“‘The media chessboard is moving more this year than it has in the past decade,’ said Richard Greenfield, a media analyst with the brokerage firm BTIG. ‘You’re seeing major shifts. Everyone is jockeying for position.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Race (And Racism, And Power) Causes Controversy, And An Art Collective Withdrawal, At The Whitney Biennial
White artist Joe Scanlon “has for years showcased the life and art of ‘Donelle Woolford,’ a black female Yale graduate and artist, even hiring black female collaborators to portray her.” Artists’ collective YAMS says that’s not OK, and pulls its own work in response.
Patrick Stewart Talks About Star Trek, X-Men, Godot, Love, Ian McKellen … And More
“Actors, we have this thing called a ‘sense memory’ which we draw on for particularly emotional moments. We have these things stored away in a vault and we can draw them out when we need to.”
Get Those Women Artists Out Of The Basement
“The Advancing Women Artists Foundation estimates that 1,500 works by women are currently stored in Florence’s various deposits, most of which have not been on public view for centuries.”
At These Theatre Performances, You’re Supposed To Fall Asleep
“Eager audiences expect to dance, dine, drink and exchange secrets and titillation with performers, sometimes for hours at a time. Now a new breed of experience seeks to stretch that artistic dynamic further, drawing spectators not just for lively participation but also to share their REM cycles and reveries.”
If We Talked About Architecture Like We Talk About Writing
“I have a building idea for you; it’s totally fully formed in my mind already, but I just don’t have the time to build it myself. Can I tell you about it for your next building?”
Take Your Google Glass To This Opera
“How to give mobile audiences the supertitle translations to which they have become accustomed?” Answer: Wearable tech – obviously.
Philip Roth Is Really Retiring From Public Life, And Here Comes His Last Interview
“Roth has never seemed so relaxed or content. Usually, a cocktail of vanity, optimism, and defiance, spiked with raw economic necessity, keeps old writers in the game long after they should have bowed out. Roth has beaten the odds.”
So, Does Godot Ever Show? And How Many Kids Do Romeo And Juliet Have?
“There had been no curtain call but the thing that really fascinated me: if they thought it might be over, they can’t have known what happens at the end of the play. Did they think Romeo and Juliet had a happy ending?”
Who Didn’t Make Jonathan Safran Foer’s List Of Writers For Chipotle’s Cups And Bags?
“Not Pulitzer Prize-winning Junot Diaz, who also won a James Beard award for one of the finest pieces of food writing I’ve ever read. Not the doña of Chicano literature, Sandra Cisneros. Not best-selling author Luis Alberto Urrea. Not Tex-Mex loco Dagoberto Gilb. Not any other number of Latino authors who could easily contribute a story or two that would be appicable a Mexican-food chain. Judd Apatow made the list–but not one Latino.”