Marc Porter “has been the principal dealmaker for major collections, securing large consignments, including many of the most important artworks sold during the past decade.”
Tag: 12.07.15
Women Have Been Written Out Of Irish Theatre, And Irish Women Are Not OK With That
“If a nation’s canon is almost exclusively dominated by white male voices, what does that tell you about that nation?”
New Star Wars Posters In China Cause Controversy Over Racism
“Star Wars fans are questioning why a Chinese poster for ultra-hyped new episode The Force Awakens has relegated British actor John Boyega to the supporting cast.”
‘A Subversive Populist, A Celebrity Avant-Gardist’: Alex Ross On Orson Welles
“Welles causes endless trouble because of his unstable place in the American cultural hierarchy of high and low. He loved tragedy and vaudeville, Expressionist cinema and boys’ adventure stories. He converted genre vehicles like Touch of Evil into surreal labyrinths; he made Macbeth look like Gothic horror.”
Metamorphosis: When A Successful Author Adopts A New Language
Jhumpa Lahiri: “I’ve been writing in Italian for almost two years, and I feel that I’ve been transformed, almost reborn. But the change, this new opening, is costly; like Daphne [after she was turned into a tree], I, too, find myself confined. I can’t move as I did before, the way I was used to moving in English. A new language, Italian, covers me like a kind of bark. I remain inside: renewed, trapped, relieved, uncomfortable.”
The Bronx, Where Art Is Saving The World
“The DreamYard Project has a patriotic attachment to the Bronx. Two young actors, Jason Duchin and Tim Lord, founded it, twenty-one years ago, to teach public-school kids in grades K through twelve by using the arts. The idea was to recruit teachers from among working artists of Duchin’s and Lord’s acquaintance in New York and match them with schools whose funding for arts education had been cut. Through a few changes, that has been DreamYard’s basic mission from the start”