LACMA has dedicated a space to the exhibition of the new plan with a 15-foot model built in Zumthor’s studio. The site model is a single slab of molded cement, reproducing several blocks of the Miracle Mile with abstracted precision to focus attention on an all-white volumetric model of the LACMA addition. – Archinect
Tag: 06.28.19
San Francisco’s School Board Is Spending $600,000 To Destroy A Mural
Bari Weiss: “The notion of erasing art has an American pedigree. The [immigrant New Deal-era artist] Victor Arnautoff was intimately familiar with it, having been interrogated in 1956 by the House Un-American Activities Committee for drawing a caricature of Vice President Richard Nixon. But I suspect he would have been surprised to learn that more than 60 years later, progressives in charge of educating San Francisco’s children are merrily following this un-American playbook.” – The New York Times
In The New ‘To Kill A Mockingbird,’ Aaron Sorkin And Broadway Utterly Fail Scout
Yikes: “How does a white man from New York City tell a Southern Gothic about a young girl growing up in the Depression Era South, a story inspired by the female author’s lived experience? For Sorkin, it’s easy—you just silence her voice.” – LitHub
Why Do So Many Ignore The Suffering In The Poems Of Mary Oliver And Elizabeth Bishop?
Maybe because it’s easier on certain types of reviewers and critics to ignore clear evidence of suffering and pain? “Oliver and Bishop share a clear appetite for animal flail and gore and death. But many readers don’t seem to make very much of this. Critics praise the work, but tend to smile gently, indulgently, upon Bishop’s rhymes, her received forms and elegant impersonality, Oliver’s ‘old-fashioned’ subjects.” – LitHub
When You Want To Feel Inspired By Language, What Should You Read?
Language can be curved, bent, cajoled, broken, reconstituted, made to fit a creators passion. When that’s what you want to read, here are some ideas to put up higher on the TBR pile. – The Rumpus
How Is It That Musicals Both Ultra-Gay And Not Gay At All?
Musicals can help young men, especially (but not only!), come out, and lord knows they’re often campy enough … but where are the happy gay musicals? Other than Bill Rauch’s happy and gay Oklahoma! at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2018, really, where exactly are they? – The Stage (UK)
The Author Who Just Won The Dylan Thomas Prize On Code-Switching And Superpowers In London
Guy Gunaratne, whose novel is written in ”a pungent first-person patois,” explains that of course he speaks differently to an interviewer. “publishing is pretty middle class and I’ve had to accommodate. In London, you learn to code-switch quite well and I’ve always thought of that as a superpower in a way. You’re able to express yourself with different vocabulary in different situations, not through any pretence but because the way you express yourself matters, and your social condition is inherited through your inheritance of dialect.” – The Guardian (UK)
Isabelle Sarli, Whose Films Challenged Censors And Created A Sensation In Argentina And The World, Has Died At 89
“Sarli became an instant sex symbol in her feature film debut, in El Trueno Entre las Hojas (Thunder Among the Leaves) in 1958, when she became the first woman to appear fully nude in a mainstream Argentine movie” – and during Argentina’s military dictatorship, her movies were censored, one not being shown until the return of democracy. – The New York Times
Women Are Still Working On Changing The Discussion Around The Female Body In Art
Artist Donna Huanca uses semi-nudes to claim space in what she says is still a very male space. “I’m trying to distort the male gaze, to have it be so powerful that it reflects back in a different way.” – Los Angeles Times
Is Morality Hard-Wired Into Mammalian Brains?
Maybe morality started with food. Really. – The New York Times