“Museums, auction houses and collectors feel free to ignore non-European groups who ask for the repatriation of their artworks. Indeed, some commentators even attack such requests.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Thousands Of People Strip Naked And Paint Themselves Blue (For Art)
It was for a photographer, so being outside, naked and painted different colors of blue, was totally acceptable. [VIDEO]
The Deeply Sincere Performance Art Of Yankee Candle
“There’s a year-round Bavarian Christmas village (a village within the Village) that’s showered with fake snow every four minutes and has a toy shop with a resident Santa who refuses to break character. Yankee Candle Village is the epitome of sensory overload.”
This English Theater Told A Woman Her Gender Ruled Her Out For Directing A Play
“There was nothing to misunderstand – those are the words they wrote; they wrote that a male was better.”
Caroline Aherne Represented The Working Class On British Comedy TV
“Aherne created some of British comedy’s best-loved characters: lazy daughter Denise in The Royle Family, acerbic chat show host Mrs Merton – which first aired on BBC2 in 1995 – and memorable Fast Show characters such as the Checkout Girl and Poula Fisch, a TV weather girl in an unnamed country where the sun was always ‘scorchio!'”
If They’d Made A Musical About Tammany Hall, Would Its Auditorium Be Under The Wrecking Ball Right Now?
“Liberty Theaters L.L.C., which owns the building and used it until January as the Union Square Theater, is reconstructing the four-story hall as a six-story office building, marketed by Newmark Grubb Knight Frank as 44 Union Square. The auditorium space will be demolished. A two-and-half-story glass dome will be erected on the rooftop.”
What’s The Problem With J.K. Rowling’s New North American Wizarding School?
“All I could think is that it was written with a colonial lens. This was the story of an outsider in America ‘fixing’ what was already there. Rather than integrating Native Americans into her world, they are reduced to background set pieces.”
What Gay Men Can Learn From Jane Austen, According To A Politician
“I look at so many young gays, and I think: You know what? Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Before you rush into anything, read Jane Austen. A good man is really hard to find, you know?”
Is ‘Hamilton’ Latino Theatre?
“Yes, it’s conceived and written by Miranda, with Music Director Alex Lacamoire who is Cuban, but the music is mostly rap and a mixture of Broadway shows tunes and other styles. Some argue the music is influenced by Latina/o rhythms. The immigrant theme is salient, but not specifically Latina/o. Does it really matter?”
Rise Of The Cyborgs, Or The People Who Have Cameras Permanently Implanted In Their Heads That Allow Them To Hear Colors As Sounds
“In more recent years she has been fitted with a chip implant in her elbow that wirelessly attaches to seismographs around the world, vibrating with varied intensity based on Richter scale readings. From such movements she choreographs dance concerts she calls Waiting for Earthquakes.”