“Art Brussels, meanwhile, packed a taut punch into its new space and welcomed a fair-record 10,000 visitors its first day, Ms. Gregos said. She demurs from calling it ‘Europe’s most cutting edge major art fair,’ (but it seems likely it is).”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Creating Dance For A Country At The Intersections Of History
“The company caught the public imagination from the outset, selling out its first two performances in a 3,000 seat venue. ‘There was a hunger for dance and we connected with people by doing our own thing. This wasn’t Swan Lake. Whether we drew on folk tales or history or calligraphy, it was all recognisably part of our audience’s lives.'”
Jackie Carter Was The Change She Wanted To See In The (Publishing) World
“In 1975 she quit teaching and decided to devote her career to editing and publishing books that might captivate minority children and also reflect their lives.”
How Timbuktu’s ‘Badass’ Librarians Beat Would-Be Book Destroyers
“Librarian Abdel Kader Haidara organized and oversaw a secret plot to smuggle 350,000 medieval manuscripts out of Timbuktu.”
Can ‘The Mikado’ Be Saved From Its Yellowface History?
“The setting was no longer England (or Japan). It was now going to be in Milan during the Renaissance. … And Brooks and Barbara Heroux (the theatre’s artistic director emeritus) have combed through the script, changing character names, modifying any reference to Japan, and removing anything that could be construed as an ethnic slur. For example, the character of the Mikado is now Il Ducato, emperor of Milan, and the line, ‘We are gentlemen of Japan’ has become, ‘We are gentlemen of Milan.'”
Let’s Talk About The (Game-Changing, Yes, We Said It) New San Francisco MoMA
“SFMOMA is about to rise high up the table of art museums and become an unmissable attraction on the west coast. Without doubt this achievement is in part a product of the money-fuelled transformation of the Bay Area – and the gallery’s expansion is unlikely to silence the increasingly loud talk of how the tech industry has stripped San Francisco of its culture and its soul.”
Imagine (If You Can) Being Lin-Manuel Miranda Right Now
“Miranda’s extraordinary success is a boon to an insecure industry hungry for heroes. Theater has long been receding as a popular art form; while it’s a tourist magnet in New York, elsewhere it’s become a fairly esoteric habit for a relatively small though devoted elite.”
Purple Before, And Now After, Prince
“Purple is a branding color, a very special color. Not many people use it.”
How Did The Pulitzer Bump Fare This Year?
“The Sympathizer: A Novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen — which tells the story of a Vietnamese undercover communist agent in Los Angeles and the fall of the South Vietnamese government in 1975 — won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Monday, and soon after began winning a very different kind of award: cold hard cash.”
Lifetime – Yes, *That* Lifetime – Turned Itself Into A Great Place For Women Directors
“Women wrote or directed 73% of Lifetime’s original films from 1994–2016. Lifetime’s always invested in female viewers, stories, and creators, but until public awareness of Hollywood’s entrenched misogyny crescendoed into a federal investigation, this priority went largely unheralded.”