Arts news

• Ireland’s Black Gay Population Finds A Voice

  11-08-2024 22:00 via irishtimes.com
  
  Zainab Boldale is a journalist and TV presenter, who “has already hit several impressive career milestones in her 27 years, [and] her first young adult novel will be published this month.” – Irish Times
  
  Read more

• The Cellist Of Auschwitz

  11-08-2024 21:30 via newyorker.com
  
  She played in the orchestra, somehow survived, and later helped found the English Chamber Orchestra. And at nearly 100 years old, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch has forgotten nothing. – The New Yorker
  
  Read more

• The Emmys Finally Nominate The Right Writers

  11-08-2024 21:00 via vulture.com
  
  “The writers’ branch of the TV Academy isn’t the general public, and it’s reasonable to wish they’d be more discerning in their choices. This year, the comedy writers actually did just that.” – Vulture
  
  Read more

• Horror Movies Need More Than Just Vibes

  11-08-2024 20:30 via theverge.com
  
  “This summer’s three biggest relatively high-brow, low-budget horror films — Maxxxine, Longlegs, and Cuckoo — represent a move toward big moods. … A horror movie doesn’t have to be smart to be enjoyable, but is it unfair to ask them to at least not be so dim?” – The Verge
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Churchill Loved Monet’s Work, Which Kept His Spirits Up During A Post-War Political Slump

  11-08-2024 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Churchill was not one to enjoy being out of power, and perhaps abandoned the Conservative Party leadership behind the scenes. But his “love of painting, both as a hobby and a fan, remained a sustaining pleasure.” – The Observer (UK)
  
  Read more

• Iowa Law Banning Books With Sexual Content Goes Back Into Effect

  11-08-2024 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The law, which will be appealed again, “bans any titles that describe sexual acts from K-12 schools, with the exception of religious texts. The law also limits instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity before seventh grade.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Banksy Confirms A Seventh Piece After His Sixth Is Removed, Supposedly For Safety Reasons

  11-08-2024 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  London police and security firms have no idea what to do with Banksy artworks (read about what happened to the sixth piece) – which may be why the seventh piece is piranhas on a police call box. – The Guardian (UK)
  
  Read more

• Ella Baron on Banksy’s animals appearing as the UK riots subside – cartoon

  11-08-2024 18:46
  Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Cable TV? Never Heard Of Her

  11-08-2024 18:30 via axios.com
  Other than live sports rights, which may keep around 50 million people subscribed, cable certainly looks cooked. – Axios
  
  Read more

• As The Olympics Showed, Women Can Break

  11-08-2024 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Some observers view breaking’s evolution as most apparent in the development of its female athletes, a far cry from the early days when male gatekeepers sidelined women who wanted to throw down.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Artists And Activists Both Have A Purpose, But Not The Same One

  11-08-2024 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “We seem to be torn between two approaches to the role of the arts in American life — whether we need a narrowly political approach at times of crisis, or whether we have faith in the chaotic, democratic possibilities of unrestrained speech and art.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Three things with Kate Ceberano: ‘I’ve never seen one like it for sale … I should probably patent it’

  11-08-2024 17:00
  In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the singer tell us about the instrument she wears as a second skin – and a portrait that’s ‘too strong’ for the dining roomRead more Three Things interviewsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailKate Ceberano is Australian music royalty. In a 40-year career she has released no fewer than 30 albums, including her smash 1989 solo debut, Brave. She has played stages big and small around the world and is gearin
  
  Read more

• AI Music Production Is Getting Easier, But Is It Getting Better?

  11-08-2024 17:00 via vox.com
  
  “Music appears so much earlier in human history than money, let alone the music industry. We’ve found all sorts of other reasons to make music anyway.” – Vox
  
  Read more

• A Remodel Gets The University Of Texas’ Art Museum Back In The Thick Of Campus – And The Art World

  11-08-2024 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  A new director came in 2011, and has “since helped shape a museum that stands out on campus, in the city, and in the art world.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Despite Huge Cash Infusion, Australia’s Most Prestigious Arts Festival Loses Money

  11-08-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  “Adelaide festival management confirmed on Friday it will post a deficit, just a week after the unexpected departure of its artistic director.” The good part? They say the loss was due to free events – and the festival has enough in reserves to make it up. – The Guardian (UK)
  
  Read more

• The Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s Dancers Joined A Union – And Then The Organization Fired Them All

  11-08-2024 15:30 via msn.com
  The most recent post on DBDT’s Instagram is an audition call. “All of it comes after [the union] filed unfair labor practice charges last weekend against DBDT, Dallas’ oldest continuously operating professional dance company.” – Dallas Morning News (MSN)
  
  Read more

• The Knockdown, Drag Out War For Laughs On Streaming

  11-08-2024 15:00 via msn.com
  “Before the rash of streamers elbowed in, the landscape had been dominated by HBO and, later, by Comedy Central.” Then Netflix opened its bankbook. – The Hollywood Reporter (MSN)
  
  Read more

• The Chicago Artist Who Believes Art Can Help Communities, And Individual Artists, Heal

  11-08-2024 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  For vanessa german, “one of the threads that connects her varied interests is a belief that art can restore our capacities to love ourselves and our communities — but only after we confront traumas and injustices.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• The Voynich Manuscript Is A 500-Year-Old Mystery

  11-08-2024 14:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Why riddle a puzzle? And yet that’s what the Voynich did, over and over again. The moment you felt you were getting somewhere, it coiled in on itself, retreating from your grasp, into another disguise.” – The Atlantic
  
  Read more

• The Paris Olympics’ Hostile Architecture Is Just Another Way That Cities Hate Unhoused Folks

  11-08-2024 13:30 via wired.com
  
  And Paris isn’t trying to hide it. “’I haven’t seen anything quite like this,’ says Jules Boykoff, a professor and former professional soccer player who studies the impact of the Olympics on marginalized communities. ’Typically, hostile architecture is more subtle.’” – Wired
  
  Read more

• Edinburgh art festival 2024 review – from pure joy to war-torn desolation

  11-08-2024 13:00
  
  Various venues, Edinburgh
  Ghana’s El Anatsui’s exquisite metal masterpieces sing of tragedy, humanity and hope; compatriot Ibrahim Mahama digs deep into colonial labour; and Ukrainian photography bears witness in the festival’s most urgent showThe great, dark quadrangle of the University of Edinburgh glows with light. It comes from a colossal sheet of what appears to be fabric hung between classical columns. Fields of cream, gold and rust, with sporadic blue waves and scarlet s
  
  Read more

• How gift of Monet painting brightened demoralised Churchill’s postwar years

  11-08-2024 12:00
  
  Generous present for former PM will feature in a landmark exhibition of the artist’s London masterpiecesFinding yourself in opposition in the House of Commons can be uncomfortable for those who once led the nation, especially for someone also credited with a vital military victory. So it was for Winston Churchill. But in 1949 he was consoled with the extraordinary gift of a French impressionist masterpiece: Claude Monet’s depiction of the Palace of Westminster, wreathed in heavy mist
  
  Read more

• 10 of Europe’s best sculpture parks and open-air galleries

  11-08-2024 12:00
  
  From Rodin and Moore in the Netherlands to an underwater sculpture forest in Cyprus and a gallery on the Berlin WallMore than 200 works in granite, bronze and wrought iron by Gustav Vigeland, from avant garde installations to the vast Monolith. Free to enter and open every day, it’s a great spot for a picnic, with an adjoining museum if the weather is cold. Stay at the elegant Saga Hotel.Doubles from £102 B&B, sagahoteloslo.com; vigeland.museum.no Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• The big picture: sun worship in Sicily with Pia Riverola

  11-08-2024 08:00
  
  The Spanish photographer’s new book captures the transformative power of sunshine on a beach beloved by Hemingway, Wilde and GoethePia Riverola took this picture at Mazzarò Bay, near Taormina in Sicily in 2022. It is included in a book of her photographs, Días, which is something like the perfect Instagram holiday album, a series of sunlight-drenched, colour-saturated details from different personal paradises across the world.Riverola is not the first artist to be beguiled by
  
  Read more

• Banksy’s billboard cat removed as meaning of his London animals revealed

  11-08-2024 00:33
  
  Exclusive: secretive artist trying to raise a smile with pelicans, elephants, monkeys, wolf, goat and cat A big cat by Banksy appeared briefly, ­stretching in the morning sun, on a bare advertising hoarding on Edgware Road in Cricklewood, north-west London, on Saturday. A few hours later it had gone, removed by contractors who feared it would be ripped down.The anonymous artist known as Banksy, who confirmed the image was his at lunchtime on Saturday, also promised a little more summer fun t
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!