“Gulf Labor members said they, along with other rights advocates, had provided the museum with examples of contract language that could help address issues related to recruitment fees, wages and the ability to organize. Museum officials have said those areas were beyond their direct influence.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Is Theatre Killing Itself By Being Obsessed With Hits (And Money)?
Playwright David Hare: “When I was young, British theatre was like a tree in which many different birds could nest. But now it’s just for the hawks.”
The Problem With Critics
“My objection isn’t so much to the idea that it’s wrong to use your own experiences as a guide to explain how you interact with the items under review as it is to the fact that so many of the critics who are doing it are boring, grasping people whose experiences are mundane at best and often comically overvalued given how empty and insignificant they are.”
So What Will Happen If Hamilton Doesn’t Win The Pulitzer?
“I image we’d see chaos and bloodshed in Shubert Alley if it was somehow passed over, the likes of which New York hasn’t witnessed since the Astor Place Riot of 1849, with Lin-Manuel Miranda pleading with his fans for some sanity.”
This Paris Museum May Rename Itself
“The Musée du quai Branly in Paris, the ethnographic museum located in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, could soon have a different name. The museum’s director, Stéphane Martin, has submitted a request to the French culture and higher education ministries.”
A 66-Year-Old Poet Suddenly Catches Fire With Pop Culture
“Myles has a theory about her resurgent popularity — you might call it the Theory of the Bad Copy, which posits that most people who are breaking with the past do so by presenting initially as bad copies of an accepted person.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs For 04.17.16
Pélieu Show, With Norman Mailer Cocktail
Feeding Tube Records offered some swag at its exhibition of Claude Pélieu’s Bosch-derived collages. “We made buttons as giveaways,” Byron Coley says, “and we featured a urine-colored cocktail called Norman Mailer’s Pocket.” You can be… … read more
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2016-04-17
AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2016-04-17
Blossom Time
Today’s cycling expedition took me through the upper reaches of apple country where the orchards are in bloom. It was a fairly mild winter around here but there was plenty of snow in the mountains,… … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-04-15
Today’s cycling expedition took me through the upper reaches of apple country where the orchards are in bloom. It was a fairly mild winter around here but there was plenty of snow in the mountains,… … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-04-15
Degas Digs Deep: MoMA Mines His Monotype Monomania–Part I
Like the Frick Collection’s Van Dyck show (discussed here), the Museum of Modern Art’s Degas: A Strange New Beauty(to July 24) is informed by the discerning eye of a prints-and-drawings curator who provides new… … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2016-04-15
Like the Frick Collection’s Van Dyck show (discussed here), the Museum of Modern Art’s Degas: A Strange New Beauty(to July 24) is informed by the discerning eye of a prints-and-drawings curator who provides new… … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2016-04-15
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Game Of Thrones As Immersive, Interactive Art Exhibit? Sure, Why Not
“‘It’s going to be aggressive to stand in front of because it’s 12-feet-tall and glowing red,’ said designer Ashley Walker.”
A Fierce Artist, Finally Getting Her Due
“I used to think, why am I putting myself through this? There’s enough tension and anxiety in my life already. But it was all I could do with the means that I had, which was me, and myself.”
Getting Playwrights Out Of ‘Developmental Hell’
“What makes this initiative unusual is that these plays are already guaranteed full productions beyond their one-night-only staged readings.”