Wendy Rosenfield: “Even without seeing them, I know this much: Anne’’ story isn’t multicultural; it’s Jewish. … This would all be admirable if the voices at the center of the (nonfiction) story weren’t already marginalized, and weren’t marginalized further by a casting process that once again sought to replace the attic denizens’ identities with something more ‘universal.'”
Tag: 03.05.18
Merriam-Webster Dictionary Admits 850 New Words, Including ‘Embiggen’
“The official ruling … gives embiggen the long-overdue recognition it deserves for being both an incredibly useful word and one of the greatest things to come out of The Simpsons. Though embiggen has definitely enjoyed more popularity because of its frequent use in Ms. Marvel, the word was first introduced (in a modern pop cultural context) in ‘Lisa the Iconoclast,’ the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons‘ seventh season.”
Will #MeToo Reform The Dance World?
“I was a ballet dancer and choreographer for 10 years. Now, six years after leaving dance, I am shocked by the elements of the culture that I once accepted as normal. In the ballet world, disordered eating is dismissed as ambition, and dancers have no job security and little ability to voice concerns or opinions about how they’re treated in the workplace. Yet it’s difficult to separate culturally sanctioned, low-level abuse from the necessary stress of a demanding art form.”
What If You Broaden Anne Frank’s Story As About Oppressed People Rather Than Jewish People?
The real Anne was unequivocal about the particular Jewishness of her suffering and about her perpetual otherness. She wrote, “We can never become just Netherlanders, or just English, or just . . . representatives of any other country for that matter, we will always remain Jews, but we want to, too.”
In Buffalo: Debate About A Museum-As-Architectural-Treasure
Since Bunshaft’s addition opened in 1962, the art world has grown exponentially, diverging into a countless thematic streams and mediums, from monumental sculptures demanding monumental spaces to purely conceptual art requiring no space at all. The unpredictability of the art world and its growth into countless new disciplines demands a different kind of museum than Bunshaft or his contemporaries could have conceived. This uncertainty, coupled with a desire to reconnect with segments of the public long alienated from the art world, has driven expanding museums to favor vast public spaces and highly adaptable galleries over the more intimate spaces of the past.
“Hamilton” Scores Record Number Of Olivier Award Nominations In London’s West End
That takes the crown from Harry Potter And The Cursed Child which last year scored 11 (tying with 2008’s Hairspray).
Artists Use Augmented Reality To Take Over Gallery At Museum Of Modern Art
A collective of eight internet artists transformed the Jackson Pollock room in the New York City Museum of Modern Art into their own augmented reality gallery—without the museum’s permission. The collective, which calls itself “MoMAR,” is making a statement against elitism and exclusivity in the art world with its group art installation Hello, we’re from the internet. The eight artists had their own works overlaid on top of seven Jackson Pollock paintings using augmented reality technology. By downloading their MoMAR app, anyone with a phone can see their work.
Russ Solomon, Founder Of Tower Records, Dead At 92
“A high school dropout who made his first album sale at 16, dealing used jukebox records out of his father’s California drugstore, Mr. Solomon built a music empire that sprawled across more than a dozen countries and nearly 200 stores.”
Did Someone Just Discover ‘Hamlet’ Notes In Shakespeare’s Handwriting?
“Annotations in the margins of a 16th-century text that is believed to have been one of the sources for Hamlet could have been made by Shakespeare himself, according to an independent researcher. John Casson was looking through the British Library’s copy of François de Belleforest’s Histoires Tragiques, a 1576 French text thought to have been one of the sources for Shakespeare’s tragedy … [He] noticed that faded ink symbols had been made in the margins next to six passages.”
Atlanta Symphony Musicians Get Raises, More Players In New Contract – And Negotiations Were Friendly At Last
“That friendliness was in contrast to the bruising conflict between the orchestra and the Woodruff Arts Center, which led to lockouts in 2012 and 2014, picket lines, and harsh words. Ongoing deficits and deteriorating relations also brought about pay cuts, a shorter season and a shrinking orchestra.”