“It feels like it’s been in labour for such a long time. You now want your child to come off the ventilator and grow up and become part of the modern world. That’s what it’s felt like.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
When A Famous Choreographer Takes Himself To Broadway
“The show opens with a big dance number, closes with a 14-minute ballet and, with ballet dancers in the leading roles, it relies on dancing all the way through to propel the plot. It perfectly encapsulates the artistic character of the boyish-looking, 42-year-old Wheeldon: a sophisticated balletmaker who is a hopeless fan of razzle-dazzle.”
Deal With It: Los Angeles Is The New Capital Of The Art World
“The Broad Museum is about to open its doors this September, and by doing so it’s going to explode a U.S. military style daisy cutter on the Los Angeles art scene. Then comes Hauser Wirth and Schimmel (HWS) a few blocks away in LA’s undeniably burgeoning Arts District. … Its palatial grounds, amidst the growing number of galleries, will cement LA as the new capital of the art world, what I simply call ArtWorldInc.”
Toni Morrison Changed Publishing Forever
“During the years that she worked at Random House, she published books by Muhammad Ali, Henry Dumas, Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton, Toni Cade Bambara and Gayl Jones, whom she discovered in the 1970s. Jones’s manuscript was so impressive that when Morrison read it for the first time, uppermost in her mind, she once wrote, was ‘that no novel about any black woman could ever be the same after this.'” Oh, and then she started writing her own novels.
That Time Salman Rushdie Had No Idea How Goodreads Worked
“Rushdie, who won the Booker Prize for Midnight’s Children and had a fatwa placed upon him upon the publication of The Satanic Verses, awarded Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis one star, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird just three.”
How Precisely Did The Planned Island In The Hudson River Come About?
“The $113 million for Pier 55, for which Hudson River Park still has only an oral pledge from Mr. Diller, has put the spotlight on the park’s longstanding financial problems, embodied by the deterioration of Pier 40, at the foot of Houston Street.”
Federal Judge Dismisses Animators’ Antitrust Suit Over Wage Practices
“The animation workers tried to argue that the statute of limitations clock started when they first discovered what they considered evidence of wage fixing — at the time documents from the prior litigation were unsealed — but Koh disagreed.”
Can This Man #SaveNewYork?
“His personal ire is frequently directed at what he calls Yunnies, or young urban narcissists. Yunnies are, by his account, the silent accomplices of hyper-gentrification: de-cultured millennials who actively like to shop at Target and could not care less if a quirky shrine like Bill’s Gay Nineties, which is the tavern where Tallulah Bankhead used to drink and which closed three years ago, is turned into a garish, high-end restaurant.”
The Film Scholar Who Tracked Down And Archived Decades Of African American Films
“Seeking visual representations of black people in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, [Phyllis Klotman] learned of the existence of a body of work — long scattered, little known and unpreserved — by early black filmmakers. She traveled the country, scouring attics and cellars and museum vaults, assembling a collection of films by and about African-Americans. Many had survived only in fragments.”
Adults Who Are Addicted To High School Musicals Are, Apparently, A Thing
Um: “Fans seek out the student performances for cheap entertainment or a chance to see a musical that otherwise might not be performed locally. Some even follow the teenage thespians as though they were A-list stars.”