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Simone de Beauvoir’s Political Philosophy Still Resonates, More Strongly Now Than Ever
Look back at de Beauvoir and Sartre, and existentialism: “In times of political turmoil, one may feel overwhelmed with anxiety and can even be tempted with Sartre to think that ‘hell is other people’. De Beauvoir encourages us to consider that others also give us the world because they infuse it with meaning: we can only make sense of ourselves in relation to others.”
The Week That Dance Took Over L.A.’s Museums
The audiences have to be the “archive” of the dance project. “Audience-watching, art-watching and dance-watching form equal parts of the intimate experience. The dancers morph into living, breathing sculpture — at once molding, and being molded, by an environment devoted to the collection and display of objects.”
Is A Famous Gainsborough ‘Too Messy’ To Actually Be Attributed To The Painter?
One art historian – well, the leading expert on Thomas Gainsborough – says “Miss Brummell” is probably by the painter’s nephew. Why? “It’s just not Gainsborough’s style. It’s too messy. It lacks confidence. The handling is rather scratchy.”
Netflix’s New Project: Jim Henson Puppets Plus Julie Andrews Equals ‘Greenroom’
It’s on Netflix, but it’s really about theatre: “On the show, she plays Ms. Julie, who teaches a performing arts class to five puppet pupils. Over the debut season’s 13 episodes, Ms. Julie and celebrity guests (including Alec Baldwin, Idina Menzel, Josh Groban, Carol Burnett and David Hyde Pierce) inspire the eager young thespians to create and perform an original musical.”
The .Art Extension Is Now Available, And Might Help Define Artists Online
Maybe: “Being an artist implies a normative departure from bourgeois society. It’s a different kind of extension because it refers to a different lifestyle, so, unlike other domains, .art has the capacity to draw artists and institutions to itself.”
What Writers Should, Or Could, Do During This Age Of Trump
One thing would be not to pretend that everything was perfect before. “Ms. Eltahawy expressed exasperation at the end over the number of people during the event, most of them white, who made claims of exhaustion and asked the panelists for advice on how to keep up unflagging opposition. Ms. Eltahawy suggested in the firm tone that she used all night that those people realize how privileged they have been to have not felt besieged by politics before now.”
The Woman Who Designed The New V&A Gallery Says Architects Need To Have A Passion For Public Spaces
Amanda Levete: “There’s only one thing in life that you can’t design … and that’s heritage, but we have a responsibility to breathe new life into it, to be radical as well as sensitive to the past.”
The Creator Of ‘Transparent’ On What Hollywood’s Like For Women Directors
Jill Soloway says, “Hiring a woman isn’t just about that one decision, but also committing to mentoring them throughout the process. ‘It’s not just about finding the person; it’s about protecting the person all the way through.'”
Africa Is A Continent – And We’re About To Get 54 Volumes Covering Each Country’s Art
Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, the art historian, writer, and filmmaker behind the project, says, “the narrative that is told about Africa is still the backward narrative: no innovation, it’s ahistorical and stuck. Yet with everything I was reading, it was stories of innovation, of knowledge, of technology.”