One anti-feminist blogger calls the action film starring Charlize Theron a “Trojan Horse [that] feminists and Hollywood leftists will use to insist on the trope women are equal to men in all things. … If you were like me, the explosions, fire tornadoes, even the symphonic score surrounding Fury Road‘s first trailer made your attendance a foregone conclusion. It looked like a straight-up guy flick.”
Tag: 05.14.15
In London, The Stars Are Onstage
“These stars are just the latest wave of big-name actors to appear on the London stage, which can burnish an already glowing reputation, reboot a career or simply provide a challenge like no other.”
How A Blighted Urban Street Got Shortlisted For This Year’s Turner Prize
“Most locals might still be in a state of baffled amusement that the DIY handiwork of a young London-based architecture collective, Assemble, in doing up some of the area’s empty homes has been shortlisted for the country’s most prestigious art award.”
Minnesota Orchestra Leads An Expected New Wave Of Cultural Ambassadors To Cuba
The Minnesotans are at the vanguard of what is expected to be a flurry of cultural cross-pollination now that there are signs of a diplomatic thaw. The relationship has been a fraught one for more than a century.
Public Radio Is Membership-Supported. But That “Membership” Is Changing
“Though membership has always been a core part of public media, over the past several years, public radio has been grappling with new questions concerning membership and listener loyalty. The traditional form of building membership and leveraging organizational loyalty — the pledge drive — has declined in effectiveness, and new conversations are beginning about how to recruit and retain members who access content off-air.”
Who Will Be The Next Director Of The Brooklyn Museum?
“Whoever is selected will inherit an institution whose endowment roughly tripled during Mr. Lehman’s tenure, to $123 million. The museum’s annual operating budget has more than doubled, to $35 million, and its audience is both young—with a median age of 34—and diverse.”
The Man Who Has Painted A Picture Of Obama Every Day Of His Presidency
“On the day that Obama was inaugurated in 2009, Pruitt made a 2-foot-by-2-foot painting of the president, based on a photographic image taken from the news and rendered in a subdued palette of washed-out red, blue and white. The next day he painted a second. The next day he painted a third. The next … well, you get the idea.”
It Was The 1950s. Soviet Russia. We Made Jazz Bootlegs In The Back Of The Store
“What the printing press was to the samizdat publishers, this little hunk of metal became to a burgeoning scene of jazz fiends. It wasn’t long before a small community of music lovers began haunting his shop, snapping up record after record and lining Philo’s pockets with dirty money.”
Christopher Knight: The Whitney Museum Misrepresented My Criticism
“I can certainly understand why the Whitney Museum might be embarrassed by a review critical of its institutional failure with the 1993 Biennial. But posting a fallacious sign 22 years later merely indicates that the institutional failure continues.”
Scientists Figure Out Why You Saw That Dress As White-And-Gold Or Blue-And-Black
“We make assumptions about the world that guide the interpretation of sensory data, and these assumptions can be quite different for different individuals.”