She mentored Common, inspired Kanye West, and won three Grammys for her own spoken word poetry. “Angelou saw hip-hop’s innate connection to the tradition of poetry. When asked whether she thought of using students’ interest in rap to lead them to poetry, she replied: ‘Absolutely.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
After Protests, The Brooklyn Museum Defends Its Hiring Of A White Curator Of African Art
Who can afford to be an art historian, or a curator? “The Brooklyn Museum job was advertised as a part-time position for a limited period. ‘It goes without saying that for many, this kind of employment is not practical.'”
Steven Bochco, Creator Of ‘Hill Street Blues’ And Perhaps Modern TV Itself, Has Died At 74
Bochco also created “LA Law” and “NYPD Blue.” His “boundary-pushing methods as a producer could make some network executives skittish. But they often deferred to him and were ultimately rewarded with strong ratings and critical kudos, a combination that was less common in the pre-Peak TV era of the 1980s and ’90s.”
Instagram Has Become A Playground For Artists Like Cindy Sherman And Damien Hirst
But what does that mean for their art – and who owns it? “Astute artists are using Instagram to connect with their fanbase in ways they couldn’t before. Earlier this year, it became clear that Damien Hirst’s people were no longer writing his Instagram posts, but rather the artist was. Suddenly it became worth following – Hirst was disarmingly explaining how he got the diamonds for his skull, why he was wrong about minimalism, and how sausages are ‘stupid.'”
Will British Musicians All Have To Wear Earplugs Onstage After A New Court Ruling?
The High Court’s ruling on musicians needing protection from noise that can cause hearing loss at work may change a few things around the orchestra. “‘It effectively says an orchestral workspace is no different from a factory,’ said Mark Pemberton, director of the Association of British Orchestras.” (And in noise terms, that may be true.)
Elizabeth Ebert, ‘Grande Dame Of Cowboy Poetry,’ Has Died At 93
The poet, who wrote for many years in obscurity, “kept small stacks of paper in every room of the farmhouse — just in case. She wrote whenever the rhymes blossomed: sometimes in the middle of the night, sometimes at the chirp of dawn, sometimes in the summer fallow tractor, where she’d draw a finger across the dusty windshield. She started with a single line, a single rhyme, and ‘then you have to fill in all this other garbage,’ she once said, with the sort of dry, self-deprecating humor that often infused her verse.”
Edie Falco Plays Tough Women On TV, But She’s The Self-Described ‘Buddhist Mom’ To Her Neighborhood
This is a fun interview with a true New York actor:
“What’s been the biggest surprise?
“Becoming a successful actress. Never in my wildest dreams. I waitressed for a gazillion years and then I’d get some little job, and either they would let me go or they would let me get my shifts back when I came back. My whole life was like that for the first 15 years in New York.”
Has Drawing Made A Return?
The British Museum is planning to offer pencils and sketchpads to those who come to the new blockbuster Rodin exhibit. “Curators hope to encourage the visiting public to look more closely at its objects, swapping a quick photograph, often uploaded onto social media, with the time it takes to sketch by hand.”
Britain Has A Problem With Dance Exams
Students aren’t supposed to have “unauthorized absences,” but what could be more authorized than students taking school-approved dance, music, theatre and other arts exams? Apparently, a lot of things. “Leaving school for a dance exam is not exceptional, it’s actually quite routine that children leave to take a dance or drama exam outside school and then come back.” But many head teachers simply don’t agree.
After An Oscar Win, A Decade Of Bad Decisions And Flops, And Now, Perhaps, A Renaissance
Cuba Gooding Jr. says he had been preparing his entire life to win an Oscar, which he did in 1997 for Jerry Maguire – but he wasn’t prepared for what to do afterwards. Some very, very bad moves, and movies, followed. “But in recent years Gooding has been clawing his way back. In 2016, he returned to global attention with the acclaimed Ryan Murphy series The People v OJ Simpson; now he’s leading a London revival of the musical Chicago, playing the male lead, lawyer Billy Flynn.”