Will silicone putty change the injury profiles for dancers on pointe? One former dancer, now a designer in the Bay Area, thinks it can – and after she approached some elite ballerinas on Instagram, they agree.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Irish Women Are Sick Of Being Excluded From Literature, And They’re Not Going To Take It Anymore
More than 250 Irish poets and other writers have already signed a pledge not to participate in any anthologies, conferences, or festivals where women writers aren’t represented in fair quantities. What was the tipping point? “The pledge was conceived after the publication of the Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets in 2017. Covering Irish poetry from the 17th century to the present, it features essays on four women poets and 26 men, with just four female contributors.”
Making Art Out Of Big Brother
Art might be a less creepy way to deal with constant surveillance: “We assign opportunities to mark and document our existence all the time, often without knowing it. Walk down a city street, and numerous security cameras record your movements. Go online, and an invisible swarm of trackers will record your interests, your location and much more. We all know this, but most of us don’t think about it much, perhaps because it happens so inconspicuously. Artists make it their business to point out the inconspicuous, which is why some see our surveillance environment as a rich field for works about power and the erosion of privacy.”
This Woman Is Pop Music’s Secret Weapon
To quote one musician, sound engineer Laura Sisk is “a rad, funny, calm person in a field dominated by annoying, grumpy dudes.”
Top AJBlogs From The Weekend Of 01.14.18
Assailing the Sales: La Salle’s Art History Chair Says: “We Were Not Consulted”
With opposition continuing to growover La Salle University’s plan to sell 46 prime artworks from its collection through Christie’s to fund non-museum activities, Susan Dixon, chair of the Philadelphia institution’s art-history faculty, has circulated … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2018-01-12
Recent Listening: Kathrine Windfeld Big Band
Kathrine Windfeld Big Band, Latency (Stunt Records) Kathrine Winfeld’s second album further establishes the 30-year-old Dane in the vanguard of new arranger-composers and bandleaders. Her young, experienced, adventurous musicians from Denmark, Sweden … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2018-01-12
Unfit for New Year’s?
Strange thing I just realized. The Met Opera celebrated New Year’s Eve with a new production of Tosca. Made sense to me when I first heard about it. An opera people love, some grand singing, … read more
AJBlog: SandowPublished 2018-01-12
Replay: Miles Davis plays “So What”
The Miles Davis Quintet plays Davis’ “So What.” The band consists of Davis on trumpet, John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Jimmy Cobb on drums. This performance … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-01-12
Almanac: Yeats on genius and national character
“When a country produces a man of genius he is never what it wants or believes it wants; he is always unlike its idea of itself.” W.B. Yeats, The Death of Synge: Extracts from a … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-01-12
Derision for Admission Revision: Parsing the Metropolitan Museum’s New Mandatory Fees
Although I share the dismay over the Metropolitan Museum’s new admissions policy (which, nevertheless, I grudgingly acknowledge may be necessary), I’ve been equally unsettled by the misconceptions and misinformation promulgated by many of the pundits … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2018-01-11
Making Poets – And Their Poetry – Accessible 24/7
After he got sober, poet Kaveh Akbar wanted to fill his world with something that wasn’t about narcotics – and that something was creating a poetry site where he posts deep, wide-ranging interviews with poets every other week. “Akbar jokes that if you’ve read a dozen DiveDapper interviews, you’ve spent an hour with a dozen different poets — and you’ve actually spent 12 hours with him too.”
Male Models Say They Were Sexually Abused By Photographers
Photographers Bruce Weber (Calvin Klein, Abercrombie & Fitch) and Mario Testino (the British royal family, Vogue) are accused by numerous models of coercive sexual touch and much more. “Those who said they were on the receiving end of unwanted attention felt the choice was clear: acquiesce and be rewarded with lucrative ad campaign work, or reject the approach and risk hobbling, or destroying, a career. Many said they still would not speak publicly.”
The Pronunciation Battles Of Britain
From a BBC presenter: “Listeners didn’t just say they ‘disliked’ something. They used the most emotive words they could think of. They were ‘horrified’, ‘appalled’, ‘dumbfounded’, ‘aghast’, ‘outraged’, when they heard something they didn’t like. Why do people get especially passionate about pronunciation, using language that we might think more appropriate as a reaction to a terrorist attack than to an intruded ‘r’ (as in ‘law(r) and order’)?”
Kynaston McShine, Who Shaped What We Think Of As Contemporary Art, Has Died At 82
McShine, who organized a show that defined – and uplifted – Minimalism, and whose 1970 show “Information” at the Museum of Modern Art “set out to disturb the artistic and political status quo,” was a distinctive figure in the art world. “Especially in the 1980s and ’90s, Mr. McShine exercised a great deal of influence on what the Modern acquired in the way of postwar and more recent art, and applied a keen eye to its installation in the permanent-collection galleries.”
Musicals Are Popular, But That Doesn’t Make Them Bad Art
Duh? And yet, ugh: “The notion that musicals are somehow a lower form of art seems to be felt at the very highest echelons of the industry itself – even at Equity, it seems, which recently approached its members with a survey that approached three categories differently: one for performers in musical theatre, one for actors in plays and one for stage management.”