Monday, April 22, 2019
For those over a certain age – people who can remember the first years of the Clinton administration – “Waco” used to mean one thing: Branch Davidians. Now it’s all about the empir…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:36PMWrightsman, like her husband before her, was a big donor and a trustee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “While giving millions to buy art and refurbish galleries, her involvement was oft…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:36PMThis happened: “At a forum in January, Yale’s top librarian outlined a seemingly uncontroversial proposal: to relocate tens of thousands of books from the heart of the undergraduate libr…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 10:54AMWithout Robert Hooke’s keen drawing eye, and the microscope, who knows what might have happened? You can read “the story of British art through a scientific looking glass. The Royal Soci…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 10:54AMBoulez erased most of his early compositions, but this one was preserved at the Paul Sacher Foundation. “After reviewing that score, ‘Prélude, Toccata et Scherzo,’ the Dutch pianist R…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:42AMThe Disney heir isn’t happy with the numbers – not the raw numbers, but the pay gap. “Disney told attendees that her perspective has been informed by her interactions with Disneyland e…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:42AMWhen students get a chance to write music for a documentary about a musician, one composer, who had never been into TV or movies, realizes this is the path: “I see media like TV and film i…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:42AMAnd it didn’t always go well. ‘”This is offensive to me,’ [a] vexed visitor complained. The security staffer found himself in the position of having to defend the activists’s right…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:42AMDon’t do it for the children! In other words, some parents, even in tech-obsessed San Francisco, refuse to put their kids online. “They cite reasons ranging from preserving children’s …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:42AMFlorence and the Machine sang a haunting song over the end credits of the second episode of the final season of Game of Thrones, and they’re one of a very few groups who have gotten that o…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:42AMIf you can doodle, you are drawing. And you’re not alone. “When I was a baby critic, a veteran colleague once told me to avoid drawing shows at all costs, since they were just preliminar…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:42AMSure, Netflix is developing more interactive content, but Netflix is far from alone. A new game, or perhaps it’s an “interactive media experience,” aspires to do something slightly dif…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:42AMThe country – and world – is chock-full of serious ballet competitions now. But “before YAGP was founded 20 years ago, it was a much different story. For bunheads, ‘competition’ wa…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 09:42AMFollow the money: “The resurgence of interest in concert films has been fuelled – in part – by streaming services’ need for content without the financial burden of drama.” The star…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:36AMSouthern California may seem dry and image-obsessed, but its Instagram garden stars – plantfluencers, perhaps – find not only fame but also community, and acolytes. “Influencers like C…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:36AMSunday, April 21, 2019
The music festival actually commissions several massive artworks to go with each year. At first, it was connected closely with Burning Man; now, 20 years in, things are slightly more interna…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:12PM“On the hunt for a less problematic Simone de Beauvoir who can speak for literally all women at once and also not be so serious. This seems like it should be simple?” (Yes, this is a sat…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:12PMSure, men have dominated comedy for a long time. But pregnant women aren’t about to let that stop them. And actually, says one comic, “When I got pregnant with my second child, things ha…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:12PMClassical ballets present a contemporary challenge: “Ballet, like so much else in our current society, is infused with sexist elements that are also elements of beauty. To tease these apar…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:12PMSure, the conflict is about packaging and digital rights – but it’s older than that, dating back to Robert Kennedy’s Department of Justice and a deal brokered in 1962. Now, “the two …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:12PMYes, some of it is bad, or uncomfortable, or a real mess of power dynamics. But “the impulse to play dress-up in other people’s cultures goes beyond teenagers wearing qipaos to prom, or …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:12PMWell, they do, of course, but Nintendo Game Boys don’t. The man who invented the Game Boy had a philosophy called “Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology.” And the Game Boy has had …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 05:12PMArchitects weigh in. Here’s one opinion: “Surely, this is an opportunity to recreate a once-hidden – and now destroyed – timber structure with a modern, fireproof, lightweight replac…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 02:04PMThe façade of the UN’s Secretariat Building is a mirage. – Jan Herman
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:54PMDid you notice? Some people sure did. “The alter-typeface became a trending topic on Twitter. Mitch Goldstein, a design professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, tweeted, ‘Saw …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:54PMThe Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum was all set to open a show on the Rosetta Stone, with accompanying Egyptian and Mesopotamian artifacts, when they invited University of Iow…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:54PMUnlike English-language stories created for the U.S. market, narco novelas offer “a compelling complexity in the face of the simplistic story lines that emerge out of Hollywood. Narco nove…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 12:54PMIs … the circus? – The Stage (UK)
Linked From ArtsJournal at 11:48AMSometimes, as with 2012’s monster hit “Gangnam Style” and all of the K-pop since, “all it takes is one song to introduce a new culture to the mainstream, paving the way for other act…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 10:36AMTheresa Lola, 24 years old and a former finance major who preferred poetry, is actually the city’s third youth poet laureate. She says, “Poetry was instrumental for me, to find my voice …
Linked From ArtsJournal at 10:36AMIn 2016, John Cho “became the unwitting beneficiary of #StarringJohnCho, a social movement that imagined Cho standing in for, say, Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible and Daniel Craig in Spe…
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