Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Kathleen McGuire: “The portrayals of distress can feel clichéd — Lady Capulet writhing on the floor, or, in Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre, the animalistic woman in the attic or the corps …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMAmanda Hess: “We are desperate for an outlet, and [online] finger-pointing is one of the few hobbies still accessible to those sheltering in place. Joggers have been accused of ‘mansprea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM“These shows have been assembled, wholly or in part, by stage actors in isolation. Some … have considerable voice-over experience. Others have little or none. … We spoke to performers …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PM“Everybody thinks about it one way. They think, Okay, Amazon is going to buy movies or produce movies. AT&T or Comcast is going to start skipping theater distribution and go straight t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMA compelling sort-of mini-memoir, in which Jerry proceeds from describing his (barely developed) way of cooking and his (odd and specific) consumption of coffee to recounting his (nearly non…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMA.O. Scott, in conversation with Manohla Dargis and Kyle Buchanan:“For 11 or 12 days, the festival becomes a cinematic universe in its own right. When you’re inside it, the rest of the w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:03PMEconomic recovery from coronavirus will be far slower for the bottom 90% than for the top 10%. This is a deeply perilous prospect for the nonprofit arts industry. In the minds of many, we ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AMThey’ll take place in an empty venue, though — the Wigmore Hall, where such artists as Stephen Hough, Angela Hewitt, Iestyn Davies, Mark Padmore and Mitsuko Uchida will perform for BBC R…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AM“Berlin State Museums, an umbrella group overseeing 17 museums in the city, … decided to start small, reopening just four of the institutions under its control on Tuesday. Christine Haak…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AM“Reidy was known for her warm and candid manner, for sending handwritten letters to authors and for her alertness to the bottom line. She confronted many crises and upheavals at Simon &…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32AMHester Lees-Jeffries explores what exactly makes Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of Shakespeare so striking (not least Catherine Martin’s design). – David Jays
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54AMTuesday, May 12, 2020
“For many artists, writers and composers who have been rewarded prestigious residencies to isolate themselves in remote places and sometimes in punishing climates, it is a coveted situatio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM“They stand five feet apart, cannot hold hands, kiss or simulate a brawl, but the cast and crew of Neighbours — a long-running Australian soap opera that returned to production in late A…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM“The specialist Court of Arbitration for Art … [was created in 2019] to adjudicate art world matters ranging from chain of title, authenticity and copyright fair use. Last year, the pane…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM“The story of how the image of Buddha finally broke forth into the world after 600 years of symbolism is one of the most intriguing in the history of art — one that is inextricably tied …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:42PM“Sex is an experience of intense vulnerability, and it is also where we are at our most performative, and so it’s at once as near to and as far from authenticity as we come. … Sex is a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMIn the land of the Taliban? Yes — Afghanistan is historically part of the Persianate world (Dari, the official language, is a Persian dialect), and metaphor-filled erotic poetry has a thou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:18AMIn July, the Rome Opera will stage Verdi’s Rigoletto, conducted by Daniele Gatti, in the Piazza di Siena, a venue on the grounds of the Villa Borghese normally used for equestrian events. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMIn place of a regular mainstage season, Theater Latté Da in Minneapolis will expand its “Next” workshopping program, “making public the shows it is developing for the future, keeping …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM“[A] 60-page document, entitled Our Plan to Rebuild, sets out that cinemas are part of a ‘high-risk’ group of businesses that will be the last to reopen from July 4 onwards” — and …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM“[He was] one of the four founders of Visual AIDS and an organizer of the first Day Without Art … [and] his nearly four-decade career in museums included tenures at the Grey Art Gallery …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AM“This rural compound in India’s southern tip is one of the few places where professional dancers can still do what the rest of the performing arts world can only dream about. At Nrityagr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:32AMHere’s an ingenious 45-minute film by Behrouz Jamali that revealingly juxtaposes the music Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky wrote in response to World War II. The video artist Peter…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42AMMonday, May 11, 2020
“[He] rose to national prominence on a barrage of one-line jokes and sly ethnic humor, with his Jewish background and [wife/partner Anne] Meara’s Irish Catholic heritage forming a comic …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PMFriday, May 8, 2020
“A former principal dancer for Martha Graham, Ms. Erdman first came to wide notice as a choreographer in the 1940s, and she remained in the vanguard of the field for decades. She later cre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PMWith Miguel Harth-Bedoya stepping down after 20 “transformational” years, Tim Diovanni talks to musicians and observers about potential successors and finds that there is, as yet, no cle…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM“In a kid’s world, cooties and other similar contagions may not be real — but they’re deadly serious. The North American children’s lore of cooties is ‘a social contaminant that …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:48PM“[Worldwide Ballet Class] stands out for offering dancers of all levels the opportunity to take open company class alongside professional dancers, six days a week … taught by the likes o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM“Officials from Egypt’s antiquities ministry recently announced that [four] ram-headed sphinxes had been taken from the Karnak temple in Luxor to the capital’s busy traffic roundabout,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AMSome, like A24 and Sony Pictures Classics, are sticking with the existing theater-first model and waiting the COVID lockdown out; says a top Sony exec, “Without theatrical, the business di…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:24AM“Since mid-March more than 70,000 extra creators have joined Patreon, which allows fans to give monthly payments to artists in exchange for exclusive content or simply out of a desire to s…
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