“The jurors, who separately operate German, Swiss, Italian and American galleries, begin their work about 11 months before the fair. In a series of gatherings, they and their advisers discuss their selections, vote, consider appeals and ponder larger questions: Should they include contemporary Chinese artists? Yes. Art by artists coming of age in the digital era? Definitely.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Something Rotten! Capitalizes On Its Loser Status
“If by ‘loser’ you’re referring to a man who is greeted eight times a week by a thousand people who stand as one, applauding until their hands are raw, cheering until their voices are spent, whispering, ‘He’s so much better looking in person!,’ and laughing until their faces are contorted in an anguished mask that can best be described as a sort of Bell’s palsy … then yes, I am a loser.”
Book Reviews Have Gotten Way, Way Nicer Than They Used To Be
“The magazines competed for the cruellest contributors but, as everyone knew, the most fearless wrote for Blackwood’s.”
A Pre-War European Orchestra, Brought Back To Life
“Most powerful for me was the depth of meaning to recreate something like this. Most all the original members went to Treblinka extermination camp. It just carries this weight.”
China’s E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Will Soon Launch ‘Netflix-Like’ Streaming Service
“As an online marketplace, Alibaba is more profitable than Amazon, but the move falls in line with Amazon’s ambitions to make Amazon Prime Instant a popular destination for video streaming.”
How Hollywood Sets Up Women Superheroes To Fail
“That’s our double standard. Poorly penned scripts. Rom-com female superheroes. A lack of female writers. A lack of understanding female audiences. Unknown directors. Significantly lower budgets. Little, if any, merchandising.”
The Man Who Stole History From The Nazis And Just Couldn’t Stop
“Mr. Szajkowski (pronounced shy-KOV-skee) took home disturbing memorabilia, too, like Hitler’s stationery and antlers from Hermann Göring’s hunting lodge. He sometimes tore apart books to cram them into shipping containers. ‘I’m doing my barbaric work with a clean conscience,’ he wrote to a friend in 1945.”
How Did Pixar’s Newest Movie Get Emotions So Right In Image And Word?
“As the filmmakers were working, they would fire off emails to Keltner and to Paul Ekman, a pioneer in the study of emotions. The process helped create a movie that’s true to the underlying science when it shows things like how emotions tend to color Riley’s perception of the world.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs For 06.14.15
Rethinking Multimovement Form
AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-06-14
Using Oral Histories To Write For Justice
Mimi Lok: “If you only see someone as a case study then it normally hones in on that instance or instances of where they had their human rights violated. It’s reducing that person to that moment of injustice. You are reducing that person’s whole experience. We want to do the opposite.”