Why Are There So Many Asian-American Hip-Hop Dance Crews? Community

“In many Asian countries, hip-hop rose to popularity as a form of self-expression and resistance, sometimes in the face of colonialism and oppressive regimes. … But the contemporary boom of Asian Americans in hip-hop seems born out of a different impulse — one of finding belonging and connecting with others who share your unique experience.” – Vice

Shelley Duvall’s Performance In ‘The Shining’ Was Actually Brilliant

“Many viewers — even some who love The Shining — find Duvall’s acting strangely cartoonish with its wild expressions of anxiety and fear. … Stephen King himself … was downright offended by how the picture depicted Wendy, who was more proactive and heroic in his novel.” After re-watching the film on a big screen, critic Bilge Ebiri found a greater respect for the key aspect of Duvall’s performance: “the fear of [an abused] wife who’s experienced her husband at his worst, and is terrified that she’ll experience it again.” – Vulture

Who’s The US’s Busiest Publisher Of Literature In Translation? Amazon

“Amazon Crossing, Amazon’s publishing imprint focused on literary translation, … has published more than 400 books, from 42 countries and in 26 languages … Crossing has also produced some of the bestselling titles to emerge from Amazon’s [entire] publishing platform, including The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch, which has reached more than 800,000 readers.” – Publishers Weekly

Discriminatingly Nondiscriminatory: MoMA Expands the Canon (But Leaves Out Native Americans)

Given the emphasis on increased diversity of representation for artists featured in the permanent collection — female artists, in particular, are more abundantly represented in the current hang and stand up to comparison with their more renowned male colleagues, and two special exhibitions reflect the museum’s increased attention to African-American artists — the apparent failure to include Native Americans in the new MoMA’s inaugural displays is beyond comprehension. – Lee Rosenbaum

Lauren Gunderson On Giving (And Getting) Voice In The Theatre

Becoming the first woman to top the list of most-produced playwrights (in the 2017-18 U.S. season) was a feat, and this year’s return to the No. 1 spot might be even more impressive. But the 37-year-old writer’s quiet rise to the top of her profession isn’t just a personal victory, because she has built her success on telling women’s stories — and providing more (and more challenging) roles to female actors. – Arizona Republic

The Chattanooga Symphony And Its Concertmaster Are At Serious Odds

Holly Mulcahy hasn’t performed with the orchestra since April because of a contract dispute – a dispute so intense that one board member has resigned over it. That board member, film composer George S. Clinton, said that the entire dispute had been “badly mishandled and allowed to deteriorate to the point that now the symphony has lost what I and many others consider to be one of its finest assets.” – Chattanooga Times Free Press

Is It Worth Waiting Two Hours In Line For A Few Minutes In A Kusama Infinity Mirrored Room?

Well: “That depends on how much you value your time — and what you expect of art in the age of Instagram. The smartphone, with its ever-finer cameras and ever-shinier screens, now shapes our experience of art as thoroughly as the church did in 14th-century Italy or the unadorned, white-cube galleries did for midcentury abstract painters.” – The New York Times