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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]The English National Ballet ad for Swan Lake stars a Black American dancer – but the show sure doesn’t. “Ballet is interesting because it can be seen both as an enclave of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]The chain, which accounts for a third of all physical music sales in Britain and a quarter of all physical DVD sales, had a terrible holiday season and is going under – but there are o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]So you think your phone, or tablet, or computer, was stolen and then landed at an address in South Africa? Er, no. This was all a big mistake. “John and Ann's house must have just miss…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:32AM[SHARE]The paper, Maine’s Portland Press-Herald, tweeted that it would restart regional book reviews if King – a Maine writer, of course – could bring in 100 new subscriptions.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24AM[SHARE]Dear deities of entertainment, why in the world do we have awkward, clunky live-action movies strewn with CGI when animation exists? (Guess why. P r o f i t.) – BuzzFeed
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24AM[SHARE]Not to be melodramatic, but, well, “This is a moment where we can either save the world or we don't.” – HowlRound
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Ali, who won an Oscar for his work in the 2017 movie Moonlight and just won a Golden Globe for Green Book, had been tooling around as “the black guy” in movies for years. Then…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Sure, the Mugrabi divorce is tawdry and full of allegations of sexual impropriety, drugs, and a lot more, but “more than a tabloid story, the divorce also threatens to expose the priva…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:04PM[SHARE]Can you tell the story of Harlem’s Apollo Theater without being a booster? Nope, at least not in graphic novel form. “The remarkable institution is a microcosm of the world of bl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:04PM[SHARE]What happens when a critic decides an exhibition will be good before she goes to see it? – Lee Rosenbaum
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]When a young comedy writing “springily reinvents the rules,” daggers may follow. – David Jays
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]The ban started in 2010, when the National Gallery removed (aka censored) a video by artist David Wojnarowicz because of conservative political pressure. Every year since then the Foundation…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Glancy “was perhaps the best example in his time of a Detroit business leader who took on important civic roles.” His leadership helped bring the orchestra back from an underf…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]“The point of this is"women own the things that happen to them, even if these things happened between them and much more powerful or well-known men. Writing about these things does not…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]The theatre, built with the help of Lincoln Kirstein and Joseph Vernor Reed, and a stage where many actors, including Katherine Hepburn, had performed, had been vacant for years. – Con…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Is it that other Hollywood guys simply don’t give a damn what kind of damage the former head of Pixar did with years of harassment? Uh, basically. “With Lasseter's return, Hollyw…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Want to see the reality of what dance does to a (male) body? Check out this story on The Royal Ballet’s top dancer. “Watson said living with injuries is the daily reality of a ba…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]When you let someone who’s not Michael Bay direct a Transformers movie, sometimes you get a rather pleasant surprise – and serious animation artists at work for emotional scenes,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]On Friday, the Van Gogh Musem “announced the painting has been taken off the wall for research and restoration, months after scientists found the artist's choice of a light-sensi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]The guy who owns the garage has been having a hard time keeping the mural secure – and of course, as the mural’s fame spreads on Instagram, it’s getting massive traffic and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]The list of celebrities who have used iPhone Notes app to apologize in recent months is, well, long. What’s the appeal? False intimacy: “Sometimes statements include grammatical …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]The bookstore in Argentina, which opened in a building modeled after the Paris Opera, won the title in 2019 – 18 years after NPR’s Bob Mondello first filed this report. – N…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda kicked off the latest of six tours for his musical Hamilton in Puerto Rico, where he once again played the role that, so far, has brought him the most fame. But how does t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:04AM[SHARE]Toronto artist Gillian Genser works with natural materials, including mussel shells. Then she started to exhibit all of the symptoms of severe dementia … or heavy metal poisoning, but …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]Yes, it’s about soft power in the European Union’s farthest border to the east – a stone’s throw from Russia. “From a defense perspective, building a happy, pro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]You know, it’s hard to understand the word “mamá,” better put “madre” in there. Wait. What? “Netflix is essentially sending a message that the way we s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]Perfection isn’t real, and now publishing is starting to push “realistic” self-help books (possibly because everyone into the category had already bought, and then Konmarie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54PM[SHARE]Matt Marks, composer, vocalist and French horn player, one of the founders of Alarm Will Sound, died suddenly at the age of 38 in May of 2018. Many of his works were intensely personal and i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]For the second year in a row, statistics show that indies are doing better than fine. That comes after a steady 20-year decline, so the numbers still feel surprising. – The Guardian…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM[SHARE]Take the First Amendment, and then flip it. That’s Saudi Arabia’s media landscape – and Netflix, the huge media company, is supporting the regime’s censorship. –…
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