09.09.15 – Page 2 – ArtsJournal Wayback

When Did Crying Become Unmanly? It Didn’t Use To Be …

“Historical and literary evidence suggests that, in the past, not only did men cry in public, but no one saw it as feminine or shameful. In fact, male weeping was regarded as normal in almost every part of the world for most of recorded history. … So where did all the male tears go? The truth is, we don’t know for certain. There was no anti-crying movement.”

Minnesota School District Returns Books Because Of Cultural Stereotypes

The district paid Reading Horizons $1.2 million for a new reading curriculum for kindergarten through third grade. When teachers got the books, they found an illustration of an American Indian girl titled “Nieko the Hunting Girl,” and another with a black girl called “Lazy Lucy.” The books also referenced Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America, a historical milestone no longer taught in many schools.

What Might It Take To Change Hollywood’s Persistent Sexism?

“Is this fall’s crop an exception or a possible sign of a shift afoot? Certainly there are no major films built around women of color on the horizon. So we asked actresses, writers and directors (including a few men) from forthcoming films about what’s changed, what needs to change and how. They didn’t always agree, and the subject won’t be settled anytime soon.”

At Least Someone’s Getting Rich Off The Music Industry…

“BMI, one of the two big agencies in the United States that handle the licensing when songs are played on the radio or streamed online, plans to announce on Thursday that it exceeded $1 billion in annual revenue for the first time, led by rapid growth in digital music.”

Troubled National Geographic Sells Its Magazine To Rupert Murdoch’s Fox

“In exchange for $725 million, the National Geographic Society passed the troubled magazine and its book, map and other media assets to a partnership headed by 21st Century Fox, the Murdoch-controlled company that owns the 20th Century Fox movie studio, the Fox television network and Fox News Channel.”

Bestselling Author Commits Suicide One Day Before Release Of New Book

The death of Dutch novelist and columnist Joost Zwagerman, 51, “emerged on Tuesday evening when he failed to turn up for a radio interview to talk about his new book De stilte van het licht (The Silence of Light). Much of the music he had chosen for the programme was about death.”

Boston Symphony’s New Music Director Takes A Second Post – At Leipzig’s Gewandhaus

“Mr. Nelsons, 36, will continue to lead the Boston Symphony, which recently extended his contract through at least 2022, after he begins his five-year contract at the Gewandhaus Orchestra in the fall of 2017. … Boston and Leipzig are working to make a virtue of Mr. Nelsons’s involvement with both orchestras. The Boston Symphony will perform in Leipzig, and the Gewandhaus Orchestra will perform at Symphony Hall in Boston. They are starting a joint commissioning program that will begin in the 2017-18 season.”

Jerry Saltz On How Picasso the Sculptor Ruptured Art History

“We don’t think of Picasso as a sculptor, but we should. He was a great one. In the years after that summer with Braque, Picasso performed a vivisection of 500 years of Western spatial perspective.”

Theater Troupe Creates Portable, Pop-Up Playgrounds In World’s Highest City

In El Alto, the young and fast-growing city high above the Bolivian capital, La Paz, the group COMPA Teatro Trono sets up colorful, temporary places for children and adults in a city desperately short of public recreational space.

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