“As a member of third-wave feminism, growing up in the 1970s and ’80s, I was brought up to believe we lived in a meritocracy, where the battles had been fought and won, with the spoils left for us to gather. It is sobering to realize that we may live and work in a world still held in the grip of unconscious biases, no less damaging for their invisibility.”
Tag: 02.09.11
China Never Approved ‘Silk Road’ Antiquities for Show in Philadelphia: Official
“The Chinese antiquities at the heart of the Penn Museum’s beleaguered and depleted ‘Secrets of the Silk Road’ exhibition were never approved for display in Philadelphia, a Chinese Embassy spokesman said Tuesday, almost a week after the museum announced the pieces had been stripped from the show.”
How the Joffrey’s Dancing Has Changed Post-Gerald Arpino
“The exuberant Joffrey style, largely defined by Arpino, was unmistakable … [with its] skyward arabesque arms and brash speed.” Under Ashley Wheater, who succeeded Arpino in 2007, the Joffrey “doesn’t zap its audience with the lightning bolts of the Arpino era.”
How the X Rating Came to Mean Porn (and Nearly Ruin Movies for Grown-Ups)
“Duel in the Sun is unarguably lurid, but it was produced by David O. Selznick, a follow-up to his triumph Gone With the Wind … If David O. Selznick produced Duel in the Sun as an adults-only film, why does the idea of James Cameron producing an ‘adult film’ seem preposterous? How did we get to the point where ‘adult film’ became code for prurient, puerile depictions of sex?”
Feud Between Daughters Kept Trove of Malcolm X’s Work Unpublished
“[Any] efforts to publish the works have been thwarted by the daughters’ bickering; all must sign off on any plan to sell and release the material, which includes four journals that Malcolm X kept during trips to Africa and the Middle East in 1964, a year before his assassination.”
‘Lactivists’ Plan Nurse-In at D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum
“Dozens of breast-feeding women plan to descend on the Hirshhorn Museum on Saturday for a ‘nurse-in’ to highlight their federally protected right to nourish their babies in public.”
Sotheby’s Sued for Covering Up Damage to Jacobean Painting
“Sotheby’s, the auction house, has been accused of forging a document to cover up the fact that it damaged a painting of the Jacobean spymaster Robert Cecil, a senior aide to both James I and Elizabeth I.”
Mikis Theodorakis Says It Out Loud: ‘I’m an Anti-Semite’
“[The] Greek composer who wrote the music for the film Zorba the Greek, said in a television interview that he is an ‘anti-Semite and anti-Zionist.’ Theodorakis, 86, a hero in Greece, also said in the interview on Greece’s High channel that ‘everything that happens today in the world has to do with the Zionists’.”
What Will Happen If State Arts Agencies Are Eliminated?
“Student matinees, training programs for teachers and administrators, efforts to bring cultural events into inner cities and rural communities – all will be severely curtailed. … [L]ess-glamorous projects, and those that require coordination or cooperation between organizations, will be fewer in number and lower in quality.”
Struggle and Projection: When Artists Photograph Their Own Families
“It turns out that this kind of artistic but consensual family photograph has its own fascination. Here the interest isn’t so much in looking at truly private moments but rather in seeing what kind of bargain has been struck between a photographer trying to expose a family secret and a subject resisting. … [These images] are basically self-portraits, whether or not they include the photographer.”