“I had, I think, finally been introduced to the private world of reading that many people inhabit; a dream state I now regard as a portal to the act of breathing life into fictional wo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:18AM[SHARE]At least, that’s one push for 2019 from the dancers themselves, who are ready, whether the classical ballet world is or not, for more than just partner training for male-identified dan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]Dear Netflix: What are you doing with Bandersnatch? (Of course, Netflix’s goal is simply to have more time spent on Netflix, which a meandering choose-your-own-adventure Black Mirro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]Wow, who knew? The news really is that things have gotten worse for authors, and there’s no surprise about the culprit: “The decline in earnings is also largely because of Amazon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06AM[SHARE]This story has everything: Cat urine, bathroom emergencies, women in lingerie, and, yes, the Cheneys. – HuffPost
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:18PM[SHARE]Harvey Weinstein’s assistant wasn’t even allowed to have a copy of the NDA she signed, or talk about it with anyone at all unless they signed NDAs as well. She broke her silence …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]It happened in the 1940s, when Erik Chisholm and Margaret Morris brought modernist dance views to bear on stories of Celtic legends that mixed traditional Scottish and modernist music. One p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]The ballet will be choreographed by dancer Melanie Hamrick, who is in a relationship with Jagger. – RTEÂ (Ireland)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Yes – this is on a Reddit forum, a site not known for its calm discussion of issues. But the Change My View forum, “founded in 2013 by Kal Turnbull, then a teenage musician in Sc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The new “Aria Code” podcast by WQXR and the Met proves it. So why aren’t there a lot more classical podcasts? – The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Lam’s 1987 movie inspired Quentin Tarnatino and helped usher in the 1980s Hong Kong New Wave. – The Hollywood Reporter
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Are things looking up at the contemporary art museum that lost its founder and saw labor complaints related to abuse by a staff member? Maybe. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]Well, they should be. “Even for an orchestra that lives and breathes tradition, recruiting the next generation of talent is no longer self-evident. That is why, for the first time in i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]All of the museums, and the National Zoo, will be closed as of January 2 because of the government shutdown. – NPR
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]Wow, this isn’t scary at all: Forty-four journalists’ “full names and photographs were published on social media by the For Mother Russia group. … Many of the 44 are …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]Manohla Dargis: It's not that I'm noticing sexism more; I always noticed. It's that I'm not gliding over the insults and insinuations, the snickering and unmotivated female nudity as easily …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM[SHARE]That’s right, it’s almost 2019. And just in case you’re panicking about all of the books you didn’t get to in 2018, well, add a stack to the teetering pile (or add so…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]What with an explosion in podcasts – and a terrible lack of attention from the corporate overlords – what can the BBC possibly do? “The BBC has promised to replace Film wit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]Fifteen years ago, Jenna Freedman “established the zine library at Manhattan's Barnard College, where she is still zine librarian. Today, the collection consists of over 10,000 zines a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:48AM[SHARE]Gimbel was “a Bronx-born songwriter who studied under Frank Loesser, the celebrated composer of Guys and Dolls” and who wrote the themes for Happy Days and Laverne and S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32PM[SHARE]Everyone’s talking about the new Black Mirror movie, Bandersnatch, partly because it’s a choose your own adventure movie – but how does that work, with Netflix? Whew: Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Honestly, everything from Frida Kahlo air fresheners to Frida Kahlo teacups are available. But “would an anticapitalist, whose 1932 painting Self-portrait on the Borderline between …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]Why would someone not 90 years old use a flip phone? “Motivating me in those early days, during the brain-shock of the new-old, was a thought experiment of my simple invention: Suppose…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM[SHARE]“Along with his contemporaries Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, Sen was part of a troika of directors from the Eastern Indian state of Bengal that put Indian cinema on the global stage.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]Lighting designer Paule Constable sums it all up: “Theatre isn't entertainment alone " it needs to challenge, to bring together, to reflect. There are so many complex issues to grapple…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]“Rembrandt was 28 when he married Saskia in 1634; 36 when she died, leaving him with a baby son and a sorrow so destructive he gave up painting in oils for several years. The measure o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]Yes, this sounds salacious, but it’s sadly, depressingly real: Smallville actress Allison Mack offered that defense in court. “Mack's lawyers argued that Mack's threat to release…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]Adults who take piano lessons, and who simply can’t be perfect at it, can find something new. “Playing the piano has accomplished what all that yoga and meditation never could. I…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]This revelation comes courtesy of the Big Data of Ancestry.com, one of the most popular genealogy (and DNA testing) sites. Ancestry and demographers provide a variety of explanations, from i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Anita Rachvelishvili, 34, has impressed conductors, directors, and the opera world in general. Riccardo Muti: “Rachvelishvili was for me a revelation. … She is without doubt the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]That’s right: Rabbit ears are back, baby. Or, well, people are turning to “over-the-air digital antennas " a one-time investment of as little as $20 " as a way to slash their mon…
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