Arts news

• A Fresh New Generation Extends UK’s Jazz Revival

  08-11-2021 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These players developed their talents in small venues across the UK capital in the 2010s, from Total Refreshment Centre in Dalston, east London, to Mau Mau in west London’s Ladbroke Grove. – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• In COVID, Theatre Moved Outside. We Should Stay There

  08-11-2021 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Being outside makes theatre more precarious, open to a larger universe of weather and chance. Historically the Athenian tragic festivals embraced and marked the seasons. But in the middle ages the pageant wagons of the York mystery plays wisely filled the city streets in June. – The Conversation
  
  Read more

• How San Francisco Bay Area Organizations Made It Through COVID

  08-11-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  There were 140 funding programs to help… – Vogl Consulting
  
  Read more

• It’s A Very Big Deal For NYC Cultural Organizations That The US Reopened To International Visitors Today

  08-11-2021 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tourists from outside the U.S. comprise about 15 percent of Broadway’s audience during a traditional season, said Charlotte St. Martin, the president of the Broadway League. Across the last five seasons at the Metropolitan Opera, international ticket sales have averaged about 20 percent of the total box office. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• How NFTs Are Changing The Art World

  08-11-2021 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To advocates of the NFT, the technology offers a revolutionary new way of selling art, and of circumventing snooty cultural gatekeepers whose resistance to a crypto future seems as square as the 19th-century Parisian art world’s disdain for impressionism. – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• Big Bird In The Crosshairs: Ted Cruz Attacks After The Big Guy Gets Vaccinated

  08-11-2021 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “My wing is feeling a little sore, but it’ll give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy. Erica Hill even said I’ve been getting vaccines since I was a little bird!” Cruz responded: “Government propaganda … for your 5-year-old!” – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• One Of LA’s Most Beautiful Buildings Lives Again

  08-11-2021 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After the Los Angeles Herald Examiner folded in 1989, the building became an out-of-context medieval ruin along a quiet stretch of South Broadway, as plan after plan to revitalize the landmark fell through. – Curbed
  
  Read more

• Car Parked On Italian Street For 47 Years Becomes Monument

  08-11-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 1974, Angelo Fregolent, now 94, parked his car at the newsstand he ran with his wife in the town of Conegliano, according to The Mirror, and never came back. – Insider
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• For Windsor Musicians Who Work In Detroit, The U.S. Border Reopening Is A Massive Relief

  08-11-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Musicians missing their bands and gigs are finally getting the chance to get back in touch. “There’s been many tearful reunions,” one says. – CBC
  
  Read more

• PEN America Says Banning ‘Critical Race Theory’ Is A Threat To Free Speech

  08-11-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The threats are widespread. PEN says, “These bills appear designed to chill academic and educational discussions and impose government dictates on teaching and learning. … The efforts amount to a sweeping crusade for content- and viewpoint-based state censorship.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• It’s Not ‘Diversity’ To Have Black Actors In Westerns

  08-11-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s just history. – Washington Post
  
  Read more

• For Some Music Lovers, It’s Still Better To Enjoy Concerts From The Comfort Of Home

  08-11-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even before the digital age you could access the World of Music through recordings, via the radio or the local music shop or even the Columbia House Record Club.” And now? Livestreaming! – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
  Read more

• The Surprisingly Successful Art Of Curating Penguin Modern Classics

  08-11-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Penguin’s Classics line is 75 years old this year. But – “What makes a book a classic? Who gets to decide? And will today’s classic still be a classic in 10 years’ time, let alone 50 or 100?”- The Guardian (UK)
  
  Read more

• The Enormous Marketing Power Of BookTok

  08-11-2021 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “BookTok is passionate. It is also profitable—at least for publishers. Bloomsbury, a publishing house based in Britain, recently reported record sales and a 220% rise in profits, which Nigel Newton, its boss, put down partly to the ‘absolute phenomenon’ of BookTok.” – The Economist
  
  Read more

• Our Collective Narcissism Is Terrifying, Harmful – And Creepily Common

  08-11-2021 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sound familiar? “Collective narcissists tend to respond to the perceived threats of other groups in outsize, often aggressive ways. …Meanwhile, group narcissists glorify positively valued in-group members and tend to overlook their moral transgressions.” – The Atlantic
  
  Read more

• An Indigenous Filmmaker From Canada Creates Art From Childhood Trauma

  08-11-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The chair for the Canada Council for the Arts says, “What you’re seeing is maybe an industry that is so ravenous for stories that it’s realized it has to open the gates beyond its usual suspects.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Making A Big Indie Movie And Then a PR Turnaround

  08-11-2021 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How do you go from being mocked for playing the love interest of a vampire to being the first American actress to win a César, not to mention getting into the Oscars discussion this year? “She is a master of misdirection, deflection, and pregnant glances.” – Slate
  
  Read more

• What To Do When You’re A Violin Soloist, And A String Snaps

  08-11-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For one thing, give the conductor a look. For another thing, hope the concertmaster is alert. Watch Thursday’s cascading violin exchanges and fixes on video from Seattle’s Benaroya Hall.– Seattle Times
  
  Read more

• Filipino Youth Are Using Music To Pressure The Country’s Regime

  08-11-2021 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One singer: “We have the power to uplift someone. … It’s something I hope fellow musicians realize, appreciate and that they don’t forget, even if we’re in a very challenging time. The worst thing that can happen is for you to stop.”– Los Angeles Times
  
  Read more

• Protests Over Chappelle’s Transphobia May Not Harm Netflix’s Bottom Line

  08-11-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  But that’s not the point: “Pushing media companies to live up to their ideals about inclusion and equality is a long game, requiring sustained pressure and constant scrutiny — a much different notion than so-called ‘cancel culture.'”- NPR
  
  Read more

• There’s A New Film Musical About A Musical About The Process of Writing A Musical

  08-11-2021 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wait, what? Yes. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, it involves Lin-Manuel Miranda. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Just because: James Earl Jones reads from Othello at the White House

  08-11-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  James Earl Jones reads an excerpt from Shakespeare’s Othello at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009:(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
  
  Read more

• A Row Over A Potentially Antisemitic Name At The Royal Court Theatre

  08-11-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Playwright Al Smith says he didn’t mean one of his characters – a zillionaire Silicon Valley bro meant to represent Elon Musk – named “Hershel Fink” to read as Jewish, but after protests, Britain’s Royal Court theatre has changed the name. – The Observer (UK)
  
  Read more

• Show me the happy: art, theatre and music that celebrates Black joy

  08-11-2021 11:00
  
  From lovers at Pride to side-splitting comedy to a rallying rap, our critics rejoice in a variety of joyful Black artBlack joy is, to me, ubiquitous and everyday, not rarefied or anomalous as the term itself may sometimes imply. It simply is, in spite of a lot and despite a media landscape that often suggests otherwise. This is why I will forever sing the praises of Michaela Coel’s 2015 series Chewing Gum, a show synonymous with Black joy not just because of its hilarity, but its ability t
  
  Read more

• A different perspective: the changing status of Black British art

  08-11-2021 10:00
  
  Recent hit exhibitions have stoked interest in a range of UK artists, shining a light on overlooked works and movementsWhen asked about Black British art in 1988, the curator and historian Eddie Chambers said that its function “was to confront the white establishment for its racism, as much as to address the Black community in its struggle for human equality”. At the time of going to press with my book on the history of Black British art, more than 30 years later, I would assert that
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!