“While our change might just be producing an art that can create social commentary and create a message for an audience, I think that is an idea of expression in general and of our First Amendment rights: We’re given the ability to produce material that can create change and be a part of our society.”
Archives for March 30, 2014
Want That Ebook? You’d Best Be Able To Travel To It
“Books that traveled around the world via interlibrary loan in the 20th century paper era are safeguarded locally in the Internet age. Indeed, it is the sheer ease with which electronic publications can be sent around the world that is now resulting in their being locked up behind digital bars. The book doesn’t go to the reader, the reader comes to the book — just like in the 19th century.”
Regional Theatre Balances On A Financial Knife-Edge – But Needs To Keep It Local
“How do you put on new work, in the main house, while also keeping your audience? Familiar stories, brands and characters reinvented for the stage can seem like a smart way forward.”
Is The Women’s History Museum Finally Going To Become A Reality?
“The latest version of the bill is designed to calm the complaints of Republicans, who blocked an earlier proposal in 2010 because they feared a new museum would cost taxpayers too much money.”
Gone With The Wind’s ‘Mammy’ To Get A Book Of Her Own
“It’s a book that respects and honors its source material, but it also provides a necessary correction to what is one of the more troubling aspects of the book, which is how the black characters are portrayed.”
Wait, Why Is A Book About Gone With The Wind’s ‘Mammy’ Being Written By A White Guy?
“One troubling feature of slave narratives is the process of a white person, typically male, having to authenticate the story. Never mind that the author lived to tell the tale. It still wasn’t real unless it was co-signed by a presumed credible source.”
Time For The Arts To Smarten Up About Smartphones
“Largely gone are the old apprehensions, the old tensions that marked the relationship between smartphones and the arts. Where those running organizations once wondered what to do about these new devices that could record audio and video and take pictures — practices that had sometimes been barred — now they know: Embrace them.”
The UK Doesn’t Want Prisoners Getting Books Anymore. Writers And Actors Lead The Protests
“I also believe that as a species, language is the greatest thing that we do, so I have to believe in the redemptive power of the written word.”
Cable Shows May Have The Prestige, But Networks Win On Diversity
“This broadcast trend flies in the face of conventional ‘wisdom,’ which has for years argued that shows featuring female, black, Latino, Asian or gay leads could only muster niche audiences. It has been taken as gospel that viewers in the heartland, i.e. Americans with conservative values, just aren’t ready for anything beyond the pale of ‘traditional’ programming.”
How’s Vanska’s Job ‘Audition’ At Minneapolis Going?
“Mr. Vanska is faced with 21 substitute musicians this week, mostly among the strings, along with 64 members of the orchestra, and once again, he is making them sound like a unified and refined whole.”