“You can’t just exist as a bookshop nowadays; you have to make it a place where people want to hang out.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Two Artists Begin Building Trump’s Wall, And Sending Mexico The Bill
“Covered on one side by a large campaign ad for Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, and studded with wilting fruit, flowers, cleaning items and hardware, their wall was meant to symbolize, Mr. Gleeson said, the economic effects that curtailing immigration and closing borders would have on agriculture, industry and domestic life.”
The Booming Business Of Making Movies (On The Cheap) In Cape Town
“This is the first custom-built, state-of-the-art film studio in sub-Saharan Africa, and it’s rapidly becoming one of Hollywood’s favourite places to shoot. It touts itself as ‘the most successful film studio in the developing world’ – a grand claim that might even be true.”
Alison Bernstein Gave Tens Of Millions Of Dollars To Cultural Initiatives At The Ford Foundation
“She was a lively and curious and wonderfully imaginative person, and this all came across in 10 minutes.”
A Fiery Consideration Of Alexei Ratmansky’s Choices For Misty Copeland
“Watching Copeland dance ‘Firebird’ at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, we saw a wonderful ballerina come to terms with a not-so-wonderful role. To begin with, you, Mr. Ratmansky, assigned to other American Ballet Theatre dancers much of the music that Igor Stravinsky composed for her character.”
The New Face(s) Of Second City
“We’re pretty much cradle to grave these days.”
Who Gets Garcia Lorca’s Papers?
“The legacy of Federico García Lorca’s hostilities with government lives on these days through his family, whose members are tangling with officials over control of a new $25 million center built to honor García Lorca, the playwright and poet who was executed by firing squad during the Spanish Civil War.”
When Your Drawing Class Model Is A Sex Worker
“Squeezing in between a young female art student and a hairy guy, I picked up my pencil and waited for the sex to begin. It didn’t.”
Steinway Has Huge Ambitions For Its Grand Pianos – In China
“‘I wanted to buy something special,’ Mr. Wang said. ‘It’s just like a Rolls-Royce.'”
Carrying A Lot More Than Her Crown As The Newest Disney Princess
“Few matters in entertainment are as fraught as the Disney princesses, a dozen or so characters led by Cinderella and Snow White that mint money for the Walt Disney Company but also are cultural lightning rods. People who love the princesses (they’re pretty and live happily ever after!) and those who despise them (they promote negative female stereotypes and unrealistic body images!) square off endlessly.”