That’s partly because of “the wild dispersion of technology and musical ideas that creates surprising scenes all over the world. … Moroccan Berber folk-pop expresses traditional conservative values while being ‘saturated with full-on cyborg Auto-Tune’ – applied to singers’ vocals in the same ramshackle studios where they’re recorded.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Did This University Campus Cheat Itself Out Of A Massive New Shakespeare Center?
The story of the New Oxford Shakespeare, the one that’s shaking the Bard world with data-driven literary analysis and more, intertwines painfully (and in a way Shakespeare might have appreciated) with a tale of academic backstabbing, disappeared budgets and institutional support gone missing – if it was ever promised in the first place.
A Brief Discussion Of ‘Chick Lit,’ A Genre That Deserved More From The Industry
“Given that so many women writers and readers currently feel that, once again, we are fighting for our basic liberties, might a new category of women’s fiction, more overtly feminist than its predecessor, be on its way? Instead of women searching for sex and love with the opposite sex, perhaps the genre might revolve around women simply trying to survive the opposite sex. “
The Playwright Of ‘Moonlight’ Explains Why The Story Had To Be Told
In grad school at Yale, after finding out his mother had died, Tarell Alvin McCraney “wrote the script not in anger, he says, or only in grief or guilt, though he felt both of those emotions. He wrote it in panic.”
A Berlin Orchestra Creates Love Letters To The Sounds Of The City
Never let it be said that German musicians have no sense of humor: “In the first video, the musicians imitate sounds such as the sizzling of fries and sausages getting cooked and the ketchup squirted over them at one of the most popular eating spots in town.”
When A Maori Painter Was Accused Of Terrorism
Tame Iti, a member of the Tūhoe Nation, returned from prison and shifted his focus to art: “Art is an intricate part of activism. To be an active participant, to try and provoke people’s thinking, to capture your audience. People that come and look at art, they’re looking for something. They’re looking for the moments, looking for the magic.”
Top AJBlogs From The Weekend Of 02.05.17
Political Dispatches
Caught the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) exhibition Dispatches this weekend. Dispatches was mounted just before the 2016 election; in its own words it “includes a survey of works from 2010 – present and … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2017-02-05
When the Last is not the Last
Batsheva Dance Company, live and on film, performs in New York. Or Meir Schraiber (L) and William Barry of Batsheva Dance Company in Ohad Naharin’s Last Work. At back: Rani Lebzelter. Photo: Yi-Chun Wu The … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2017-02-05
Weekend Extra: Louis Stewart Wailing In Wales
A Rifftides reader who requests anonymity has made us aware of a video featuring the remarkable Irish guitarist Louis Stewart. Stewart died at 72 in a London hospice last August following a short … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-02-04
The Met: A Great Museum In Decline?
Yikes. “Tension inside the Met, the country’s largest art museum, is running so high that when curators and conservators recently wrote a letter protesting compensation cuts, the museum’s leaders chose not to show it to trustees for fear of leaks and bad publicity. Those who wanted to see the document had to go to the office of the Met’s general counsel and read it under observation.”
What The Saga Of Avocados Reveals About Politics – And Human Interactions
It may be true that nothing unites the U.S. like avocados: “In the early 2000s, the low-carb craze gave avocados a boost, with fat suddenly deemed more acceptable. But it was nothing compared to the looming beast on the horizon, the monster trend no one could predict: avocado toast.”
Why Can’t Hollywood Get Boston Right?
First, there are the long, slow pans of the skyline. Then there’s the accent. And then, the people. “More often than not, either the portrayal is lazy, played out and riddled with cliches, or it’s broadened into a comedy routine to go down more easily.”