“He said he wanted no posthumous publications. But on Thursday, more than over 30 years after his death, Michel Foucault had a new book, Confessions of the Flesh, published in France by Gallimard. Foucault’s unfinished investigation into the topic of sexuality in early Christian thought and practice is the fourth book in his History of Sexuality project.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
So Tamara Rojo Is Having An Affair With One Of Her Dancers – Does It Really Matter? Yes.
“It doesn’t matter what Isaac Hernández’s skill set is, he will be the dancer that got to where he is because his girlfriend is also his boss. Ms. Rojo is the AD who gave prominent roles to her boyfriend and the management at [English National Ballet] are the ones who left a publicly funded dance company open to litigation from dozens of dancers claiming discrimination or constructive dismissal because the boss is sleeping with one her dancers. Should their relationship go south, which of course never happens, …”
Is It Time For The UK To Stop Building New Museums?
“A recent government report says that Britain should stop building new museums and focus on the ones it already has. But with limited public funding available, how far can existing museums diversify and grow?” An official with Britain’s Museums Association agrees with the report, while former Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has a different idea.
London’s Serpentine Pavilion For 2018 Will Be A ‘Mexican Shadow Clock Built For The British Breeze’
“The phrase Mexican-British fusion might call to mind an ungodly mishmash of fish and chip burritos or steak and kidney tacos. But, in architectural terms, it looks like it could have intriguing results. We’ll find out this summer – in the form of the Serpentine pavilion, designed this year by young Mexican architect Frida Escobedo as a cross-cultural combination of Mexican domestic architecture with a distinctly British twist.”
Minnesota Public Radio Begins Somali-Language Service
Walking the walk in terms of serving underserved communities, MPR has beta-launched an online local-and-global-news channel for Minnesota’s 31,400 Somalis, the state’s second-largest group of foreign-born residents.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.08.18
Viklický And The JCLO In Brno
In their tour of the Czech Republic, last weekend Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra teamed with the eminent Czech pianist and composer Emil Viklický. Viklický crafted an arrangement … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2018-02-08
Teens Are Going To See Online Porn No Matter What – Can They Learn To Watch It Critically?
Reporter Maggie Jones talks to dozens of teens about what they’ve seen online and what conclusions they’ve drawn from it – and she visits a class called “Porn Literacy”, which teaches them to think about how sexuality, aggression, and consent are and aren’t depicted in porn, as well as how those depictions differ from in-the-flesh interactions.
Jacquie Jones, 52, Award-Winning Filmmaker And Advocate For Other Black Filmmakers
“As a director, Ms. Jones won a Peabody Award for the four-hour documentary 180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School. … In 2005 Ms. Jones was appointed executive director of the National Black Programming Consortium, now called Black Public Media. Her work there included moving beyond the organization’s role supporting black filmmakers. During her tenure, the consortium created an online digital media project documenting the 2005 hurricanes that devastated New Orleans and neighboring Gulf states.”
Roy Cohn And ‘Angels In America’ – More Oral History
In another excerpt from Isaac Butler’s and Dan Kois’s The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of ‘Angels in America’, Tony Kushner and various directors and actors who have worked on the show over the decades talk about the play’s most repugnant, most compelling character – in real life as in the script.
The World’s Darkest Building Has Just Gone Up At The Winter Olympics
A pavilion designed for Hyundai by architect Asif Khan has been covered with a coating of Vantablack – the world’s blackest black, which absorbs more than 99% of the light that hits its surface. (Didn’t Anish Kapoor buy exclusive rights to that?) Oliver Wainwright describes the building as “an angular black hole, … a portal to a parallel universe.” The interior, naturally, is bright white.