Shockingly, not The Crown – though a show of the actual Queen’s 90th birthday party did win an award.
Author: ArtsJournal2
People Are Tuning Out Of TV In Droves (Maybe)
Things have changed, a lot. “After a decade of audience erosion, including double-digit declines for the vast majority of shows this season, networks have finally accepted reality: People aren’t watching the TV the way they used to, and selling commercials isn’t enough to pay the bills (and make a big profit).”
What It’s Like Being The Daughter Of Kara Walker
Octavia Bürgel: “My mother, the art world, and I function as an ever-evolving trio, and while my mother and I each require the other two to sustain, I cannot say that the art world has needed me for anything.”
Opening An Ancient Egyptian Burial Chamber, With Seventeen Mummies (And Counting)
How were the 1500-year-old mummies discovered? The site “was found last year by some Cairo University students using radar.”
Opening, For Our Political Time, The Women Surrealists’ Survival Kit
Yes, you need Leonora Carrington and all the rest of them: “The history of Surrealism and political activism is a bit messy, but for the most part they were an anti-Fascist movement whose cry for demanding freedom inspired responses from under represented voices. Among them were numerous female members who created a feminine space filled with reclaimed symbology and deconstructed mythology.”
Why Hotspur Makes Sense As A Woman In ‘Henry IV, Part I’
At the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this year, the role of Hotspur is played by Alejandra Escalante, and it works brilliantly. “She’s too much. She’s too blunt and too loud and she never stops talking. She knows what she’s worth, and she’s worked hard to prove it, but these days that isn’t enough anymore. Now everyone says she needs to be quieter, needs to be gentler, needs to not be the things – aggressive, impulsive, passionate, utterly wholly constantly sincere – that have helped her claw her way to where she is. Which Shakespeare heroine? Why, Harry Percy.”
How Did The Brahms German Requiem Become The Anthem For Our Time?
Right now, it feels like a work “with grand social and political reverberations. Yet, for its composer, the work arose from deeply personal motives.”
So KFC Commissioned A Romance Starring Colonel Sanders For Mother’s Day
And apparently the book – a branding campaign, via Nike’s ad firm Wieden + Kennedy – isn’t too terrible: “Lady Madeline Parker flees the pending oppression of a loveless marriage, taking a job in a seaside tavern under the cloak of anonymity. She soon meets Harland, a bespectacled sailor with a mysterious past.”
The Departing President Of The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences Board Is Super Done With All Of The Controversies
Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who has been president of the board during the Oscars So White years, is not seeking reelection to the board. Oh, and in other news, Netflix’s chief content officer would very much like one of the seats on the board.
Top AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 05.14.17
My Mother’s Art of Places
All my life, my mother has been showing me the power of art to create the places where we love to go, the places that stick with us, the places that create memories. She’s … read more
AJBlog: The Bright Ride Published 2017-05-14
Who pays The Ferryman? It’s complicated.
Paddy Considine and Laura Donnelly. Photo: Johan Persson The hottest new play in London has got the maximum 5-star rating from half a dozen of the national newspapers; its West End transfer was assured … read more
AJBlog: Plain English Published 2017-05-12
Ordinary heroine
In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the world premiere in New Haven of Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane. Here’s an excerpt. * * * Plays whose subjects can be summed up in one word—abortion, divorce, … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2017-05-12