The play is Thomas and Sally, which is about the teenage Sally Hemings, and her owner and the father of her children, Thomas Jefferson. The play’s advertising earned it plenty of protest, and that was before it opened (it closed Oct. 29). It’s garnered much protest, including “an open letter … released by 13 black artists, calling for a public apology from MTC. The letter has received over 1,600 signatures, among them playwrights Dominique Morisseau and Lauren Gunderson (both of whom have affiliations with MTC).”
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Why A ‘Colorblind’ Suburb In The 1990s Might Be The Best Place To Set A Novel About Race
Celeste Ng, author of the wildly bestselling novel Little Fires Everywhere, says that most people in the U.S. now understand race differently than they did in the 1990s, which makes that decade a great setting for her book. “The decade was, in general, one of optimism; it was ‘placid … a little self-satisfied.'”
Kevin Spacey Suspended From ‘House Of Cards’ During Ongoing Investigation
As information continues to emerge, and after Netflix suspended its relationship with the studio while Spacey was involved in the program, “the studio behind the hit television series House of Cards has suspended Kevin Spacey while it investigates what it called ‘serious allegations’ concerning the actor’s behavior on set.”
The Secret To ‘Overnight’ Success Is Decades Of Work
How did new MacArthur “genius grant” winner Viet Thanh Nguyen get where he is now? “A mere 18 months ago, Nguyen was still unknown as a fiction writer. His career began quickly, and seemingly out of nowhere, in April 2015 — when a rave on the cover of The New York Times Book Review made his debut novel, The Sympathizer, one of the year’s most-discussed books.”
German Artist Hito Steyerl Is The First Woman To Top Art Power List
The list of the top 100 most powerful in the art world is put out by ArtReview, whose international editor said, “The way she works, not just her actual work but the way she runs her studio, is an influence and an inspiration to many younger artists. She looks to disrupt power networks that you can probably see run through the Power 100 and run though the art world.”
The Power Of Words In A Bilingual MFA Program
In one seminar at The University of Texas at El Paso’s MFA program, where at least 12 of the 20 students are native Spanish speakers, “Many of the students around the table comment in Spanish, sometimes switching languages to highlight a point for the native English speakers. Ms. Cote-Botero hangs back, periodically interjecting in either language. A student from Mexico City consults another from Las Vegas on a passage in Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby, occasionally glancing at Google Translate on a laptop.”
Director Dee Rees Used Her Grandmother’s Journal As Inspiration For The New Movie ‘Mudbound’
The journal that Ernestine Smith kept in the mid-1900s, including the WWII years, inspired Rees and her screenwriter, thanks to its many details. “In its hundreds of pages is everything from family photos of their slave ancestors to the names, ranks and medals of relatives who fought in wars, to floorplans of Smith’s childhood homes.”
The Invention And Reinvention, And Re-Reinvention, Of Prince (By The Artist Himself)
The man knew how to create a look, a sound, a … well, everything: “With each album he released, Prince transformed his visual identity. The pompadoured rock god of Purple Rain, for example, was followed by the beatific flower child of Around the World in a Day and the louche sensualist of Parade. Each record carefully maintained its own distinctive color scheme, most obviously with Purple Rain, but also with the peach-and-black palette of Sign o’ the Times and the black, white and red of Lovesexy.”
Cuba’s National Dance May Be Disappearing From The Island, But Not From Mexico [VIDEO]
Danzon began a long decline on Cuba after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, but the dance is kept alive, and even revived further, in the public squares of Mexico.
What’s Up With Predatory Men Like Terry Richardson Hiding Behind ‘Art’?
What in the WORLD, every magazine that ever bought into this: “Richardson’s aesthetic has been described as ‘sleaze fashion.’ His photos feature nudity, sexual innuendo and not-so-inventive uses of popsicles. The photographer, a wiry 52-year-old who’s often seen in thickly rimmed hipster glasses and flannel shirts, leans into his ‘pervy’ reputation, projecting a certain male fantasy of a nerd-turned-horndog.”