3,336 stories by "Artsjournal2"
What do documentary filmmakers owe their subjects? What if the documentary wins multiple awards, grosses a lot of money, and makes the subjects (and documentarians) famous? Â Staying invol…
The actor, who also played James Brown in Get on Up and Thurgood Marshall in Marshall, was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016, but had never spoken publicly about the diagnosis, and kept on…
With cinemas in many of the big U.S. metros still closed and many potential customers still unconvinced that multiplexes are safe from the coronavirus (despite the efforts of the National As…
The NYT's classical music critic isn't truly enjoying his time off because there hasn't been very much time on. "The shutdowns have been devastating for American classical music, given…
There's a lot going on right now. "Archivists, curators, and librarians nationwide are assembling the record of how the pandemic is impacting their communities in real time, collecting every…
Should stand-up comedians play drive-in gigs, participate in Zooming, try to start YouTube channels or wait, somehow, for live audiences to return? It's a bit of a mess for them, and sitting…
Portland doesn't exactly have the best history with its Black populations, including forced gentrification after decades of intense redlining. A 69-year-old artist says, "They tried to scoop…
Even before the colorful public ballots of the early United States, actually, "people used the viva voce system, rooted in ancient Greece, where voters announced their candidate to a clerk. …
Barcha held the landlord off while Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote the book, and when he emerged with the manuscript, "pawned her hair dryer and the couple's blender so she could pay the postag…
The pandemic changed some things, and then came the murder of George Floyd " and the largest civil rights movement in U.S. history. "Anti-racist manuals have been cleaned out from virtual bo…
Publishing has rather a lot to do to catch up in the diversity, equity, and inclusion fronts. Lisa Lucas, the outgoing director of the National Book Foundation, who is Black, says, "What do …
Popova, who died of Covid-19, lived a dramatic early life and found stability, if not joy, on Broadway and TV before becoming a ballet teacher. " The New York Times
Hepburn wasn't well-known in the U.S. before William Wyler cast her against Gregory Peck in the bittersweet rom-com. But "her star rose so quickly after this movie. That is crazy. This movie…
As the pandemic exposes massive historical cracks in the U.S. along class and race lines, it also exposes what state universities have been dealing with for a few decades " and it's causing …
"Two of Domingo's managers and a spokesperson briefly cut off the interview when the singer was asked to respond to the fact that both investigations had found the sexual harassment accusati…
Heidi Pitlor: "Ghostwriting is a form of acting, method acting really, as well as improvisation. You must become your subject, whether they are a Kennedy, a congresswoman, or a guy who espou…
The idea was to figure out what could make for a safe return to live music, using healthy volunteers who had tested negative before the concerts. "The first of Saturday's three concerts aime…
Thuy Van Vu's empty classrooms feel eerily familiar right now, almost photographic. "The spaces she portrays are vast and full of potential, and also of a great, yawning absence. Where are t…
Turns out not everyone loves mansion tours, or even castle tours. "The trust's visitor experience director proposes putting thousands of artworks and other items into storage in order to 'fl…
It's bad from the singer side " 51 percent of the top 100 songs were by solo male acts, and only 19 percent were by solo female acts " but it's shockingly horrible from behind the scenes, wh…
The drivetime listeners are gone, sending NPR's radio ratings into the sub-sub-basement. Yet NPR is reaching 10 percent more people than at the same time last year. What gives? "Bringing a y…
His team sprang into action and got censor-free footage that seems impossible. "The hardest footage to shoot was inside the I.C.U., Ai said, but he could not divulge how it was filmed. He sa…
And what an author " Marcie Rendon, an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, is an "award-winning poet, playwright, author of children's books, short stories and the popular Cash Blackb…
Police tear-gassed the gathering before the march began, killing L.A. Times columnist and KMEX news director Ruben Salazar (two others also died during the tear-gassing and shooting). "The M…
Can they? Yes. Will they? Hm. " Slate
