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Cindy Sherman And Instagram Are A Match Made In Art Selfie Heaven

Love emoji, thumbs-up emoji: “Her new mobile selfies are by turns outlandish, hilarious and poignant. They demystify the influences and experiments of a great artist, even as they also point to the gap between Ms. Sherman’s vital, unsettling practice of sideways self-portraiture and the narcissistic practice of selfie snapping.”

A Mom Gets Told To Cover Up While Breastfeeding In The V&A, A Museum That Contains Many Bare Breasts

The woman was not taking the suggestion – which is against V&A policy – lightly. “Instead of bearing that in silence, she busted out her phone and started tweeting. She ribbed the V&A, pointing out that the museum seemed totally fine with some bare bosoms — as long as they were made of stone instead of flesh.”

A Pop-Up Theatre Is Trying To Redefine The Boston Fringe Scene

The Brown Box Theatre’s Kyler Taustin says, “We believe theatre needs to be seen by everyone. The best way for it to be accessible is to place the work in people’s backyards. … This choice gives the experience a physical and emotional impact. The idea of pop-up art allows us to become an exhibit in people’s lives. It’s a different type of public art. We have sculptures and murals that people walk by every day, and now we are turning the theatre into an experience that can have an influence on our daily life.”

Jane Austen Died 200 Years Ago, So This Year, The Tours Are Bigger Than Ever

And the divisions loom larger as well: “Though Austen lovers are outwardly polite about this particular issue, there is a clear divide between the sort of Janeites who like to exchange learned scholarly remarks, and the sort of Janeites who like to dress up in nonlearned period outfits.”

Tech Companies Are Rotten At The Core

The problem is way larger than any high-level Googler’s anonymous anti-equity rant. “The kind of computing systems that get made and used by people outside the industry, and with serious consequences, are a direct byproduct of the gross machismo of computing writ large. More women and minorities are needed in computing because the world would be better for their contributions—and because it might be much worse without them.”

Reading Mrs. Dalloway When You’re The Same Age As Mrs. Dalloway

It’s … intense. “My life has been scattered across the earth like sand, and I long to gather all the grains together and have them around me in one place, as Clarissa does at her party.”

John Cho Explains What It’s Like To ‘Feel Like An Artist’ In A Movie About Architecture

That is, when the #StarringJohnCho movement bears fruit, and he actually gets to star in a movie. “I’ve struggled with this in the last few years. Is it important for me to express my own culture, or…to be a cultureless character in a fictional America that exists only in movies and on TV? When I’m playing a character that doesn’t have an Asian surname and you don’t see their family, that’s okay, too. “

A Critic Writes A Second Review Of A Photography Exhibit, Because The First Was Not Enough

John Yau: “It is not that I was dissatisfied more than usual with what I had written. Writers are always vexed by what they have written. In this case, something else about the works wouldn’t leave me alone. The impetus came from pieces that I did and didn’t write about. I decided to go back to the exhibition and look again. I wanted to figure out what I had not gotten to the first time, and which could not wait.”

Montreal’s Art Biennale Can’t Pay Its Debts And Is ‘All But Dormant’

The biennale owes $200,000 to artists, installers and others who created the 2016 event, and now public funding has dried up for 2018 and possibly 2020 – “To accept a grant and not pay the artists is a cardinal sin in the eyes of every arts council that ever was.” How did it come to this after a grand, ambitious beginning?

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