Anna Maria Maiolino says, “Women have always been prohibited from speaking in the first person. … A woman is never the universal.” The artist’s developmental years paralleled the Brazilian military dictatorship, which lasted from 1964 to 1985. And yes, she responded: “In a photo installation from 1974 on view at both MOCA and the Hammer, she depicts herself wielding a pair of scissors, about to cut off her nose and her tongue.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Without Theatre, There Would Never Have Been An NEA
No, the “free market” does not deliver theatre to every corner of the U.S. It took the NEA to do that – and it took theatre people to agitate for an NEA in the first place. “Theatre artists and administrators from all over the U.S. knew firsthand that the absence of non-commercial funding was preventing theatre from reaching audiences who had no access to professional theatres. Theatre practitioners, critics, and leaders were determined to change that—and to put theatre into the national conversation.”
No Matter How Much Washington Heights Gentrifies, This Dominican Dance Party Keeps On Going
Even though 43 percent of New York’s Dominican population (which is, by the way more than the number of people who live in Seattle) live in the Bronx now, this club will not die: “Around the dance floor, conversations were kept brief. ‘No drugs, no trouble,’ said Enrique Acevedo, a labor organizer, shouting over the music, as he listed the club’s attributes. Had he had a little to drink? ‘A little? A lot! But I’m not driving! … A bailar! A bailar!’ he said, herding a group onto the dance floor.”
Curators Trying To Collect History As It Happens Are Pretty Busy These Days
For instance, after the nightclub shooting in Orlando, a curator and her staff “drove a van through the streets in the weeks after the shooting, collecting drawings, cards and other objects from impromptu memorials, and putting up signs explaining that the tributes were being taken to a museum. Later, when the crime scene investigators were finished, she returned and persuaded the owner of the nightclub to let her have for the collection a bullet-riddled door from the bathroom and a cabinet where people had hidden.”
The London Mayor Has Joined With Voices Calling For Diverse TV Programming Requirements
Sadiq Khan says it’s time for clear requirements, including percentages for Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) creators. “His recommendations include creating an industry-wide definition of a ‘diverse production’, meaning at least 50% of production staff, 50% of onscreen talent and 30% of senior personnel working on the production must be from BAME backgrounds.”
Progress Can – And Often Does – Cause Suffering, Says Video Artist John Akomfrah
The artist, who grew up in the shadow of London’s Battersea power station, says, “Once you become aware of the implications of climate change for future generations, it is almost as if you have to respond. But I’m not a scientist or a campaigner, I’m an artist. I’m interested in the philosophy of climate change rather than the hard science.”
Ellsworth Kelly, Louis Armstrong, And The Term – And Exhibition – ‘Blue Black’
Glenn Ligon, curator of a show at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, says, “Blue-black is the kind of black where you go, ‘Black!’ Perhaps that’s because blue-black traces its roots back to a mythic point of origin in Africa, whereas ‘black,’ along with ‘Negro’ and ‘African American,’ might be considered just one more stopping point on the way to an as-yet-unknown destination.”
Has The Turner Prize Come Of Age By Lifting Its Age Restrictions?
Now that it’s no longer burdened by the weight of making young artists’ careers, the Turner show of the four shortlisted artists does a better job representing art in Britain and being accessible to audiences.
An Opera For The Little Rock Nine
The opera is still being written, but it had its first major performance in Little Rock, at Central High School, to an audience that included some of the nine who integrated the school these 60 years ago. “In a scene in which the students explain why they volunteered to integrate the school, unaware of the dangers they would face, [Minnijean Brown Trickey] heard her own words from long ago sung back to her:
‘I sort of loosely thought,
So, well, why not?
I’m beautiful, I’m smart,
I’m talented. How hard,
How hard could this be?'”
A 13-Year-Old Syrian Refugee Has Won A Poetry Prize In Britain
Amineh Abou Kerech learned to speak English one year ago. How did she win a poetry prize for 10-13-year-olds? Her sister says, “She sits in her bedroom all the time and practises, practises.”