Sunday, May 10, 2020
Australian writer Mem Fox knows what it's like to worry about being well enough, surviving long enough, to finish a book. "She feels the terror in her body " something like cold sweats and s…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]The video, conceived of by Misty Copeland and another ABT dancer, stars 32 ballerinas from 14 different countries and is meant to raise money for dancers who depend on performance income to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]The new changes are for the foreign language motion picture category to match similar changes for all other categories " making pictures eligible that would have been released in their home …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Animation studios, like the one that produces (all parents and grandparents may now groan) Paw Patrol, are still going full force " from home studios. It's not always simple: "the biggest ch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Seriously, the lists stopped mattering around the second, or was it third, or fourth? week of quarantine. "Our rapid shift from laser-focused self-improvement to read-all-the-things omnivoro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Gujral studied with Diego Rivera and David Siquieros, recorded the pain of 1947's Partition, and designed the Belgian Embassy in New Delhi " among his many, many, many other accomplishments.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]The herstory is real: "This is not about slamming the patriarchy, but a joyous trip through women's work on screen, puckishly curated into 40 chapters on different themes including openings,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]This is the way it's working in Germany and (soon) Belgium: "How are art museums to reopen without endangering staff and visitors? Cimam, the international committee for museums and collecti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]This is when networks usually spend millions of dollars for a live show to gain billions of dollars in advertising for the upcoming year. "Advertising has long served as a media-industry lif…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Does any of this seem like a good idea right now? "The scheme is set to bring a 12,500-seat arena, 300-room hotel and three vast exhibition halls to the 10-acre waterside site, along with sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Actor Daniel Dae Kim, one of the first celebrities (after Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson) to reveal that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, is one of the narrators for a new series that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]Idea originator Emily Levin: "Preparing and recording a video was already a large time commitment. I expected my colleagues to simply send me their recordings. That's not what happened. Inst…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]What the shutdown has revealed; "The theater industry is crucial to giant studios, which for the most part aren't interested in proceeding without theaters. The profits come from selling tic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54PM[SHARE]An art installation called Caretaker will run on the Royal Court's stage until the theatre reopens. The show "is a livestream of the theatre's uninhabited main stage, with intermittently bro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM[SHARE]The Guthrie's leadership had envisioned various scenarios as lockdown orders arrived. But "now, as the ripple effects of the coronavirus health crisis are felt throughout the economy, and th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2020
Olivia Jackson was gravely injured on a Resident Evil set in South Africa in 2015. But who should pay?. "Jackson's ordeal highlights the vulnerabilities of performers on sets, especially on …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:42AM[SHARE]Malls and other retail establishments reopened in the state as well. Movie theatres that reopened were showing older-run movies for $5. In one San Antonio theatre, "in an upscale shopping ce…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]One of the last songs at this winter's Youth Traditional Song Weekend emphasized standing together in song. Now, "the act of gathering to sing feels like something for a tenuous tomorrow. On…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Howard Silverman helped found Bristol's Spike Island nearly 50 years ago " and now a new board has told him he must pack up his studio and go, in the middle of the coronavirus lockdown. "Fel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Buffman produced everyone, including Elizabeth Taylor in The Little Foxes (it was a hit) and Muhammed Ali in Buck White (it was a memorable flop). But he "was even busier in Florida than on …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]The move was widely criticized across the world " and feared by nonprofits. One of them said that "the proposed buyout was an attempt by domain name industry insiders to profit off of thousa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Emily Mann was set to wrap up three decades as the director of McCarter Theater Center in Princeton this spring. Then everything shut down " and her gala went online. "'I think I liked this …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]In the category of things some of us hadn't thought enough about before this moment: "Vincent was an avid and multilingual reader, a man who could not do without books. In his brief life he …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]The theatre company Slung Low is used to thinking creatively, says its artistic director. This is just a bit different: "Constantly I'm on the phone doing deals. The other day, I swapped a l…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]The organizer said, "Lockdown Maypole dancing is still possible," and, in their own gardens or even inside, many agreed. " BBC
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]Everyone's watching to find out, but one big issue is social distancing and profit margins (such as they are not, typically, in theatre). "Keeping audience members two metres apart would lim…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]The George N'Namdi galleries were sometimes the only game in the country for Black artists in the 1980s. According to a recent lawsuit, "Discrimination in the art world prevented the recogni…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]"There's nothing like the Xanadu of a giant screen, air conditioning, darkness, Milk Duds and a big Hollywood movie in a packed theater" " which means that, right now, there's a very well-li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]Idir trained to be a geologist, but "his life took a twist in 1973 when he was called up as a last-minute replacement on the radio to sing 'A Vava Inouva.' It was a lullaby with the 'rich or…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]Let's start with graph paper (and an emphasis on making work instead of the reception of work). " Hyperallergic
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 3, 2020
Allen was a Nigerian drummer who perhaps didn't invent Afrobeat but certainly popularized it and took it everywhere. "Allen's swirl of jazz, Yoruba and highlife was unlike anything the world…
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