Judy Blume “doesn’t have to write because, at 78, she has embarked on a new career: she’s an independent bookseller. Together with her husband, George Cooper, she has opened a small, nonprofit bookshop in Key West, Florida, where she’s working almost every day. And she’s loving it.”
Tag: 05.20.16
Uncovering – And Then Creating – A Story That Was So Wild It Seemed Fake
“‘I thought, oh my God, what is this we’re hearing here?’ Ms. Shetterly said, recalling the moment a few years back when her father, a retired research scientist, casually mentioned Ms. Johnson’s life work. Her next thought: Why haven’t we heard about it before?”
Musicians’ Union Files Unfair Labor Practices Charge Against Kalamazoo Symphony
“Start said the two sessions per day creates an undue hardship on many musicians because many do other work – with other musical groups or in jobs not related to music – to make their living.”
Manhattan’s Spiraling Rents Are Killing Off One Of Its Best Art Spaces
“The closing of 38 Greene feels like the end of an era, partly because it reflects the threat posed by the gold-coasting of Manhattan to its alternative spaces — among them the excellent White Columns on West 13th Street. Now facing the ends of leases, profit-hungry landlords and the like, these spaces are seers. They have a nerve and flexibility absent from museums and commercial galleries. Their nurturing of non-mainstream artists and collectives is essential to a living art world.”
The Museum Of London Opens A New, Massive Site
“There are already more than 6m objects in the Museum of London, the largest urban history collection in the world, but its director, Sharon Ament, is acquiring a few more: a row of derelict shops, several tonnes of salt, a giant Edwardian gas burner, an entire street, and a working train line.”
If Films Want To Qualify For The Oscars, They Can’t Be Seen As ‘Television’
“A documentary feature must be released in L.A. County or the borough of Manhattan in New York City and play at least four times a day within a certain window of showtimes on those days. (This is to prevent someone potentially renting a theater to play to empty houses early in the morning or the middle of the night.) And a feature documentary must also get a review from a movie critic — ‘a television critic review will not be accepted,’ read the rules — in either the L.A. or N.Y. Times.”
A 52-Year-Old Ballerina Blows Her Holographic Younger Self Away
“It’s delightful enough that this ad gives us time to savor Ferri in motion, with her liquid smoothness and undiminished grace. But the ad also puts forth a meaningful narrative about looking back at one’s youth, and realizing that now is even better.”
Virginia Arts Commission Members Threaten To Defund Museum Over ‘Anti-Christian’ Works
“The offending works are the pop-surrealist artist [Mark Rylan]’s ‘Fountain’ (2003) and ‘Rosie’s Tea Party’ (2005), which both show young, doll-like girls in unsettling scenes: In the former, a figure cradles her own head as blood springs from her neck; in the latter, a girl is surrounded by an assortment of meats and slicing a hunk of ham inscribed with the papal encyclical ‘Mystici corporis Christi.'”
What’s It Like To Be An Editor, Really?
“The industry in general is waking up belatedly and slowly to the real benefits of having diversity in staffing. … I mean, it’s a plus to have a Spanish speaker and reader on your staff. Not to have one but to have multiple. It’s a plus to have people reading more diversely and understanding different cultural experiences.
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Live All-Nude Shakespeare In Central Park! (Yes, Really)
“This is an all-woman, fully nude, abridged adaptation of William Shakespeare’s final play The Tempest, … produced by the Outdoor Co-Ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society.” (Remember them?) But you’ve missed the last show, we’re afraid …