Both are all about the male gaze, says the former star and current director of English National Ballet: “Female sensitivity is different, dnd there are issues that I want to see on stage approached by women. Very often we see relationships approached from a male perspective. Like in porn, it shapes the way you look at things.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
The Bubble That Ate The Hirshhorn
“The Hirshhorn Museum’s Seasonal Inflatable Structure known as the ‘Bubble’ never got off the ground, but many who spent years debating the project say it took up all the oxygen in the room. … Debate about the project became a proxy for a larger existential debate about the museum’s core mission and its role in the art world.”
Is Netfilx About To Upend The Emmy Awards?
“Two programs created for that Internet streaming service, the drama House of Cards and the comedy Arrested Development, are leading contenders … And if they are nominated, it would be the first time that slots in the most avidly pursued categories went to programs not specifically produced for the medium of television.”
Human Emotions Explained In 60 Short Interviews
The Experts in Emotion Series (available on YouTube) FEatures “some well-known psychology popularizers and writers (such as Steven Pinker discussing emotion and violence and Dan Gilbert on happiness), as well as experts across a range of psychological disciplines. Topics vary from crying and embarrassment to sex and laughter, with quite a bit in between.”
Pentacle Dance Works’ Director On The State Of The Art
As he prepares to retire after 34 years of leading the American service/management/advocacy organization, Ivan Sygoda talks about grant-making, “choreoturgs” (dramaturgs for dance), and what he (and we) miss about the NEA of the 1970s.
California Assembly Speaker Boosts Arts Grantmaker’s (Small) Budget By 30%
The California Arts Council “will get $3 million this year from state coffers instead of the $1 million called for in the budget legislators passed in June, thanks to Assembly Speaker John Perez, who’s providing the extra money from discretionary funds under his control. … [The] agency’s budget was slashed more than 90% during a recession 10 years ago.”
New Money Bumps California Out Of Dead Last In Per Capita State Arts Grants
With the extra $2 million appropriated by the Assembly Speaker, California will be spending 18.5 cents per resident on arts grants in 2013-14 – ahead of Georgia (13 cents) and Kansas (7 cents). (Leading the pack is Minnesota, at $6.50 per resident.)
Meet Saudi Arabia’s First Female Filmmaker
“Wadjda director Haifaa al Mansour talks to Xan Brooks about being the first Saudi Arabian woman to make a feature film. Mansour directed parts of the film from a van in order to adhere to restrictions on men and women working together. She describes how her country is changing as its artists address the conservatism of their society.”
Bollywood’s Great Villain, Pran Sikand, Dead At 93
He played a variety of character roles in ore than 400 films over a 60-odd-year career, but he was best-known for the then-unprecedented complexity and humor he brought to his evil characters beginning in the late 1940s. “And although he stood only 5-foot-7, his intense eyes and majestic voice made him an intimidating antagonist to much taller actors.”
Remembering The Battle Over The Color Purple
“In 1983, [Alice] Walker became the first African-American woman to win both the Pulitzer and National Book awards for fiction, amid all hell breaking loose. What Walker has defined as ‘womanism’ caused an uproar in many corners of the African-American establishment, full of indignance at what was judged her ‘negative imagery’ of the black male.”