“When I tell people that I make shows for babies, and that the youngest audience member for Replay’s work was just four days old, they often look incredulous. The look is swiftly followed by a lot of questions: ‘How does that work?’ ‘What’s the point?’ And, most of all, ‘But they’re not going to remember!’ Here’s the thing. They are.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Deep Moral Failings Of Those Who Would Ban Toni Morrison’s Books
“When schools and institutions attempt to ban The Bluest Eye there is a distinct and ugly irony to this exile. I often think of Morrison’s own words, ‘If you’re going to hold someone down you’re going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain.'”
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What’s The Story Behind The Melting Streetlamp In The Lobby Of The New Broad Museum?
“Is the Broad’s lobby lamp a nod to LACMA’s sidewalk lamps — and a tribute to Burden, who died of cancer in May at 69?”
How Do Groups Doing Community-Based Work Know If They’ve Done Anything Right?
“Community-based arts projects face a unique challenge in maintaining their impact after the practitioners and organizers move on to other projects.”
The (Surprisingly Sordid) History Of Book Blurbs
Gary Shteyngart: “‘I’ll look at a first sentence [of a galley], I’ll look at the cover and it just comes to me,’ he says. ‘Reading randomly from a book is also very helpful. Sometimes I try to read further — but you know, how far can you get? Does anyone even read these books anymore?’ That said, he doesn’t hold back. ‘I’ve compared people to Shakespeare, Tolstoy or whatever.'”
How Will We Talk To The Technology Of The Future?
“They have taken that most inscrutable of interfaces — the Check Engine light — and forced it to explain itself. It can hear you, and speak back, all over the din of the open road.”
Ballet By The Numbers
“720: Cans of silver sparkle body paint used by dancers playing the role of snowflakes in The Nutcracker.”
The Banned Iranian Filmmaker Who Keeps Making Films Anyway
“After Mr. Panahi’s release, he was barred for 20 years from making films, writing screenplays, speaking to the media or leaving the country. Today, he lives in a legal limbo and would face six years in prison if authorities decided to charge him with violating the ban.”
Yep, Hollywood Is Still One Big Sexist Industry
“From 2007 to 2014, women made up only 30.2% of all speaking or named characters in the 100 top-grossing films distributed in the US, according to research conducted by the University of Southern California for the Geena Davis Institute. A staggeringly low 1.9% of those films were directed by women.”