Janet Suzman, frustrated at the lack of black faces in the audience at a South African play she recently did in London, said, “I rail against that and say why don’t black people come to see a play about one of the most powerful African states? And they don’t bloody come. They’re not interested. It’s not in their culture, that’s why. Just as their stuff is not in white culture.”
Tag: 12.08.14
What Makes Someone An Atheist Or Theist?
“Should we express religious categories in terms of people’s beliefs or their behaviors? Commentator Tania Lombrozo examines why we describe (a)theism the way we do.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.08.14
Perelman Vs. Gagosian: A Decision
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-12-08
The New Republic is Not About Politics
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2014-12-08
Neil MacGregor Plays Russian Roulette with the Acropolis Marbles
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2014-12-08
Streaming and royalties for musicians – a plea for better reporting
AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2014-12-08
Monday Recommendation: Stefano Bollani
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2014-12-08
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Arts Council England Tells Theatres To Diversify Or Lose Funding
“We have to open up access to power and to resources. Looking up, too many see the white cliff-face of the arts establishment and feel they just cannot climb it.”
How Is Google Maps So (Generally) Awesome? Big Data, But Also A Big Project
“Satellites and algorithms only get you so far. Google employs a small army of human operators (they won’t say exactly how many) to manually check and correct the maps using an in-house program called Atlas. Few people outside the company have seen it in use.”
Hans Ulrich Obrist – Portrait Of The Uber-Curator
“Though Obrist is often assumed to be the kind of megalomaniac who is more prominent than the artists he shows—and who is willing to crush the heterogeneity of artists’ work in order to extract coherent themes—that assumption doesn’t properly capture him.”