Sunday, February 21, 2021
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has some issues, with members describing monthly meetings as battle zones. The HFPA includes zero Black members. It's "an embattled organization still…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PMA new emphasis has also changed how design firms feel about commissions. "For the new guard of playground design, the boundary between play equipment and public sculpture is blurring. … Pl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PMIt's an honorary, spokesperson role during a year when Fringe Fest may be online or may be in-person, or both, depending. Fleabag got its start at Fringe in 2013. Waller-Bridge: "From leakin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PMThe register of Jewish burials in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca between 1836 and 1899, is one of very few documents left after more than 18,000 Hungarian-speaking Jews were deported from …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PMIn the wake of George Floyd's killing and the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the country, Ballet West's Black dancers were asked by their artistic director what needed to change. The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PMYou'd think the director of Precious, The Butler, and more could get funding. But … "'Studios will give you about $10 to make a black movie. I'm exaggerating, but you get the point,' he sa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PMBefore she burst onto the art scene with performance art with an edge, O'Grady "had worked for the Labor and State Departments, including as an intelligence analyst in the period leading up …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PMYork was enslaved by William Clark and remained enslaved after the expedition returned. The memorial bust, which is on a pedestal where a statue of a conservative newspaper editor used to st…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PMThere's no Indigenous Artist of the Year award in Saskatchewan this year, and when a committee was discussing why not, well: "Somebody made a comment about 'why should we give them an award …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PMA researcher comes up against French bureaucracy: "To learn more about the day-to-day life of Parisians during the war, I turned to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF). This mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PMThe Marsh family of Faversham are dealing with Britain's lockdowns by performing parodies. "This six-voice choir, with its sweet harmonies and the occasional wobbly note, is creating songs t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:24PMMonday, February 15, 2021
Not for nothing " for a new museum of contemporary art. But … really? "'We invited the Department of Cultural Affairs,' Carrie Wood, a member of a campaign to save the mural called Keep…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PMBoyer signed on with Disney as a sketch artist in 1960 " and never left. "Boyer was made a Disney Legend in 2005, the equivalent of membership in the company's Hall of Fame, with a window on…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:48PMThe new show demonstrates just how drastically far food shows have come " but reminds us of how far that had to be, especially when we can always rewatch Nadiya Hussain's GBBO flavors making…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMOr they might, soon. London needs "infrastructure week," but for real, and for much longer than a week. Take Hammersmith. "It's obvious whom to blame: politicians are guilty to varying degre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMArtists need studios, and usually studios with light … and churches often have that. "Places of worship are typically built to outlast their parishioners. The steepled Protestant churches …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMStanfield says it's not only therapy that has made the last year bearable. "The one good thing about this pandemic is being able to sit at home by yourself and deal with yourself and just yo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMThe Grammy-winning architect of modern music "is best known for designing and producing microphone preamplifiers, equalizers, compressors and mixing consoles that are sought after in the ind…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMArchaeologists "were hopeful of unearthing something of interest because the area has been occupied for more than 3,000 years. But nothing prepared them for the excitement of discovering an …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMHonestly, will we never learn? "Americans have expressed their concerns about each new form of media through fears about children and youth. Younger Americans were supposed to be especially …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMHoward Sherman, author of a new book about the play: "It's a play that people think they know. People want to paint it as this old-fashioned love letter to the past. And that's not what it i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AMAll of this is true: "An effort to keep the industry alive has major stars taking to the virtual stage and much-lauded past productions available for streaming. These productions can't compa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:15AMThis story is convoluted, and needs careful reading to understand what's going on not only in musicology in the U.S. but also across the world. To quote the article, "How this ends is not cl…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AMOf course, "The British weather does not always help. A valiant 'drive-through' production of La Bohème staged in a car park by English National Opera last year did encounter problems…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AMBurga's best-known work, 1981's Perfil de la mujer Peruana, confused many people in its day. She and a psychotherapist friend "interviewed 290 middle-class women between the ages of 25 and 2…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AMIn short, and in no surprise to anyone who has studied the history of the U.S., or indeed lived that history: "Judas and the Black Messiah makes an urgent case for why the FBI, and, by ex…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:54AMSunday, February 14, 2021
No, it's not that many mediocre men are threatened by smart women (timeless!) or that mismatched marriages can destroy those in the marriage (also timeless!). It's about plague. " LitHub
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMIn 2016, when the Seine flooded its banks, museum workers toiled 24 hours a day to haul thousands of artworks out of underground storage for their protection. Cut to now: "For more than 16 m…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMDirector Iram Parveen Bilal (I'll Meet You There) explains: "I'm the daughter of a physicist mother and a chemistry professor father. … We were told from the get-go that education is your …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PMMaybe Asian American writers should stop dissing Tan. "I understand the resistance to being lumped in with her; I feel it, too. But when I recently re-read The Joy Luck Club, I could not …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PMEach lockdown has meant something different for the staff, especially of science and natural history museums. For instance, James Maclaine, senior fish curator at London's Natural History Mu…
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