The code, unveiled Thursday by the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), requires all signatories to enact a zero-tolerance policy for harassment, discrimination, bullying and violence. It also requires them to implement consequences for violations, designate people to receive complaints, provide a process for resolution and protect complainants from reprisals.
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Frida Kahlo’s Family Objects To Barbie Doll Based On The Artist
“Mattel has worked in close partnership with the Frida Kahlo Corporation, the owner of all rights related to the name and identity of Frida Kahlo, on the creation of this doll,” a spokesperson said. “In addition to the Frida Kahlo Corporation being an important part of the doll development process, we have their permission and a legally binding agreement to make a doll in the likeness of the great Frida Kahlo.”
Arms Dealer Pulls Out Of Arts Festival Sponsorship After Public Protests
BAE Systems has now put out a statement saying it “remains supportive of the aims of the Great Exhibition” but has decided to “redirect our support to other initiatives better suited to both our skills and innovation objectives”.
If We’re In A Golden Age Of Drag, Then Drag Kings Want In
“Largely due to the commercial success of RuPaul’s Logo-turned-VH1 reality competition show RuPaul’s Drag Race, drag has become perhaps more mainstream and visible than ever. But … drag kings still perform on the fringes of mainstream pop culture. Even though the medium has existed, in different forms, for decades, performances of masculinity aren’t privileged the same way performances of femininity are.” Reporter Hazel Cills meets some of the folks trying to change that.
Record Phillips Auction Sets London Records In Hot Sales Week
Before the sale, the pre-1945 Modern content was estimated at 37 percent of the value of the entire sale—an increase on any previous Phillips sale. By the end, it was more like 60 percent. So with only Phillip’s day sale to go, the London Impressionist and Modern sales total has ended with just over £400 million ($551 million) in sales, the second highest for the capital, while the Contemporary bracket is looking at a record in the region of £340 million ($469 million). When the two categories are combined it also marks a new record for London—and there, in the heart of the scrum, Phillips has proved they can mix it with the big boys.
Conductor Myung-Whun Chung Injured In Auto Accident
The former chief conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France and the Opéra-Bastille in Paris has been forced to withdraw from performances next week of La Bohème at La Fenice in Venice after his car was hit by a truck.
A Talented Arts Administrator Dies Too Soon. He Had Much To Teach About Values
It seems an apt time to weave together a few of the threads that made Bob Capanna who he was — the Bobness of Bob, if you will. Capanna embodied a set of high ideals that arts institutions might aim for as the sector struggles with questions of identity versus survival, art versus entertainment, flavor-of-the-month programming ideas to please funders versus core mission, and the endless strain of working harder for an ever-smaller slice of the attention pie.
‘It Tore The Cover Off A City’: An Oral History Of ‘The Wire’, Ten Years On
Creator and showrunner David Simon sold The Wire to HBO as “the anti-cop show, a rebellion of sorts against all the horseshit police procedurals afflicting American television.” Says actor Aidan Gillen, “It dealt with issues that no other shows would be interested in dealing with. It didn’t compromise in any areas. To get it, you had to watch and listen, and there was a risk that people might not have bothered, but they did.”
After 50(!) Years Singing At The Met, Paul Plishka Retires
The voice is a fragile thing, and few singers end up with 50-year careers at the Metropolitan Opera. The bass Paul Plishka is one of them.
Marina Abramović Is Going To Play Maria Callas In An Opera
“Almost 30 years after she first conceived the idea, Marina Abramović is to finally realise her Seven Deaths project. The Belgrade-born artist has turned the work into an opera, which she will direct herself. The production is due to debut at the Munich Opera House in 2020, with plans for it to tour to Covent Garden in London. The project will see Abramović play her lifelong hero Maria Callas dying in seven operas”