“I used my parents as my inspiration for the design. They were still young campesinos in the ’40s. No matter how poor, I remember seeing my father dress himself in his dark pin stripe suit every Sunday morning for Mass; his calloused hands darkened by fieldwork. As a campesina, my mother would wear her khaki pants under her cotton dress for modesty. It was inconceivable just to wear pants for fieldwork!”
Author: ArtsJournal2
How Can The Nation’s Elite Colleges Diversify Their Student Body?
Maybe not with their new website. “There’s much about their admissions criteria that runs counter to the enrollment of underprivileged children, and it’s unclear if the new online platform and application process would really fix that.”
Printed Books Are In Absolutely No Danger
“A physical book is like eating a great meal in a beautiful restaurant with a fantastic view; an e-book is like eating that same meal from a takeout box on your lap in a basement.”
James Earl Jones And Cicely Tyson Are Still Trailblazers On Broadway
“A hilarious physical mismatch — Jones is 6-foot-2 and broad-shouldered, Tyson 5-foot-3 and thin — they are nevertheless equal players in both stage presence and historical significance.”
Hollywood: Are Viewers Lazy, Or Is It Filmmakers Who Fit That Description?
“Just a few years back, we had relatively sophisticated fare such as The Dark Knight hitting cinemas. If Christopher Nolan’s movie were to be remade today, would it be titled Batman v Joker?”
Bradley Cooper Vows To Reveal His Salary To Female Costars Before Filming
“‘I don’t know where it’s changing otherwise but that’s something that I could do,’ Cooper said. ‘Usually you don’t talk about the financial stuff, you have people. But you know what? It’s time to start doing that,’ he added.”
The Performance Art Piece That (Truly, Deeply) Appears To Be A Feminist Lesbian Haunted House
“The project, which occupies the park’s entire community center, features a singular marriage of high-minded gender and queer theory mixed in with zombies, witches, feminist latch-hook rugs and some very large sculptures of tampons.”
Actually, Why Don’t Film Sets Have Child Care?
“‘Sets never have childcare. I think it doesn’t happen because it hasn’t occurred to anyone,’ added Garai, among the stars of the new film Suffragette. ‘It’s stymying women’s careers.'”
The Philadelphia Orchestra Is Still In Trouble
“The orchestra’s problem isn’t hard to see. It is under-capitalized. It has the quality of a top-tier ensemble, but lacks the endowment to support it. It needs more money to program and market properly, and if it were programming and marketing properly, it might attract more money. The Philadelphia Orchestra is the city’s longest-running chicken-and-egg problem.”
Translating Shakespeare … To The Language Of Ballet
“The ubiquity of Romeo and Juliet as a ballet is not shared by any other Shakespeare play. In fact, although the strength of his stories and characters seem to make the playwright a good choice for dance, in practice those few ballets based on his other plays have often foundered on dance’s difficulty with translating thought into action; narrative alone is not enough to sweep the audience along in these plays.”