Sunday, January 31, 2021
“Telling a lie over and over can make it seem true. It can also remove agency from the viewer, ceding the individual’s judgement over to the expectations of the story being told. Brecht …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PM“As I was at the beginning of my education as a young director, as well as a nervous, nerdy intellectual, I asked Helene Weigel about the Verfremdungseffekt, Brecht’s famous ‘alienatio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PMMichael Andor Brodeur: “There is really no playlist to match this unstable, uncertain moment. And, honestly, right now I’m less interested in rummaging through the past for reference poi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PMThe 61-year-old conductor spent a dozen years as music director of the Milwaukee Symphony (1997-2009). “Once reportedly accustomed to a few sellout audiences a year, the orchestra reported…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PMJodi Archambault: “As COVID-19 takes a fearsome toll on our people, it also threatens the progress we have made to save our languages. The average age of our speakers — our treasured eld…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PM“[He] became part of the New York art scene during the late 1960s and went on to be associated with the Process art and Post-Minimalist movements. Unlike the best known adherents of those …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PMAn arts organization must come to matter to the community. When it matters, the community will support it. But how do arts organizations come to matter? The mindset that “We matter because…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PM“The Antiquarium, a museum located on the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii, fully reopened this week for the first time in more than 40 years. Home to some of the razed settlement’s …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PMThe charge by actress Sand Van Roy was first made in May 2018; it was dismissed for lack of evidence nine months later, and subsequently reopened following a civil complaint by Van Roy. Afte…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PM“There are some in the industry who believe houses have a responsibility to publish a wide range of viewpoints, seeing it as a First Amendment issue.” (And conservative books have tended…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PM“Leading stock photography company Shutterstock announced today that it has acquired TurboSquid, a digital media company that sells 3D assets, for $75 million. The move is both a talent an…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PMThe director, Sarmad Khoosat, is (or was) a popular member of one of the country’s most beloved entertainment families; the film itself, Zindagi Tamasha (in English, Circus of Life), has b…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PMOn New Year’s Day, Munawar Faruqui, a rising talent in India’s relatively new comedy circuit, was starting off a two-week tour with a gig in Indore when the leader of a Hindu extremist g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PMThe long-overdue work that larger institutions have started on in the wake of last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests has been the day-in-day-out project of some other groups. Joshua Bar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:25PMSince this year’s 78 contestants from 20 countries can’t travel to Switzerland, they’re submitting pre-recorded videos. The jury members (masked and socially distanced, of course) will…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“The third season of the award-winning podcast, which arguably set in motion the current boom for non-fiction audio series, was set in the Cleveland justice system. Unlike the first two se…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMFor two months, many thousands of farmers have been staging a massive sit-in with their tractors on the highways around New Delhi, demanding that the Indian government withdraw a package of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMIn DANCELIVE by Herman Cornejo, shot by Steven Sebring using his specially developed in-the-round camera system, viewers can “watch [dancers] from up close and see their movements from all…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMWith ongoing uncertainty about the future course of the pandemic, Cannes organizers decided they had no choice but to change this year’s dates from May 11-22 to July 6-17. “The move, whi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMPerhaps it’s better to say the culture wars have been brought to the tiny ex-Yugoslav republic in the Alps, courtesy of prime minister Janez Janša, now in a third term as prime minister. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMExcept in the countries where they aren’t: the Uffizi in Florence welcomed all of 800 visitors when it reopened last week, and Belgium declared museums essential and let them keep operatin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“[She] began her astonishingly prolific eight-decade career performing radio plays as a child in Iowa. She appeared in Shakespearean comedy and Eugene O’Neill melodrama on Broadway in th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction includes some 1,800 separate entries, from actifan and aerocar to zero-gravity and zine. … A historical dictionary devoted to the history of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMHere are reports from Taiwan (“Shows go on – with precautions in place”), Italy (“A sharply divided theatre world”), the U.S. (“Struggling on despite lack of leadership”), Swed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“The complex will include a dozen buildings, including two separate museums — one for Ukrainians and Eastern European Jews killed in the Holocaust, and one specifically memorializing tho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMThe performances — by such well-known artists as Mitsuko Uchida, Steven Isserlis, and the choir Stile Antico — cost about £3,000 each for personnel and copyright payments, and that does…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMIt’s a messy enough business that the first commercial choreography for a pop music video (an industry where you’d think there’s enough money involved to have figured this out years ag…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“Many deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals have welcomed the increase in visibility that deafness and hearing loss have enjoyed on TV lately. … But for many who use devices like cochlear…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PMIn decades of covering museum buildings, I’ve mostly refrained from “reviewing” a building that hasn’t gone up yet. That’s why I’ve hung back from commenting on the Los Angeles C…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“Despite a state ban on live comedy performances, the pandemic hasn’t destroyed the New York comedy scene — it just pushed it underground. … Venue owners are finding ways to stay in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:24PM“Regal in bearing, with willowy beauty and delicately chiseled features, Ms. Tyson was known for embodying women of great poise striving under great pressure. … [Her] electrifying portra…
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