“I’m still in suspense. Where’s the smoking gun? I keep thinking that someone or something else was betrayed and no one has noticed. I know this sounds stupid, but I gotta ask: Did Mike Daisey act alone? For such a big betrayal he must have had accomplices, right? I mean people helped him put this piece on. Did they commission him? They certainly encouraged the guy.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Making Art In Relative Isolation – And Putting It Everywhere
“Even in stable times life can be hard for artists in West Africa. Not that art ever stops being made. Cities like Abidjan, Dakar in Senegal, and Bamako in Mali are saturated in it. Murals cover public walls and the sides of trucks and buses. Pottery, metalwork and weaving, in styles new and old, fill open-air markets. Portraits of jazzy beauties, Sufi saints and culture heroes (Che, Mandela, Obama, Madonna) are for sale everywhere.”
Editing (British) Vogue: Not All About the Clothes
Alexandra Shulman hasn’t had a movie (or two) made about her, like her U.S. counterpart Anna Wintour, and she’s not worried about being a fashion leader in her personal life. “The way I dress could be political, but it’s not. I made a decision very early on that editing Vogue couldn’t be about what I wore. I didn’t want to set myself up to be something that I couldn’t deliver.”
No Black Girls. What’s Up WIth That?
“The problem I have with [Lena] Dunham is that the vision of New York City she’s offering us in 2012 – like Sex and the City in 1998 and for that matter Friends in 1994 – is almost entirely devoid of the people who make up the large majority of New Yorkers, and have for some time now: Latinos, Asians and blacks.”
Joss Whedon, Creator Of Buffy And Firefly, Is (Finally) On A Roll Again
Whedon has two Hollywood movies hitting theatres now and in coming weeks, and one of them is the biggest sequel of the summer – The Avengers. How did he suddenly go from T.V. series genre guy to Hollywoodland? (Hint: It wasn’t so sudden.)
Archery’s Time To Shine (Onscreen, And Thus In Life)
Thanks to The Hunger Games, not to mention HBO’s Game of Thrones and the upcoming Brave, archery’s cool again – extremely cool. Plus, says a Walking Dead cast member, “Shooting doesn’t attract zombies.”
Controversial University President (Probably) Heads To The Field Museum
The Field Museum apparently needs “a gentleman with elbows” as its president, according to one member of the board that is likely to offer the job to former University of Oregon president Richard Lariviere. Lariviere’s reputation as a change agent – who angered the Oregon University System’s governing board enough that they fired him in the middle of this academic year – doesn’t worry the Field Museum’s board.
Faculty Member Rips Down Art Student’s Photo
A Muslim-Canadian art student finds her photo of a veiled woman holding a colorful bra ripped off the wall and held hostage by a faculty member.
British Police Recover Stolen Artifacts
After thieves chiseled through a wall at Durham University to steal Chinese artifacts worth more than $3 million, police immediately named two suspects, but they just announced that the stolen items have been recovered.
The Problem Of The Stein Siblings, And The Problem Of Modernism
Leo Stein might have had questionable artistic taste from time to time, but Gertrude Stein’s apparent collaboration during WWII give many of us pause.