Assistants are mad as hell, and they have the law behind them now, too. “Subjected to grueling hours, low pay, few benefits or protections and the vagaries of monomaniacal bosses, assistants have largely toiled in silence because it was considered a golden ticket to advancement — but no longer.” – Los Angeles Times
Author: ArtsJournal2
From Jazz To Classical Without Losing The Beat
Myra Melford is a composer as comfortable in jazz scenes as she is composing for new music ensembles. “Call it an ‘organic approach to composition,’ which is how her one-time teacher Henry Threadgill described his process during their studies. Melford’s approach curiously also comes, albeit somewhat intuitively, from growing up in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.” – NewMusicBox
Cookbooks Go Way Beyond Recipes And Photography
Think memoir, travel, family history, history of the world. That’s what a good cookbook is. – Literary Hub
British Animation Is Making A(nother) Comeback
At least, it will if it can get some funding. “Much of the problem is financial – with huge challenges in securing funding for such labour-intensive work. And when British productions do manage to get funding, budgets invariably pale into insignificance compared with Hollywood.” – The Guardian (UK)
Buddhist Scholars Say Mindfulness Apps Are Only Increasing Our Reliance On Tech
Are all of those mindfulness apps easing our stress? Ha. Getting us more addicted to technology, more like. – Fast Company
Better Than The Golden Rule
The Golden Rule begins with imagining oneself as selfish, but try Mengzi instead. “Mengzian extension starts from the assumption that you are already concerned about nearby others, and takes the challenge to be extending that concern beyond a narrow circle.” – Aeon
So, Is This A Malevich Or Not?
Malevich lived and worked in Belorus – and “for 25 years [this painting] has been on display in the city of Hrodna, near the Polish border, with the label: Malevich?” But does Belorus finally have its own, or is it simply from his studio? – BBC
In DC, Increasing Access – And Audience, Maybe – At The Kennedy Center
What does Deborah Rutter really want to do with the expanded, busier, more national – perhaps – Kennedy Center? –The New York Times
Klaus Friedeberger, Abstract Painter Who Found Inspiration In The Australian Outback, Has Died At 97
Friedeberger was inspired by his time as a European refugee in Australia during WWII. “Whereas many abstract painters of the 60s were working on a large scale with fields of unmodulated colour that emphasised the flatness of the surface of the painting, Friedeberger eventually eschewed colour altogether. Working unfashionably on an easel, he made small, modest monochromatic paintings of abstracted forms that advanced, receded or hovered in space within the confines of a square canvas, never quite abandoning the illusion of pictorial space.” – The Guardian (UK)
What Are Theatre Reviews For?
Or, more specifically, whom are they for? “Doing it just for an audience ties criticism to weird stuff about selling a show, which I’m sort of uncomfortable with. But if critics are reviewing just for the maker, then is it really inaccessible to an audience who are maybe not so involved in theatre?” – HowlRound