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This Artist Gets His Ideas – And His Style – From Bugs [VIDEO]
Artist Steven Kutcher, who paints various bugs’ (and tarantulas’) feet and then creates larger paintings based on the trails: “My favorite artists are the good ones. They created new languages.”
Museum Musical Chairs (again): Frick to Sublease Building That the Met Leases from Whitney
Wait, what? Yes: “The Met hopes to decamp from the Whitney Museum’s former flagship building in 2020. The Frick would become the new temporary tenant to 2023.”
When Your Bookstore Has A Tough Time, Why Not Combine Forces With The Butcher Shop And The Bakery?
In this town of 8,500 people in Germany, both bakeries closed, and the bookshop was having a hard time – so it was time for a combination of Brötchen and Bücher. (The Wurst came a little later.)
Agnès Varda Is Like Yes, I’m 90, But I’m Not Dead Yet, So Stop Being All Reverential
Indeed, the French New Wave filmmaker is still a sort of “punk monk” despite failing eyesight and difficulty walking. Varda says not to patronize her: “I am still alive, I am still curious. I should not be treated like an old piece of rotting flesh!”
African Science Fiction Isn’t ‘Rising’ – It Was Already Here
The wave of articles about “the rise of African SFF” or “the rise of Afrofuturism” sound familiar because they’re almost exact replicas of the same genre of articles from about 10 years ago – and those were similar to the previous wave of articles discussing the same thing. Indeed, the articles are “perpetuators of a gentle literary oppression that keeps African science fiction infantile.”
As New York’s Natural History Museum Tries To Expand, Its Neighbors File A Lawsuit – And The Museum Starts ‘Preconstruction’ Work
The lawsuit should be settled soon, one way or another. But the activists who filed it are furious to find that the American Museum of Natural History has started what it calls “preconstruction work” and what the neighbors and activists call “bullying tactics.” That work includes closing an entry to the park where it plans to expand.
The Job Of An Editor Is To Edit, And Here’s How Ian Buruma Missed It By A Mile
No, Mr. Buruma, it wasn’t that you “blew up” on Twitter when angry readers of your New York Times Review of Books found an essay by an accused – though acquitted – sexual abuser headlining the magazine. It wasn’t even your flippant interview with Slate that sealed your fate. It was the lack of editing. “Accuracy aside, the piece Buruma found so ‘interesting’ is, actually, unbearably trite. As a literary personal essay, it is a failure, written in abstract and bland language, drowning under the weight of vague therapeutic bromides.”
‘The Ring’ Machine Is Getting A (Quite Literal) Retool
The stories of the 45-ton set’s missteps are legion, but, “after spending months in the shop, it should be ready to go for another spin this spring, Met officials hope.”
There’s So Much More To Lorraine Hansberry Than ‘Raisin In The Sun’
As a matter of fact, Raisin has had the odd effect of making the playwright famous, and obscuring the realities of who she was. “She was a feminist before the feminist movement. She identified as a lesbian and thought about LGBT organizing before there was a gay rights movement. She was an anti-colonialist before independences had been won in Africa and the Caribbean.”