Sunday, June 7, 2020
The theatre group tweeted out something that said Black Lives Matter. Then former SCT employee and actor Dwayne Perkins weighed in, sparking a series of tweets from Black actors and other ac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Taub, a composer who has written music for the Public's Twelfth Night and As You Like It, was cheering on a peaceful protest on her street, from her own stoop, when she and her husband were …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]No huge crush at the Javits Center and no real timeline for rescheduling a live event meant one of publishing's biggest events had to move, at least partially, online " in this case, to Face…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]But the adaptation isn't easy or OK. "'This is the only thing I've ever wanted to do,' [Nicole] Carroll said of working in the theatre. 'It feels like a grieving process, letting go for a wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]Edwards started writing when she was 7, but published her first novel almost 50 years later. She wrote six detective novels, "mysteries set in Harlem starring a female cop turned sociologist…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM[SHARE]One Canadian library director said, "It was very, very good news in a very dark period." (But the cheaper prices are set to end mid-June, when physical libraries may be partially opening bac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Normally, for spring's Bear Dances, "groups of dancers would sway back and forth, shoulder-to-shoulder, with the lines of men and women closely facing each other before they split off into p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]The Swiss art fair held out for a long time. Then, on May 30, dealers sent a letter. "'Art Basel is the most important and powerful art fair in the world but even in the best possible scenar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Podcast host Akilah Hughes on Twitter in response the news that the 2011 white savior movie The Help is topping Netflix's most-watched lists: "If you watched the Help this week you have to d…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]The recording studios in London, which didn't close even during WWII, had been shuttered for ten weeks during the coronavirus lockdown. Managing director Isabel Garvey: "Ordinarily we would …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2020
April Gornik and Eric Fischl want to make the Sag Harbor Methodist Church into a community arts center … whenever people can gather again. Fischl: "We have to stop thinking about art as ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]Yay women doing TV! Also, having to "yay" this means it's not going that well with the whole ending of inequality thing. "The good news: The number of women working behind the scenes in tele…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12AM[SHARE]The virus has devastated the jazz community in New York. But "there's a funny thing about jazz: It keeps roaring back to life. Live music returns to Smalls on June 1, in a socially distant w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]At that time, says Hilary Mantel, we would have been quarantining more seriously. "Speaking at the Hay literary festival, which is entirely online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Five artists finished the mural in 12 hours last week after the officers involved in George Floyd's death weren't all four arrested and charged with a crime. "The mural has quickly become a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]There's DJing with the dance glitterati on Instagram Live, there's the brewing of kombucha, and, of course, there's learning how to make pancake tutus. " Dance Magazine
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]In Prague, the opening is going in fits and starts, but theatre companies like the Czech National Theatre are more than ready. "The drive-in theater at Prague's vegetable market was an ambit…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The pianist Igor Levit played a livestream of Erik Satie's famous, mysterious work, consisting of four lines repeated 840 times, on Sunday. And, well: "The fascinating livestream occasionall…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]In a sudden shift, Asolo Theatre in Florida had to figure out whether to keep going with its education programs even as students and parents were competing for limited Wi-Fi and screen time,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]Sarah Maldoror was "a Euro-Caribbean filmmaker trained in the Soviet Union" " and the director, who died of the coronavirus in April of this year, never stopped; "she kept fighting in a worl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]The Book Industry Charitable Foundation (called "Binc") is a nonprofit created to help booksellers. "Since the pandemic started, Binc has seen requests for assistance increase by 321%. And […
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM[SHARE]In other words, it doesn't work very well for writers. The Writers Guild of Great Britain: "'Things are stacked up, not necessarily in favour of the writer.' It added that funding, which is …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03AM[SHARE]OK, that's nice and optimistic, but "Telluride organizers promised that safety would be paramount. 'We are not ignorant of the devastation facing the world,' festival organizers wrote. 'We f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03AM[SHARE]Racists would love to co-opt the term "for their ethno-historical myths," but that doesn't mean historians and archaeologists have to abandon it altogether, argues one. "When researchers and…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03AM[SHARE]Christo, who with his wife Jeanne-Claude created massive art projects requiring dozens of years to pull off, including wrapping the Reichstag and creating The Gates in Central Park, has died…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 31, 2020
Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, whose The Exonerated and Coal Country are powerful documentary theatre, talk about how it all works " and why it works. " Slate
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]The power of one man's divine vision … and the internet. " The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM[SHARE]Hey, parents, when your kids are using video games to deal with the pandemic, you may think they're not doing schoolwork. True, but games like Assassin's Creed, Minecraft, and Roblox have a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]Amos's "careerlong belief in art as a form of ethical resistance carries new weight when the promises of the civil rights era seem again under threat." " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]Note to authors: Don't go on GoodReads. Just don't. But when a dog-themed book group reads your book on Instagram, well, things might be different. " The Guardian (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:32PM[SHARE]The awards, announced in a socially distant livestream, contains "A final work that continues on like a river" and poems that "bloom with the beauty the world has to offer as well as those w…
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