Art
January 17, 2021 at 4:30 PM It’s not an accident. Ask Reddit. “These comparisons, while often funny, also come across as shockingly honest. They push aside the veneer of the present and the sense that what we are experiencing is unique to the time we live in. What’s left are raw emotions, echoing through centuries.” – Washington Post Tags: Art, Visual, 01.16.21127 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 4:00 PM The store, which has endured through the creation of Germany, two world wars, Communism, and reunification, not to mention Amazon, was a family affair. “Weyhe was a lifeline of sorts to her customers. She traveled far and wide after East Germans were generally allowed to leave for tourism, bringing back her infectious enthusiasm for the outside world. ‘She brought a little bit of the world to Salzwedel,’ Ms. Lemm said.” – The New York Times Tags: Amazon, Art, Germany, People, Lemm, Salzwedel, 01.14.21, Helga Weyhe, Weyhe70 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 3:30 PM In the UK, for instance, publishing company Mills & Boon (the company that just landed Fergie as an author) publishes 700 books a year and sells one book every 10 seconds or so (and that’s only 16 percent of the romances sold per year in the UK). Author “Annie O’Neil, the writer of 25 Mills & Boon books, said people will say to her face that the books are easy to write, that she follows a formula. ‘I say to them, ‘Have you ever fallen in love? It must be exactly the same way my husband and I fe... Tags: Art, UK, Fergie, Words, Mills Boon, 01.15.21, Annie O'Neil111 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 2:00 PM “Kim’s drops can seem to sit miraculously atop his raw canvases or be in the midst of gliding down them, leaving a trail of moisture. They glimmer with light and cast shadows, and while vividly present, they are always on the verge of evanescing.” – The New York Times Tags: Art, People, Kim, 01.15.21, Kim Tschang Yuel55 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 2:30 PM And casting villains, that is to say law enforcement and others deeply committed to white supremacy, as heroes. But the new documentary MLK/FBI isn’t confused: it “weaves a deeply troubling portrait of King being hounded and harassed by the FBI, while the murders of his fellow activists went strangely unsolved.” – Washington Post Tags: Art, Media, Fbi, 01.15.2172 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 3:00 PM Hurrah for copyright expiration: There are many new editions, with introductions and critical essays by voices that haven’t been heard enough in the American canon. Then there are the graphic novels, editions with lavish new art, a novel about Nick Carraway’s life before Jay Gatsby, The Gay Gatsby (Just how is that different from the original, you may wonder? It’s overt), and, well, vampire Gatsby. We eagerly await the musicals. – The New York Times Tags: Art, Words, Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, 01.14.21146 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 1:00 PM Amanda Gorman will read a poem called “The Hill We Climb” at the inaugural ceremony on Wednesday (assuming it goes according to plan). “Unlike most 22-year-olds, Gorman has experience in inaugural poetry, having written one for the inauguration of Harvard’s president Larry Bacow.” – LitHub Tags: Art, US, Harvard, Words, Gorman, Amanda Gorman, 01.15.21149 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 1:05 PM “If we are empowered with creativity, with collaboration, with all of the skills that come from practicing the arts… that will lead to the breakthrough ideas.” Trey Devey, President of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, speaks to the power of arts education. Tags: Art, Ajblogs, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Trey Devey, 01.16.21
January 17, 2021 at 12:30 PM For one thing, “we need to reorient our understanding of gender and beauty to talk about hotness in antiquity.” – Wired Tags: Art, Visual, 01.16.2199 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 12:00 PM What’s Lady Whistledown’s business model? Seriously: To produce and print enough scandal sheets to feed the appetite of the ton, surely Lady Whistledown owns a printing press or something. And how does she pay her workers? Also, let’s talk about that typeface. – Slate Tags: Art, Media, Lady Whistledown, 01.15.2197 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 11:30 AM Yes, it’s partly because of TikTok and the world of duets, collaborations, and free-flowing (but in this case, very directed) creativity. But it’s so much more: “Averno [is] the setting of a sprawling, cross-platform universe over TikTok (125,000 followers), Instagram (47,000 followers), Spotify (1.4 million streams), YouTube, Twitter and Tumblr. It encompasses podcasts, livestreams, novels and short stories, TV and film scripts, an extensive alternate-reality game and, yes, musicals — all at d... Tags: Art, Spotify, Instagram, Theatre, Audience, YouTube Twitter, Tiktok, Broadway Shows, 01.15.2156 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 10:00 AM TV writers have helped changed public opinion on drunk driving, cigarette smoking, and – in the opposite direction – marriage equality. Why not mask-wearing, social distancing, and getting vaccinated? – Los Angeles Times Tags: Art, Media, 01.15.21134 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 10:30 AM Coventry is the UK 2021 city of culture. But … yikes. “Much of the city’s pioneering postwar urban fabric is under threat. A gargantuan planning application has been submitted to demolish half of the town centre and replace it with a shopping mall with flats on top, in what has been condemned as a violent assault on the city’s modernist heritage, just when it should be being celebrated.” – The Guardian (UK) Tags: Art, UK, Visual, 01.15.2168 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 11:00 AM Well, not in the foreseeable future, anyway, unless we can accept some “okayist” awards instead of trying to be number one all of the damn time. “Two developments that are making a substantial group of Americans busier, Sayer explained, are that a larger share of the country now takes on the combined ‘social roles’ of worker, spouse, and parent, and that the expectations of each have risen. Increases in busyness, she told me, are a matter of ‘both feeling like there’s more [to do and] feeling t... Tags: Art, Ideas, Sayer, 01.15.2179 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 9:30 AM Ashton Edwards, an 18-year-old student at the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Professional Division, got tired of studying for and dancing “male roles.” Last year, the dancer said was ready to go after something else – en pointe work. Peter Boal, the ballet’s artistic director: “Ballet can be a little bit slow. We said, ‘Why not? Lead us and we will work with you.’ ” – NPR Tags: Art, Dance, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Peter Boal, 01.16.21, Ashton Edwards98 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 8:00 AM Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning: “I grew up middle class and I went to school, and from the school bus you’d see kids washing plates in the gutter, working at these little roadside eateries. We had to get school uniforms made, and the tailor’s apprentice would be a person your age. Books are very meaningful to me; at the same time, I believe books do nothing for a lot of people, and that is a very valuable truth too.” – The Guardian (UK) Tags: Art, Words, Audience, Megha Majumdar, 01.16.21132 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 8:30 AM The film is based on a one-act play by Kemp Powers (a long one-act play), and the playwright calls it “a work of fiction powered by the truth” – the truth being that Malcolm X, Cassius Clay before he was Muhammed Ali, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown, “four modern legends, really did hang out for one night in Miami, and yes, they really did bond over vanilla ice cream. – Vulture Tags: Art, Media, Miami, Kemp, Jim Brown, 01.16.21, Malcolm X Cassius Clay, Muhammed Ali Sam Cooke88 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 9:00 AM Bateson, an anthropologist like her famous parents Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, had a busy and famously documented life. “Still, it wasn’t her babyhood, her lineage or her scholarship — an expert on classical Arabic poetry, she was as polymathic as her mother — that brought Dr. Bateson renown; it was her 1989 book Composing a Life, an examination of the stop-and-start nature of women’s lives and their adaptive responses — ‘life as an improvisatory art,’ as she wrote.” – The New York Times... Tags: Art, People, Margaret Mead, Bateson, Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson, 01.14.2187 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 7:00 AM This seems almost too obvious when one considers it. The people who know how to set up almost any kind of venue, run crowd control with various safety protocols, and already showed they can help create field hospitals? “The response to the tweet has been positive with union members chiming in offering their support. ‘We REALLY want to help,’ wrote one Twitter user, while another suggested using movie studio lots.” – Variety Tags: Art, Ideas, 01.16.2154 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 7:30 AM Europe, excuse us, but what are you doing? “Asta Selloane Sekamane, one of the activists who criticized the casting … said in an interview that no one can claim there wasn’t enough Black talent to fill the main roles, because actors of color were hired to voice some of the minor parts. ‘It can’t be the constant excuse, this idea that we can’t find people who live up to our standards,’ she added. ‘That’s an invisible bar that ties qualification to whiteness.'” – The New York Times Tags: Art, Europe, Issues, 01.16.21, Asta Selloane Sekamane55 people like this. Like
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