Not really, but he’s OK with that. “I come to make room for the ones coming after. Because these people coming after are going to deliver us something. We just need to watch out. Just look at the luscious, juicy deliciousness that is black art right now. I just feel like we’re only scratching the surface.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Soaring Above The City, Where The Tutus Get Cut, Sewn, And Fitted
Even when fashion designers get outrageous for the Fall Gala, New York City Ballet’s costume shop knows what it’s doing. “They know how every fabric moves, they know what a seam does, what a hem does, what stretches, what doesn’t, what absorbs, what doesn’t, what can be lifted, what can move.”
Does Art Lose Its Meaning When It’s In 1000 Selfies A Minute?
One curator: “It’s as if taking a photo of a work in a museum means ‘seeing’ it to a viewer, even though someone like me worries that taking the photo replaces seeing it in the slow and thoughtful way I would ideally wish. … And the problem with all the photo-takers is that they make it impossible for someone who wants to do that kind of looking to do so.”
Is Theatre An Ideal Space To Get An ‘Empathy Workout’?
Yes. Theatre is, to put it bluntly, special (and science backs that up). “There is something about theatre in particular that transforms the way we consider humanity. After surviving millennia, it remains one of the most popular and desirable modes of storytelling. Beyond entertainment, there is something we gain at the neural level by engaging with theatre.”
Here’s How Museums Use Their Architecture To Court Bigger Crowds
New ideas say it’s time for museums to embrace their exteriors, even out into the sidewalks or streets near them, and certainly their plazas. In one case, in London, “the idea behind the project was to see the museum not just as a cultural project, but as an urban one. It needs to be of the street.”
Hollywood Has Its Worst Weekend Since The One After September 11, 2001
Actually, after adjusting for inflation, last weekend was even worse than that one. How is that possible? Blame a hurricane – and boxing.
A New Latinx Artist Sci Fi Show Posits That ‘In Space, We Are All Aliens’
After University of California Riverside curators decided on the sci-fi theme, “they traveled to six countries and 11 American cities where they discovered a wide range of artworks, made mainly over the last 20 years, dealing with concerns including the politics of immigration and the dangers of military surveillance.”
Poet Benjamin Zephaniah May Be Almost 60, But He Remains Angry And In It For The Revolution
Zephaniah is furious about – for instance – police surveillance of Black communities and the neglect of Grenfell Tower that led to the conflagration there. But he keeps a sense of humor: “When I talk to kids, I tell them about me growing up in gangs in Birmingham and how one day I got up and I went to London and I got involved in another gang and these were a real hard lot. All these kids are listening to me, and they go ‘Oh, you poor thing.’ And I go, ‘It was a gang of poets and painters,’ and they all laugh.”
So Seattle Has A Lenin Statue, And It’s Become Quite Controversial
Oh, Seattle. “The shaft of the flesh-colored dildo atop Vladimir Lenin’s head pointed upward at a slight angle, giving the Russian revolutionary the appearance of a grumpy, hyper-sexualized unicorn.”
The Oregon Bach Festival Suddenly Fires Its Popular Artistic Director After A Season Lackluster In Earnings
Matthew Halls, halfway through a four-year contract that saw him take the Oregon Bach Festival in the direction of historically informed performance, says he doesn’t know why he was fired, and the University of Oregon’s press release is not useful (“We look forward to a wider range of programmatic choices, community events, and cross-departmental relationships with UO faculty, staff, and students,” for instance). “Halls said he was not well versed in the specifics of his contract, which was to have expired in 2020. ‘I can’t begin to communicate the personal sadness I’m feeling,’ he said.”