“The boards of all these organizations are receiving contradictory messages. … On one hand, they’re being told, ‘You have to raise more private money.’ On the other, they’re being told, ‘You need to diversify and elect people who may or may not be able to raise that money.'”
Month: July 2016
A Chicago Theatre Announces A Lin-Manuel Miranda Musical Cast Dominated By White Actors
“There is no viable excuse for this kind of whitewashing anymore, least of all — in a city as diverse as Chicago — the ‘not enough actors’ excuse.”
The AIDS Years Saw Artists Produce Prodigiously, But Museums Have Been Decades Slow To Respond
“Art was very much in the picture, because artists were hard hit by the epidemic, but also because art is (or can be) strategically useful. It can broadcast or insinuate messages into the larger culture, embody complex truths, absorb fear, preserve memory.”
A Musician Who Found Wild Success In Her 40s – And Cancer Soon After
“While major labels repeatedly shunned the singer as over the hill and ‘too dark,’ she finally found a perfect partner, and a breakthrough, via the fledgling indie Daptone Records, which specializes in reanimating the vintage sounds of soul, funk and Latin music”
Harry Potter Fans Swarm Bookstores Again For A Midnight Release Of … A Play Script?
Yes, that’s right: “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” copies flooded bookstores like it was 2007, and millions of fans across the world lined up for their pre-ordered copy of the play script.
How A Dancer Burned Up The Ranks In Canada
“Imagine the most dashing and magnanimous princes of 19th-century literature and you’ll conjure an idea of his magnetic presence as a performer.”
What’s The World’s Responsibility When Languages Disappear?
“While some languages survive by transplanting their speakers to more hospitable locations—New York City is especially fertile, hosting communities who languages have effectively become extinct in their places of origin—others don’t have the option of finding a home elsewhere.”
How ‘Hamilton’ Has Affected This Presidential Campaign Season
“In Mrs. Clinton’s speech, she fitted her opponent with an absurd crown to cast him as her show’s erratic, vain and autocratic King George.”
Museums Plus Activist Art Equals What, Exactly
Elizabeth Sackler: “This is a problem among museums because art is intrinsically a form of social activism. What would we give, [Holland Carter] asks, to have a museum that integrated its art and its history with its people and its morals? My response is that we don’t have to give a king’s ransom for that. We have that at the Brooklyn Museum.”
Asian American Actors Are Not Into Matt Damon In A Movie About The Great Wall Of China
“Constance Wu, a star of the comedy show Fresh off the Boat, posted a statement on Twitter that lambasted the ‘racist myth that [only a] white man can save the world.'”