Yeah, immigration didn’t just pop into international consciousness when Donald Trump was on the campaign trail. “Marginalized writers are told by white editors, we need your stories now more than ever, as if we have not always needed them urgently. We are told our experiences are timely, exotic, and trendy. We are told our stories are not authentic if our characters do not suffer, as if the only way to prove that we are human is to bleed.”
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Ouch: Moving This Bernini Statue Cost The Sculpture Her Ring Finger
Small blessings in this tale of workers gone a bit too careless (and in the debate of whether great art should be lent out or moved): “‘At least it didn’t pulverize; it came off in one piece,’ the Rev. Augusto Frateschi, the parish priest, said.”
How Bob Fosse Changed The Future Of Dance During The Filming Of ‘Kiss Me Kate’
He got the chance to dance, and choreograph, and many things followed. Eventually, Fosse “took the step of acknowledging that the lyric situation of the show, its song-world, was different from its story. Indeed, he went in for forthright antirealism.”
Ian McEwan Is Still An Author, Sure, But Now He’s Also A Movie Consultant
That’s partly because he has learned, while writing screenplays for his films, to work with film directors who are also theatre directors. The author says, “A theater director is used to the idea of finding out what’s the best way of realizing the play. … They are very much more open, I think, to the idea of the screenwriter as an equal collaborator.”
Today In Unintended Consequences, Sweden’s Thieves Can’t Rob Banks, So They’re Stealing Owls
Sweden’s war on cash has changed a lot about the country, including how robbers operate. “As Sweden’s supply of banknotes continues to dwindle, criminals have shown new enthusiasm for the endangered-species black market, previously cornered by reptile wranglers and orchid thieves. Crimes involving protected species recently reached their highest level in a decade. A single great gray owl — known as the ‘phantom of the north’ — now goes for 1 million kronor (about $120,000) on the dark web.”
Donor Saves Canada’s National Gallery From Having To Sell Painting
The National Gallery announced on Thursday it will not pay a penalty itself for withdrawing the 1929 work The Eiffel Tower from auction, the proceeds of which it had planned to use to buy a Jacques-Louis David painting from a Quebec church. The gallery said an unidentified donor had agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to Christie’s auction house to release the work.
Thieves Steal Ballet School’s Costumes; Dancers Get To Work Sewing Replcaements
Ballet dancers from the Central School of Ballet had 100 outfits stolen from their touring van, leaving them without costumes for their showcase which signifies their graduation and for many a chance to secure jobs with dance companies.
The Flaws Of Science Deniers
This widespread rejection of scientific findings presents a perplexing puzzle to those of us who value an evidence-based approach to knowledge and policy. Yet many science deniers do cite empirical evidence. The problem is that they do so in invalid, misleading ways. Psychological research illuminates these ways.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Gives $43 Million To 200 Arts Orgs For Management
By invitation only, selected organizations are being offered unrestricted support — roughly 10 percent of their annual operating budgets — in addition to arts-management training. That includes a consulting mentor for each organization and a series of seminars for all grantees in a given city on topics such as fund-raising, strategic planning, marketing and board development.
What Jaap Van Zweden Accomplished With The Dallas Symphony
Van Zweden has taken a good orchestra and made it — most of the time, if not always — a great one. He has brought discipline and precision, a new intensity in performances and new stylistic flexibility.