Violinist and Pulitzer jury member Regina Carter: “I just sat down and it was like wow. I just felt like what he had to say and how he would say it, you had to really sit down and think about it and what does it mean for me? It might mean something completely different for someone else that’s listening to it. I felt like it was his experience as a black man in America — and a lot of peoples’ story, not just his story—and just trying to figure stuff out. It’s so poetic. I felt like if you took his lyrics and put them in a book, it would be great literature.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Turner Prizewinner Who’s Using Her Fame And Fortune To Help Others Up The Ladder
Lubaina Himid won the prize in 2017 and has shows planned all over Europe this year. “All were programmed before the prize was announced, but Ms. Himid is now using her enhanced clout to request that galleries showing her work reach out to black artists living and working nearby and include them in events like talks and debates that run with the exhibitions. If curators say there are no black artists working in their region, as Ms. Himid said they often do, she provides them with names drawn from an extensive network she has built up over many years.”
A Court In Mexico Has Blocked Sales Of The Frida Kahlo Barbie Doll
Mattel’s been met with a temporary injunction after “Kahlo’s great-niece Mara de Anda Romeo argued in a Mexican court that Mattel does not have the rights to use Kahlo’s image as part of its Inspiring Women series.” The toymaker had permission from the Frida Kahlo Corporation, but not (some of) Kahlo’s family members.
When You’re One Of TV’s Rare Latina Leads, You Have To Prove Yourself In Many Arenas (Including The Climbing Wall)
Jaina Lee Ortiz is starring in a show about firefighters, so naturally, she “signed herself up for the firefighter’s Candidate Physical Abilities Test as soon as she landed the Station 19 role, running up flights of stairs in weighted gear, dragging a 165-pound dummy out of a building.” And going on climbing walls for “moving meditation,” of course.
New York Removes A Statue Of The ‘Father Of Gynecology,’ Who Experimented On Enslaved Black Women
This wasn’t a fast decision about the man who didn’t use anesthesia when he performed experimental surgeries on the women. “The removal of his 80-year-old statue comes after eight years of protests, activism and the local community collecting more than 26,000 signatures.”
When Australia Comes To U.S. Streaming, At Least One Actor Seems To Be Everywhere
Look, Australia only has about 24 million people, and not that many of them are in acting. So that means, when U.S. streaming services start bringing in the Aussie content by the bucketful, the viewing public is going to get the familiar “British actor” feeling (“What’s Snape doing as King Louis?”), except in an Australian accent.
George Eliot’s Masterpiece ‘Middlemarch’ Was Shaped, Says Novelist Jennifer Egan, By Eliot’s Unconventional Love Life
Eliot, whose non-pen-name was Mary Ann Evans, lived for decades with her partner, whose open marriage meant that when his wife had a baby with a different man, he was fine with it (and supported the baby). “Lewes’s legal wife went on to have three more children with her lover, all of whom Evans and Lewes supported (along with Lewes’s three sons) through their writing, editing and translating. Their urgent need for money was partly what prompted Lewes to encourage Evans to try her hand at writing fiction at the age of 37.” How does that life experience turn into Dorothea’s terrible mistake with Casaubon? Read on.
Changing Up The ‘History’ Part Of Art History In Museums To Mix Old, New, And Whatever Else Fits
The museum buzzword is “transhistorical,” and it’s being applied to everything from Franz Hals paintings to the Met’s big “Unfinished” exhibition from 2016. “Suzanne Sanders, an art historian in Amsterdam, who organized conferences on ‘The Transhistorical Museum’ in 2015 and 2016, calls transhistorical curating ‘the most urgent thing curators are doing in trying to reinvent the museum to create some sort of new paradigm.'”
Pushkin Was A Radical Russian Poet Whose Works Became Some Of Our Greatest Operas – And Now His Life Is One, Too
The British writer and lyricist Marita Phillips, a descendant of Pushkin’s, grew up with a large book of his fairy tales, and she’s wanted to mount an opera about him, and his tragically early death in a duel, ever since. Plus, he was quite political, and “Russian history is so violent and colourful it is easy to become interested.”
Troubled Los Angeles Gallery CB1 To Close After Artists Say They Weren’t Paid
CB1 will close when the current show closes, after claiming they were having cash-flow problems. “Those cash-flow issues are what prompted a group of artists to publish an open letter alleging that CB1 Gallery had ‘consistently failed’ to pay artists according to the terms of its contracts, wrote checks that bounced and repeatedly sold work without informing them.”