“Five years ago, Athol Fugard, the great chronicler of South Africa’s apartheid past and its post-apartheid present, heard a surprising tale. It was about a farm laborer named Nukain Mabuza, who had spent about 15 years, in the late 1960s and ’70s, painting vivid, highly patterned designs on the boulders and stones in arid terrain of the eastern province of Mpumalanga.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Dressing Up The Brain: Wearing A Suit Changes The Way You Think
“[A team of researchers] found that wearing clothing that’s more formal than usual makes people think more broadly and holistically, rather than narrowly and about fine-grained details. In psychological parlance, wearing a suit encourages people to use abstract processing more readily than concrete processing.”
Le Corbusier – The Man, The Modernist, The Painter, The Nudist
“He redefined architecture for the 20th century, pioneered modernity, made radical urban utopias for the masses – and spent his last years nearly nude in a cabin inspired by human physiology.” (slide show)
Dancing With Your Ex In A Piece You Made Together (It Doesn’t Have To Be Awkward)
Damien Jalet: “There was definitely a question mark when suddenly we were not a couple. Would we continue to perform this? There was a moment of transition – it was tough because, with each performance, you go back to where you were in your life when you were creating it. But for [Sidi] Larbi [Cherkaoui] and I, work had been such an important part in our relationship. We felt it was beautiful to preserve that.”
We Asked Two Pro Ballet Dancers The Questions You’re Too Polite To Ask
What kind of shape are your feet in? How do you keep them in working order? Can we see your best non-ballet dance moves? What happens when you get a rip in your tights? (video)
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.30.15
Bravo: Even the Whimsy At A Few Museums Is About Art
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Too Mellifluous
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So you want to see a show?
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-04-30
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Authors Protesting Charlie Hebdo’s PEN Award Are Missing The Point: It’s Not About Islam, It’s About Courage
Laura Miller: “You can defend the right to speak without admiring the content of the speech. However, … it is the act of continuing to speak in the face of a [literally] murderous effort to silence them that the award commemorates, not the particular content of that speech.”
Read The Exchange Between PEN’s Chief Exec And A Writer Outraged At The Award To Charlie Hebdo
Glenn Greenwald has posted “the key documents giving rise to the controversy that has erupted inside PEN America over the award the group is bestowing on Charlie Hebdo” – most notably, correspondence between writer Deborah Eisenberg (who withdrew from the awards gala) and PEN Executive Director Suzanne Nossel.
Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist Says He Will No Longer Draw The Prophet Muhammad
“Muhammad ‘no longer interests me,’ Rénald Luzier, who works under the name Luz, said in an interview with the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles … ‘I’ve gotten tired of it, just as I got tired of drawing Sarkozy.'”
‘Embarrassing And Unprofessional’: Critic Says Wall Text At New Whitney Museum Willfully Misrepresents Him
An angry Christopher Knight: “Being misquoted is one thing, but being completely misrepresented in an art museum wall text is quite another – especially when something I wrote more than 20 years ago is used as a slur concocted from the direct opposite of my critical opinion.”