“Social media reaction was predictably ‘awesome.’ Many Lego owners offered to donate their bricks to [Ai] so he could complete his project.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
If Publishers’ Workforces Are 89 Percent White People, How Will Publishing Diversify?
“Diversity as an editor begins with your friends, your teachers, and your books. What rooms are you in? What conversations? Who are the people in your social media feeds? When you go home, is your family all white? When you go to a party, are your friends all white? When you look down your bookshelf, are all your books by white authors? Those are some tests. What people call diversity has always been, to me, my life. And so if your tastes are not diverse, your life may also not be. And if you find a result you don’t like in all of this, then you work on it.”
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The London Underground Is Touting What Might Be The Worst Poetry Ever Written
“Like the lingering fart of a fat dog, it is impossible to ignore the poetry on the London Underground. There is something mind-numbingly awful about the posters that sit insultingly in trains and on the walls of Tube platforms. This city deserves better poetry because it would be impossible for its current batch to be any worse.”
Should London Be Getting A New Performance Hall That’s Only For One Orchestra?
“Among groups gathering to fight the recommended site are those worried about an expensive new facility that might come to be dominated by just one London orchestra and those who think the City of London is the wrong place to attract new audiences.”
Yes, Teenagers Still Need Libraries
“Libraries are one of the few places people can still go to ask questions face-to-face about anything from Shakespeare and atoms to how to get help with everything from house issues to mental health. The most vulnerable members of our society need spaces where information is available from people rather than just being ‘out there’ on the internet. Not everyone has a computer or knows how to find what they need. Not everyone has books at home or a well-stocked school library.”
What Do Westerners Think Africa Looks Like? The Lagos Photo Festival May Change Everyone’s Mind
“‘There is hardly any photojournalism work this year,’ the festival curator, Cristina de Middel, said. ‘And that’s because the classical documentary approach to storytelling on the continent is exhausted.'”
Who Is To Blame For Jane Austen Erotica? The BBC, Of Course
“Rated titles on Goodreads at present include Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen, Pride and Penetration, Mr. Darcy’s Undoing, Felicity in Marriage (Erotic Pride and Prejudice Continuation, #1), and the succinctly titled Spank Me, Mr. Darcy.”
Dear Smartphone Users: You Are Psychotic Scroll Jockeys
“I realize that I am swimming against the tide of history here. But if I can ask a question that we may have overlooked in our rush to take advantage of everything that’s available to us in this new world, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?”
Danièle Delorme, Grande Dame Of French Cinema, Brought Colette’s Novels To Life Onscreen
In Gigi, “the delicate Delorme (who was followed by Audrey Hepburn on stage and Leslie Caron in the Hollywood musical) was perfectly cast as a young girl trained as a courtesan by her aunt, but who opts for true love and marriage to a rake whom she reforms.”