Here’s an action list from the museum in Rio de Janeiro.
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Film (Review) Industry Massively Underemploys Women Of Color As Critics
The numbers, from a study by Dr. Stacy L. Smith of USC Annenberg, don’t lie. “Not only are they under-represented, but they are also denied the chance to review major film releases, the report released on Friday has found. White male critics outnumber female critics from under-represented racial and ethnic backgrounds by 31 to 1.”
Sonny Rollins At 88
The jazz saxophonist’s creativity is unmatched – and here’s the music to prove it.
Taking Charge Of Your Career By Playing Lizzie Borden Is A Bold Move
And Chloë Sevigny is making that move. But “will we ever allow her to be known first as an actress and second as a downtown personality — the epitome of cool”?
Hundreds Of Artists Demand More Gender Equity At Photography Festival In France
The writers of a letter say that Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival director Sam Stourdzé has to take real action. This year’s numbers are damning: 12 men and three women, but that’s not all: “Throughout the world female artists who have been trained in the best art schools constitute more than 60% of the graduates. Yet, they receive less support, pay, and rewards, and represent barely 20% of the artists exhibited in France.”
Beethoven’s Teenage Buddy Anton Reicha Finally Gets His Own Spotlight
Reicha, a theorist and composer who taught at the Paris Conservatory – and influenced Berlioz, Liszt, Franck, Gounod – was a quirky, unconventional thinker whose theories presaged Ives and Bartok. “Reicha was driven by a desire to bring the same structure and logic to music education that he saw in other sciences.”
What’s The Deal With Superhero Hair?
Women superheroes, that is, with their heavily styled, beautifully flowing tresses (Thor has long hair too – but he pulls it back when he fights). “Something happens when women become superheroes in earnest, as though it’s impossible to deify them without the hallmark of traditional femininity, the comic equivalent of Breck Girls.”
Mexico Has A Booming Theatre Scene, A New Theatre Awards Show – And A Flood Of Foreign Actors
Almost all of the leads in Les Mis are from other countries, and that’s not unusual for productions in Mexico. But there’s more: “The fact that the foreign actors from Argentina, Brazil and Spain are generally taller and more fair-skinned than the Mexican actors also means they fit the conventional look of a leading role, especially when the production is exported from the United States or Europe.”
What Needlework Gave To Novelist Kate Atkinson
Atkinson says that doing needlework, even when she was young,”revealed something to me — the deep pleasure of creation, of taking disparate ingredients and transforming them into something else, something better. And something beautiful (in the eye of the beholder, anyway).”
BBC Show Pays Its Woman Host A Fraction Of What It Paid The Man She Took Over From
That’s right – and the woman is Sandi Toksvig, who says that she gets 40 percent … excuse us, FORTY PERCENT … of what Stephen Fry was paid to host the show QI. “Toksvig said … ‘the issues with equal pay and the gender pay gap cut right across the media and all industries and all areas of life.'”