Gay Movie Actors May Not Feel Safe Coming Out, But More And More, TV Stars Do

Ellen DeGeneres, Neil Patrick Harris, Jane Lynch, T.R. Knight, and now Zachary Quinto … “Why has this wave of openness hit TV? You’d think that, since TV comes into our homes every day, since it has a more intimate relationship with viewers, it might be more vulnerable to pockets of viewer disapproval. But the TV business is a more flexible testing ground than the movies.”

Jokes And Crisis – They Go Together

“Humor is not, as some believe, a coping strategy or an outlet for the frustrations that cannot be expressed in any other way … or at least it is not just that. At its best, it is the self-consciousness of crisis. Without changing anything in ‘objective’ reality, humor permits reality to laugh at itself, and in doing so, to stand outside of itself, to become other to itself.”

How Did The High Museum Get So Many Matisses? Ask MoMA

Museum of Modern Art director Glenn Lowry has helped his institution loan many works to the High Museum of Art. Why? “Bringing great art to Atlanta has to also over time create a culture of collecting within Atlanta. That’s where you start to get a critical mass of collectors who in a very collegial way compete with each other to develop outstanding collections. That will be the legacy. The exhibitions come and go. Staff comes and goes. The legacy always is the actual works of art that remain in a community.”