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Monday, April 27, 2020

The Virtual World Is Awash In Streaming Film Services by Artsjournal2

Aside from drive-ins, we can't go to the movies. A trickle are coming out online, but "if you thought choosing a film at the multiplex was difficult, finding that same new movie in the curre…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]

Edward James Olmos Thinks Hollywood Needs To Step Up Its Understanding Of Latinx Actors by Artsjournal2

The Oscar nominee (for Stand and Deliver) is quarantining alone and promoting a virtual film festival in Los Angeles. Of his friends who are Latino actors, he says, "We want to be known as A…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]

Actors Quarantined At Home Are Making A New Form Of Theatre Using Virtual Reality by Artsjournal2

A virtual reality piece released last October seemed like a wild, enjoyable experiment at the time. But now, the piece (which, not incidentally, is keeping at least 18 actors employed) "show…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AM[SHARE]

In Case You Missed Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep, And Audra McDonald Singing For Sondheim by Artsjournal2

Please immediately click on this link. Just do. " The Hollywood Reporter

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM[SHARE]

The Fifty Best Musicals You Can Stream Right Now by Artsjournal2

Yes, 50 is a lot, but we're already in week *checks notes* a zillion of this lockdown and no live theatre, so might as well get started, right? " The Stage (UK)

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM[SHARE]
Sunday, April 26, 2020

If You're Too Stressed To Finish A Novel, Try Short Stories Or Essays Instead by Artsjournal2

Everyone's concentration is shot right now, and for some, it's just too hard to focus long enough, either physically or mentally, to read a novel. But "there's something about reading a shor…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]

One Irish Theatre Responds To The Existential Crisis By (Virtually) Pulling Together 100 Artists by Artsjournal2

"It's a mad idea." Indeed: 50 writers and 50 actors have a virtual mandate. "For Abbey dramaturg Louise Stephens, who works with writers on developing scripts for stage, 100 artists was 'suc…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PM[SHARE]

The Best Art Parodies Seem To Have Started In Russia, And Now They're Everywhere by Artsjournal2

A Facebook group started in Moscow now has tens of thousands of members worldwide, making art of the mundanities of lockdown. "They have been posting their work at a clip of more than 1,000 …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]

French Directors And Distributors Are Thrilled By The Confinement's 'Return' To Cinema by Artsjournal2

"We can only welcome a massive return of heritage cinema to France Télévisions in this very special period. Let us hope that this frantic desire continues in post-confinement," they wri…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]

How London's National Theatre Is Surfing A Wave Of Viewers For Its Broadcasts by Artsjournal2

Basically, the National Theatre has better camerawork than most theatres trying to do broadcasts " and that creates intimacy, the kind of intimacy you might otherwise find only at a life per…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]

Hey Kids, Your Homework During Quarantine Is To Watch Hitchcock Movies by Artsjournal2

And then write essays about them. On the other hand: "The other night I tried Wings of Desire. That really didn't go well. You could see the kids' minds were blown by the concept of angel…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]

A Dancer Puts Her Retirement On Pause Along With The Ballet by Artsjournal2

She had her retirement dress and her finale plan. She'd stretched and was ready for rehearsal for the performance on March 13. "Suddenly, the carefully choreographed end to Kuykendall's 22-y…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]

To Postpone Literary Prizes, Or To Go Virtual? by Artsjournal2

That is the question. The Booker delayed its prize not because it couldn't have a virtual ceremony, but because book distribution is in a bit of a crisis right now. "According to a statement…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]

Helping The Handel And Haydn Society Head Into The Future, By Acknowledging The Real Past by Artsjournal2

The Handel and Haydn Society has been around, performing Baroque concerts on period instruments, since 1815. And now it's time to diversify their programming " and acknowledge the diversity …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]

Hollywood Studios And Union Will Begin Virtual Negotiations This Week by Artsjournal2

At issue in the SAG-AFTRA talks with the studios is everything from scheduling to residuals, and certainly health insurance as members deal with loss of jobs to the coronavirus shutdown. " L…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]

Paris Without (Extra) People by Artsjournal2

Paris without tourists looks and feels different " and is a reminder of other traumatic times. "In this stage-set Paris, the monuments still brilliantly illuminated, it is easy to imagine an…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]

A Traveling Theatre Troupe In Japan, Ground To A Halt By Nothing Ever by Artsjournal2

Though the troupe has cut back on performances, it's still going (Japan has encouraged people to stay home, but hasn't shut down places like theatres " at the time of writing this post): "Ge…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]

A New Apple Family Play, Live, Via Zoom by Artsjournal2

Richard Nelson introduced the Apples in 2010, and then wrote a whole cycle around them in the early 2000s. He moved on to other families for a while. But "for many who met them at the Public…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]

Cheryl A. Wall, Expert On Zora Neale Hurston And Champion Of Literary Black Women, Has Died At 71 by Artsjournal2

Wall, longtime professor at Rutgers, changed the world of literature. She "championed racial diversity both in the curriculum and the classroom. She encouraged more black students to major i…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]

The Stars Of Center Stage Remember What It Was Like Making The Dance Movie by Artsjournal2

Julie Kent, who played Kathleen: "I do remember talking to Nicholas [Hytner, the film's director] at the audition about why he wanted to do this movie. . … He said he loved the art form, a…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]

Why Not Learn Some Dance Moves From The Teen You're Quarantined With? by Artsjournal2

That's right: Families that quarantine together are starting to dance together (and record the dancing as well). " CBC

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]

Baltimore Artists Reflect On Freddie Gray's Death And The Tumultuous Times That Followed by Artsjournal2

In the protests that followed the death of Freddie Gray, who was in police custody, some artists (of all types) found inspiration and a platform for a country suddenly interested in Baltimor…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]

When Libraries Open Up, They May Quaratine Books Between Checkouts by Artsjournal2

Logical, right? (Maybe? Who actually knows?) The New York Public Library's CEO says that "libraries once they reopen may impose a quarantine period on books that lasts as long as scientists …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]

Boston's Institute Of Contemporary Art Is Using One An Outpost To Feed Local Families by Artsjournal2

ICA Watershed in East Boston is closed, of course " but then the staff of the ICA learned that East Boston had one of the area's highest rates of Covid-19 infection and that the people of th…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]

MGM Has Laid Off 7 Percent Of Its Remaining Workforce by Artsjournal2

In another Hollywood blow, the studio laid off about 50 of its remaining staff " and made those cuts permanent. "We are reconfiguring certain divisions of the studio to allow MGM to operate …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]
Monday, April 20, 2020

Auction Houses Try To Step Up Digital Selling, But Art Prices Remain Low by Artsjournal2

The chairwoman of Sotheby's fine art division says, "In effect, we've been in the live theater business. Now we're segueing into what is more like live streaming. The truth is, that revoluti…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]

How Our Phones Track Social Distancing by Artsjournal2

And everything else about our location, as well; you can download huge files of randomized info about the entire US, if you'd like. "If you're wondering whether data from your phone is inclu…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]

Online Relief For Listeners Isn't Replacing Income For Devastated Musicians by Artsjournal2

There's just nothing left, really. "The temporary halt to playing live removes the one dependable way musicians can make money. Royalties from music being played in pubs, clubs and sho…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]

Please, Please, Give Us This Eighth Narnia Book by Artsjournal2

Now is truly a time when the world could use an update to the beloved C.S. Lewis series. But only 75 copies of the sequel, written by a Narnia lover and scholar, exist. "It may never be conv…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]

When The Telenovelas Ground To A Halt by Artsjournal2

The writers scrambled to end the last episode on a cliffhangar from footage they'd already shot. This is a first: "Neither military dictatorship nor the Rio Olympics halted production of Bra…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]

New Barbara Hepworth Letters Rewrite The Idea Of The Great Artist As A Bad Mother by Artsjournal2

Hepworth has, for decades, been thought of as a cold and uncaring parent who sent her triplets away when they were four months old so she could get some work done. Surprise: The letters tell…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]

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