The numbers of galleries, art fairs and other independent art spaces have soared. “Even as violence has saturated the country — federal statistics show that homicides jumped 22% from 2015 to 2016 and 35% the year prior — the Mexican capital, some of its neighborhoods insulated from violence by money and private security, has grown as an international cultural magnet.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Teenage Radio Cowboy, Broadway Chorus Boy, And Powerful Broadway Producer Elliot Martin Has Died At 93
He produced plays on Broadway, off-Broadway and farther afield, and he was the first director of Los Angeles’ Center Theater Group. “He often said, though, that the pinnacle of his career was being the production stage manager in 1956 of the original Broadway production of O’Neill’s ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night,’ one of a dozen Broadway shows he stage-managed after abandoning a brief acting and singing stint in his 20s.”
Romcoms With Interracial Relationships Are Finally Hitting The Big Screen
No, it’s not new to see an interracial couple on-screen (and even in Love, Actually), but “their depictions in early cinema were rarely ‘light-hearted’ or ‘happily concluded’ – both conventions of the romcom.”
How Do You Prep For The Tony Awards While Doing Eight Shows A Week?
You disguise yourself after the matinee, try to avoid Hugh Jackman, and hop on the subway, trying to get back to midtown for the evening performance.
No, You Really Do *Not* Want To Hear Running Water In A Museum After Hours
At the Museum of Cultural and Natural History in Eugene on Wednesday night, “Cold water poured down from a broken humidifier on the roof of the museum, flowing behind a 4½-by-7-foot Ray Troll illustrated map of Oregon. Fast action by janitors and campus plumbers helped the museum avoid disaster.”
Do Superhero Movies Need Superstars In Order To Make It Big?
Gal Godot proves that’s a nope. And maybe it’s better this way: “‘When it’s Ben Affleck playing Batman, it’s hard not to look at that and see Ben Affleck.’ When you see Gadot these days, though, all you see is Diana Prince.”
Marie Cosindas, The Photographer Who Brought Color To The Gallery, Has Died At 93
She was a rebel in the days of the serious art black & white photo: “Ms. Cosindas, a painter by training, turned to photography early in her career and was immediately stymied by an unwritten law: For the medium to be true to itself, images must be black and white. Color was for advertising.”
The White Colonial French Were Deeply Worried, So Propagandists Came Up With An Infantilized Image of Africa
To calm down the French, who were worried about arming some of those they controlled through colonialism, propagandists produced “a range of stereotypical images of the black African soldier, who was characterized as both heroic and strong, but still limited in his power, as in the Banania advertisements that suggest a subservient and harmless individual.”
Sherman Alexie’s Heartrending Tale Of His Mother
Alexie: “What I’m realizing now … is that the writing of the book was just the first half of the ceremony. Now I’m entering into the second half of the ceremony, bringing it to the public, starting to talk about my mother.”
You Know Blockbusters Are Costly When The Snacks Line Item Is $2 Million
Yeah, that’s for the latest in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series (and it’s more than the entire budget of “Moonlight”). But of course, the cast and crew could fill a small town …