“The piece was made of materials including crude oil from the Gulf Coast, a teargas cartridge from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, and 340 lines of black stones, which, according to a release from the group BP or Not BP?, ‘symbolizes how BP’s operations in Egypt are ‘surrounded by human rights violations’.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Day GQ Broke The Internet With A New England Patriots (Football) Player Trying Ballet
“We got Nathalia Arja from Miami City ballet to put the Patriots’ monster of a man through some drills that are likely not in Bill Belichick’s repertoire: the plié; the arabesque; the thing where you jump and kick your legs together.”
New Director For San Diego’s Soon-To-Expand Museum
Kathryn Kanjo: “We have this collection that wants to see the light of day and has no physical space. … We show it regularly but we don’t show it steadily.”
Can Redesigning Neighborhoods Save Barcelona From Cars And Pollution?
“The objectives are ambitious; by implementing these strategies at once, the city wants to reduce car use by 21% over the next two years and increase mobility by foot, bike and public transport.”
The International Man Booker Prize Goes To A Book About A Woman Whose Vegetarianism Ruins Relationships (And Her Life)
“The novel had an unusual path to publication. Deborah Smith, a 28-year-old British translator, read a Korean edition of ‘The Vegetarian’ about four years ago when she was studying for her Ph.D., and decided to send a sample translation to a British publisher, who was won over by the first 10 pages.”
The Intertwined Histories Of Jazz And Blues Make Music American (And ‘Americana’)
“Too frequently, there’s a split between musicians who play soulful, bluesy jazz, focused on I-IV-Vs and blues scales, and those who play progressive music, intellectually and aesthetically satisfying but with increasingly tenuous links to the music that birthed it a century ago.”
If You’re Going To Direct A Ballet Company, You Better Know Your Psychology [LISTEN]
The Joffrey Ballet’s Ashton Wheater on running the famous company and what he thinks about ballet audiences.
What It Means When All Of Our Experts Are Wrong
“History’s roster of morons, you begin to realize, bears a worrisome resemblance to its roster of geniuses. Whomever you happen to rely on for your present stable perch—John Oliver, Elizabeth Kolbert, the Freakonomics guys — you can’t help but begin to feel the chair-legs wobble. Wrongness, now and forever, is an equal-opportunity affliction.”
The British Government Is Threatening The BBC’s Recipe Archive, And The Reaction Is Strong
“There is no rationale for getting rid of such a valuable resource, other than a lack of financial resources and pressure from a zealous government that has an ideological problem with a popular, not-for-profit organisation.”
Can Your Tech Really Ruin Your Museum Experience?
“Most museums, especially art museums, are trying to balance this intent that they have about creating a really quiet or an engaged, almost religious commune with the art — with this real strong need to be relevant to modern audiences, to millennial audiences, to attract new audiences.”