“Even as her friends hunted down compelling stories – here was a group of refugees living in one of Saddam’s former prisons; there was a supposedly innocent man who’d been deported from America after his name appeared in the 9/11 commission report – they always had to keep one eye pragmatically, even ruthlessly, on what might go down well at home.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
China Covers Up A Museum For The Victims Of The Cultural Revolution
“Workers arrived bearing concrete, propaganda banners and metal scaffolding. They smoothed concrete over the names of victims, wrapped ‘Socialist Core Values’ banners around the main exhibition hall, placed red-and-yellow propaganda posters over stone memorials to the terror, and raised scaffolding around statues of critics of Mao.”
Online Reaction To The Italian Journalist Who ‘Investigated’ The (Possibly) Real Name Of Elena Ferrante Is Fierce
“Readers called the alleged scoop an intrusion into the life of one of the world’s most influential female writers. Some were afraid it would stop Ferrante from ever writing again, saying the story had been driven by the ego of the reporter and the New York Review of Books.” (The alleged author is identified in this article as well.)
The Genius Of Lorraine Hansberry Tragically Had To Be Transmitted In Only Three Plays
“She saw what we were about to enter into. She had an extraordinary understanding of the cycles of social movements. What does it mean to be fully engaged in the world? Are you going to stand on the sidelines and critique it? Are you going to abstract it and be of no use in your abstractions, or are you going to be engaged and be part of the solution?”
Writing A 150,000-Word Pulp Novel In A Month, To Win A Bet
“I bet you five pounds that you can’t write a 150,000-word novel in one month. If you do it, you get the five quid and I publish the book. If you don’t, I get a fiver off you, and I have to go back to publishing local poets. I hate local poets. In fact, I hate all poets. And all poetry. I have a long-standing and deeply entrenched hostility to the form.”
Can Toronto Figure Out A Way To Fix Its Botched Public Space?
“Our collective cultural efforts of the 1960s were vastly more adventurous than they are today. Ontario Place is often described as ‘utopian,’ which is right in two senses. One, in its futurist ambition: the architecture embodies modernism’s faith in social progress, technological advances and radical innovation for its own sake. And two, in its production: It was built incredibly fast, driven by a relatively young architect – and it wasn’t entirely clear what the place was for.”
Director Amma Asante Says The Entire Movie Industry Has To Change
“Your expectations are disrupted. And I believe that’s what I’m here for. I hold that flag.”
The New Face, And Brains, Of The Washington Ballet
“As she introduced each segment of the nearly three-hour salute to the company’s history, Kent led the audience members elegantly — and cannily — to an undeniable conclusion: She stood before them as the visionary queen of the Washington Ballet’s future.”
The New York Fringe Festival Is Taking Next Year (And Only Next Year?) Off
The producing artistic director said that the 20-year-old festival “needed to figure out how to best serve its artists, audiences and alumni — in part by taking the time to analyze its trove of data on them.”
Once Bankrupt, The Louisville Orchestra Working On A Comeback
“From 2013 to 2016, ticket income rose 82.5 percent after a 60 percent increase in season subscriptions and a 128 percent increase in single ticket sales. Individual donations have jumped 34.5 percent.”