Think about Call Me By Your Name or Sag Harbor, for instance. “At its most basic, this means a release from the usual constraints, although at the same time summer provides a usefully closed system.”
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Amazon Removes A Few Racist Items, But Many Remain
Wow: “After criticism from advocacy groups and Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison about the availability of Nazi-themed toys and baby onesies with pictures of burning crosses on Amazon’s website, the company said this week that it had removed several items and banned sellers who had violated its policies.” OK, but “a search by NPR of Amazon’s website yielded many results of racist paraphernalia, especially books by white supremacists.”
The Met And Two Of Its Largest Unions Reached A Quiet Deal
The Met is still reeling from the accusations against James Levine, so the quiet deals could be very good for the opera company. “If the deal is ratified, it will remove the threat of a work stoppage as the company prepares for its first season with the conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin as its music director.”
Authorities Bulldoze Ai Weiwei’s Studio In Beijing With No Warning
His team raced today to save as many sculptures and other artworks as possible as excavators clawed holes in the walls. “They came and started knocking down the windows today without telling us beforehand. There’s still so much stuff inside.”
New Power Versus Old Power In The Arts
“It would be difficult to think of a field that is more old-power than the arts. As the former executive director of a nonprofit theater company, I know that firsthand. Many arts organizations–particularly in the performing arts–are usually headed by an artistic director, music director, or general manager who has almost total control over the artistic content that is produced, and that artistic content is then marketed to the public by the managerial staff who has little or no say on these artistic selections. Closely connected with this old-power/new-power dynamic is the way that technology has been embraced in these organizations (or not).”
What Does It Mean To Be Innovative In America’s Nonprofit Theatre?
The study’s authors found that the average arts and culture organization in the U.S. engaged with 13.4 percent of its local population, either in person or online, in 2013. At the same time, the authors noted that their metric of “total touch points” does not reveal the duration, depth or quality of engagement each person has with the organization.
US Theatre Increasingly Flips The White Perspective. How Will That Change Theatre?
The word that came to mind as I watched each of these shows was dislocation – each seems to change the viewer’s place in the hierarchy of society and of theatre. Each work uses entirely different techniques and achieves different effects, but they serve as harbingers of how audiences entrenched in 20th century theatremaking may feel in 25 years.
Shows About US Are Center Stage At This Summer’s Edinburgh Fringe
American history and politics are centre stage at this year’s Edinburgh festival. Alongside five shows with “Trump” in the title, from comedy to musicals, several fringe productions are interrogating troubling aspects of US culture.
More Of The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries In Pictures
We’re suckers for these galleries – it’s pure library picture porn. The amazing images of these libraries around the world speak to the place books have in our consciousness.
UK Declares Itself A Leader In “Ethical” AI
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May announced her country’s goal to become a world leader in “ethical A.I.” Three months later, the U.K. unveiled its A.I. Sector Deal, a comprehensive policy that establishes a partnership between government, academia, and industry to address residents’ and businesses’ goals and concerns with respect to A.I.