(Hint: It’s for a movie.) “The plan was announced, and the cubes came out. Each had five mirrored sides, with elasticized black fabric on the bottom that hugged wearers’ necks. Built-in bicycle helmets held the cubes in place, and the front panels were two-way mirrors, so the actors could see where the heck they were going.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Painting That’s Showing The Faultlines Of Racism In The U.S. Art World
If you’ve somehow missed the controversy over Dana Schutz’s painting of the Open Casket of Emmett Till, this article will lay out not only the various discussions in the art world but also the history of why the painting is so controversial.
Liz Lerman Won This Year’s Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, And You Can See Why
Lerman, who teaches at Arizona State University, “has paved the way for a whole generation of dance makers to discover the power of social change through community engagement and by, as she puts it, ‘rattling around in other people’s universes.'”
Egyptian Novelist Jailed For ‘Offending Public Morals’ Waits To See If Court Will Clear Him To Write Again
Ahmed Naji: “It is interesting working on a novel in prison.”
Choral Music Is ‘Slow Food For The Soul,’ Says Nico Muhly
“One of the most moving things about this musical tradition is happening upon it: walking through London and ducking into St. Paul’s Cathedral, for instance, and hearing the buttery luxuriousness of one of Herbert Howells’s canticles.”
The Dominican Republic Is Kicking Its Movie Production Into High Gear
With an average of 20 films and takes of $50 million in five years, the country is seeing, perhaps, the results of a new law, “more than dramatic in a country that saw an average of two-to-three homegrown films a year for nearly three decades prior to the film law.”
Why Are Dave Chappelle’s Netflix Specials So Painfully Unfunny?
Myles Johnson says follow the money: “Capitalism calls for you to be average and Dave Chappelle obeyed. It calls for you to be ignorant despite moments, even fleeting, of critical enlightenment.”
James Rosenquist, Pop Artist Whose Work Was Influenced By Advertising, Has Died At 83
Rosenquist, who had experience (and a day job) as a painter of billboards, “painted by hand in a lucidly simplified realistic style, [but] the juxtapositions of images remain mysterious. The paintings could be viewed both as critiques of modern consumerism and as glimpses into the collective American consciousness.”
The British Museum Gets Its First Permanent Caribbean Art Installation
The artist whose work is on display says it’s a big responsibility. Zak Ové: “Imagine representing the whole of the Caribbean in one moment? … I have to get this right, otherwise I’ll never hear the end of it.”
The Cleveland Orchestra Had A Pretty Decent April Fool’s Joke For Its City
So apparently “Severance Hall sits atop a vast underground cavern and waterway system, like the Palais Garnier in ‘The Phantom of the Opera.'” Yup.