Viet Thanh Nguyen: “Seeing my son reading, I realize he is taking one step further on his own road to independence, to being a border-crosser, someone who makes his own decisions, including what he reads and what he believes. Perhaps that’s why seeing him read on his own is tinged with melancholy. I remember my own loss and I sense the loss that is yet to come, when he is no longer all mine.”
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This Artist Almost Went Mad During A Month Eating, Working, And Sleeping In A Giant British Mall
Rachel Maclean had “the residency from hell,” and in the year since her immersive art experience ended, she’s done her best to avoid all shopping centers. And the art didn’t work well either: “The only brand that would allow her to film in its shop was Smiggle, purveyor of unicorn-embossed children’s stationery.”
Why, And How, Did A Liverpool Biennial Artwork Documenting The Deaths Of Thousands Of Refugees Disappear?
What the … “On Wednesday, August 1, the Liverpool Biennial announced that their installation of The List was anonymously removed by unauthorized persons unaffiliated with the arts festival. The city council also affirmed that nobody employed by the municipality was thought to have pilfered the long list of the dead. On Twitter, the biennial is asking for anyone with knowledge related to the work’s disappearance to come forward.”
The Other Marvel Black Panther Also Stars In Movies, But You’ll Never See Him [AUDIO]
James Mathis III plays T’Challa, the Black Panther, in Marvel cartoons and video games. What’s the difference between him and Black Panther (the 2017 movie) star Chadwick Boseman – and did the wild success of the movie change his ways of approaching the character? “It’s still acting, and it’s still creating character,” he says. “You are limited in voiceover though … you have to figure out how to convey emotion using just your voice.”
The Internet Lit Up As Patrick Stewart Confirmed He Is Returning To ‘Star Trek’
Stewart, who last played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a 2002 movie, said, “During these past years, it has been humbling to hear many stories about how ‘The Next Generation’ brought people comfort, saw them through difficult periods in their lives or how the example of Jean-Luc inspired so many to follow in his footsteps, pursuing science, exploration and leadership. … I feel I’m ready to return to him for the same reason — to research and experience what comforting and reforming light he might shine on these often very dark times.”
Grousing About Klaus: Is Biesenbach Right For MOCA?
Some were willing to give Biesenbach leeway … until an interview with The New York Times made him look like he didn’t know much (at all) about Los Angeles.
Musicians Who Compose Film Scores Need – And Get – Special Training
Each year, 12 composers spend a month in Los Angeles in a compressed, specialized program to help them understand the world of scoring movies – and how to deal with the details. A successful alum: “You’re basically putting on the suit of a composer and pretending you’ve had decades of experience, and you are getting to know these people who you’re going to be interacting with for the rest of your career, hopefully.”
Furtwangler and the Nazis
Was there a characteristically German cultural-philosophical mind-set that helped produce Hitler, and did Fürtwangler embody it?
So Much Sour Salami
When journalist Frank Scully met Luigi Pirandello before WWII, they talked about Mussolini.
The Fraught Relationship Between Directors And Actors
There’s been a lot of art about this – and much more may be coming in the wake of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. “Acting’s demands are personal as well as technical. Actors often have to perform a role badly, over and over and over again, before they can perform it well, which is embarrassing and exposing. This conspires to give a director or teacher or coach a lot of power and an actor — unless that actor is a star — very little.”