“I step toward the topic of trauma intermittently; then, I step away. And even as resilient survivors and professionals know that not every survivor of trauma develops prolonged problems, and that not everything we commonly call “stress†is, in fact, trauma, to pretend that natural disasters, mass violence, accidents and other traumatic experiences, such as sexual assault, don’t take a toll on coping is, at least, unkind and – at worst – perilous.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
A Wildly Successful Executive Director Steps Down In Oregon
Things have changed since Paul Nicholson took over as executive director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival 17 years ago. “Under Nicholson’s tenure, the OSF grew from a pre-professional theater and a place where people could begin their careers to a professional theater where people could have a career and raise families, and once-itinerant actors who stick at OSF now have insurance and retirement plans and earn enough to buy homes.”
Art, No Longer In Chains
“Through history the class of enslaved humans has so frequently included women, enslavement taking many forms and varying degrees. Really, only in my own time have women had the freedom to create art on anything remotely approaching an equal basis to men.”
Big Databases, Happy Biographers: Technology Changes Discovery
“For generations, biographers have used the same methods to conduct research: they waded through the paper trail left by their subject, piecing together a life from epistolary fragments. Based on what they found, they might troll through newspapers from specific dates in the hope of finding coverage of their subject. There were no new-fangled technologies that promised to transform their research, no way of harnessing machines to reveal new layers of historical truth. That’s all starting to change.”
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About British Architecture, And Then Some
The Guardian (UK)’s guide to British architecture praises (and attacks) brutalism; explains what Georgian really means; delineates modernism and post-modernism … and so much more.
Let’s Not Be Diplomatic: Early “Tosca” Problems May Have Been The Cast
Anne Midgette talks to “Tosca” soprano Patricia Racette. “Opera,†she said, “is such a rich art form. So even changing the ingredients — the singer, the costume — just changing it a little can make a huge difference in the perception of it.â€
Developers Gone Wild: Will Planning Reforms Kill Historic Sites In Britain?
Goodbye, green and pleasant land? “Dame Fiona Reynolds, director general of the National Trust, warns that millions of acres of countryside are being placed at risk by the draft National Planning Policy Framework.”
Unicorns, God And Memory: Chatbots Go All Beckett When They Talk
What happens when a ‘bot talks to a ‘bot? Weird things. For example: “I’m not a robot. I’m a unicorn.”
Pippilotti Rist: 300 Pairs Of Underwear And A Dab Of Philosophy
What the artist thinks about her planned exhibit: “They will look like whipped cream. Or sheep’s heads, with the legs of the pants forming the eyes. I hope they will make people smile, but also think about the relationship we have with this important, sexually charged area in the middle of our bodies.”
Photographed Taking Photos of Photographs
“The ubiquity of cameras in exhibitions can be dismaying,” writes Roberta Smith, but the camera “has become intrinsic to many people’s aesthetic responses.”