“Steckel’s paintings of naked men and women engaged in suggestive or explicit acts of sexual expression — and particularly her depictions of erections — set off a furor in 1973 when she included them in a one-woman show at the arts center at Rockland Community College in Suffern, N.Y.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Who’s In Charge Of These Gizmos, Anyway?
“What were the good old days of technology? Have we increased the work day with our efficient smart phones? I ask this as my smart phone plays music and my tablet is open with Twitter streaming.”
Writing Classical Music That Welcomes, Thanks To Hippie Parents
“”You don’t need a PhD to understand my pieces,” Jennifer Higdon says. “I work hard on making sure they communicate to everybody.”
Bookstores: More (Physically) Dangerous Than You’d Think
Time for a reality show set in a bookstore? What with distributor boxes, 5-year-olds moving chairs, random toys, tendonitis from reshelving books and the whole Hunger Games thing, bookstores aren’t exactly OSHA-approved.
Watching Mad Men, And Getting Pretty Damn Angry
For some women who lived through the era of sexism and service to men depicted on the hit show, no amount of style – and no number of Manhattans – can be enough to make up for having to think about that time period.
Dreamy Offstage, Fierce On – A Principal Dancer For The Stuttgart Ballet
Myriam Simon: “As a teenager, I moved to a new neighbourhood and just walked into the nearby ballet school (as I understood later, it was the École Supérieure de Danse du Quebec!), without knowing anything about it. It was love at first sight: I auditioned for classes before I had even seen a ballet on stage, I had no idea – but they accepted me! When I took the very first steps in a ballet studio then, I knew: This was going to be my life.”
Tonino Guerra, 92, Screenwriter For Fellini And Antonioni
“When you think of European modernist cinema, the cinema that changed the way we think of movies, that inspired the glories of American cinema of the 1970s and cinema around the world, it’s astonishing how many of those films were written by Tonino Guerra.”
Will A Final Effort Save Britain’s Wedgwood Collection?
“Unesco listed the entire Wedgwood archive as one of Britain’s top 20 cultural assets in 2011. It has condemned the threatened break-up of the collection. Prominent Royal Academicians, including artists such as Christopher Le Brun and Tracey Emin, have urged the Government to intervene.” And so it may.
Pretty Books, Small Presses Could Be The Future Of Print
“At a time when e-books are making reading practical but not very pretty–with their inflexible line-endings, clunky page-turns and limited typography–we need small presses to publish the best writing in books that are also beautiful objects.”
The Hunger Games Is A Political, Religious, Moral Commentary – Or So Everyone Says
“The Hunger Games, the teen action-adventure film that is opening to big numbers this weekend, is, without question, a parable of the Occupy Wall Street movement. It’s also a cautionary tale about Big Government. And undeniably a Christian allegory about the importance of finding Jesus. Or maybe a call for campaign-finance reform?”