“The women are part of a movement of female ghost hunters that they say has grown in recent years, and they’re hoping many more young girls will be encouraged to join after the highly anticipated women-led remake of Ghostbusters hits the big screen.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Long Philosophical Shadow Of Conceptual Art
“Conceptual art opened up possibilities of making work that you could call art in completely nontraditional ways: You could walk, you could write, you could take a photograph. A million things you could do could all be art, and that was very, very new, and very radical.”
Is It Time For Film To Concentrate On Muslim Women?
Luc Dardenne: “‘Muslim women; women [in general] are the future of society, I truly believe that.’ He continued by drawing a parallel between how women react to injustice, compared to men. ‘They feel responsible and they are free and make a society move forward.'”
Culture’s Having A ‘Girl’ Moment. But What Does It Mean?
“To be called ‘just a girl’ may be diminishment, but to call yourself ‘still a girl,’ can be empowerment, laying claim to the unencumbered liberties of youth. As Gloria Steinem likes to remind us, women lose power as they age. The persistence of girlhood can be a battle cry.”
Pulp Fiction Will Never Die
“Mainstream literary writers — people like Anne Tyler, who I like very much — are fighting over a smaller and smaller patch of ground. And genre writers are writing with more maturity. What genre writers understand now is that when someone dies, someone is out there to mourn them. Every death has a repercussion. So there’s a maturity that wasn’t always there before. These are novels about social conscience, reflecting what’s going on in our world.”
This Artist Was Filming A Crowdfunded Piece On Climate Change In Paris – And Then The Terrorist Attacks Happened
“We all lose when terror and horror descend, but I look at the creative act as an act of resistance to despair and destruction.”
A Texas Community Rallies To Try To Save University Orchestra
“Hardin Simmons has one of the oldest accredited schools of music in Texas … to start cutting the arts at a liberal arts program just seems outlandish.”
Ballet Without Tutus
“‘Ballet is like a push-pull between feeling and logic,’ [Alonzo] King says. ‘Every human being has both, and ballet is a balancing act between the two. If you get too much logic it defies what you might be feeling, and yet with too much feeling things become unbelievable.'”
The Director Of ‘Oldboy’ Sweeps Through Cannes With A 1930s Korean Adaptation Of ‘Fingersmith’
“Park had finished the book and agreed to the film before he realised the BBC had already made a series based on the source material. He was, he says, “deflated” for a while, but then saw an opportunity: this would be his chance to examine a period of his own country’s history that had always intrigued him.”
The Little Journal Of Theatre Criticism That Could, Now Turning 40
“That was before email. Our writers would come in and drop the text off at our offices — Susan Sontag came by to bring the intro to a volume of plays by Maria Irene Fornes; agents came, artists. They all came to deliver their articles and plays and we’d talk for a long time. I remember one particular day when Jonathan Kalb dropped by; we stopped everything and we talked a few hours. He said to us, ‘Is it always like this?'”