Even genre fiction can’t make up for the dramatic decline in reading. “It’s a much more unforgiving ecosystem for authors of literary fiction today. We inevitably end up with a situation where the people best positioned to write literary fiction are those for whom making a living isn’t an imperative. That has an effect on the diversity of who is writing – we are losing voices, and we don’t want to be in that position.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Despite 11,000 People Demanding That The Met Remove This Painting, It Won’t – And Shouldn’t
Yes, this artwork can be read as problematic. Jerry Saltz acknowledges that, and then says a lot more: “Even in our rush to protect the innocent, curtail creeps, and assume the moral high ground, art can never abandon paradox. Unlike pornography, which we know it when we see it, Balthus throws us into a nether region of being unsure of what we’re seeing at all. Even if it’s only coy, that’s still not all that it is.”
Charles Dickens May Have Invented The Christmas Feast, But Many Of His Literary Food Sources Are ‘Unclean’ And Meant To Inspire Social Action
The morality of food is a battlefield now, and it was 150 years ago, when Dickens published A Christmas Carol, as well: “Dickens’s most abiding influence is his conviction that everybody has the right to sit down together and enjoy the same food. Crucially, the Cratchits’ Christmas was not part of any ecclesiastical or charitable space but enjoyed by a poor family in their own home. Dickens was challenging a culture that regarded food as necessarily exclusive. These are conflicts in a war for status and control, in which food is deployed to show that ‘you are what you eat.'”
A New Space For ‘Provocative’ Contemporary Art, Just Two Miles From Mar-A-Lago
Beth Rudin DeWoody, “who is president of the Rudin Family Foundations and on the boards of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Hammer Museum, owns more than 10,000 pieces of art, including a vast array of work that is lyrical, artisanal and playful. But she has a special fondness for the big button-pushers that other collectors of her caliber might be more inclined to eschew. ‘I think art should be provocative,’ she said.”
The Academy Awards Are Still Wide Open
Basically? “Screwiness seems destined to prevail this season.”
Producers Cancel A Planned 40-City MLK Play Tour After Allegations Against Tavis Smiley
After PBS said their internal investigation found credible evidence, “The show, ‘Death of a King,’ was canceled the same week that rehearsals began. Mr. Smiley was going to narrate the production, which was heavily drawn from his book and featured photographs and film clips from King’s life. The pianist Marcus Roberts had composed accompanying music. The tour was to begin on Jan. 15, King’s birthday, in Brooklyn.”
Do You Have Questions About Netflix’s Fairly Creepy ‘Christmas Prince’ Tweet?
Also, what even is The Christmas Prince? And is this a secret Netflix marketing plan? And really, who ARE the 53 people who watched it 18 times in 18 days?
Peter Jackson Was Ready To Cast Ashley Judd And Mira Sorvino In Lord Of The Rings, But Harvey Weinstein Blacklisted Them
The blacklist was real: “‘I recall Miramax telling us they were a nightmare to work with and we should avoid them at all costs,’ Jackson said, referencing the production company Weinstein ran with his brother Bob. As a direct result, he said, both women fell out of the running for parts in his Lord of the Rings series.”
British Pantos Change Routines This Year
Turns out that, in the wake of all of the sexual harassment accusations, at least one sketch just isn’t that funny. However: “Do you believe you are going to come to the Palladium and see Dick Whittington and not have a joke about dick? That would be a sad day I think, as you can’t get too hung up on it.”
A Magazine For Southeast Asia’s Literary Scene Strives To Produce Sharp Political Commentary – And Avoid Censorship
The Mekong Review is published out of Sydney, partly to avoid some censorship, and despite a tiny staff and a patchy delivery system, it’s doing well: “The magazine punches above its weight: Its contributors include some of the best-known authors, journalists and academics who follow the region, including Viet Thanh Nguyen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, and Emma Larkin, the pseudonym for a Bangkok-based American writer who has published several nonfiction books on Myanmar.”