Kounellis, who left Greece for Rome when he was 20, “made a highly distinctive contribution to one of the most provocative artistic movements in postwar Europe.”
Tag: 02.17.17
Advertisers Buy All Of The Oscars’ Ad Time, Expecting Political Speeches
It’s possible that the “Trump Bump” that’s been helping the New York Times, Teen Vogue, ProPublica and other print/online publications is also driving more money toward the producers of the Oscars. The current president “‘has been very good for television,’ said Ashwin Navin, chief executive of Samba TV, a data and analytics firm. ‘The politically charged environment has been good for television, including these award shows.'”
Poetry Is In Desperate Need Of A Revolution
Or really, more than one revolution – and constant revolutions: “Art isn’t easy. It’s not just that we need a revolution in style but also a revolution in audience, distribution, circulation, performance, perception and, indeed, motivation. These revolutions are never a question of being marked as ahead of the times. … Rather, the issue is staying in and with the times and not letting the times drown you.”
Moving A 12,000-Pound Civil War Diorama Into A Rightful Place In History
The 19th-century painting has been feted by both North and South over the decades since it was painted. “”It’s one of our greatest Civil War artifacts in what it can teach us about what Americans have remembered and disremembered about the Civil War,’ Gordon Jones, senior military historian at the Atlanta History Center and co-leader of the cyclorama move and restoration team, told Hyperallergic.”
Artist Saloua Raouda Choucair, One Of The First Abstract Artists In Arab Art, Has Died At 100
Her story is compelling, and her art came to London and New York with the power to change the accepted story of art history. “It was not until she was in her 90s that Ms. Choucair, who lived and worked nearly all her life in Beirut, gained recognition outside Lebanon as an unsung hero of the modernist story, a distinctive, eloquent artist relegated to the margins of a traditionally Western narrative.”
Canada Starts To Recognize Its Indigenous Women Artists, But There’s Much More To Be Done
One current show has an intentionally provocative name because “‘It’s really a colonial idea that our women didn’t carve. Our women have always carved,’ said Lou-ann Neel, the carver’s granddaughter and an advising curator for the exhibition. ‘I’ve already heard a few people say, ‘Well, you know, our grandmother was also a carver.’ Good, I want to hear about her. Let’s talk about her, too. Because all of our communities need these role models to come from the last couple of generations and encourage our young girls and women to pursue the arts, too.'”
How To Shoot A Documentary About An All-Women Racing Team In Palestine
Canadian filmmaker Amber Fares: “There are so many films that deal with the politics of Palestine/Israel, but we didn’t want to get into the details of that; it just plays out naturally through their lives. It’s politically important that we see more diversity in our media, full stop.”
The Bumpy Course Of Moving Musicals From La La Land To Broadway
Can “Amélie” and “Come From Away” make it where West Coast transplants have failed before? The L.A. Times’ Charles McNulty says, “Musicals en route to New York receive an enormous amount of tinkering, polishing and sharpening. Rarely, however, does all this primping smooth over structural cracks in the book or holes in the score.”
Children’s Books So White? The New Book Count Is Out
While the population of the U.S. is 38 percent people who identify as African American, Latino, Native American, Asian American, or Pacific Islander, books written or illustrated by people from those categories clocked in at just 427 out of 3,400 children’s books published in 2016.
The Fake News From A Century Ago
Of course, it came into being because of war – WWI, to be precise, and because “Britain was at the time trying to bring China into the war on the Allied side.”