The principal of Arthur O. Eve School 61 in Buffalo got together with Scholastic Books and a vending machine company to adapt and stock a machine for the school’s library. The kids are not charged: each kid gets one token a month to use at the machine. (Yes, they get to keep the books.) — Buffalo News
Tag: 11.27.18
Chinese Government Control Of The Art Market Threatens It
What counts as a problematic work tends, loosely, to be anything explicitly sexually suggestive, some nudes, those with religious subject matter and politically engaged works that might be construed as criticising the Chinese regime. A foreign exhibitor at one of the fairs says anonymously that they were not allowed to bring a work that joked about global trade and Chinese manufacturing. Works by Georg Baselitz and Francis Bacon, proposed by international galleries were apparently among those turned down this year.
90 UK Theatres Announce Plan To Increase Diversity In Non-Stage Staff
“Rather than putting the onus on employers to address this issue alone, we decided to assist them by using the best knowledge we had available – our members’ experiences. We asked reps about the reality of theatre recruitment to establish how it really works.” – The Stage
Undergrads Are Fleeing The History Major: Study
“History has seen the steepest decline in majors of all disciplines since the 2008 recession, according to a new analysis published in the American Historical Association’s Perspectives on History. ‘The drop in history’s share of undergraduate majors in the last decade has put us below the discipline’s previous low point in the 1980s,’ reads the analysis.”
NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ Fires Movie Critic David Edelstein
The popular interview show hosted by Terry Gross cut ties after Edelstein posted on Facebook an ill-considered joke (subsequently deleted) about the stick-of-butter scene in Last Tango in Paris that was widely condemned on social media as offensive.
Struggling To Find The Aesthetic Self(ie)
Consuming these images is stultifying. To be digitally femme means to bathe anxiously in the images of others and act impotently in response, liking a photo or congratulating others on their beauty. More stultifying is that this is done in spite of knowing the effort that went into each composition. The selfie is a cover-up, hiding both the means of its own production and the true self.
The Communist Manifesto Becomes A Cantata
“Choral Marx, which was recently performed at NYU’s Skirball Center, consists of nine singers whose variously musical utterance transfigures, toys with, and otherwise implements eight heavily excerpted selections from the 1888 Samuel Moore translation of the Manifesto. Led by [composer Ethan] Philbrick’s cello, the band played all the hits: ‘The history of all hitherto existing societies/ Is the history of class struggle,’ ‘The bourgeoisie has reduced personal worth to exchange value,’ ‘There is a specter haunting this world’ and so on.”
How Hip Hop Is Influencing Architecture
Because the idea of hip-hop architecture is still very new, the design elements aren’t quite apparent yet, though Deconstructivism and Postmodernism are probably the closest reference points in forms that emphasize the design of façades, different heights for different sections of buildings, and references classical architecture.
27 Artists Talk About The Best And Worst Advice They Got
People have told me to stop being a perfectionist and make more work, more quickly. This is not bad advice in theory, but it does not work for me.
Facebook Censors Art Historian For Posting Image, Then Bans Him From The Platform
News of Ruben Cordova’s banishment has spread across academic circles as a warning against art historians and artists who might want to aggregate their research on Facebook’s platform.