The letter, signed by over a dozen female execs, calls Neil Portnow’s comments “spectacularly wrong” and says he is “oblivious to the vast body of work created by and with women.” The letter goes on to list statistics of gender discrepancy in the recording industry, as well as at the Grammys themselves.
Month: February 2018
How Do You Program Diversity When We Have Diverse Reactions?
Matthew van Besien: “When we step back and remember that one person’s provocation may be another person’s reality, we are also reminded that it behooves all of us to move out of the echo chamber and expose ourselves to environments where people may disagree with us.”
Meet The Choreographer Who Made The Sally-Hawkins-And-Sea-Monster Dance In ‘The Shape Of Water’
“The man behind these moves is Roberto Campanella. A former National Ballet of Canada soloist and current artistic director of the contemporary ballet troupe ProArteDanza, he’s no stranger to film sets. For the last 13 years, he’s contributed movement coordination and choreography to a variety of projects, such as the Silent Hill horror movie franchise, Hallmark’s A Nutcracker Christmas (with Sascha Radetsky) and [Shape of Water director Guillermo] del Toro’s vampire show on FX, The Strain. We spoke with Campanella about his latest collaboration.”
Today’s Bands Making It By Playing More, Smaller Markets
“If you’re only playing 10 or 12 or 15 markets, and touring is the income-generator, there’s a real temptation to play markets too often. It’s a real tough balancing act between playing often enough in the same market, or market area, and playing too much.”
The Four Tribes Of Art Collectors
“The most enjoyable part of leading the art division of a private bank is working with the great characters of the art market. In my experience, serious collectors tend to fall into one of four ‘tribes,’ each with their own behaviors, insecurities, strengths, and motivations for seeking, acquiring, and appreciating art.” Herewith, Evan Beard of Bank of America taxonomizes The Connoisseur, The Enterprising Collector, The Aesthete, and The Trophy Hunter.
A Rare John Coltrane Vinyl Recording Selling For $19,000?
A Love Supreme is widely lauded as a high water mark of the genre. The test pressing is in VG condition, exists in a generic sleeve, and has a Van Gelder Stamp on both sides of the vinyl.
How The American Indian Became A Marketing Symbol And National Mascot
From the status of Pocahontas and Squanto as quasi-mythical figures in the nation’s founding, through the use of Sitting Bull as an attraction in Buffalo Bill’s show, to the use of generic Indian figures as branding symbols for everything from cigarettes to baking powder to sports teams, Carolina Miranda looks at a “wildly complicated” history.
How To Diversify Your Museum? Here’s What Works
Whose point of view are art museums in the business of representing? As one interviewee at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) succinctly put it, if you have a diverse curatorial staff, you curate differently.
Making Theatre From, And About, Disaster And Terrorism Drills
“The point is that practice makes perfect – in theatre as in emergency situations. We rehearse for both, and ‘lockdown’ drills preparing children for the threat of active shooters are on the rise in American schools. Breach [Theatre’s] new show, The Drill, questions the effectiveness of such procedures. It asks whether playing out attacks increases rather than diminishes their potency.”
Ten Ways To Be The Most Obnoxious Possible Theatergoer
Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks offers a foolproof guide.