“In the first episode of Momus‘s ‘Criticism in Conversation’ [podcast] series, an art critic and an art journalist parse the differing responsibilities and approaches of their craft. Join Catherine G. Wagley (Momus contributing editor, and critic for ARTNews and L.A. Review of Books), and Julia Halperin (Executive Editor of artnet News, and former Museums Editor for The Art Newspaper) as they compare notes and find common ground.”
Tag: 08.11.18
‘Letting Costumes Lead The Choreography’ – Moses Pendleton Of MOMIX
“For most dancers, the costumes act as the finishing touch. At MOMIX, however, the costumes are just the starting point. … We spoke with Pendleton and MOMIX dance captain Sarah Nachbauer to learn all of the details of how they get their concepts from the studio to the stage — and all of the costume mishaps in between.”
Is The Internet Killing Adventure?
With TripAdvisor and Yelp, everything is so documented that travel stories have become a thing of the past. Or have they?
The Actor Who Spent Years (Accidentally) Prepping For His Role In ‘Crazy Rich Asians’
Jimmy O. Yang says that even his Uber job – a job he got after buying a car with the money he made doing three days of filming for the show Silicon Valley – helped him prep to be a comedian. “There were some stupid drunk people every now and then but, for the most part, people were very nice, and I’m a people person. In a way, I was just kind of running my stand-up material on some of these people, just chatting them up.”
Robot Intimacy Can Never Be Enough For Humans
Just in case you were worried, sex is going to keep happening – between (and among) humans, even when we have sex robots – and humans will still need other humans to take care of them as well, not just care robotos. “This is an intimacy that does not make room for human empathy or what human beings in their bodies experience as the fear of death, loneliness, illness, pain. We diminish as the seeming empathy of the machine increases. It is technology forcing us to forget what we know about life.”
Critics To The Academy: Just No On The ‘Popular Oscar’
And the changes in ‘streamlining’ the awards ceremony by cutting the designers out of the telecast? Whew. “The folks below-the-line are the artisans and craftspeople that make a movie speak and sparkle. … You’d think one night a year, Hollywood could find the time to acclaim them for the magic that would be impossible without them.”
Beloved Salvadoran Artist Fernando Llort, Winner Of His Country’s Cultural Prize And Cathedral Mosaicist, Has Died At 69
Llort, whose mosaics on San Salvador’s cathedral marking the end of a major civil war were destroyed by the Catholic Church in a “renovation” (for which the Church later apologized), was mourned by El Salvador’s president on social media: “His charisma, masterful works and affection for our people capture the cultural identity and the development in peace and harmony of our nation.”
V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Laureate And Controversial Explorer Of Colonialism, Has Died At 85
Sir Vidia “exempted neither colonizer nor colonized from his scrutiny. He wrote of the arrogance and self-aggrandizement of the colonizers, yet exposed the self-deception and ethical ambiguities of the liberation movements that swept across Africa and the Caribbean in their wake. He brought to his work moral urgency and a novelist’s attentiveness to individual lives and triumphs.”