The UK’s The Guardian asked a whole bunch of artists what they think, and the answers range across just about everything non-artists might think – and some very specific to making art in a time when public funding is drying up and artists need to stay true to themselves while also figuring out how to pay rent and eat (so, same as always, but with drones).
Author: ArtsJournal2
A Free Piano In LA’s Union Station Equals Respect, And A Crowd, For This Homeless Musician
Matthew Shaver has been playing the piano since he was 4 years old, and being homeless – or “home-free,” as he calls it – isn’t stopping him, thanks to the free piano at Union Station. “The piano, he says, “is the most positive influence in my life. … I felt accepted, I felt wanted, I felt that I was useful, that I could do something that could last.”
The World’s Longest Piano Can Be Found In Dunedin, New Zealand
What’s the difference between it and even a grand piano? A lot: “It was a gigantic experiment. If you think of a typical concert piano, of course they sound amazing. But with this piano, there is an extra level of depth and resonance again because the piano wires are more than 20 feet long,”
Agnes Varda Is 89, Still Making Movies, And Collaborating With (Relative) Youngsters
She was supposed to be co-directing Faces Places with artist JR, a 34-year-old. Here’s his take: “”At the beginning it was a little bit harder for me because she would just direct everything and I couldn’t place one word, and at some point I had to be like, ‘OK, if we’re really co-directing, I have to fight.'”
London’s Imperial War Museum Intervenes In Holocaust Memorial Planning
Really? Yes: Just weeks before the London Memorial’s design competition winner is announced, “the Imperial War Museum (IWM) is calling for the plan for an educational complex below the memorial to be reconsidered because it will compete with its own new Holocaust centre, opening in 2020, less than a mile away.”
How Did The Hogarth Shakespeare Project End Up With A Diversity Problem?
Some things work well – Margaret Atwood’s Hag Seed, Jeannette Winterson’s adaptations to the story of The Winter’s Tale (titled The Gap of Time) – but: “In a 2015 New York Times article detailing the Hogarth Shakespeare project, Alexandra Alter wrote that Winterson’s cover was, ‘a promising start to an ambitious new series from Hogarth, which has assembled an all-star roster of stylistically diverse writers to translate Shakespeare’s timeless plays into prose.’ As the series has gained more traction, it is hard not to notice the word ‘stylistically’ here.”
The Lion’s Jaw Festival Is All About Experimenting With – One Might Even Say Disrupting – Dance
And then there’s the networking of dance groups and individual dancers from across genres. “We want to try and bust open people’s ideas, … to create a container that is peer-based. We want people to say I’m a working artist and you’re a working artist and we’re going to share work.”
Is The United States In A Time Of Moral Decline?
And, if so, what can writers do about it? “When our political leaders use language not as a torch to illuminate our challenges but as a prod to stoke our fears and hatreds, we all have a duty as citizens to combat such debasement of civil discourse by exposing the contradictions between those leaders’ grandiose promises and the likely consequences of their implementation. But writers have a second responsibility: to strip away the rhetoric that shrouds in palatable justifications the underlying prejudices to which such leaders appeal and reveal what citizens are actually embracing when they support such politicians.”
Canada Is Not OK With This New Netflix Deal
Netflix paid a lot of money – but it’s not going to meet Canadian content guidelines, and it will not make promises about French-language productions, either. How do Canadians in the TV and movie production industries feel? Hm: “In Canada, we have created regulations and rules by which companies are allowed to access our Canadian people and marketplace. Netflix and the other over-the-top services are not necessarily contributing to that content creation.”
Back When Dance Halls Ruled The Social Scene Of Every Town
Between the 1920s and the 1970s, dance halls – including, perhaps especially, in Scotland – created places where women had far more freedom than they did in other areas of life.