This retrospective meetup in the commercial O.K. Corral of American theater suggests that for at least some parts of the gay community, the canonization of milestone works is taking deeper root in the culture. Not that this signals any end to the struggles of gay, lesbian and transgender people, not by a long shot, or that the works of female and trans writers, particularly those of color, are as yet receiving the same level of prominent treatment as those of these white men. But, as Kushner noted in a telephone interview, the tide of history might be playing a part in this intersection of gay plays.
Tag: 04.06.18
Why It’s So Difficult To Grapple With Consciousness
I have discovered that most people, including any number of scientists, remain cloudy on the issues involved in struggles over consciousness. Another analytical philosopher, John Searle, has referred to the consciousness “scandal.” The “scandal” is that no one agrees either on a definition of consciousness or how it comes about.
The Addictive Drug That Is Opera
Or, more specifically, that is Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Tenor Jonas Kaufmann, who is singing Tristan in Boston: “You can never get rid of it. It is always there, stuck in your brain.”
How To Preserve Outdoor Art? Enlist The U.S. Army, Of Course
Just whoa: “Alexander Calder, who famously rejected the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976 as a form of protest against the Vietnam War, would be extremely surprised to learn that the conservation of his outdoor sculptures is increasingly a result of a collaboration between art conservators and the US Army Research Laboratory.”
Will The Death Of The DVD Extra (And The ‘Making Of’ Featurette), Can Young Filmmakers Learn How Films Work
This is a serious technology question: “With DVDs steadily joining VHS cassettes as extinct technology, what has become of the fun, insightful mixed bag that movie fans came to know as bonus features — the audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, bloopers, deleted scenes and alternate endings? Some of these extras have shifted to digital stores and streaming platforms. But can cinephiles access them as easily as they could when video rental stores prospered in every neighborhood?”
La Wilson, Assemblage Artist Who Never Explained Her Works’ Meanings, Has Died At 93
Wilson’s assemblages, she said, only told a story (to her, at least) when she put them together, and she didn’t plan the story ahead of time. “Inside the home garage that was long ago converted into her studio, Ms. Wilson worked in a uniform that included knickers, long socks and a vest. The shelves in the room were filled with the ephemera that she had purchased at five-and-dime stores, antique shops and flea markets or was given by friends and neighbors. She used her daughter’s toys, including a tiny doll.”
Two Artworks By Egon Schiele Have Been Ordered To Be Returned To The Heirs Of A Victim Of The Nazis
Thirteen years after a different court turned down the heirs’ claims, the judge in this case “rejected the idea that Mr. Grunbaum had voluntarily transferred the artworks during his lifetime to an heir. ‘A signature at gunpoint cannot lead to a valid conveyance,’ he wrote.”
Why Has This Poet Disappeared?
The discussion of modernist poet Lola Ridge spurs a call to arms, or rather to pens: “Gender is part of who gets remembered. In 2015, 71.7 percent of biographies were about men and 31 per cent of those were written by women. Only 6 percent of male biographers chose to document a woman’s life. Hence there are far fewer biographies written about or by women than men.”
When You’re A Woman Starting To Direct, Go Big (So You Don’t Go Home)
Constance Zimmer, who just directed an episode of UnReal: “I saw Greta Gerwig [an Oscar nominee for her directorial debut of Lady Bird] on a panel recently and she said, ‘When it’s your first time, that’s when you can fail.’ That was my approach. If you don’t go big, you don’t know if you could have done better.”
Helen Molesworth, Who Was Abruptly Fired As MOCA’s Chief Curator, Will Give A UCLA Commencement Address
The dean of the school said, “It is in the times that are most challenging that we, as artists, must engage the world with our greatest passion, clarity and forward-thinking vision. … To be an artist in an uncertain future, you must be brave, you must be bold, and you must strive for excellence.”