Of course we do – think of how you’d laugh in an office meeting versus how you’d do it at a bar or a theater. But how much of the switching is based in the situation at hand, and how much in the personal identity of the laugher?
Tag: 01.26.18
Wendell Castle, Who Made Furniture Art (And Vice Versa), Dead At 85
“Over more than a half-century, Mr. Castle helped establish a creative genre, the studio crafts, that blended furniture-making and sculpture. He was a designer whose chairs, tables and coat racks were works of art, and an artist whose oeuvre could be used as well as admired.”
Why Art Selling Has Been Slow To Succeed Online
While other industries, such as music and publishing, have been transformed by online retailing, the needle has been slower to move in the art market.
This Journalist Asked Chimananda Ngozi Adichie The *Wrong* Question
“Caroline Broué, the French journalist conducting the interview, initially asked Adichie if people in Nigeria read her work, to which the writer replied, ‘They do, shockingly.’ From there, she decided to ask ‘Are there bookshops in Nigeria?’ When the audience responded with audible shock, she doubled down on her question.” (includes video)
Why Did Instagram Censor This 26-Year-Old Poem?
“‘I want a dyke for president,’ artist Zoe Leonard writes in her 1992 poem. Inspired by the author Eileen Myles’ run for president, and written at the height of the AIDS epidemic, the poem, ‘I want a president,’ has since been shown in museums, galleries, and outdoor installations around the world. More than a quarter-century after it was written, the poem made its way to Instagram – and became the center of a controversy over censorship on social media.”
More Oregon Bach Festival Stumbles: Hires, Then Removes Another Conductor
The Oregon Bach Festival, which last year fired its artistic director amid accusations of racism and sex discrimination, has hired a conductor for this summer’s festival who was reportedly dismissed from a guest conducting job with the Oberlin Baroque Orchestra in 2015 after complaints he used racial slurs at a rehearsal. Just two days later, his name was removed from the festival’s website.
The Berkshire Museum Problem
Nina Simon: Why wouldn’t they make the rational choice to get as much money as possible for their sins? Because their choice has consequences beyond their own self-interest. It exposes the fragility of the rule of deaccessioning, the thin line between “treasured public asset” and “hard cold cash.” The rule is built on a sleight of hand, a conceit that says that museums won’t acknowledge the market value of objects — until they will. As cultural theorist Diane Ragsdale put it, “When communities become markets, citizens become consumers, and culture becomes an exploitable product.”
MoviePass Abruptly Canceled Some Big AMC Theatres, But AMC Shouldn’t Be Worried
Seriously, MoviePass, this supposed negotiation tactic doesn’t look like a good idea: “n fact, doing the math, it looks like MoviePass may account for less than 5 percent of the revenue AMC makes from ticket sales.”
In Britain, Members Of Parliament Demand That Creative Workers Keep Their Freedom Of Travel Through The EU After Brexit
The MPs are writing a detailed letter requesting a “quick, open, and flexible system” – and warning that if freedom of movement isn’t preserved, small and medium arts groups will suffer the most.
Why Hasn’t The Larger Music Industry Had A (Hashtag) MeToo Moment Yet? [VIDEO]
Maybe because of popular music’s general reputation as rough – “and maybe because the vast majority of people you’re going to be working with are men, it’s going to be harder to come forward with a story of misconduct.”