ArtsJournal2
Katherine Duncan-Jones, Who Wrote Of Shakespeare As A Misogynist Boor, 81
Duncan-Jones' "Shakespeare was a thin-skinned scrooge, misogynist and unabashed social climber — 'a rather unlikable man,' she wrote," based on decades of research but...
Everything Is So Expensive Right Now
Thus, this piece about getting music, books, movies, software and more, for free - or, technically, for a large group of people paying taxes...
Brigitte Giraud Wins The Prix Goncourt
She is the thirteenth woman to win in the prize's 120-year-old history. "The prize is worth just €10 but guarantees renown and massive book...
People Actually Do Want To Wear Masks At The Theatre
At least, they do in Washington, D.C. - and the lack of a mask requirement is, many say, why they're not returning. - American...
Will People Suffer Through Ads Again Just To Pay A Little Less?
Netflix is about to find out. - BBC
Two Former MoviePass Execs Indicted For Fraud
"Theodore Farnsworth, the former CEO of parent company Helios & Matheson, and Mitchell Lowe, the former CEO of MoviePass," were charged with deceiving investors...
The Women Adapting And Changing The Scottish Play
Making Mackers modern is a way for some writers - and actors - to get more into Shakespeare's work. One actor says that now...
A Bookstore With Blood On Its Walls Opens In Time For Halloween
Or, if you like horror books, then it's also Hanukkah and Christmas and Solstice and Valentine's Day rolled up into one in Louisville, where...
Geoff Nuttall Of The St. Lawrence Quartet Has Died At 56
Nuttall, who also ran the chamber music series at the Spoleto Festival, was a violinist, "a charismatic musician who played boldly," with an "electrifying...
Climate Activists Throw Mashed Potatoes At A Monet
"People are starving, people are freezing, people are dying. We are in a climate catastrophe. And all you are afraid of is tomato soup,"...
Choreography As Group Protest
Emily Johnson's "expansive work often brings its viewer-participants into outdoor public spaces, drawing our attention to the land beneath and around us — to what...
The Secrets Of A Great Writers’ Room
According to Abbott Elementary's Brittani Nichols, writers getting to produce episodes means something important, and it keeps the writers' room bonded, on track, and...
Carmen Callil, 84, Who Founded Virago Press And Introduced Atwood To The UK
Callil "championed female writers and transformed the canon of English literature," including by bringing many women authors back into print. - The Guardian (UK)
Playwright Martyna Majok Wants To Believe In Theatre’s Magic
And her play, new to Broadway, is "about 'the precarity of life' — the way that one bad break, financial or physical or emotional,...
Moshe Safdie Said He Paid A Price For Not Being A Postmodernist
Rowan Moore: "Once, Moshe Safdie was the future. Then he wasn’t. Now, decades later, it turns out that, after all, he was." - The...
Remote Work Is Here To Stay
"The point isn’t that there’s something wrong with working from an office. It’s that there’s something right about working from home." Now, what does...
Author Alice Taylor Says Ireland Has Changed Massively, And For The Better
Even though she's famous for memoir and novels of country life, she says, "I do not miss the deference which was shown to people...
Seattle’s Alt-Weekly Says People Should ‘Power Through’ Tristan And Isolde
Why? At the Seattle Opera, "they fucking love Wagner." - The Stranger
Facebook Threatens To Block News In Canada
Proposed legislation in Canada, "the Online News Act, compels online platforms like Facebook and Google to share revenue with the publishers they aggregate their news from."...
Is Cate Blanchett’s Predatory Conductor The Villain Or The Hero?
"Watching Tár, you’re likely to be spectacularly divided about what happens to Lydia. We experience it all through her eyes, and it’s the nature...
The Art Of Cannabis Cultivation
Artist Pao Houa Her draws parallels "between the heyday of Hmong opium cultivation in Laos in the decades before the Vietnam War and the...
TikTok’s Many Singing And Dancing Users Are Addicted
But that usually doesn't translate to dollars for creators - even ones with millions of views and followers. - El País
When Streaming Fails, Merch Saves Popular Musicians
Maybe the classical world can take some notes from Billie Eilish? - The Guardian (UK)
Actor Who Fled Iran In 2008 Offers Sympathy, Solidarity To Protesters
Zar Amir Ebrahimi was a young actor when a leaked sex tape forced her to flee her country. Now, she says, "This Islamic Republic...
Salman Rushdie Has Lost Sight In One Eye, Use Of One Hand After Attack
His agent: "He had three serious wounds in his neck. One hand is incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut. And he...
