Really? Well, if we must have more of this family, first of all, get rid of the former titular character: “Roseanne has to die for artistic reasons. If the character’s separation from the show is anything but permanent — no going off to rehab or to visit a faraway relative — it’ll be a distraction.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Vandalism Vs. Art Debate Flares Up In England After Three Taggers Are Killed By A Train
A former Transport for London board member tweeted that the young men were “common scum and criminals,” while “at Loughborough Junction station – the stop closest to where the three died – graffiti writers were among the mourners who have contributed to a shrine, with spray cans nestled among bouquets, and messages sprayed on the wall.”
The Grim Tradition Of Turkish Writers And Journalists Having To Publish From Behind Bars
Wow: “‘There’s a saying in Turkey: if you want to be a writer, you need to go to prison’ says PEN International board member Burhan Sönmez. ‘Everybody repeats it. It’s a good joke, but still a fact for our generation.'”
Top AJBlogs Posts For The Weekend Of 06.24.18
Weekend Listening With Jim Wilke
Now and then, Rifftides alerts readers to Jim Wilke’s Jazz Northwest, the program in which the veteran broadcaster presents his recordings of the region’s jazz artists. Jim’s long-running Sunday series has become … read more
Cultural property lawyer (and blogger) Ricardo St. Hilaire responds to Antiquities Ambiguities: Parsing the Legal Arguments in the Battle of the Getty Bronze. Ricardo St. Hilaire I’m glad you are covering this case. Cases in … read more
Richard Wilbur and Robert Lowell read and talk about their work on an undated episode of USA: Poetry, originally telecast by NET, the predecessor of PBS, in 1966: (This is the latest in a … read more
“He liked a play to have a beginning and a middle and an end; he liked to spot the crises, to recognize a craftsman at his business of constructing craftily; he like a firm ending, … read more
Grant Green, From Paris To Antibes (1969-1970) (Resonance) Grant Green, Slick! Live At Oil Can Harry’s, (Resonance) Two previously unissued Grant Green albums are giving the guitarist’s music something of a comeback. Green, … read more
Italian Judge Giacomo Gasparini‘s June 8 decision giving the laurel wreath to Team Italy in the Olympian legal contest over the Getty Bronze seems to me persuasively well-reasoned (although awkwardly worded in the Getty’s 46-page … read more
Another Chief Curator Leaves The Brooklyn Museum After A Short Tenure
What’s going on there?! “Jennifer Y. Chi, who was named chief curator and deputy director of the Brooklyn Museum in September and began her tenure there in November, is no longer at the institution.”
Shakespeareans Are Obsessed With One 1601 Performance Of ‘Richard II’ That May Have Sparked A Rebellion
Here’s the deal: The Earl of Essex and his buddies commissioned the Lord Chamberlain’s Men (you know who was in that company) to perform a play, maybe, or perhaps probably, Richard II (which concerns a monarch who was deposed), the day before they tried to rally London to support the Earl against Queen Elizabeth’s men. Whoops: “They will be accused of using the play to foment rebellion. One of them, Sir Gelly Meyrick, will be hanged, drawn, and quartered for his part in commissioning the performance.”
The Balloon Has Popped For Many Summer Comedies, And That’s Bad For The Movie Business
Last year, Girls Trip was the big success, but other comedies didn’t do well – and this year, more of the same, except without Girls Trip. Is streaming changing the landscape? Or is it action blockbusters?
Musicians In Britain Are Trying Like Heck To Ensure Fans Don’t Pay Huge Reseller Prices
And yet: “The high cost of stadium concert tours is deterring some fans from buying tickets, along with the fact that restrictive British weather and the dates of major sports fixtures mean that these large shows take place in a relatively concentrated summer period.” (Not to mention the random text messages changing people’s seats either to better seats or to way, way worse seats … thanks to “production” issues?)
Can The Berlinale Regain – And Increase – Its Status As A Film Festival With Two New Directors?
The German Culture Ministry thinks the Berlin Film Festival will become “more feminine” with a woman managing director, and also that “the festival would take on a ‘younger, more international and more adventurous’ direction under its new leadership” – Locarno Film Festival director Carlo Chatrian and movie industry executive Mariette Rissenbeek.
Art In The ‘New Black Gothic’
Think Jesmyn Ward – and Daniel Glover, and the film Get Out. “This black Gothic revival includes tropes of darkness, madness, ghosts, and isolation that combine to create unease and evoke fear and terror.”