“The move comes several weeks after an attack on the Dakar gallery by Muslim fundamentalists … ‘Precarious Imaging: Visibility and Media Surrounding African Queerness’ opened at Raw Material Company on 11 May, but a day later, the non-profit art centre was vandalised and the building damaged.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
The Contradictory (Anti-)Patriotism At The Heart Of ‘Saving Private Ryan’
John Biguenet reconsiders Speilberg’s D-Day movie – including its notoriously sentimental prologue and epilogue – and what it means to say about battlefield morality.
20-Year-Old Sarasota Ballet Dancer Killed In Bicycle Accident
“Pedro Pupa, a corps de ballet dancer with the Sarasota Ballet, died Wednesday night from injuries after he struck a delivery truck that police say turned in front of him while he rode his bicycle … near The Ringling museum.”
Mary Anthony, 97, Godmother Of American Modern Dance
“[She was] known since the 1940s for the lyricism and drama in her choreography but even better known as a teacher of some of American dance’s leading performers and choreographers.”
Meet Ballet’s Tallest Professional Dancer
Fabrice Calmels (6’6″) of the Joffrey: “You know, it was a disadvantage for the longest time … being so tall, a lot of the time people didn’t know what to do with me. … I couldn’t show what I was doing and who I really was as a performer because all they would see is that height.”
What Happens To The Brain During Spiritual Experiences?
“When practitioners surrender their will, activity decreases in their frontal lobes, suggesting that speech is being generated from some place other than the normal speech centers.” Welcome to the study of neurotheology.
Why People Laugh
“Laughter is universal, but we know very little about the reasons we do it. Dr. Robert Provine has been studying the social and neurological roots of laughter for 20 years, and has come to surprising conclusions about how we operate as human beings.” (video)
What Two Weeks Of Chubbygate Have Shown Us About Women In Classical Music
Anastasia Tsioulcas: “Not only have many ‘regulars’ within classical music had their say, but the conversation has also reached a mainstream audience. Outlets that usually don’t touch classical music – ABC, Time, Salon and Jezebel among them in the U.S. alone – seized on the uproar, and we’ve had more than 500 reader comments here on Deceptive Cadence. After so much discussion, I feel compelled to add a few more thoughts.”
It’s Not Just Classical Music That Has A Woman Problem
Barney Sherman: “I was more surprised than I should have been when I looked at other contemporary arts and saw how off-kilter they can be.”
The Man Who Allegedly Stole Frank Almond’s Strad Tells VICE How (He Says) It All Went Down
“His lawyer had no idea he was speaking to me, but [Salah] Salahadyn said he didn’t care. He took exception to the way I had portrayed him in the original story, and he wanted to clarify things.”