Basically, we have a cultural disconnect, or a potential one: “What happens when art shaped by utopian principles and intended as a civic gift to a temporary city is uprooted from its native white sands and replanted within white walls across the street from the White House, suddenly subject to the scrutiny of critics, curators and busy tourists?”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Apple Plus Beats Was Supposed To Be Magic, But What’s Happening Now?
Customers feared it, but “Beats executives likely knew this would be the case when they accepted the acquisition: that Beats would become a shadow of its former self, with its resources, talent, and ideas redistributed throughout Apple’s vast corporate village.”
This Is How You Make A Terrifying Children’s Book Into A Major Opera
You take some a woman with button eyes, a portal into another world, and a plucky heroin, and add music, of course. “Around a table, two “magic consultants” were huddled around a miniature toy theater, debating what sort of fake mice would freak audiences out the most. Eerie, discordant chords drifted from another room: A trio was practicing. ‘You’re doomed,’ they seemed to be singing.”
Britain’s Literary Prize For Writers Of Color Goes To A Collection Of Essays
And – perhaps ironically! – the book is titled after a viral blog post from 2014 by author Reni Eddo-Lodge: “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race.” The prize is for, in Britain’s terms, a BAME writer – Black, Asian, or minority ethnic. The judges said it was “a thunderclap of a book” and that it “unflinchingly confronts a country where racism is – by all indicators – at an all-time high, but there are no identifiable racists.”
As London’s Rents Keep Rising, Warnings That The City Will Lose Its Artists And Its ‘Creative Crown’
Yikes: “Anna Harding, the chief executive of Space studios, which provides premises for nearly 800 artists including three Turner prize winners, blamed rising property prices and shrinking studios for dramatically squeezing the time and space available for creative activity. Artists now face a choice between working full time to pay the rent and fitting in a few hours in their studios at weekends, or giving up entirely.”
A Longtime Cirque Du Soleil Performer Fell And Died During A Performance In Florida
“While he was performing an aerial straps number, long-time aerialist Yann Arnaud fell onto the stage, a Cirque du Soleil representative said in a statement. He was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where he died from his injuries.”
Bomb Threat Cancels A Concert In Austin, At SXSW
Austin, which has been struck by a series of handmade bombs in the last few weeks, is on edge, so when the promotion company Live Nation said it had gotten an emailed bomb threat, the police took it seriously. They “scoured the area around the Fair Market venue, where a ‘Bud Light x The Roots & Friends Jam’ showcase was scheduled for that evening, and found no threat. But Bud Light opted to cancel the event.” A suspect for the threat (but not for the other bombs) was later arrested.
The Historical Information About Racism, Anti-Catholicism, And Much More Encoded In Old Folk Songs
Oh: “‘Southern folk music’s overwhelming dominance — for all its championing by non-Southern liberals — also subtly reinforces the ‘heritage not hate’ defenses of the Confederate flag and other antebellum and pre–civil rights nostalgia,’ Josh Garrett-Davis, the Gamble assistant curator at the Autry Museum of the American West, wrote recently. This cultural rebranding began after the North withdrew its troops, and the South, in destroying the apparatus of Northern occupation, played down slavery, and played up history and states’ rights.”
Can Writers Who Wrote Beautifully While Drunk And Who Stop Drinking Still Write Well?
Ask David Foster Wallace – or Leslie Jamison: “I’d been afraid that meetings were basically lobotomies served alongside coffee-flavored water and Chips Ahoy!; afraid that even if sobriety could offer stability and sincerity and maybe even salvation, it could never be a story. But Infinite Jest knew better. It wasn’t that the novel’s brilliance survived the deadening force of sobriety. Its brilliance depended on what sobriety had wrought.”
Community Theatre Putting On Play ‘With Holocaust Themes’ Gets Hate Calls
Since the new play opened last weekend, the Footlights Theatre in Falmouth, Maine, has been getting hate calls. “I had one woman tell me, ‘I don’t want to see a play about those (expletive) Jews,” the executive artistic director says. He sent an email out to supporters: “I need people to know this is happening. … It’s not an open invitation to hate again.”