As Drake, Kanye West, Justin Bieber and Frank Ocean sit them out, “this year’s Grammys promise to draw out only more skepticism of the long-standing ceremony.” Maybe the awards have aged themselves out.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Last Year’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Gives Us A Reading List
Viet Thanh Nguyen, who won for “The Sympathizer,” says that “Sometimes people have said that I give voice to the voiceless Vietnamese. If you know anything about Vietnamese people, you know they are not voiceless. They are quite loud, whether it is in Vietnamese or English. Here is a reading list of some of the most important writing by Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans, just to prove that we have not been voiceless. Most of the time we are just not heard.”
How Should Writers Deal With Oppression? Scholar Barbara Harlow, Who Just Died At 68, Had Some Advice
Harlow wrote about women and men who lived and wrote in struggles all over the world. “One of her premises was that imaginative writing was a way to gain control over ‘the historical and cultural record.’ This, she wrote, ‘is seen from all sides as no less crucial than the armed struggle.'”
Two More Dancers Leave Pennsylvania Ballet
Hired to run the ballet school after the previous staff member quit over the firings of a huge number of dancers, a married couple quits. “The couple, graduates of Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet Academy, had danced in Russia and the United States before opening a dance school, the Academy of International Ballet, in Media. Their son, Aleksey Babayev, is a Pennsylvania Ballet corps de ballet dancer.”
Just How Far Will British Actors At The BAFTAs Go About Trump?
The show is edited for length and then broadcast “two hours after the ceremony takes place – but the programme-makers [will] do their best to reflect the essence of any speeches made. ‘This is not a political event,’ the spokesperson said. ‘Actors and actresses have a right to air their views. It’s our duty to reflect their views.'”
Mr. Darcy Is Hot, Full Stop (And Austen Researchers Who Say Otherwise Can Sit Back Down Now)
Some Austen scholars say that the standard for male beauty has changes since Pride and Prejudice was first in front of a reading public. “I mean, we all know that Austen wasn’t actually thinking of Colin Firth when she wrote the book.”
Playwright Robert Schenkkan, Furious At Trump, Spits Out A Response Play In One Week
Five theaters across the country have already agreed to produce “Building the Wall,” starting next month. “We no longer live in a world that is business as usual — Trump has made that very clear — and if theater is going to remain relevant, we must become faster to respond. … We cannot hope to be useful if we can’t respond until 18 months after the fact.”
A Bold, Beautiful Victory For Ballet At The British National Dance Awards
Chase Johnsey, of the all-male Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (the Trocks), “faced off competition from the likes of Vadim Muntagirov and Alexander Campbell, both principal dancers at the Royal. Johnsey’s win is not only a celebration of his talent, but also a celebration of the fact that ballet, however rigorous its traditions, has an inalienable genius for the wayward, the comic and the camp.”
Walter Hautzig, Pianist Whose Talent Saved His Life In Nazi-Occupied Austria, Has Died At 95
After the German occupation of Austria, Hautzig knew he needed to get out. “Responding to an advertisement in a Jewish newspaper, he arrived at a Vienna hotel at 8 a.m. to audition for Emil Hauser, director of the Jerusalem Conservatory and a founder of the Budapest String Quartet. Mr. Hauser was not just offering fellowships; he was also offering exit visas.”
How To Best Celebrate Mondrian: With A Building-Size Replica
That’s not the only plan in The Hague for the 100-year anniversary of the founding of Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg’s De Stijl: “Brinkman said the city planned to adorn other buildings with similar Mondrian-inspired works, including floating cubical pontoons on the Hofvijver, the small lake in front of the centuries-old Dutch parliament.”