“Then there are the ornate headpieces and floppy, wide-brimmed hats. Everyone wears a wig. … There are 210 of them, three times as many as in any other Ballet Theater production, the head of the wig department, Rena Most, said. The Queen’s perruque towers above her like a sheaf of wheat, augmented further by a spray of giant feathers.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Why The World Needs Women Rock Critics
“In the effort to prove the burgeoning rock scene of the sixties a worthy subject of critical inquiry, rock needed to be established as both serious and authentic. One result of these arguments—the Rolling Stones vs. Muddy Waters, Motown vs. Stax, Bob Dylan vs. the world—was that women came out on the losing side, as frivolous and phony. Whether a teen-age fan or a member of a girl group, women lacked genuine grit—even female critics thought so.”
Will The Protest Mattress – Remember, It Was A Senior Year Art Project – End Up In A Museum?
“Whatever its fate in art or social history, Mattress Performance could well live on in objecthood. But would a museum or gallery want it? On the phone from California, where she is visiting a friend in Laguna Beach post-graduation and luxuriating in the distance from the 50-pound mattress she hauled around daily since September, Sulkowicz says no one has approached her about the prospect yet.”
Explaining Theatre To Someone Who’s Never Seen A Play
“Perhaps what we don’t talk about enough is the pleasure of theatre, how it makes us feel, and why those of us who go frequently love it so much.”
How A Twitter Campaign Changed (This Year’s) BookCon
“There were some instances where, when we were planning panels — Who’s available? Who fits with kind of the theme of this panel? — where we would definitely stop and say, ‘We need diversity included here. We have three white people; the fourth cannot be that way.'”
When The Only ‘American Girl’ Black Doll Is A Slave, We’ve Got A Problem
“If you were a white girl who wanted a historical doll who looked like you, you could imagine yourself in Samantha’s Victorian home or with Kirsten, weathering life on the prairie. If you were a black girl, you could only picture yourself as a runaway slave.”
Dean Sends ‘USC7’ MFA Group Another Letter
“As the USC students and the administration go back and forth over what promises were and were not kept, a larger debate now rages about the future of art in education.”
‘USC7’ MFA Students Respond To Dean’s Letter
“Current and former Roski faculty also issued a statement, expressing solidarity with the USC7, urging the administration to ‘honor its commitments to its students.'”
Color Collotype Printing Preserves Japan’s Heritage [VIDEO]
“Benrido has been kept alive by the Japanese government, who use this intricate printing method to ‘replicate and preserve Japan’s heritage’ by copying important cultural documents and artworks in case of natural disaster. Yamamoto, who treasures collotype, and is saddened to see its decline over the past several decades, views it as his duty to preserve the process – and Japan’s history – for the next generation.”
What Happened When An Opera Company Opened Its Dress Rehearsal To Working-Class Students
“It was an extremely new experience to be sitting in the three-tiered performance hall, listening to the kind of song and live music that was so good it belonged on an album.”