Saskatoon is cold, and the office was near a bus stop, before a man entered the office and stabbed the executive director in the eye with the blunt end of a fork. “As an arts organization, we’re really open to the public and we want people to be able to interact with us in all ways. … We want people to come in and warm up if they’re standing out in the cold when it’s -40 C and -50, and with our windows, you can see the bus coming so it is kind of the perfect warm-up spot.” Not anymore.
Tag: 10.19.18
Is Paris Overtaking London In The Art Fair Scene?
Brexit, and all of the uncertainty surrounding it, might be giving Paris an edge. “President Emmanuel Macron of France seems to scent an opening. The president was scheduled to give a cocktail reception at the Élysée Palace on Friday ‘in honor of artists and creation’ on the occasion of FIAC 2018 including fair exhibitors. No French president has hosted such an event since 1985.”
When You Get A Romanov To Critique Amazon’s ‘The Romanoffs’
The Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, great-great-granddaughter of Czar Nicholas II (she lives in Spain) isn’t impressed, or so said her people. “The chancellery would not have issued the release at all if The Romanoffs were simply dull, the release went on. ‘Dullness may be disagreeable, but it seldom causes offense or insult. … Alas, to the series creator’s great discredit, The Romanoffs manages to do both.'”
Evelyn Anthony, Writer Of Spy Stories, Has Died At 92
She entered a field dominated by men like John Le Carré and Ian Fleming, and found fertile ground in the rivalries among Britain’s intelligence services. Getting to know actual WWII spies changed her writing, her life, and the genre.
A Second-Generation Playwright Who Took Her Mother’s Advice
Or rather, she took her mother’s story and melded it into a new play. Playwright Jaclyn Backhaus on why her new play includes pirates: “It’s a pirate attitude that got my mom to where she is. … t’s a pirate attitude that lot of people with dreams face when they’re trying to attain them.”
What Life’s Like For A Multitasking Creator
Alicia Jo Rabins, on pulling together discussions among writer/musicians about serving two different disciplines: “It’s not that unusual to work in multiple disciplines, but sometimes I feel a bit lonely about it. For so many of us, there’s no single word to describe our practice, no easy answer to the question ‘what do you do?'”
The Instagram Account That Started As A Lark And Became An Art Exhibit
Guadalupe Rosales started with some 1990s photos of friends, photos called “star shots” from mall photography studios. From there, her work became an Instagram archive to catalogue the history of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles. “‘I’ve gotten so many emails, people thanking me, saying, ‘I’m so glad that there is something out there that is representing a part of our culture,’ Rosales says of her Instagram accounts. ‘It’s nice to hear that. It validates that there was something missing — part of history.'”
Why We Needed A New History Of The United States
Jill Lepore has surmised, is that too much historical writing—and perhaps too much nonfiction in general—proceeds without many of the qualities that readers recognize as essential to experience: “humor, and art, and passion, and love, and tenderness, and sex… and fear, and terror, and the sublime, and cruelty.” Things that she calls “organic to the period, and yet lost to us.” Lepore’s training as a historian, she’s said, tried to teach her that these things did not contain worthy explanations. In graduate school her interest in them “looked like a liability, and I took note.”
Propwatch: the curtain in ‘Wise Children’
Is a curtain – that fabric lodged in the fabric of the building – a prop? Usually, no; but Vicki Mortimer’s design for Wise Children – adapted from Angela Carter’s deliciously rorty final novel – includes mobile pictures of stage curtains of various sizes, from toy-theatre miniature to human-height-plus. Identical in all but scale, they present the very quintessence of curtain.