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Sunday, May 24, 2020

A Song Criticizing A Politician Tops The Charts In Poland " And Moments Later, It's Completely Disappeared by Artsjournal2

Kazik Staszewski is a rock legend in Poland, and his song, "Your Pain Is Better than Mine," hit a chord last week " or perhaps too many chords when it hit number 1 on a popular show. "Within…

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American Museums Start To Reopen With Timed Entry, Masks, And Many More Rules by Artsjournal2

Of course, it all begins in Texas, where (as in other areas), Houston's Fine Arts Museum has coordinated with other museums to create shared ideas of just how to do this. "The Fine Arts muse…

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Georgia Issues Guidelines For Film Shooting To Start Again by Artsjournal2

Tyler Perry wants to start filming in early July, and Georgia seems amenable " as long as the actors follow guidelines including dealing with clear barriers between them until just before a …

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Against Hype, A Few Films Actually Are Different From Anything That Came Before Them by Artsjournal2

Take Daughters of the Dust, for instance. " Julie Dash's astonishing debut is a portrait of a multigenerational South Carolina Gullah family as they prepare to migrate north in 1902." (Bu…

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Who Has The Rights To The Omegaverse? by Artsjournal2

You might (or might not) consider wolf erotica a niche market. It's a bigger niche that is now walking through a minefield of copyright questions, with larger implications for genre writing.…

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Monday, May 18, 2020

Making Art On Instagram During A Shutdown by Artsjournal2

The Strip may be closed, but Las Vegas is so much more than gambling " or at least that's what its chroniclers show. "In the absence of take-my-hand influencers, creative control of Instagra…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:03PM[SHARE]

Los Angeles City Council Moves To Help Artists And Arts Organizations With Emergency Grants by Artsjournal2

The grants, which are also available for live performance spaces, "will take arts fees paid by developers in support of now-canceled or planned cultural events and instead make the money ava…

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Who's Behind Glasgow's Covid-19 Street Art? by Artsjournal2

It's not "strictly legal" to be out during lockdown (though it's not strictly illegal either), so most of the artists will only speak anonymously. "One of those behind some of the most strik…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AM[SHARE]

Wait, Doesn't Everyone Reread Their Favorite Books? by Artsjournal2

Turns out, no. But here are several reasons to reread, including missing your favorite characters: "I miss the them"miss their superegos, their relatable pride, their all-too-human folly. I …

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When Lockdown Brings Sudden Instagram Fame by Artsjournal2

Actor Leslie Jordan is just fine with all of the attention to his "pillow talk" tales of working with more famous " and often much more highly paid " actors and performers. "What was interes…

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In Baltimore, As In Many Cities, Midsize Arts Groups Are The Most At Risk by Artsjournal2

What's special about midsize groups? The perfect storm: "these organizations have greater overhead costs than small groups and fewer deep-pocketed donors than large organizations, [so] they …

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The Agony Of The Canceled Spelling Bee Contestants by Artsjournal2

It's not as if the 8th graders will get another chance. The Olympics were postponed; the Spelling Bee was canceled. They have been working much of their entire (short) lives for this. Despit…

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Maybe Our Screens Are Magical by Artsjournal2

At least for magicians. For instance, one new show, "with a stringent ticket allocation " only 25 Zoom logins per performance " felt more like pre-isolation theater than anything I have enco…

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With Cinemas Closed, Movie Pirating Is Booming, But Why? by Artsjournal2

One illegal downloader: "Just streaming is not enough, I mean, people want to watch those fresh, hot films that are just not on streaming." " BBC

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The Guggenheim's Lockdown Tomato Crop Is Feeding New Yorkers by Artsjournal2

Yes, this is real. The cherry tomatoes get snipped once a week, and a hundred pounds at a time are donated to City Harvest. "They were written about in the Southeast Produce Weekly, which…

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Canadian Theatre Companies, Like All Of Their Colleagues Worldwide, Are Trying To Plan A Comeback by Artsjournal2

Basically, it's tough to plan for anything. "What does our season look like if we start in January of 202? What if there is no theatre for a full season? … What if the government says thea…

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More Thoughts On Museums And Their Endowments by Artsjournal2

Some directors say they're not truly created for stressful times. "Calling an endowment a 'rainy day fund' is 'grossly inaccurate,' said Brent Benjamin, Saint Louis Art Museum director and A…

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An Early Oscar Contender May Actually Have Been Helped By The Lockdown by Artsjournal2

Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always was never tipped to be a blockbuster. Her heavily realistic, light on the swelling music movie of two young women in search of at least temporar…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:06AM[SHARE]

Social Distancing At The Drive-In by Artsjournal2

The masked audience members lined up, 6 feet apart, at the concession stand. People were grilling. There was at least one birthday party going on. Then the movies began " and then the storms…

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The Utter Shutdown Is A Great Time For Theatre To Rethink, And Reimagine, Everything by Artsjournal2

No one " certainly not the federal government " will be saving the arts, it appears. And that's horrible. Also, it's time for all kinds of thinking. "How about we make possible something I h…

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Playing Bach, But Backwards And Upside Down by Artsjournal2

A computer playing the Goldberg Variations backwards sounds, yes, like a counter-counterpoint, but "at the same time, it sounds eerily familiar, starting with the upside-down Aria " the them…

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Sunday, May 17, 2020

Inside A Lockdown Bubble, Can Literature Help? by Artsjournal2

The eternal debate about what books are good for " "I feel that literature is rarely of immediate practical help. I think the kind of knowledge reading fiction imparts is stealthy and slow-b…

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Astrid Kirchherr, Whose Black And White Photos Set Our Concept Of The Beatles, Has Died At 81 by Artsjournal2

Kirchherr, a 22-year-old art and photography student, captured the young lads when they were in Hamburg, playing scruffily in the red light district. " The New York Times

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The Ancient Art Of Creating Theatre At Home, But Make It Streaming by Artsjournal2

Professional playwrights still need commissions, and honestly, people still need theatre even when we can't go to the theatre, so: "Theater companies big and small across the country, includ…

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Director Lynn Shelton Has Died Of A Rare Blood Disease At 54 by Artsjournal2

Shelton created and directed many small-scale, intimate indie films, funding those well-reviewed passion projects with tons of TV show work, including, recently, four episodes of Little Fire…

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Fred Willard, The Master Of Comic Cluelessness, Has Died At 86 by Artsjournal2

His collaborations with Christopher Guest and Guest's mockumentary ensemble were epic. "He played an Air Force colonel in This Is Spinal Tap (1984), then was travel agent/amateur actor…

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How Two Film Productions Have Begun Again by Artsjournal2

Carefully, with medical staff on set and stringent guidelines, and in one case, by essentially taking over a small town in Australia. "For Foster, who said that the extra precautions added a…

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The Horrific Ecstasy Of Burning Your Own Writing by Artsjournal2

Or, more usually, why writers instruct others to do it after their deaths. "The elemental annihilation of destruction by fire is so absolute, and this is where the horror lies for me. If wri…

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What Are Exhibition Catalogues For? by Artsjournal2

Or maybe … exhibition catalogues are created for whom, exactly? "Most catalogues, however, no matter how good they may be, are fairly formulaic: introduction, essays, works shown, works de…

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California Museums Have To Figure Out What Qualifies As 'Outdoors' " And What's Safe Even Then by Artsjournal2

The Getty won't open even though it has quite a few outdoor spaces, because those must be access from indoor spaces. But elsewhere: "The Huntington will institute a timed ticketing system, i…

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How Ballet Dancers Are Staying In Dance Shape At Home by Artsjournal2

Ballet dancers don't know when they'll perform again, or even when they can dance with others again (aside from those in their own homes). One advantage to online classes: Dancers can join t…

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