What one neuropsychology professor thinks: “If our experience of action doesn’t really affect what we do in the moment, then what is it for? Why have it? Contrary to what many people believe, I think agency is only relevant to what happens after we act – when we try to justify and explain ourselves to each other.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Colin Firth, Whose Wife Is Italian, Now Has Dual Italian And British Citizenship
Without saying “Brexit,” the actor says Brexit, as his wife gets British citizenship too: “We never really thought much about our different passports. But now, with some of the uncertainty around, we thought it sensible that we should all get the same.”
Charles Bradley, The ‘Screaming Eagle Of Soul’ Who Found Fame Late In Life, Has Died At 68
Bradley’s first album, on the ’60s sound revival label Daptone, was released when he was 62, and his James-Brown-evoking performances became legendary. Daptone’s Gabriel Roth: “Charles was somehow one of the meekest and strongest people I’ve ever known. His pain was a cry for universal love and humanity.”
How Weird – And How Abusive – Do Celebrities Have To Be Before We Stop Watching Their Movies?
Apparently, audiences will accept almost anything as long as it has to do with controlling women. See: Tom Cruise and Jim Carrey.
Top AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 09.24.17
After Degas: Burrell Collection at the National Gallery
A small Degas show, “Drawn in Colour,” at the National Gallery until 7 May, comprises a splendid group of pictures, chiefly on loan from the Burrell Collection, near Glasgow, complemented by some from the National’s … read more
AJBlog: Plain EnglishPublished 2017-09-24
A small Degas show, “Drawn in Colour,” at the National Gallery until 7 May, comprises a splendid group of pictures, chiefly on loan from the Burrell Collection, near Glasgow, complemented by some from the National’s … read more
AJBlog: Plain EnglishPublished 2017-09-24
A Book With Extra Thrust
This is the way to promote a book, especially when it won’t be won’t be available on Amazon or Barnes & Noble websites and won’t be readily distributed to brick-and-mortar bookstores.Click to view Rocket 88’s … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2017-09-23
This is the way to promote a book, especially when it won’t be won’t be available on Amazon or Barnes & Noble websites and won’t be readily distributed to brick-and-mortar bookstores.Click to view Rocket 88’s … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2017-09-23
Propwatch: the ironing board in Trouble in Mind
The ironing board has an iconic status in the history of British theatre. What became known as kitchen-sink drama was more properly ironing-board drama. In 1956, the originality of John Osborne’s Look Back in … read more
AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2017-09-23
The ironing board has an iconic status in the history of British theatre. What became known as kitchen-sink drama was more properly ironing-board drama. In 1956, the originality of John Osborne’s Look Back in … read more
AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2017-09-23
Twyla Tharp Dances Again
Twyla Tharp Dance appears at the Joyce Theater, September 19 through October 8 Twyla Tharp’s The Raggedy Dances in 1972. Heading left: Sara Rudner. Heading right: Rose Marie Wright. Photo: William Pierce What do I … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2017-09-22
Twyla Tharp Dance appears at the Joyce Theater, September 19 through October 8 Twyla Tharp’s The Raggedy Dances in 1972. Heading left: Sara Rudner. Heading right: Rose Marie Wright. Photo: William Pierce What do I … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2017-09-22
What A New Science Fiction Series Reveals About Our Planet (It’s Rather Grim)
Traditionally, science fiction with spaceships has been about exploration and escaping Earth. But that escape is a pipe dream. “We experience our actual earthbound future as an incomprehensible betrayal. For humanity to flicker and die on Earth alone — and to leave no trace of itself save its garbage and the geological echo of incomprehensibly vast mass extinction — seems to us like a crime against the specialness of our species (not to mention all the other species we’ve made extinct just to get this far).”
Are Artists About To Get Kicked Out Of Bushwick By A Wave Of Development?
Many people see the artists as the first wave of development and gentrification, of course. “Tensions have simmered for much of the past decade between Bushwick’s longtime Latino and African American residents and artists who moved into the area. But as more people discover the neighborhood’s charms, investors pour money into projects that increase property values and eventually force long-time residents and artists to leave for good.”
Ritha Devi, A ‘Consummate Actress’ Who Brought Indian Classical Dance To The U.S., Has Died At 92
She specialized in Odissi, a form of temple dance from the eastern Indian state of Odisha. “By the 1940s and ’50s, Odissi had fallen out of favor in India. But Ms. Devi, who began studying it in 1964, helped revive it through worldwide tours in the 1970s and as a professor in New York University’s dance department from 1972 to 1982.”
Jean Michel Basquiat Made His Entire Life Art, And Essentially Predicted Our Identity-Obsessed Digital Age
Think about this when you see artists on Instagram: “Artists always make spectacular choices in terms of what they are going to wear – it’s part of the gallery game, a game of seduction with the collectors. They are buying you as much as they are buying the work. It’s one of the rare occasions where the class system is subverted. Nobody is going to remember you because you died with a billion dollars, but they will remember your collection. Jean Michel was acutely aware of that. His whole life as a black man in the art world was a performance.”
Where Are All Of The Rural Gay Poets?
Obviously they’ve all moved to cities, right? But for real: Does “the omission of gay voices in [the] rural canon gesture toward a more pointed claim, that the ‘moral glory’ of the American countryside somehow prevented, or at least denied, the existence of gay men and women”?