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Monday, April 13, 2020

Living In A Gaudi Masterpiece During The Lockdown by Artsjournal2

Suddenly, La Pedrera in Barcelona went from tens of thousands of visitors per day to … no one. Ana Viladomiu is one of the few people there. "Two other tenants remain in another part of th…

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The World's Longest Art Walk Is Underground by Artsjournal2

Stockholm's subway system is stocked: "Since construction began in 1950, some 250 artists have decorated 94 stations across 68 miles of track." " Wired

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Is This A Good Time To Launch A Book Titled 'Notes From An Apocalypse'? by Artsjournal2

Well, perhaps it's the perfect time. "Readers, for their part, will emerge feeling doomed"yet oddly uplifted." " The Economist

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Tom Hanks, In His Kitchen, With A Camera, Defines The Spirit Of The Time by Artsjournal2

It seems unthinkable that Saturday Night Live could go on right now, but April 11's show may mark something of a milestone " and a cultural record that should prove to be invaluable for the …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]

The First Quarantine Poem To (Sorry) Go Viral by Artsjournal2

The poem is made up (artfully) of lines from corporate emails. One stanza: "Feeling Fiesta today? Happy Taco Tuesday!Calories don't count during a pandemicGrocers report flour shortages as m…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]

Comics May Not Survive The Pandemic by Artsjournal2

Comic-book publishing, comics stores, the writers, the artists, and everyone are in serious trouble. "The industry has been throttled at every juncture. Comic-store owners have shuttered the…

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For Theatre History's Sake, Record Your Plays And Musicals by Artsjournal2

When there's another pandemic, your theatre can be the one making history with broadcasts on YouTube or, who knows, something on Quibi. " The Stage (UK)

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What Have We Learned About Wellbeing So Far In Our Isolation? by Artsjournal2

Wellbeing isn't individual; it's social. And in this, the Great Pause, we see that "It's not quite a revolution, but it's an epic conceptual awakening. … In some ways it's like a blissed-o…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]

Baritone Ludovic Tezier Warns That The Virus 'Will Have The Skin Of The Arts' If Governments Don't Step In by Artsjournal2

The opera singer says that the lyric arts are particularly at risk with the shutdown, and he addresses President Macron directly in his column. "I speak on behalf of troubadours and acrobats…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]

To Heck With Streaming Everything; It's Time To Read Montaigne by Artsjournal2

Well, why not? The original essayist might be the way to go. "On Solitude is one of Montaigne's many small masterpieces. It's an essay, typically short and, as always, disarmingly conversati…

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Note To Fundraisers: Get The Unions On Board Before You Make A Plan Not To Pay Performers by Artsjournal2

The charity Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS was planning a stream of a November 2019 (remember those halcyon days?) concert that celebrated the 25th anniversary of Disney on Broadway. Prob…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]

How To Become An Opera Star From Rural South Africa by Artsjournal2

Soprano Vuvu Mpofu grew up surrounded by music in church choirs and school, but when she first heard an aria when she was 15, "the girl plunged into the library to find out where the music c…

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The View From Quarantine Easels by Artsjournal2

Artists from San Diego, Chicago, Saskatchewan, New York, and more weigh in. Dia Bassett, for instance: "With the COVID-19 pandemic, my life as a mom to a toddler is more confined. My parents…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]

The Ceramics Sculpture Studio That Starts With Making Garden Pots by Artsjournal2

Now it's pretty much stopping with the garden pots as well as the artists can't mentor young proteges in the studio. But the already created ceramics are serving a purpose: "We hope that by …

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The Show Is Delayed, But That's OK With The Artist by Artsjournal2

Deborah Roberts, 57, who was set to have her first solo show in September, says, "My daddy hated art and said it was never going to be nothing. He would say, 'What are you doing that for?' …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Girl With A Purell Earring And Other Tweaks Making The Art Rounds During The Pandemic by Artsjournal2

Truth: "Art meme-ing has long been with us, but some mix of quarantine creativity, idle isolation and the need to connect through humor in these uncertain times is sparking a stream of misch…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM[SHARE]

City Lights Books Sends Out A Cry For Help, Gets $400,000 In Donations by Artsjournal2

The iconic San Francisco bookstore founded by Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti said in its GoFundMe appeal that it was continuing to pay salaries and health care for its employees, but that i…

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Shailene Woodley, Doing (Now Online) Movie Release Press From A Big Social Distance by Artsjournal2

The actor, who had success as a child and in her teens and early twenties, says that social isolation with her dog isn't the worst thing. "This feels like heaven in a lot of ways because I d…

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When Truth Resembles Apocalyptic Fiction by Artsjournal2

Novelist Waubgeshig Rice: "It kind of blew my mind. … I wrote that plot point of Moon of the Crusted Snow just as a what if, not as a how-to guide." " CBC

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The Guggenheim Is The Latest Institution To Lay Off, Furlough, And Reduce Benefits by Artsjournal2

The museum says it's facing a $10 million shortfall and must furlough 92 people and reduce the salaries for 85 more. The furloughed staff members, "which union officials said include about a…

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Irish Scholars Have A Rather Large Bone To Pick With A 'Hatchet Job' In The New Yorker by Artsjournal2

Who decided messing with Edna O'Brien was a good idea? Ian Parker of The New Yorker, that's who. But "after a complicated relationship with her home country " in 2015 President Michael Higgi…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48PM[SHARE]

Theatre's Stages Of Grief by Artsjournal2

Idled theatres can't earn money, can't meet grant requirement deadlines, and have nothing they can do with huge sets or out-of-work actors or stage crews. It's not OK. "O'Gara conceded that …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]

Restaurants And Retail Are Closed, So What's An Out-Of-Work Hollywood Artist To Do? by Artsjournal2

Podcast from home, of course. (Or work in video games or animation " those industries, perhaps unsurprisingly, are doing just fine.) " Los Angeles Times

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM[SHARE]

Novelist Ann Patchett, Alone In Her Bookshop With Her Dogs, Says The Store Feel Closer To The Community by Artsjournal2

Patchett isn't actually alone because her co-owner and staff are still coming in, carefully distanced from each other, to work so they can ship books to all of those desperately wanting new …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]

Pandemic Virtual Book Clubs Are Popping Up All Over The Internet by Artsjournal2

Are books therapeutic? Is reading itself, with the concentration it requires, even possible now? Yes, but make it social. "The experience has been, by turns, surprisingly insightful and pred…

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How Bad Is The State Of The Arts? by Artsjournal2

At least in one West Coast city " though truly, everywhere in the U.S. " "It's pretty grim. … Everyone is experiencing the worst." " Oregon Artswatch

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Louis Johnson, Acclaimed Dancer, Choreographer, And Director, Has Died At 90 by Artsjournal2

Johnson choreographed the film adaptation of The Wiz and won a Tony for his choreography for Purlie. He performed in both stage and screen versions of Damn Yankees, created works for the Alv…

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What Did It Mean To Exhibit The Shroud Of Turin Online? by Artsjournal2

When the Archbishop of Turin, Cesare Nosiglia, announced the church would livestream the Shroud, things in the world of the mysterious sacred artifact got a bit weird. "Whether Nosiglia know…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM[SHARE]

Bollywood Grinds To A Standstill, Halting Movies And Careers by Artsjournal2

No, that's not different from the U.S. or Nigeria, but Bollywood stars, directors, production companies, dancers and everyone else are trying to figure out what to do next. "Given the specul…

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Bruce Baillie, 'Essential' Avant-Garde Bay Area Filmmaker, Has Died At 88 by Artsjournal2

Baillie "personified the Bay Area experimental cinema of the 1960s as an independent filmmaker and consummate 16-millimeter craftsman whose most extraordinary movie is a single panning shot.…

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Lincoln Center Has Canceled Everything Through The End Of August by Artsjournal2

No Lincoln Center Out of Doors, no Mostly Mozart Festival, no summer programming at all. " NPR

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]

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