The Academy is notoriously secretive, but its decisions have major ramifications. “The Academy’s members are not part of a private club; they’re part of a global electorate, their elections scrutinized on an international stage. And because of that, those elections should be ruled by the principles we apply to all such plebiscites.”
Tag: 03.04.17
What’s Happened Since Writer Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie Wrote About Being A Feminist
She hasn’t changed, but she’s getting nonstop invitations to what she calls “feminist things,” and she’s published a new book to help a friend raise a daughter. “Adichie recently came across her own kindergarten reports. ‘My father keeps them all. You know what the teacher wrote? ‘She is brilliant, but she refuses to do any work when she’s annoyed.’ I was five years old.'”
Míriam Colón, Puerto Rican Actress And Theatre Pioneer, Dies At 80
She had a “prodigious” list of roles in movies, usually character acting and bit parts, but one of her biggest contributions was founding the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre.
George Saunders: What Do Writers Actually *Do* When They Write?
Saunders, whose novel Lincoln in the Bardo just came out and is on many bestseller lists: “We often discuss art this way: the artist had something he ‘wanted to express’, and then he just, you know … expressed it. We buy into some version of the intentional fallacy: the notion that art is about having a clear-cut intention and then confidently executing same. The actual process, in my experience, is much more mysterious and more of a pain in the ass to discuss truthfully.”
U.S. Billionaires Bought Up Artistic Treasures From Abroad – And The U.K. Wants Its Stuff Back
Much of the artwork, and sometimes entire rooms or domiciles too, is lost. As in, no one knows where it is, who owns it, and how the U.K. might get it back. The U.S. was desperate for a British or European shine, and “the trade was frenzied. When the Titanic sank in 1912, 30 tons of crated English architectural objects were on board.”
Downsizing Baby Boomers Are Flooding Museums With Donated Art
In addition to changing how nonprofits deal with donations, “the flood of works that may be coming to institutions around the country in the next decade could broaden the definition of postmodern art.”
Will The New Birmingham Conservatoire Challenge London’s Dominance?
It’s going to be amazing. But, says its director ominously, “this conservatoire, the first to be newly built in Britain since 1987, may well be the last because of the reduction in funding for music.”