The entries are composed with a knowing wit. Some are twisty and loquacious, others witheringly economic. They’re structured like jokes, and there’s a light, nerdy thrill in following these paragraphs—crammed with technical terminology and seeming digressions—to the punch line. Naturally, a lot of the humor is self-directed, mocking the authors’ own sense of seriousness.
Tag: 03.08.18
Do You Want To Spend Hours Reading Essays And Thinkpieces About ‘Black Panther’?
Well, the Los Angeles Times has you covered, with what they’re calling “the Pantherpedia.”
An Artist In Residence At The Tate Has Resigned After Remarks From The Director About Sexual Harassment
Liv Wyntner was one of four teaching artists-in-residence at the Tate for 2017-2018, but when Tate director Maria Banshaw made what seemed to many dismissive statements about harassment and abuse survivors, she wrote in an open letter, “I cannot describe to you the personal shame I feel as a survivor of domestic violence, to work for someone who could think so little of me whilst simultaneously profiting off of my ‘survivorness’ and the work I dare to make about it.”
The Artist Who Made A Space For Herself In Photography
Deborah Willis, who asked one professor “Where are all the black photographers?” in college, has had “a storied career, to say the least, and yet it’s one she almost didn’t have at all. While in college, a photography professor told her she ‘took a space from a good man’ – that she was just going to end up married and pregnant so why bother taking classes?”
What BBC3 Did For Women Composers On International Women’s Day
This is what happened between March 8, 2017, and this year: “A group of trailblazing academics has spent the last 12 months tracking down the lost music of five forgotten women composers, who range from an 18th-century Viennese child prodigy to an award-winning African-American symphonist. All five women enjoyed recognition for music-making during their lives, but their achievements were often downplayed during their lifetimes and in some cases forgotten after their deaths. … The music has now been edited and professionally recorded by the BBC Orchestras and Choirs.”
Canadian Screen Awards Exclude Some Of Canada’s Most Popular Movies. And Everyone Seems Okay With That
Simply put, nominating popular movies and shows could make the Canadian Screen Awards more popular, which could theoretically bring more attention to other, less prominent nominees. There is some precedent for a regionally based award show with less-than-stringent eligibility rules: the BAFTA Award organizers, for instance, allow themselves significant leeway to decide which films are sufficiently British (their TV award restrictions are more rigid). It also separates the categories, with an award for Best Film and another for Outstanding British Film. But that hypothetical trickle-down of viewer attention doesn’t persuade many of this year’s Canadian Screen Award nominees that opening competition up to more American productions would work.
Frida Kahlo’s Family Objects To Barbie Doll Based On The Artist
“Mattel has worked in close partnership with the Frida Kahlo Corporation, the owner of all rights related to the name and identity of Frida Kahlo, on the creation of this doll,” a spokesperson said. “In addition to the Frida Kahlo Corporation being an important part of the doll development process, we have their permission and a legally binding agreement to make a doll in the likeness of the great Frida Kahlo.”
If We’re In A Golden Age Of Drag, Then Drag Kings Want In
“Largely due to the commercial success of RuPaul’s Logo-turned-VH1 reality competition show RuPaul’s Drag Race, drag has become perhaps more mainstream and visible than ever. But … drag kings still perform on the fringes of mainstream pop culture. Even though the medium has existed, in different forms, for decades, performances of masculinity aren’t privileged the same way performances of femininity are.” Reporter Hazel Cills meets some of the folks trying to change that.
Conductor Myung-Whun Chung Injured In Auto Accident
The former chief conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France and the Opéra-Bastille in Paris has been forced to withdraw from performances next week of La Bohème at La Fenice in Venice after his car was hit by a truck.
English National Opera Hires Former Sky TV Exec As New Director
At Sky, Stuart Murphy was responsible for channels including Sky 1, Sky Living and Sky Arts. In his post, he spearheaded Sky’s increase in investment in original productions, tripling the budget during his tenure. Murphy joins artistic director Daniel Kramer and music director Martyn Brabbins on ENO’s leadership team.