“The drama has a 9% positive rating, with many critics lambasting its attempt to depict a pivotal moment in American history. Vanity Fair critic Richard Lawson called the film ‘terribly offensive, and offensively terrible.'”
Tag: 09.27.15
The Tale Of A Documentary Maker Growing More Bold After Her Oscar Win
“Poitras and the documentary-world veterans Charlotte Cook and A.J. Schnack have created Field of Vision, a company that will commission short-form documentaries and make them available for free streaming on its website.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.27.15
From Sweden: Taped and Set Free
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-09-27
Hayes Cannonball Legacy At The Seasons
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-09-26
Tech Trauma: MoMA’s New Chief Tech Officer, Plus More on Museums’ Digital Disasters
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2015-09-25
AJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2015-09-25
What’s The Story Behind The Melting Streetlamp In The Lobby Of The New Broad Museum?
“Is the Broad’s lobby lamp a nod to LACMA’s sidewalk lamps — and a tribute to Burden, who died of cancer in May at 69?”
How Do Groups Doing Community-Based Work Know If They’ve Done Anything Right?
“Community-based arts projects face a unique challenge in maintaining their impact after the practitioners and organizers move on to other projects.”
The (Surprisingly Sordid) History Of Book Blurbs
Gary Shteyngart: “‘I’ll look at a first sentence [of a galley], I’ll look at the cover and it just comes to me,’ he says. ‘Reading randomly from a book is also very helpful. Sometimes I try to read further — but you know, how far can you get? Does anyone even read these books anymore?’ That said, he doesn’t hold back. ‘I’ve compared people to Shakespeare, Tolstoy or whatever.'”
How Will We Talk To The Technology Of The Future?
“They have taken that most inscrutable of interfaces — the Check Engine light — and forced it to explain itself. It can hear you, and speak back, all over the din of the open road.”
Ballet By The Numbers
“720: Cans of silver sparkle body paint used by dancers playing the role of snowflakes in The Nutcracker.”
Yep, Hollywood Is Still One Big Sexist Industry
“From 2007 to 2014, women made up only 30.2% of all speaking or named characters in the 100 top-grossing films distributed in the US, according to research conducted by the University of Southern California for the Geena Davis Institute. A staggeringly low 1.9% of those films were directed by women.”
The Lives Of Characters Who (Long) Outlast Their Creators
“The question for authors to consider in this brave new world of mimicry, both professional and otherwise, is to what extent they consider their characters to be theirs and theirs alone. For most, it isn’t something that will become an issue during their lifetime: Copyright law stipulates that books only enter the public domain 70 years after the death of the author, even if most fanfic writers aren’t limited in terms of what they can post online.”