Though let’s be honest here, Hollywood probably knows who SHOULD be next. “This is, after all, Hollywood in the age of President Trump, a reality show host who crystallized the marriage of celebrity and politics, and a candidate who admitted to groping women only to land in the White House. The entertainment industry railed at Trump but the allegations against Weinstein, Ratner and others suggest a long pattern of abuse perpetrated by men who considered themselves artists and liberals.”
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The New Republic’s Publisher Resigns Following More Claims Of Inappropriate Conduct
Hamilton Fish wrote, “It’s my sense that our office culture has been harmed, and the best way for me to help the organization move past this is by withdrawing. … Women have longstanding and profound concerns with respect to their treatment in the workplace. Many men have a lot to learn in this regard. I know I do.” An investigation is ongoing.
Kevin Spacey Suspended From ‘House Of Cards’ During Ongoing Investigation
As information continues to emerge, and after Netflix suspended its relationship with the studio while Spacey was involved in the program, “the studio behind the hit television series House of Cards has suspended Kevin Spacey while it investigates what it called ‘serious allegations’ concerning the actor’s behavior on set.”
How A Jazz Musician Is Redefining Culture At At The Kennedy Center
Not so long ago, Moran’s eclectic, adventurous approach to jazz would have placed him well outside the aesthetic boundaries of Washington’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts . But in the past few years, the big white box on the Potomac has opened its venues to jazz in tandem with skateboarders, stand-up comics, dancers, painters and rappers. This redefining of what it means to be the “national cultural center” is, to a large extent, the doing of Jason Moran.
Museum Of The Bible Says It Won’t Promote Any Specific Religion – Will Its Conservative Christian Funders Stick To That?
“Financial documents and interviews reveal a tangled relationship between the nonprofit museum; Hobby Lobby and its owners, the conservative-Christian Green family; and the National Christian Foundation, a donor-advised fund that supports key soldiers in the national battle for conservative Christian values. … The murky ties between the three entities have attracted the attention of museum and nonprofit experts who have expressed concern about the project’s political agenda, potential conflicts of interest and compliance with tax laws.”
How Foundations Are (And Aren’t) Picking Up The Slack As British Arts Funding Shrinks
“After the bottom dropped out of local authority arts funding, those in charge of the purse strings at arts organisations naturally looked elsewhere for support. … But trusts and foundations have consistently stressed that they cannot – and will not – become a substitute for lost local authority funding. … What impact has this tension had on the sorts of projects that receive funding through trusts and foundations in recent years? Representatives from [three foundations] provided more insight.”
How Western Philosophy Excluded The Rest Of The World
“Africa and Asia were excluded from the philosophical canon by the confluence of two interrelated factors. On the one hand, defenders of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) consciously rewrote the history of philosophy to make it appear that his critical idealism was the culmination toward which all earlier philosophy was groping, more or less successfully. On the other hand, European intellectuals increasingly accepted and systematised views of white racial superiority that entailed that no non-Caucasian group could develop philosophy.”
What The Art Forum Sexual Harassment Scandal Says About The Visual Art World
As with the many other sexual misconduct accusations working their way through the news — whether about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, film director James Toback, or former New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier — the Artforum allegations have laid bare the art world’s power structures and the inequities women face within them.
Why Nostalgia Feels Like Security For Millennials
For millennials, who came of age amidst the global financial crisis of 2008 only to graduate into today’s period of immense political and social turmoil, comfort and stability may seem like the ultimate luxuries. And they’re willing to pay good money for clothes that make them feel secure.
What It’s Like To Be The Only Black Art Commissioner In A City (Exhausting)
“As an arts commissioner swept up in a zeitgeist where all public displays of art honoring problematic white men are on red alert, [Kilolo] Luckett is in a position where she must not only help [Pittsburgh] navigate this space, but she also gets to help discern what message the city sends to the people. As a professional art historian, this is an uneasy dance of preserving artistic freedoms and expressions and also making sure decisions are not merely capitulations to political correction.”