old collections: Three unknown shark specimens spur scientists to look at other dead animals, not to mention live ones, to determine the sharks&#…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:36AM[SHARE]To be fair, the MacArthur “Genius Grant” winner only retired from academia. Perhaps that’s why he’s cheerfully working on a five-day opera, a 12-album set of a previo…
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