Monday, August 31, 2020
OK, so, the Center for the Arts’ “Studio 551 initiative was conceived to create opportunities for visual and performing artists in an increasingly expensive city, offering a range of tem…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PMHere the map of Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. And the recent uptick (well, massive increase) in business “is both ‘lucrative’ and ‘bittersweet,'” say some owners. – Oprah Ma…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PMThe thing is, “Suddenly, an awful lot of work can be done from home and, once you get that idea in their heads, it stays.” What will happen to all of that office space in the central bus…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PMDespite a thunderstorm that caused administrators to hold umbrellas over a slightly tressed trio, the musicians didn’t want to stop playing. “It’s a charge. … This is the thing, to g…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PMWriter Akwaeke Emezi and photographer Texas Isaiah, with the help of many couples, try to figure it all out. “I have never spent this much time with myself;to become my own favorite compan…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PMThat’s a hard task for any actor, and Boseman had to – got to – play Thurgood Marshall, James Brown, and Jackie Robinson (not to mention embodying the fictional King of Wakanda, T’Ch…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PMThe boat ran into trouble over the weekend – every refugee aboard was rescued by another boat – because it was overloaded, but: “Named after Louise Michel, the 19th century French femi…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PMTo be fair, she wasn’t lost. The system was. “Representation isn’t the same as legitimization. When Girlfriends aired, shows featuring Black casts were categorized as ‘Black,’ a …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PMSome ideas: “Study the chokepoints, bottlenecks, and pinch points that museums share—such as the entrances, queuing zones, and access area for exhibits. … Look at ways that all food ma…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PMOn reading, and really feeling, Virginia Woolf as a middle-aged writer. – LitHub
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PMIn other words, the painting fragment consigned to the basement of the Ashmolean at Oxford may be a real Rembrandt. – The Guardian (UK)
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PMSir Hans Sloane, whose collection first formed the basis of the museum, gained much of his wealth by enslaving people. The museum moved his bust “from a plinth to a smaller display case ac…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PM“Eight years ago, Samira Wiley and Uzo Aduba were struggling New York actors working service jobs when they auditioned for a new series from a movie-rental service-turned-streaming site ca…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PMSure, they’re joyful, but … “the viral popularity of this display of intergenerational sympathy — Black 20-somethings professing love for a white boomer’s pop-rock chestnut — may…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:18PMSunday, August 30, 2020
There’s no summer season of music for the L.A. Phil at the Hollywood Bowl. But there are food banks, a take-out restaurant from those who usually make food for the concerts, and a lot of m…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 04:32PMIt’s 2020, so video games, of course. “History games can spark interest in learning more, says Bob Whitaker, a professor of History at Collin College and host of the podcast History Res…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 04:32PMKoller, author of An Unknown Woman, inspired many women to consider their lives as full and complex – but she wasn’t necessarily pleased with her own experience. “It is a paradox that …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 03:24PMTruly, one more discussion? As a Gen-Xer might say, big whoop. Here’s a list of action points for when theatre resumes – or to work on right now. – American Theatre
Linked From ArtsJournal at 03:24PMIs it time for, say, Beethoven reaction videos? Because this was the experience of someone hearing “Bohemian Rhapsody” for the first time: “Watching the full gamut of human emotions …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:18PMThis is the way of powerful literature, across hundreds (or thousands) of years. “It landed in the hands of a schoolgirl who would one day fall in love with it. At first, she pushed it awa…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:18PMSources say that the “major issues are testing protocols, sick pay and travel to work sites.” Studios cautiously say they hope to resume shooting after Labor Day, September 7. – Variety
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:18PMThe term was coined, by a white writer, in 1993. It might have been a good start, but there are issues: “It lacks room to conceive of Blackness outside of the Black American diaspora or …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 01:12PMThe RNC asked for permission, and the Cohen Estate said no. According to estate’s legal representative, “if the organizers had requested to use Cohen’s 2016 song ‘You Want it Darker…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:42PMWorkers from the Tate, the Southbank Centre , and the National Theatre rallied for their jobs and against what they call callous job cuts on Saturday. One explained that now, “You’ve got…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:42PMFirst of all, this timeline is a terrible one; can we jump to another one? But basically, this all hinges on how Tenet performs in theatres versus how Mulan performs on Disney+. – Vulture
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:06AMWhat we think we know about the fight for women to get the legal right to vote is only a sliver of the history – and of our present. “There’s a lot of that still hanging in the balance…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:06AMTrans dancers are challenging the conventions. Hayden Moon says it’s not easy: “I’d spent years learning to be high on my toes and not make any noise and never let my heel touch the gr…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:06AMWhat it was like to watch Tenet in Toronto: A little nervewracking, a little weird, a lot enjoyable. “For 45 years, the summer blockbuster has given us something to orbit around, a Movie E…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:06AMThis may not be easy, and a lot of theatre artists may not want to think about it – but a Google Doc can help. “If there’s an instance where the word ‘slave’ does harm and the word…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:06AMJust a year after a protracted and bitter lockout, the musicians approved a multiyear contract that, while it includes COVID-19 related wage cuts (for administration as well as for musicians…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:06AMRuth Mackenzie was the first woman to run the Théâtre du Châtelet, the first woman to hire a Black artist to direct a play at the French theatre, and also, she says, the first woman direc…
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