In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, the Associated Press released a statement: “None of the images distributed by AP showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. It’s been our policy for years that we refrain from moving deliberately provocative images.” Then a conservative magazine observed that Andrés Serrano’s notoriously controversial photograph was available via AP …
Tag: 01.07.15
London Actor Dies During Rehearsal For “Dante’s Inferno”
“Khan Bonfils, who played key villains in two recent James Bond films and Jedi master Saesee Tiin in Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace as well as the King of Siam in the 2000 revival of The King and I at the London Palladium, collapsed during rehearsals for the Craft Theatre Company’s upcoming production at The Rag Factory.
Barnes Foundation Names New CEO
“The Barnes Foundation has selected Thomas Collins, head of the resurgent Pérez Art Museum in Miami, to be its new chief executive and president.”
Helgi Tomasson (And The Rest Of Us) Celebrate His 30 Years With San Francisco Ballet
“What Tomasson has done here over these three decades is to transform a respected regional American ballet company into an international-caliber organization that commands worldwide respect for the depth of its repertoire and its superb technical standards. In fact, the S.F. Ballet’s history of the past 30 years has rendered the term ‘American regional company’ rather outdated.”
You Know It’s Oscar Season When The Historical-Accuracy Hit Squads Show Up
“Over the past several weeks, it seems that almost every major awards contender has had some kind of high-profile accusation flung at it over its misappropriation of the truth. It happens every year, of course …, but this time, it’s reached comically epidemic levels … These movies are not documentaries, nor are they acts of journalism. (And even documentaries don’t always need to be totally accurate – just ask Werner Herzog.)”
So Why *Do* Women Cry More Than Men?
“We can intuit that men cry less often than women owing to social conditioning; crying doesn’t really fit in with our image of stereotypical manhood, after all, and that’s no doubt a partial explanation of why men are more likely to hold in their tears. But men may also be biologically built to shed fewer tears.”
Can A Video Game Help Rape Survivors?
“An upcoming Oculus Rift experience tracks a character’s recovery following a sexual assault – aiming to enable empathy, even therapy, for survivors and outsiders alike.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.07.15
Picturing Mary: It Could Have Gone Another Way
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-01-07
Museum-Commercial Gallery-Museum: John Elderfield’s Head-Spinning Revolving Door
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-01-07
Other Places: The Latest On Young Louis Armstrong
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-01-07
We’re all wild about Harry: Paul Levy loves a Birtwistle masterpiece
AJBlog: Plain English Published 2015-01-07
Reflections on a Conference
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-01-07
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YA Author Tries A Kickstarter To Fund Her Writing, People Freak Out, Other Writers Respond
“Writing takes time. Having the time to write takes money. You can’t get around that. Publishers pay advances. Most of the time it’s not enough to fully support you, but $7k is still a standard advance for a lot of authors.”
Creating The Sounds Of Giant Steps And Cow Burps For ‘Into The Woods’
“One falling tree managed to land directly on a very expensive microphone. Audiences can hear that in the movie.”