It all started when a Georgia Tech arts exec (yes, they have one!) saw how uncomfortable undergrads at a career fair looked in business suits – and invited a Brooklyn drag king to help them walk the walk.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Ta-Nehisi Coates On Writing A Black Comic-Book Superhero
“How much of this [success] is the movie? How much of this is [Black] Panther’s improved profile right now? How much of this is Between the World and Me? I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. What I want people to feel ultimately is that this is part of the entire oeuvre that I put together. I don’t want it to be ‘Ta-Nehisi just took a break and did comics.’ It is not a break for me.”
Even Viola Davis’s Oscar Acceptance Speech Has Become Fodder For The Culture Wars
Gee, it seemed like most of us loved her speech because it transcended politics. But one sentence – one word, really – gave the right-wing internet the target it wanted. Spencer Kornhaber reads the attacks so we don’t have to.
Holland Cotter’s Suggestions For Fixing The Met Museum
“What could revive it? Solvency would help, although I, who can’t balance a checkbook, can say nothing useful on that subject. What I can talk about is art, and how a museum can make people care about it. If historical art is now a hard sell, and it is, learn to sell it hard.”
Three Reasons To Abolish the NEA – And Why They’re Wrong
“The NEA has been a perennial target for fiscal conservatives ever since it was launched in 1965. (Which, in perversely good news, means we already know how to put up a good fight.) But why is the NEA so often on the chopping block?” Dance Magazine editor-in-chief Jennifer Stahl recaps the choppers’ top three arguments and answers each one.
How Monet Became The Jeff Koons Of His Day: Impressionism As Financial Asset
Well, okay, Monet did all his own painting. But by his final years, he had become the world’s most expensive living artist – and his work was already viewed by some as a solid investment. Art historian Ross King recounts how American wealth, social aspiration, and showmanship (art auctions as theatrical events!) made Water Lilies more valuable than bullion.
The Out-Of-The-Way City In Northern England That Churns Out Ballet Stars
The Skelton Hooper School of Dance in Hull has produced several generations of leading dancers – not least Kevin O’Hare, now director of the Royal Ballet, who’s taking the company to the city for the first time in 30 years.
Ballet Dancers In The Boxing Gym
“Three years ago, the St. Paul Ballet moved to a new studio next door to the Element Boxing Gym. The water fountain was in the gym, so dancers went there to fill their water bottles.” Now the dancers and boxers are training each other.
Jazz Pianist Horace Parlan Dead At 86
“[He] overcame the limited use of his right hand to develop a distinctive punchy style that made him a stalwart of the hard-bop movement of the 1950s and 1960s and a notable collaborator with such stars as Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.01.17
The Met: What Happens Next, Part One
Tom Campbell’s forced resignation from the top post at the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday was both expected and shocking at the same time. Given the museum’s financial woes – most of which Campbell is responsible for – and internal morale, … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-03-01