“More than 300 people have signed a petition to either ban or label and group materials related to homosexual and transgender content in the Orange City Public Library. … The controversy erupted in one of Iowa’s most conservative Republican counties in northwest Iowa after somebody filed a statement of concern to the library about a book on its shelves that featured LGBTQ content.”
Tag: 02.21.18
In Praise Of Negative Book Reviews
No, not every book is good. “An appeal for the revival of the negative book review, then, is a remonstration against forced and foppish praise, where everything is good and so nothing at all is good. It is an appeal for a greater investment in the context and content of a book, a task far different from the casting about for bits to extol.”
Netflix’s New ‘Queer Eye’ Created A Breakout Star – A Muslim Immigrant Married To A Mormon Cowboy
And at first he didn’t want to be on the show at all. “I was offered the job and I said, ‘You’re out of your minds — I will ruin your show!’ … They said, ‘No you won’t, we know how to cast. From what we know, there’s never been a gay, Muslim, British immigrant on a global platform before.’” Indeed.
Politicians Need To Dance More, Says Choreographer Alonzo King
“I’d like to see politicians dancing. I’d like to see the world practicing art. Because the introspection from true art practice can’t lie.” (video)
When Arendt Met Auden
Hannah Arendt: “I met Auden late in his life and mine – at an age when the easy, knowledgeable intimacy of friendships formed in one’s youth can no longer be attained, because not enough life is left, or expected to be left, to share with another. Thus, we were very good friends but not intimate friends. Moreover, there was a reserve in him that discouraged familiarity – not that I tested it, ever.”
How Did They Work Out The African Accents In ‘Black Panther’? Let The Dialect Coach Tell You
Slate‘s Aisha Harris talks with Beth McGuire, who “is the director of speech and dialects at Yale, author of African Accents: A Workbook for Actors, and previously worked with stars Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira on the latter’s Tony-nominated play Eclipsed.”
‘Silhouettes And Steam Calliopes’ – Kara Walker’s New Public Art Piece For New Orleans (And Its ‘Extremely Irritating Auditory Element’)
It was a long, tricky, expensive, and contentious process to get Katastwóf Karavan fabricated and transported to Louisiana, even though Walker can laugh about it now.
Supreme Court Rules Terrorism Victims May Not Seize Iranian Antiquities As Compensation
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Americans injured in a 1997 suicide bombing in Jerusalem cannot seize ancient Persian artifacts from a Chicago museum to satisfy a $71.5 million court judgment against Iran, which they had accused of complicity in the attack.”
Makers Of ‘The Shape Of Water’ Sued For Plagiarism By Playwright’s Estate
“David Zindel, son of American playwright Paul Zindel, filed the complaint Wednesday alleging that [Guillermo] Del Toro’s critically acclaimed film, which has more Oscar nominations than any other this year, has ‘exploited’ the play Let Me Hear You Whisper and should have credited and licensed his father’s work.”
Frieze To Launch a New Art Fair In Los Angeles
“How much appetite there will be for another art fair in Los Angeles, however, remains to be seen. L.A. is home to a pair of established fairs: the L.A. Art Show, which is generally held downtown, and the glitzier Art Los Angeles Contemporary, staged at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica.
But the city is not generally regarded by collectors as an art market destination.”