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]Kora and concert harp, played together, are “so beautiful that almost anything that Catrin and Seckou play will seduce the ear.” – Michal Shapiro
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:24PM[SHARE]The writer she praised in an interview that caused protests both against her and against The New York Times for running the interview (or not better editing it) is David Icke, who, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Creator and editor Tameka Stotts won an Eisner Award for her anthology Elements: Fire " A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color, and she’s making plans for a lot more. “We’r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Recent art history for the long holiday weekend: “For the late photographer Steve Kahn, ‘The Hollywood Suites,’ a series of images that chronicled, in conceptual ways, the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:24PM[SHARE]Sometimes, it’s not possible to be devoted to art and to have love and a family. [Spoiler alert for the end of Season 2 ahead.] “‘I can't go back to Jell-O molds,’ Mi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:24PM[SHARE]The golden age of the aphorism came a century ago, but it’s been revived in recent years, perhaps as a reaction to Pinterest and its inane sayings ensconced in something pretty. The ap…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]The community-minded Celeste Ng found wide success with her 2014 debut Everything I Never Told You, and absolutely wild success with Little Fires Everywhere, her novel of r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]No one knows until – get this – until the broadcast starts. So if you’re a choirboy, you’d best be ready. – BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Nigeria, among others, would really like to know. “In 1897, British troops stole some 4,000 sculptures after invading the Kingdom of Benin (now southwestern Nigeria). Over a century la…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Geisel, the widow of Theodor Geisel and a fierce protector and advocate for his estate, died on Wednesday. “Ms. Geisel, a petite woman of boundless energy, would hold court each mornin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Of course it was. That’s long been the plan – and 2018 was the year it finally went into effect. – The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]A century ago, kitchens smelled terrible, and no one at parties would want to be caught dead socializing with the servants in the land of inefficient refrigeration and terrible cleaning agen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM[SHARE]Just because you can Instagram something doesn’t make it a museum. “We go to museums to see our humanity reflected back at us; at the very least, what we expect when we visit one…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AM[SHARE]Why? Because the money was stripped from smaller arts organizations in New South Wales, and the SSO wasn’t into that, despite needing the money for relocation during renovation. –…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AM[SHARE]Natalia Kalaida, one of the members of Belarus Free Theatre, which was exiled for its political stances, explains that “art has long been used to express political and moral opposition…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]True, there are six mentions of the word “Christmas” in the original novel. “Lest you get carried away by that number six, though, you should know that Austen's Mansfiel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]Fairey’s mural, at the same school, is of Robert F. Kennedy – at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex, on the footprint of the hotel where Kennedy was shot. It is R…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]Yael Stone, who plays Lorna on Orange Is the New Black, says the actor danced naked around her dressing room, watched her while she showered, and sent inappropriate text messages. (Rush s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]Lyn Gardner says that although UK government inspector Amanda Spelman has faced a massive backlash – for good reason – some of her statements were probably fair. “Watching …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]After a Saturday Night Live cold open recreated It’s a Wonderful Life without Donald Trump as president, the man who should most clearly understand the First Amendment twee…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]Since the economic crash, the arts in Spain have suffered massive hits – and then there’s the internet. “Between 2007 and 2017, one out of every three musical performances …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]The mural, by Brooklyn artist Beau Stanton, features Ava Gardner with a radiating starburst behind her head. And in a 16-page letter sent to the LA Unified School District last month, a neig…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]That’s not ominous or dictator-like at all. And of course, as the article says, “The Russian government has long had a complicated relationship with music.” –Â BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Though he was already a star in the TV show Atlanta, not to mention a turn in the movie Widows, Henry is finding acclaim in Moonlight director Barry Jenkins’ new movie, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]The teen rom-com, that is, revived by Netflix and Love, Simon to incorporate old tropes and new characters – including a Korean American nerd, a gay boy on the cusp of coming out…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Monster Chetwynd wanted to undermine saccharine holiday art – and work with bioluminescence. “If you let people believe they can do something, it's more likely to happen. Depress…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]The director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy was given about 100 hours of film from the time period – some of it sped up, some of it in terrible disrepair, all of it black and white. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]It’s like Lifetime! Or Hallmark! But wait, it’s got prestige movies! And hey, there are documentaries! And animated movie! And … whoa, Netflix, what are you even doing? A l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]At last year’s The Guardian holiday party, one of The Guardian‘s journalists realized that he was years behind in reading books by African women. So he dove in – a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Or is it an elaborate hoax by the Mafia? “New testimony from some inside the Sicilian mafia has led investigators to believe the Nativity can be recovered, and soon. They have followed…
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