When the beloved but impoverished Museum of Contemporary Craft closed abruptly, Portland suddenly had a hole in the popular, hopping Pearl District. Then last week, “Suddenly a space that had housed an important cultural center that had died before its time seemed alive with hope and possibilities again” as the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education opened, post-remodel, in the space.
Author: ArtsJournal2
The President Emerita Of MoMA Sold A Lichtenstein To Start A Criminal Justice Fund – And She Wants Other Collectors To Add To It
“‘This is one thing I can do before I die,’ [Agnes] Gund, 78, said in an interview at her Upper East Side apartment, where the Lichtenstein used to hang over the mantel, along with works by Jasper Johns and Mark Rothko. ‘This is what I need to do.'”
How Did This Character From An Australian Horror Film Become A Pride Month Icon?
A half-ironic Tumblr post from October has changed The Babadook forever: “In recent weeks, the Babadook-as-queer-icon has gone from a internet in-joke to a Pride Month figurehead, with remixed representations of the monster he appears in a storybook in the film featuring in celebrations online and off.”
How To Turn Off – And On – Creativity, According To Successful Google Engineers
Google learned early on to devote time to training its people to relax – and that was for business purposes. “Meditation and other restful practices don’t just help workers disconnect—they may boost innovation, too.”
Poet Edith Shiffert Dies At 101
“Ms. Shiffert was a quiet sensualist, her verse characterized by spare simplicity and a deep, abiding affinity with the natural world. Her poems were inclined to be short (she was keenly influenced by haiku), and were often organized around unobtrusive — and therefore highly effective — rhyme or half-rhyme, the prosodic device in which two words are united by a shared final sound.”
Carmen Ejogo Thinks She Got Popular Twenty Years Too Early, But Now She’s Peaking Again
She was a child star and had great success in her 20s, but then projects fell off. Now? “Ejogo’s choice of projects has often been limited by her race (she mentions that significant roles in period dramas and romantic comedies have been out of reach) but she’s embraced her love of genre films, which has led to something of an Ejogossance.”
A South Korean Pianist Wins The Van Cliburn Competition
Yekwon Sunwoo is the first South Korean to win the annual competition. After he played his final performance, he said, “I went out for lunch at Sundance Square actually right at the time my performance was being played [on the big screen] from last night. … That was kind of strange to have lunch there and see yourself playing.”
Selma Hayek Is Getting Starring Roles At 50, But How?
Hayek says: “I have a friend — an Italian friend who’s a brilliant actress … she’s working a lot, too, and we were looking at each other one day and saying, why are we working so much? And she said: ‘You know why? We don’t have Botox!’ … We don’t have the injections. This is what it is! We don’t look as hot, that’s true … but we’re working non-stop because we can look like real people. We can play any part.”
No Matter How Many Confederate Monuments Are Removed, The True History Of The South Is Not Being Erased
And that’s true anywhere: “It’s not just the dragon-haunted South. Everywhere I have visited or lived — in Eugene, OR; Albuquerque, NM; St. Louis, MO; Chapel Hill, NC; New Smyrna Beach, FL —
history of this sort is right at a visitor’s feet, etched into earth and rock, embodied in churches and homes, and interred in tombs.”
Best Place To Write? Surrounded By Books, Of Course
Yep, in a public space in the library: “Few things are as treasured by writers as privacy, that place where you can tune out the world and live in the alternate one on your page. I found it in one of the most public places imaginable, crowded with tour groups and class visits, a must stop in the guide books. For over twenty years I have been writing in the New York Public Library—eight novels and a ninth underway—and I can’t imagine working anywhere else.”