The Wardian case toppled China’s tea monopoly, spread invasive plants everywhere, created the rubber plantations in Sri Lanka … and much more. And this was all because Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, an East London doctor and amateur horticulturist, “sealed a moth chrysalis and some mold in a glass jar.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Gal Godot May Not Be Wonder Woman Again If Accused Harasser Is Still Making Money From It
Her Wonder Woman was so successful last summer that the studio has changed its entire marketing plan to focus around her character. But: “Following multiple sexual misconduct and harassment allegations against producer Brett Ratner, Gadot has reportedly said that she will not return to the franchise if Ratner will continue to profit off of it. Ratner’s RatPac-Dune Entertainment had a co-financing deal with Warner Bros., one the studio elected not to renew after 2018 in light of the allegations.”
Instagram’s Visual Role In Disseminating Misinformation (During The 2016 Election, And Still Ongoing)
The platform is larger than Twitter and Snapchat combined, and propagandists find the visual appeal of memes wonderfully (and sickeningly) useful. “‘For sowing division and finding wedge issues, Instagram is an ideal visual meme broadcast factory,’ said Jonathan Albright, research director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, who examined the data.”
The Quietly Feminist Subversion Of Country Music
Says the editor of a new anthology about women whose lives were changed by the women of country, “What’s amazing about these women is the way they were phoenixes without the fire: They rose up because it was their music, their family, their way out. I think almost every woman written about has had those moments where they had to face demons as they created such deeply personal music; but they all got there.”
Developers Who Want To Build A Hotel In One Of Edinburgh’s Famous Neoclassical Buildings Hire A Former Advisor To Donald Trump
The rival plan for the building – The Old Royal High School – “aims to create a new home for one of Scotland’s best known music schools, St Mary’s.” Of course it does. And of course the developers want to “mount an aggressive defence of [their] plans.”
The Myth Of The (Male) Artistic Genius
Ugh: “A proclivity for reprehensible acts is built right into the mythos of the artistic genius — a designation rarely extended to women. This is what the historian Martin Jay calls ‘the aesthetic alibi’: The art excuses the crime. Mr. Jay writes that in the 19th century, artistic genius ‘was often construed as unbound by nonaesthetic considerations — cognitive, ethical, or whatever.’ And often the ethical lapses afforded to artists have concerned the mistreatment of women.”
To Accomplish A Less Sexist Theatre World, Start With Gender Parity In Theatre Classrooms
The problem isn’t just Shakespeare; it’s also Chekhov – and Arthur Miller, all three of whom dominate English-language theatre training and thus the classroom, and it’s partially why so many women majoring or doing grad work in performance get to act much less often than their male counterparts. “The coexistence of these phenomena — the paucity of plays by women in the classroom and the narrow selection of roles for women in production — begs the exploration of a connection. Are members of an artistic community less likely to put gender parity onstage if it is not presented to them offstage as artistically valuable?”
Author Jesmyn Ward On Writing Place And Our ‘Difficult Moment In History’
Ward, author of Savage the Bones, The Men We Reaped and the new Sing, Unburied, Sing, says that she and George Saunders (author of the Booker-winning Lincoln in the Bardo) may both be writing about the spirit world right now for similar reasons: “Many people in power are attempting to rewrite the past and the present to fit their narrative. Writing about spirits is a way to counteract some of that, because the people of the past are allowed to be present in the moment and tell their own (true) stories, and often, there is a reckoning between the living and the dead.”
A Court Has Blocked The Sale Of The Berkshire Museum’s Rockwells And Other Art
The court said that letting the sale go on would pose more of a risk than stopping it … for now. “The sale had been opposed by two groups of plaintiffs, including Rockwell’s sons, as well as the office of the Massachusetts attorney general, which said that it would violate various trusts and restrictions related to how the works must be handled. The attorney general, Maura Healey, who had been seeking additional time to examine the museum’s plan, asked the court on Friday for an injunction halting the sale.”
The Ferocious Heart Of Kim Dingle’s Paintings
Her paintings “sometimes look as if they’ve been attacked by a 6-year-old gone berserk on a sugar high” – and indeed, “for some of her installs, she will enlist the child of a friend to add the finishing touches: a crayon scrawl on the walls, piles of silly string underfoot, assorted bits of detritus.”