This does not bode well for international artists coming to the U.S. The band “was traveling under ESTA (also known as the Visa Waiver Program), which allows citizens of nearly 40 countries to travel to the United States without having to obtain a visa.” But border agents decided not to believe that they weren’t working for pay.
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How To Get Canadians – And The World – To Care About Canadian Art
The head of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television actually returned from a successful U.S. career for the job, so her perspective might seem somewhat U.S.-ian: “The way the Canadian industry is set up right now, we fund people to make work, but we don’t fund people to market work. If people don’t know a film is out there, and you’re not marketing it to them as American companies do, then you won’t get people to see it. It’s not that complicated, actually.”
Artist Jimmie Durham, Living In Exile In A 12th-Century Convent-Turned-Studio In Italy, Finally Gets A New American Show
Durham, who says he didn’t come to the opening of his Hammer Museum show because he’s had health problems in the last couple of years, says, “I guess you could call leaving New York a statement or position in that I didn’t want to be judged by my monetary success. I didn’t want to be a part of the American dream.”
The Disney Channel Is Trying To Grow Up, Or At Least Mature
The Disney Channel wants a hit like “Orange Is the New Black” or “The Walking Dead,” only not sexual and not horror, and for kids.
Simone de Beauvoir’s Political Philosophy Still Resonates, More Strongly Now Than Ever
Look back at de Beauvoir and Sartre, and existentialism: “In times of political turmoil, one may feel overwhelmed with anxiety and can even be tempted with Sartre to think that ‘hell is other people’. De Beauvoir encourages us to consider that others also give us the world because they infuse it with meaning: we can only make sense of ourselves in relation to others.”
The Week That Dance Took Over L.A.’s Museums
The audiences have to be the “archive” of the dance project. “Audience-watching, art-watching and dance-watching form equal parts of the intimate experience. The dancers morph into living, breathing sculpture — at once molding, and being molded, by an environment devoted to the collection and display of objects.”
Netflix’s New Project: Jim Henson Puppets Plus Julie Andrews Equals ‘Greenroom’
It’s on Netflix, but it’s really about theatre: “On the show, she plays Ms. Julie, who teaches a performing arts class to five puppet pupils. Over the debut season’s 13 episodes, Ms. Julie and celebrity guests (including Alec Baldwin, Idina Menzel, Josh Groban, Carol Burnett and David Hyde Pierce) inspire the eager young thespians to create and perform an original musical.”
What Writers Should, Or Could, Do During This Age Of Trump
One thing would be not to pretend that everything was perfect before. “Ms. Eltahawy expressed exasperation at the end over the number of people during the event, most of them white, who made claims of exhaustion and asked the panelists for advice on how to keep up unflagging opposition. Ms. Eltahawy suggested in the firm tone that she used all night that those people realize how privileged they have been to have not felt besieged by politics before now.”
Media Brands Are Awkward, And We Need Look No Farther Than Amal Clooney To See Why
All topics are converging. Teen Vogue covers politics, The Atlantic covers pop culture – and Time, apparently, covers Amal Clooney in a way it thinks will appeal to Millennial women (but really, will it?).
How Does Margaret Atwood Feel As Her ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Dystopia Creeps Closer To Reality?
Atwood, in a Reddit Ask Me Anything: “I cannot tell you how strange this feels. I wrote the book hoping to fend it off, and I believe it will be fended off: America is very diverse, a lot of people have been jolted out of political slumber and are paying attention, and the Constitution still stands.”