Artists tangle with the implications of our trackable lives – including a widely used app called “Churchix,” that surveills and records the identities of anyone who goes into certain churches. “Because many artists — all of us, really — were so captivated by the initial promise of the internet, they were blinded to its potential problems.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
How Did Television Address ‘Black Lives Matter’ In 2016?
From “Empire” to “Blackish” and, in new shows, from Ava DuVernay’s “Queen Sugar” to Donald Glover’s “Atlanta,” TV approached the new civil rights movement with varying degrees of success.
The Pay Dispute In Small Los Angeles Theatre Gets Even More Dramatic (And Weird)
There’s a new minimum wage for actors at L.A.’s 99-seat theatres (a special Equity category), but theatre owners, as well as some actors, say the minimum wage threatens their work, and they want it to go away.
The Staging Of A ‘Foto-Novela’ In L.A.’s Rapidly Gentrifying Arts District
As Los Angeles demolishes the 6th Street Bridge, artist Harry Gamboa Jr. saves its memories and relevance through a series of staged photos. His fotonovela practice “has the effect of connecting art world professionals with neophytes, master’s candidates from the graduate fine arts program at CalArts with first-year students from Northridge — most of them Chicano, like Gamboa.”
What’s Happening To The Subway Post-It Note Art By New Yorkers Mourning Trump’s Election?
There were at least 20,000 Post-It notes after the election. “The New York Historical Society removed approximately 4,000 notes from the subway station for preservation. Archivists are slated to stick 12 notes at a time between sheets of mylar for protection. There is, as of yet, no plans to display them further.”
Learning A Second Language? You May Also Be Learning To Handle Ambiguity
Basically, what you don’t know when speaking a second language is as important as what you do know. “Weirdly, not needing to exhaustively know everything lets you learn more.”
Denver Evicted A Bunch Of Artists From An Underground Space, So Does It Need To Give Up The ‘Artist-Friendly’ Label?
Perhaps there’s a crisis in the arts in rapidly gentrifying Denver. A new researcher at the University of Colorado Denver has some thoughts: “I want the city to work together with creative producers to benefit both. Sugar-coating anything or obscuring facts is not going to help either side.”
When Opera Stars Actually Have Chemistry Onstage (It’s A Bit Rare)
“It’s like when you want to make a dish in the kitchen, you have good prime materials. Good tomato, good zucchini, good fish. Everything is so fresh. You just need to put it on the grill. Me, Diana, a good conductor, a good director: The ingredients are so good that it’s going to come out something nice.”
The State Of The Play In London’s West End
You want a good ticket to a play in London? Head to the box offices on September 20, when about a quarter of tickets haven’t sold just before the curtain rises.
Why Did This Daily Paper Let Its Arts Critic – Who Writes *250* Articles A Year – Go?
The Austin arts community is furious with the Austin American-Statesman, which decided to lay off Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, the paper’s full-time arts critic – and use freelancers instead. But, says the rival weekly, “The critic has a unique strength coming from 19 years on the beat, not only reporting but actively shaping the cultural landscape with access to the wide and the long views.”