“Do you sympathize when they encounter adversity and cheer them on when they overcome it? Can you share in the bitter, bursting fruits of their outrage even when you find it mystifying? Then you are being a Good Friend. Really, I promise. You are exemplary.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
New Photo Shows Van Gogh, Gauguin And Other Artists Drinking Together
“The photograph was identified through discovering the names of the other figures in the picture (who include artists Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard, no small discovery in themselves), fixing it in a place and time, and analyzing the photographic process.”
What Misty Copeland’s Promotion To Principal Dancer Would Mean
“Ms. Copeland, who has more than 500,000 Instagram followers plus TV and film deals in hand, is having a moment. … All that publicity, though, has no bearing on what happens onstage.”
Watching Your Brilliant Social Housing Get Threatened By The Very Offices That Commissioned It
“What really disgusts Macintosh is the complicity of Labour-run Lambeth in wrecking the legacy that they once created, ‘their eager cooperation with central government in the process of the privatisation of public assets,’ their ‘sham consultations with residents, which are really exercises in hard-sell and bullying,’ their ‘heartless eviction operations.'”
The Kremlin Is Not Cool With A Play About Oscar Wilde
“A plan to stage an American theater company’s gay-themed play in Moscow, with support from the United States government, has stalled amid tensions between the two nations and at a time of Kremlin hostility toward homosexuality.”
The Berlin Phil Has Chosen Its New Conductor
Kiril Petrenko “is best-known for his work in the opera pit; he spent five years at the helm of the Berlin Komische Oper, and has been general music director of the Bavarian State Opera since 2013.”
Do Open Auditions Ever Truly Work, For The Actors Or The Films?
“Film producer Kathleen Kennedy said they decided to have open auditions because of the film’s tradition of casting unknown actors in the past such as Mark Hamill, albeit through the traditional casting process.”
Charles Correa Fused Modernism And India’s History To Create A New Architecture
“He created striking museums and university buildings in India and abroad — including one at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his alma mater — as well as housing for a country with an ever-growing population.”
Taylor Swift Tells Apple To Pay Musicians For All The Weeks Of That New Streaming Service
“Three months is a long time to go unpaid, and it is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing.”
And Boom, Taylor Swift Forces Apple To Pay Its Artists
“Apple says it’s bowing to concerns raised by pop superstar Taylor Swift. The giant tech company now plans to pay royalties to artists and record labels during a free, three-month trial of its new streaming music service.”