“I was looking at statistics and Claire Underwood’s character was more popular than [Frank’s] for a period of time. So I capitalized on that moment. I was like, ‘You better pay me or I’m going to go public.’ And they did.”
Tag: 05.18.16
Brazil’s New President Abolishes Culture Ministry
“Acting President Michel Temer, who took over last week after president Dilma Rousseff’s suspension for an impeachment trial, has cut the number of ministries from 32 to 23 in a measure he says will help streamline a bloated government. However merging the culture portfolio into the education ministry has provoked a storm of protest led by the country’s cultural elite.”
What The Canadian Opera/National Post Review-Spiking Affair Portends
“I don’t think anyone will notice the difference soon, but it will be arts organisations like the COC who will lose most from the absence of critics in the mainstream press.”
SF Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti To Step Down
The 55-year-old conductor announced that he won’t renew his contract when it expires at the end of the 2017-2018 season. He said, “I want the company’s General Director Designate Matthew Shilvock to be able to move freely into the future.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.18.16
Artists and Relationship Building
There is a lot of work right now on building demand, value and interest in the contributions of art and artists to places, social change, economies and communities. This is the long overdue work … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-05-17
Is This How It Ends?
Tiffany Mills titled her latest work After the Feast, and the program note for its premiere during the annual La MaMa Moves! Festival asks the spectators to imagine: “an urban dystopia caused by vanishing resources.” In my mind, that includes … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-05-18
Art Museum Day’s Odd Couples: Corcoran/GWU, MASS MoCA/Crystal Bridges, Smithsonian/Hebrew University
In the provocative spirit of CultureGrrl, come join me, faithful art-lings, in an unconventional commemoration of Art Museum Day, spotlighting some unlikely pairings that have recently hit the news. Whether conceived in a spirit of … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-05-18
Recent Listening In Brief, Part 3: Strassmayer & Mondlak
Karolina Strassmayer & Drori Mondlak — Klaro!, Of Mystery and Beauty (Lilypad) From the drama of the album’s opening cymbal splashes to the fading piano notes at its end, alto saxophonist and flutist Strassmayer and drummer Mondlak … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-05-18
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Turns Out Women Ghostbusters Are Real (Jury’s Out On The Ghosts)
“The women are part of a movement of female ghost hunters that they say has grown in recent years, and they’re hoping many more young girls will be encouraged to join after the highly anticipated women-led remake of Ghostbusters hits the big screen.”
The Long Philosophical Shadow Of Conceptual Art
“Conceptual art opened up possibilities of making work that you could call art in completely nontraditional ways: You could walk, you could write, you could take a photograph. A million things you could do could all be art, and that was very, very new, and very radical.”
Is It Time For Film To Concentrate On Muslim Women?
Luc Dardenne: “‘Muslim women; women [in general] are the future of society, I truly believe that.’ He continued by drawing a parallel between how women react to injustice, compared to men. ‘They feel responsible and they are free and make a society move forward.'”
Culture’s Having A ‘Girl’ Moment. But What Does It Mean?
“To be called ‘just a girl’ may be diminishment, but to call yourself ‘still a girl,’ can be empowerment, laying claim to the unencumbered liberties of youth. As Gloria Steinem likes to remind us, women lose power as they age. The persistence of girlhood can be a battle cry.”
Pulp Fiction Will Never Die
“Mainstream literary writers — people like Anne Tyler, who I like very much — are fighting over a smaller and smaller patch of ground. And genre writers are writing with more maturity. What genre writers understand now is that when someone dies, someone is out there to mourn them. Every death has a repercussion. So there’s a maturity that wasn’t always there before. These are novels about social conscience, reflecting what’s going on in our world.”