“An irregularity in the awarding of one of the most significant local art commissions in years has resulted in the resignation of a Houston Arts Alliance executive and stunned a sculptor who was preparing to create the biggest project of his career.”
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Why “Serial” Can Feel So Discomfiting (It’s Not White Privilege)
“It’s not exactly in the racial dynamics, and not only in the way that Koenig tells the story. It has to do instead with the psychological tourism that comes in the aftermath of a crime, the license that everyone (Koenig, her audience, but also the cops and prosecutors and judges and Hae and Adnan’s classmates) feels to gaze into the lives of both victims and the accused and to wonder about the extent of what people are capable.”
The Literary Archives Of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Are Heading To The University Of Texas
Irony: “Gabriel García Márquez, who died in April at 87, was a strong critic of American imperialism who was banned from entry to the United States for decades, even after ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ vaulted him to international celebrity and, in 1982, the Nobel Prize in Literature.”
When A Black Woman Wins A Major Prize, And The White Presenter Makes A Racist Joke
“She was worth the time it would take to come up with a joke that was less lazy. Her story deserved better. A writer’s victory is also a victory for the many readers nourished by her work.”
Are Older Novelists More Likely To Tackle Class As A Subject?
Amanda Coe: “Certainly my interest in the idea of social mobility comes from my own experience of being from a working-class family but ending up a middle-class product of that because of my education.”
Dark Horse Movie By Formerly Censored Director Takes Asia’s Top Film Prize
“‘Blind Massage’ chronicles the early loves and awkward sexual forays of a group of young, blind masseurs in Nanjing, China. Lou Ye, a mercurial, often political director who was banned from filming in his native China from 2006 to 2011, directed the film with a mixed cast of professionals and blind amateur actors.”
Found! The Letter That Inspired Jack Kerouac’s ‘On The Road’
“Kerouac told The Paris Review in 1968 that poet Allen Ginsberg loaned the letter to a friend who lived on a houseboat in Northern California. Kerouac believed the friend then dropped it overboard.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.23.14
Directorial Job News: Emily Neff Out, Benedict Leca In
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-11-23
What we talk about when we talk about sex
AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2014-11-23
Rare Early Soviet Ballet in High Demand
AJBlog: Fresh Pencil Published 2014-11-22
whoworeitbetter.info – Freedom to Repeat
AJBlog: Aesthetic Grounds Published 2014-11-22
Mass Extinction, David Adjaye, FL Wright, Brodsky & Utkin
AJBlog: Aesthetic Grounds Published 2014-11-21
Overeducated and Underemployed
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2014-11-21
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Is Classical Music In The Middle Of A ‘New Movement’?
“Of course, venues like this attract a huge clubbing audience, who are enjoying music and listening to amazing artists from different genres, so it’s a natural place for us to be.”
When Teens Fall In Love With Their E-Readers …
“You know that irresistible urge, that impulse you have to want to buy a book and start reading it at that very moment? Ebooks satisfy that hunger. Sitting at home, with a few clicks, I can now have delivered to me within thirty seconds any book that I want.”