“Its 40-page strategic plan, titled “Here I Am,” explores stories of gay men and lesbians and their searches for identity, among them lesbian performers at Harlem blues clubs in the 1920s, young demonstrators from the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York and John Fryer, a gay psychiatrist who advocated for homosexuality to be de-listed as a mental illness in 1972.”
Month: January 2013
Those Who Don’t Learn From History …
“To my mind the one thing that would unquestionably be worth learning would be the law of unintended consequences.”
Participatory Art, With You At The Center
“There’s no insult in comparing art to a sex toy. … It does get at the raw truth of this recent urge to participate: It’s more about your body than your brain, about putting you at the center of the universal truths art strives to deliver.”
Can A Freelance Curator Change The Artistic Direction Of A Region?
“At age 42, [Yoko] Ott is one of a number of midcareer arts professionals in the Northwest deliberately setting out to make their mark on the region. These individuals are poised to take the reins from an earlier generation of artists and administrators.”
Learning About Feedback … From The Food Network
“Is our job in giving feedback to reward the excellent and punish the weak? Do I approach the giving of feedback from a failure-based standpoint, or from a commitment to be facilitative?”
Top Honors To Argo, Les Miz At The Golden Globes
“The prizes were just half the action, as the room was kept spinning by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, hosts who pulled no punches.”
Sleeping (And Bathing) With The Art In Kentucky
At the art-centered 21c, hotel guests (if they want to) can experience “the most immersive cultural experience one can imagine in the roped-off world of high-end painting and sculpture.”
Men, With Stories And (Of) Dance
“The newspaper photograph, he said, was of ‘Martha Graham, a shovel on the ground and me crying.'”
When Fiction Reads More Like Rather Compelling Fact
“Crusoe’s journal is not only a record of despair, but an answer to it. His pen, as much as his ax or his musket, becomes a tool of survival.”
More Cutbacks For The Arts In Sheffield
Museums and theatres in the Yorkshire city face a 20 percent reduction in council support. “The news comes a week after Sheffield Theatres was named regional theatre of the year by The Stage newspaper.”