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Nicholas Hytner Is Wrong About Quotas For Theatre, And He Probably Knows It

The first season of his new company is all white men, and last week, the former director of the National Theatre got mad at those who suggested it should be more diverse – and of course the hit out at quotas. But, says one theatre scholar, Quotas are not about “compromising quality. We are not virtue signalling, ticking boxes, doing fiddly, pointless maths. We are recognizing that centuries of bias have just made it easier to see the worth in the work of white men and have given them readier access to the qualifications and awards and opportunities that serve as shorthand for skill. We are saying that since everyone says they’re committed to diversity but it still isn’t happening, maybe we need some simple rubrics to hold everyone accountable.”

Westminster Abbey Opens A Museum In A Space Closed To The Public For The Last 700 Years

The space was used for storage until, well, recently, when they took up the floorboards, only to find literally centuries worth of detritus – including many different centuries of stained glass blown in by bombs (or simple breakage).

The Persistent, Ongoing Crime Of Nazi-Looted Art

Sickeningly, the Nazi-looted art led to a boom in the global art market from 1941 onward. They stole so very, very much art to fund the war effort: “In the decade leading up to 1945, it’s estimated that the Nazis stole one-fifth of all the artworks in Europe.”

Here’s What Barry Jenkins Would Have Said In His ‘Moonlight’ Acceptance Speech At The 2017 Oscars

There was, as we all know, a famous glitch in the delivery of Moonlight‘s Best Picture Oscar, and Jenkins was so overwhelmed at the time that he didn’t get to read his speech. So at this week’s South by Southwest Festival, he read it. He added quite a bit, as well – for instance: “When I looked back at those kids, sitting in my chair … watching me make this film that’s gonna go on to win Best Picture, I see they see in me the dream I never allowed myself to have. It floored me.”

The Sackler Family – The Ones Who Gave Us OxyContin – Are Targets Of Protest At The Met

Led by photographer Nan Goldin, who was addicted to OxyContin for three years, “protesters brandished black banners with the phrases ‘Shame on Sackler’ and ‘Fund Rehab’ and hurled yellow pill bottles with white labels that read ‘OxyContin’ and ‘prescribed to you by the Sacklers’ into the wing’s reflecting pool.”

A South Korean Actor Has Died After Being Accused Of Sexual Harassment By Drama Students

Jo Min-Ki, a veteran of both stage and screen in Korea, was fired from his teaching role at Cheongju University’s drama department after accusations of rape and harassment. He was found dead just before he was due to be questioned by police. The #MeToo movement is having an impact in South Korea in general: “Jo is one of the a string of high-profile figures to have been accused of sexual misconduct in South Korea in recent weeks.”

The Artist Who Made A Space For Herself In Photography

Deborah Willis, who asked one professor “Where are all the black photographers?” in college, has had “a storied career, to say the least, and yet it’s one she almost didn’t have at all. While in college, a photography professor told her she ‘took a space from a good man’ – that she was just going to end up married and pregnant so why bother taking classes?”

Major High School Theatre Drama Erupts Into A School Board Meeting

Whew, what? The theatre teacher was fired after he made fake Facebook profiles to try to get into Facebook groups where parents – whose kids apparently weren’t even into, or in, theatre – were possibly maligning him. That came when the school was in the middle of rehearsals for As You Like It – so the teacher’s wife carried on as director. And the kids are very, verrrrrrry unhappy with their school. “This issue became all consuming. Some kids weren’t coming to school. There were arguments, and it was distracting from their learning, it was very disruptive.”

A Nun Pleads One Last Time For Katy Perry Not To Buy An Abandoned Convent, And Then Dies

“‘Katy Perry, please stop,’ [Sister Catherine Rose Holzman] said on Fox 11 in Los Angeles. Please stop trying to buy the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary’s convent, even though the nuns had gone to court to block the sale. ‘It’s not doing anyone any good,’ Holzman said, then walked into a courtroom, collapsed and died.”

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