Remember the singer at the top of the Robert Altman movie ‘Cookie’s Fortune’? That was Ruby Wilson.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Is This European Tour The Final Step In Getting The Minnesota Orchestra Back To Full Health?
“With stops in Finland, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Copenhagen, the tour could be called ‘the last first’ in the orchestra’s reboot. There was the first concert back, the first full season, the first recording session, the just-released first album from those sessions. Then there was the historic trip to Cuba — the first by a major U.S. orchestra since relations thawed.”
What Can Inspire Development And Investment In Post-Brexit Britain?
“There is an urgent need to take stock of the planning systems we have now, what they can deliver, and to debate alternative futures for planning that might produce much better results.”
Snapchat’s Yellowface Feature Isn’t The App’s First Racial Misstep
“In just the past six months, Snapchat has blundered (twice!) into releasing filters that it’s hard not to read as extremely racist.”
The Department Of Homeland Security Seems To Have A Problem With The King Of Bollywood
“To detain one of India’s biggest celebrities would itself attract international headlines, but this, he said, was the third time that he had been held then released while traveling in the United States.”
When One Of Kanye West’s Collaborators Makes Remarks That Are ‘Racially Insensitive’
“Beecroft became known in the U.S. in the mid-1990s for staging performances that featured monochromatic arrangements of nude or barely clothed models in body paint who often glared at viewers with empty or defiant stares. About a decade ago, she left the art world and began collaborating with West — orchestrating his fashion spectacles, which are held in locations like New York’s Madison Square Garden arena.”
So Is The Musical ‘The Waitress’ Feminist Or Is It Just About Women?
“The original film paints a bleak picture of deeply unhappy people working blue-collar jobs and passively hoping for, rather than actively seeking a way out of their circumstances. The musical gives the source material a bright coat of Broadway paint with an upbeat and gorgeous pop score.”
Who Created This Mysterious ‘Moon Ballet’?
“The picture of two ballet dancers soaring across a simulated lunar crater comes from the set of Destination Moon, a 1950 space adventure film. But the dance is not in the film. The context of the photograph is unknown, and the identity of the dancers a mystery — one that William Higgins, a radiation safety physicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, has been trying to solve since he first stumbled across the photo seven years ago.”
The Kids’ Jazz Band In The Favelas Of Rio de Janairo [VIDEO]
“My dream is that we have a music tradition here in our favela that mixes the Brazilian traditions with New Orleans jazz traditions in wind instruments, and we create something new in live music.”
When Visitors Get A Little Too Hands-On With Exhibits
“Officials in the museum community say that no plan to protect exhibits is foolproof, and that the recent episodes reflect the balance that museums seek between making their collections accessible to visitors and keeping them secure.”