“When the Suo Jia Cun Artist Village in suburban Beijing, where he worked as a sculptor’s assistant, was ‘forcibly demolished,’ as he puts it, Mr. Liu decided to protest. He camouflaged himself in the ruins with acrylic paints to illustrate resistance to movement.”
Tag: 06.26.13
The E-Future Of Publishing Lies In Genre (& Not The ‘Literary Fiction’ Genre)
“The audience that gravitated to e-books first really was that voracious reader, reading for entertainment, reading multiple books in a month across multiple genres.”
Bert Stern, 83, Photographer Who Captured Marilyn Monroe Weeks Before Her Death
Stern was “an elite commercial photographer who helped redefine advertising and fashion art in the 1950s and ’60s but is perhaps best known for his painfully raw and poignant photos of Marilyn Monroe.”
Ms. Kauffman Gives Another $20 Million For Music And Dance In Kansas City
The philanthropist, who made the lead gift for the city’s beloved new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, has made a challenge grant to launch the building of a new downtown performance center for the conservatory at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
What Did Readers Make Of ‘The Lottery’ In 1948?
The New Yorker received more letters (over 300) in response to Shirley Jackson’s story than to anything else the magazine had yet published. Only 18 of those responses were positive, Jackson later said; the rest were split between “bewilderment, speculation, and plain old-fashioned abuse” – and all too many readers thought the story was real.
J.D. Salinger, Hindu Mysticism, And World War II
Ron Rosenbaum considers the reclusive author’s decades of correspondence with the swamis at the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center and what those letters might tell us about all the late-life writing Salinger kept hidden. Then Rosenbaum begins a campaign for Salinger’s estate to tell us something about that work. (Hey, it worked when he did it for Nabokov.)
Evidence Of Growing Interest In African Art?
“There does appear to be a growing interest in African art, especially in the UK. African artists are becoming increasingly mobile and visible and exhibiting internationally.”
What The TV We Watch Says About Us
” You pick your tribe and stick with it, because it is deft shorthand for the person you are, or perhaps the person you want to be (or be seen as).”
Britain’s Latest Round Of Arts Funding Cuts Less Awful Than Feared
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne “on Wednesday unveiled a 7 per cent cut to the media, culture and sport department budget but capped the reductions to museums and arts bodies at 5 per cent.”
Janis Joplin Musical Headed To Broadway
“A Night With Janis Joplin, a concert-as-theater featuring a buzz-generating performance by Mary Bridget Davies as Joplin, will open on Broadway this fall after touring the country over the last two years.”