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…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]This is going to surprise everyone: When people get off Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Slack, and more, they get a lot of books read. However! “My only real distractions were hunger and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]Whitfield spent decades being sought out for famous British male comics to play off her superb timing – but then she found her own stardom on TV in Terry and June and then as Edi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]No surprise, his favorite book was Becoming, by Michelle Obama. But of course, many of us who enjoy streaming platforms live for his playlists, and this year’s no different. – Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Yikes, and yuck. “The rapid return of Mr. Gatti and Mr. Dutoit has led some to ask whether the cult of personality that surrounds maestros in a tradition-bound field has won out, parti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]One perhaps charmed USC student says, “The things that we've learned in this class are so universal, not just in regards to Harry Potter, but to becoming a good writer and understandin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:48AM[SHARE]Those aren’t really viral dances – they’re witty and very smart social media moves for established performers. To quote a CEO, “Dance sells.” –Â BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:48AM[SHARE]Truly, the movie isn’t that great. But it’s a great example of how Netflix uses all of that data we give it when we start, stop, walk away, return, and finish (or don’t) mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]The Prophet, and a lot of other work, is public domain on January 1. Sure, the estates are going to lose money. (But honestly, who cares? This is great for readers.) – The NewÂ…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42AM[SHARE]Bruce Robbins says that “cosmopolitanism” has implications far beyond what movies, art, food, and other culture we might enjoy from all over the world. “If you are willing …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]Here it comes, specifically for Netflix and Amazon, but others will be affected too: “The crucial clause in the E.U.'s audiovisual media services directive states that member states &#…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:36AM[SHARE]Duh, right? That’s what independent booksellers have been saying for years. As a collective, we may finally be getting it. “The best booksellers are not, strangely, just there to…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]At least, most of them aren’t. Here’s an in-depth look at everything from Ruth Bader Ginsberg action figures to Ocean’s 8 to Halloween to Suspiria, with a final stop at …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]A photographer in Durham, NC, in the early 1900s used a camera that allowed multiple, distinct pictures on one plate-glass negative. And the results are surprising. “Mangum’s gla…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]Why? It’s one on a list of German institutions that, the conservative Israeli government says, are promoting anti-Israeli activity or sentiment. But “Tamar Zandberg, leader of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]It’s “Green Christmas,” by Stan Freberg. “When it was released by Capitol Records 60 years ago, the song caused a huge backlash from major advertisers, many of whom t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]Some see it as the year before the end of the innocence in the U.S. – the year before JFK was assassinated. For others, that “innocence” was built on an entire system that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24AM[SHARE]That time is when you get to play Yente in the Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof. “People are so taken by the communication of the story and hearing it in this language.” R…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM[SHARE]A great way to end the podcast year: MoMA senior conservation scientist Chris McGlinchey talks “about all the complex machines he uses, the extremely tiny scale conservators work on, a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]The photo turns 50 years old on Christmas Eve this year, but why did it affect humanity’s view of the Earth so strongly? The photo – called “Earthrise” – “…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]Turns out a banner year for publishing (which is what 2017, improbably, turned into) means that printers are running as fast as they can, and it’s not fast enough. That’s “…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]Maybe. If you’re hard-core. “If your goal is to opt out of Facebook's digital surveillance apparatus altogether, then you probably should quit Instagram and Whatsapp too"al…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]Yes, there is a Stille Nacht Museum in the town in Austria where the carol was first sung in 1818. (And it does have the original guitar on which it was played.) – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:18AM[SHARE]Two artistic directors try to figure it out. Joanna Pfaelzer is the soon-to-be incoming AD of the Berkeley Rep: “When we look at the twenty-year-olds and the thirty-year-olds in our fi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:15AM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda is set to return to the stage in this version, which abruptly moved to a theatre in the capital city after producer Jeffrey Seller determined that there wouldn’t be …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Though Tyler Perry movies aren’t popular overseas, three movies from this year of U.S. cinema have shown that it’s time for a Hollywood industry shift on actors of color. Check t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Marco Petipa’s 19th century choreography for Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and many more classical ballets is focused on how a ballerina becomes a sculpture in male hands. &#…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]The Fox News host has lost advertisers en masse after “recent on-air comments that described mass immigration as making the country ‘poorer and dirtier and more divided.'” …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:36PM[SHARE]And that’s really not OK. “Because all of these projects are about straight women, the way they depict drag queens feels little more progressive than the convention of the gay be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]Sure, the site, and its books and workshops, will continue, but losing the literary magazine is a real blow. Karen Russell: “Tin House was so inviting, so beautiful and so playful. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]In Britain, ghost stories – not only in Christmas Carol – are a vital part of the holiday season. – Paul Levy
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]
