Author: ArtsJournal2

Cornwall, Long Neglected, Needs A Literature Of Its Own

And outsiders can’t really do it justice. “There are recent novels set in Cornwall, but they tend to be about a romanticised past (Poldark casts a long shadow) or sell a fantasy of the place to tourists, making life there sound quaint and trivial. The fantasy is damaging because, behind the veneer of Seasalt clothing and Doom Bar ale, the reality couldn’t be more different: not only is Cornwall the most remote county in England, in terms of geography and transport links, but it is also one of its poorest, with a high suicide rate to boot.”

Now The Artist Who Was Going To Whitewash A Banksy Says That Would Bring It Too Much Attention, So He Might Not

Ron English, who bought Slave Labour for $730,000, said he was going to whitewash it to protest the idea that street art can be bought and sold. That didn’t work so well: “‘My phone has not stopped ringing,’ he said, listing off the various offers and ideas that he has since fielded. Whitewash the mural at my gallery, one person said. Charge admission, someone else suggested. Do it on pay-per-view, advised a third.”

Fame Is Fickle, But This Art Show Helped Rediscover A Child Star

Whoa: “Researchers preparing for an exhibition on Victorian attitudes to childhood, called Seen and Heard, have found that Connie Gilchrist, the forgotten young musician in painter Frederic Leighton’s canvas entitled *The Music Lesson, was once the toast of England and appeared in many Christmas pantomimes in the West End of London as well as in countless burlesque shows” – oh, and she ended up as the Countess of Orkney. Not bad for a child born in a horrific Victorian slum.

Jeanine Tesori’s Musical Revolution

Tesori, who wrote the music for 2015’s Tony Award-winning Best Musical (and Best Score, not incidentally) Fun Home (oh, and 2004’s Caroline, or Change, and Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Shrek: The Musical, and, and, and), is having quite a moment. Here’s how she got to Broadway from pre-med.

The Subversive Immigrant-Focused Sphere Of Hasan Minhaj’s New Netflix Talk Show, Patriot Act

With 32 episodes ordered for the talk show, and a reach meant to extend to 200 countries, Patriot Act is momentous for U.S. talk shows – and for Netflix. “Minhaj often uses phrases such as ‘our own community,’ or refers to the audience as ‘we,’ in his segments, as if everyone in the crowd shared a brown, Muslim psyche, like himself. A glance at the studio audience on any given Wednesday — the show airs every Sunday — indicates he’s not totally off.”

From T-Shirt To Book Club To Literary Festival, And Now To Book (And Book Tour)

Glory Edim’s anthology Well-Read Black Girl got its start when she got a T-shirt with those words on it as a gift. Now she’s got a massive book club following, a book, a book tour – and the goal of bringing as many Black women writers with her as she can. “We can cherish and uplift black work and artistry across all genres in the literary space,” she says. “Also, we should be using social media and all its glory to uplift the new work that is being created.”