Category: issues

“Sandy’s fight with Hannah reveals a lot about previously unexplored racial tension on Girls, and it does so in a way that’s far more nuanced than a token minority character is usually allowed. He rips her ‘bullshit’–in short, how girls like Hannah fetishize black men, then ditch them when they share their thoughts and feelings.”

“The idea that unless you create scarcity around intellectual property, creators will stop creating, is just crazy.”

“New York-based artist Adam Harvey doesn’t like [surveillance culture] one bit. So he’s taken it upon himself to design anti-surveillance clothing to foil government snoopers.”

A Canadian man who bilked actors out of thousands of dollars as he pretended to get them arts visas to the U.S. has pled no contest to the counts against him.

“If food production can be art, why don’t we also consider the cooking of food as art? Combining and transforming materials is a fundamentally creative activity, whether those materials are paints, clays, musical notes or edible ingredients.”

“An Executive Director of Arts Council England (ACE) … has been allowed to join her new organisation as its Chief Executive whilst on a six-month sabbatical being paid for by ACE.” Andrea Stark will receive her six-figure salary through June, when she becomes eligible for a six-figure redundancy payment.

“Want to stage a realistic re-enactment of a violent 1980s industrial dispute? Or perhaps line the interior of an apartment with copper sulphate crystals? These are the kind of unlikely proposals that the arts commissioning body Artangel has realised. Now it is asking artists, composers, filmmakers and choreographers to propose fresh ideas for up to five fantastical projects, on which it will lavish £1m between them.”

The militias are trying “to impose their authority, so there’s nothing to threaten them. That’s why they are attacking the traditional chiefs and musicians. And they’re using concepts of Islam that are 14 centuries old and have never been applied.”

There’s a popular colloquialism that asks, “What gives you the right to judge?” But we’re all judges, in our own way; the only question is whether those verdicts are delivered in a public forum or the privacy of our homes.

“Now, after a more recent series of legal plots and subplots, the Prince has emerged from bankruptcy with new leadership – and a mission that may or may not continue its role in developing new work. The Prince, which resides in a former movie house on Chestnut Street, exited Chapter 11 on Oct. 15 with something it did not have before: owners.”