The latest in The Toast’s occasional – and delightful – “Women In Art History” series:
“oh
you found us
you found us with your guitar
hey guys he found us and he brought his guitar with him”
Author: ArtsJournal2
What It Takes To Get, And To Keep, A Community Theatre Running
“‘We got caught up in our passion and just dove in,’ Mr. Bassett says. ‘We didn’t sit and crunch the numbers.'” (Hint: Crunch the numbers.)
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.02.14
The “Strange Fruit” Radio Drama
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2014-11-02
You can’t spell culture without “cult”
AJBlog: Life’s A Pitch Published 2014-11-02
Is European Arts Funding Doomed?
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2014-10-31
[ssba_hide]
David Armstrong, A Photographer Of Intimacy, Dies At 60
“Openly gay long before legal protections regarding sexual orientation were enacted in most states, Mr. Armstrong was best known for unabashed black-and-white close-ups of beautiful young men, many of whom were his lovers or objects of his desire.”
What Exactly Was The CBC’s Process Of Deciding To Fire Jian Ghomeshi?
“When he arrived at the Sunday meeting, his dismissal was not yet a foregone conclusion, one source confirmed. Had he expressed remorse, or offered to seek treatment, the CBC would have had to consider its next steps carefully. Yet Mr. Ghomeshi remained unrepentant. He was let go, and the CBC’s board of directors was told of his departure.”
The Dilemmas Of Being A Critic And A Playwright (Or A Playwright And A Critic)
“Even under the best of circumstances, critics are accused of biases and agendas. Surely that would be worse if I was pushing my own material on the groups I was covering. For the time being, the ethical thing to do seemed to be not to submit work directly to local theaters.”
Can The Death Of The Green Bay Symphony Provide A Wake-Up Call For Other Arts Groups?
“The way people consume music has changed, and classical music organizations are working to keep up with it. We have to consider what listeners have in mind when they come to a concert and what they listen to when they’re not at a concert.”
Sherman Alexie, Movie Script Doctor (Wait, Really?)
“In Hollywood, they brought me in for funny—making scenes funnier and making people more likable. It’s funny they would hire an Indian to make white people more likable!”
A Grassroots Technologist Of Electronic Music Tells All
Laurie Spiegel: “I was playing music, I was improvising, I was making stuff up, and at a certain point I wanted to learn to write things down so I wouldn’t forget them. So I started trying to teach myself to write stuff down. One of my roommates in the house that I lived in pointed out to me that they call that composing. You make things up and write them down.”
Letting Go Of The Foodie Life
“If shopping and cooking really are the most consequential, most political acts in my life, perhaps what that means is that our sense of the political has shrunk too far—shrunk so much that it fits into our recycled-hemp shopping bags. If these tiny acts of consumer choice are the most meaningful actions in our lives, perhaps we aren’t thinking and acting on a sufficiently big scale.”