3,336 stories by "Artsjournal2"
Basically, AMC is creating a breeding ground for viral spreading (and not the good kind of viral): "Look, no one wants to get back in a movie theater more than I do " well, OK, my 13-year-ol…
Hurtado spent eight decades "resolutely committed to documenting the interconnectedness of human beings, nature, and terrestrial life," according to her gallery. In the past two years, she's…
During the height of the first wave of the coronavirus, it seemed this day would never come. Now, "it's odd how the surreal can become de rigueur. At the Gardner I barely noticed the masks, …
Talk about your unprecedented times. Buckingham Palace needs a plumbing update, so the paintings, including Vermeer's The Music Lesson and two Rembrandts, have to find a temporary home, and …
This is a good time for some required quarantine viewing, no? And it's always a good time to check out how good directors, dramaturgs, and designers (not to mention actors) can turn Shakespe…
Thinking about what we've had " Batman, Superman " well, it's time for a change. "A new guard of superheroism doesn't simply mean diversity. It makes room for the possibility that especially…
Lighting designers, sound engineers, tour managers, caterers, bus drivers, and more " all laid off more or less permanently, nebulously, until a vaccine. Their unions and associations are tr…
Seriously, SAG-AFTRA? During a global pandemic that has a lot of members out of work? Well, trustees say, "By 2024, the Health Plan is projected to run out of reserves. We must prevent this …
Novelist Helen Garner terrified her friends for years with what they called her pitiless writer's eye " detached, curious, and omnivorous. But as she ages, she's found it's harder and harder…
In northern Australia, indigenous people are reclaiming land and landmark names. "These changes are about time, mate, but we always kept the names when we worked on country anyway " they nev…
A casting director's dismissive "You should try indie movies, honey" changed Garner's career, and life. " The Hollywood Reporter
But will New Yorkers accept the new song? Musician RZA: "I can assure you that this one is made with love." " Gothamist
This is not to excuse the United States' patchwork of school tests, the weirdness (and inequity) of the ACT or SAT, but … wow. "The coronavirus pandemic means exams were canceled and repla…
OK, let's get metaphysical: "'The true present is a dimensionless speck,' Alan Burdick writes in his book Why Time Flies. 'The specious present, in contrast, is 'the short duration of whi…
Emphasis on that radical, please, when you're talking about author Carol Shields. " The New York Times
The camera operators' job applications asked them to list their skills at things like mountain biking, river rafting, and hiking. Those aren't on the skillsheets for a lot of camera operator…
Lovecraft was clearly racist and clearly an anti-Semite " and guess what? He also thought the Irish were inferior. "Such prejudices weren't simply background colour. They are front and centr…
Actors rehearsing for the musical Sleepless get test results within 45 minutes on an app. One of the actors says, "It does actually feel amazing to just be hearing people sing again. It's ma…
You may not know you know his work, but you definitely do. A partial description: "Emmy-winning composer who worked with Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley, scored Steven Spielberg's early w…
Manz also featured in Dennis Hopper's Out of the Blue. " Variety
The Golden Notebook, published almost 60 years ago now, gets to the heart of almost everything (depressingly, still) going on right now. "Lessing " like Anna " is unafraid to dirty her hands…
That likely condemns a lot of venues to closure. "'It's shocking that they don't just stay until they figure it out,' says Audrey Fix Schaefer of the National Independent Venue Asso…
So many legends, so much art, and yet … "Rubbish collects in gutters, litter spills from over-stuffed communal bins, pigeons scavenge among fallen, leaking garbage bags. People walk casual…
Grau, who won the 1965 prize for her fourth book, The Keeper of the House, wrote "stories and novels [that] told of both the dark secrets and the beauty of the Deep South." " Los Angeles Tim…
"Maybe you've learned the seasons in a new way. Perhaps, in some way, you are a visitor in your city, state, land." " The New York Times
