“Bruguera, an artist known for her challenging works of performance art, which explore everything from the immigrant condition to the nature of police control tactics, was detained in Cuba on multiple occasions early this year after attempting to stage a performance about freedom of expression in Havana’s Revolution Square. The Cuban authorities are still determining whether to file criminal charges against her.”
Tag: 05.01.15
Performers Finally Getting Their Time To Shine At This Summer’s Box Office
“The role of Malcolm, a good kid caught up in a bad drug deal, refutes stereotype. The performance of Mr. Moore, a young actor who came up through Atlanta’s hip-hop dance scene, refutes typecasting.”
Universal Settles Over ‘Best Little Whorehouse In Texas’ Home Video Royalties
“The policy of basing profit participation on 20 percent of home video revenues derives from the rise of VCR in the 1980s. The studios would pay independent companies to produce and distribute VHS copies of their films and would receive 20 percent of the revenue, which they would then divide out to the profit participants. When studios opened their own home distribution divisions, they continued calculating the profit participants’ earnings from 20 percent of the home-video revenues.”
Fighting Canada’s Theatre Gender Gap
“Here in the Cage we believe that making theatre is like making a child: If you want to be truly successful, you need more than just a penis.”
A Nearly Lost Harlem Renaissance Opera Returns To NY
“The presenters said they believe that the revival of ‘Voodoo’ will mark its first performances since 1928, when it had its premiere at the Palm Garden in New York more than a decade after it was composed.”
How Theatre Makes A Difference To An Escaped Child Soldier
“If others can relate to this story, maybe they will begin to dream about peace on Earth, a planet where no child suffers unnecessarily from a war for greed, or a mania for power. It can be. At the least, the spectators may find some level of emotional detox themselves, from whatever ails them.”
Protesters Shut Down NY’s Guggenheim Museum Over Labor Practices
“At noon today, a group of artists and activists including members of the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (known as G.U.L.F.) unfurled a large parachute in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum, demanding to meet with a member of the institution’s board of trustees to discuss the labor conditions at its Abu Dhabi site.”
Why Museums Are The Place To Talk About Racism
“Our job is to be an educational institution that uses history and culture not only to look back, not only to help us understand today, but to point us towards what we can become.”
Grooveshark Music Streamer Sued Off The Internet
Under the terms of a settlement reached with Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group, Grooveshark said it has agreed to “cease operations immediately, wipe clean all of the record companies’ copyrighted works and hand over ownership of this website, our mobile apps and intellectual property, including our patents and copyrights.”
Chinese Builder Erects 57-storey Building In 19 Days
“Mini Sky City has 19 atriums, 800 apartments and office space for 4,000 people, with space in the building going on sale in May. The structure is safe and can withstand earthquakes, according to Xiao.”