There are, for instance, “numerous nods to [Martha Graham’s] work in Suspiria — even the floor-length dress Tilda Swinton’s character, Madame Blanc, favors in the movie.”
So Just How Are Arts Organizations Supposed To Measure Social Impact?
At the London Film Festival last week, the British Film Institute (BFI) announced it was going to start measuring ‘class and socio-economic background in their funding and staffing’. This move reflects the growing attention given to inequalities in the arts: academic evidence increasingly shows that cultural professions are unequal across ethnicity, gender, age, disability and class. How we measure class and social mobility to reveal inequality is a thorny issue, however.
David Garrick, The Man Who Made Acting A Respectable Profession
He was skilled at charming his way into the circles of the great and good, and he built himself a riverside mansion for entertaining them. He was also admired for the high standards he expected of himself, his colleagues, and the operations of his theater. As Samuel Johnson once said of him, “Garrick has made a player a higher man. He lives rather as a prince than an actor.”
Never-Before-Published Sylvia Plath Story To Be Released Next January
“‘Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom’, which describes a fateful train journey, is one of a series of standalone short fiction titles being released by Faber to mark the publisher’s 90th anniversary. According to the Plath scholar Peter K Steinberg, it is completely unlike anything else she wrote before or after.”
Trumpet Practice Does Not Constitute Noise Pollution, Rules German Federal Court
“The neighbors of a professional trumpet player had taken the musician to court, complaining about the noise pollution caused by his practicing. Germany’s highest court ruled in favor of Siegfried Ratz – within reason. The decision from the BGH in Karlsruhe reads that the interests of the accused were not in direct conflict with those of the plaintiffs and that a balance between the two parties could only be found by ‘limiting the amount of time spent making music’.” The musician and his neighbors must now agree to a schedule.
Arts Orgs Have Big Social Impact In Metro Seattle, Finds Study
The ArtsFund study of King County, Wash.,”finds that ‘arts are a viable and proven — yet often underutilized and unacknowledged — strategy to positively transform and benefit our communities.’ Translation: A robust arts scene with well-funded arts organizations isn’t just ‘nice to have.’ … This study proves the arts can help solve serious problems facing this region in particular, including homelessness, inequitable and inadequate education, and general divisiveness. The only problem? Well, there’s a couple problems.”
New Synthetic DNA Technology Being Used To Combat Theft Of Rare Books
“Booksellers have always had to contend with warding off book thieves hungry for valuable volumes. As part of its ongoing efforts to deter book crime, Raptis Rare Books in Palm Beach, Florida, is employing a new piece of technology called synthetic DNA.” Here’s how it works.
New York’s Storefronts Are Disappearing. Can You Regulate A Fix?
Several studies indicate that 20 percent of Manhattan’s storefronts lie vacant—concentrated in the borough’s most trafficked areas, where commercial rents have soared. The worrisome trend—which exists outside of Manhattan, too—suggests a question: What happens when a city becomes too costly to offer the very ingredients that people look for in a city?
Six Broadway Lighting Designers Explain How They Work
“Lighting is in many ways the last creative act of the totally collaborative process that we call theatre,” says Peter Mumford (The Ferryman, King King). Says Les Dickert (Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet), “Light is a visual element that can ‘whisper’ into the eyes of the audience. It can shout as well, but it’s the whispering that I fell in love with.”
The Idea That It’s Too Risky To Program Plays By Black Playwrights Is A Myth: UK Study
“Providing evidence to counteract the idea that such work presents a risk in terms of audiences, ticket revenue or artistic quality, [the report] concludes that ‘it becomes increasingly difficult to justify the reasoning behind risk-averse programming, when risk is all too often closely associated with race’.”
They’ve Been Building Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia For 136 Years Without A Permit. Barcelona Has Fined Them €36 Million
This isn’t as unfair as it might sound: the money is mostly going to improving city infrastructure and maintenance in the area around the church, which gets more than 3 million visitors each year.
A Big TV Production Boom In Toronto. But Will It Bust?
There are more than 500 new scripted shows being produced in North America this year, a record number not including reality, sports or returning series. Many of those shows are filmed in Toronto; currently shooting in the city are Season 8 of Suits, and the second seasons of Star Trek: Discovery and American Gods.
Science Shows How We Should Teach Reading. But We’re Not. Why?
What have scientists figured out? First of all, while learning to talk is a natural process that occurs when children are surrounded by spoken language, learning to read is not. To become readers, kids need to learn how the words they know how to say connect to print on the page. They need explicit, systematic phonics instruction. There are hundreds of studies that back this up. But talk to teachers and many will tell you they learned something different about how children learn to read in their teacher preparation programs.
Growing Consensus In Tech World About The Mal-Effects Of Screens On Kids
Some of the people who built video programs are now horrified by how many places a child can now watch a video. For longtime tech leaders, watching how the tools they built affect their children has felt like a reckoning on their life and work.
What’s The Matter With Fiction Sales?
No, it’s not just the political climate that’s making fiction sales dive – that’s been going on since 2013 (with a blip in 2015 for Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman). What are the causes of the rise of nonfiction and the fiction tumble?
The Woman Who Runs City Lights Has Seen Just About Everything
Elaine Katzenberger runs the bookstore founded by Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and she oversees the publishing wing too – the one made famous in the 1950s for the publication of Allan Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems. She’s glad indie bookstores seem to be holding their own, for now.
Let’s Really Talk About The History Of Blackface And Entertainment In The United States
Even light-skinned African Americans were asked to “cork up” for roles in the 19th century (and on into early movies), because the history of minstrelsy, in which white men clowned in blackface as their interpretation of Southern Blacks, established what “Black” meant in the U.S. But it’s unsettling to watch this history in 2018.
You Think ‘The Good Place’ Is About Heaven And Hell, But It’s About The Internet
And that’s both ends of the divine, of course. “The ground beneath the characters’ feet is constantly shifting, just as the show’s very concept shifts with every season — and, to some extent, nearly every episode, a tactic that mimics the immeasurable expanse of online space.”
An Argentine Publisher Has Translated ‘The Little Prince’ Into Gender-Neutral Spanish
Though some speakers have begun using x in place of gender markers a or o – Latinx instead of Latina or Latino, for instance – this publisher took a different tack: “The book doesn’t use the X and instead uses an E (for example, todes instead of todas or todos, and les instead of los or las).”
‘Chat-Fiction’ Goes Longform With A Science Fiction Story Told In Bits On Snapchat
Nothing is completely new, but this is a blend of media and writing that might change the genre: “The multimedia series … blends the chat-fiction format — presented as a text-messaging thread — with custom illustrations and a voiceover ‘reminiscent of 1940s radio dramas,’ according to Hooked. ‘Dark Matter’ is longer than Hooked’s usual fare: The pilot clocks in at about 4,700 words, with 32,000 words total for the series. Most Hooked chapters are around 1,000 words each.”
Weekend Extra: Rudy Royston’s Flatbed Buggy
Royston was a drummer, but the album “makes clear that not only is he a master of his instrument but it also emphasizes that his complete musicianship allowed authorship of all of the album’s dozen tunes.”
The Truly Awesome Joys Of Little Free Libraries
The guy who started them wanted to outdo Andrew Carnegie by one library – but now there are more than 75,000 Little Free Libraries across the world. “They promote a friendly, sharing economy. No one tracks who took what. There’s no due date. No fines. You might never return a book. You might leave another instead. And, they are inherently cute.”
What’s The Status Of African-American Theatre In 2018?
Robert Hooks, founder of the Negro Ensemble Company of New York and the DC Black Repertory Company, has some thoughts: “All the people that run [non-Black-specific] companies are getting the grants from the foundations I couldn’t get because they did one black play in their season. The black theater producers, the people who are in the community need the grants, and they can’t get them because the established theaters downtown are taking advantage of those grants.”
Jamie Lee Curtis Says The Success Of ‘Halloween’ Is A Victory For Women
She doesn’t just mean her demographic – women over 55, women leading a horror film – for whom she has utterly smashed movie records in the past few weeks. She means everyone. “This level of PTSD is not unique to Laurie Strode. It’s universal to every woman alive because women have been oppressed since the beginning of time. Bigger than that, people have felt the boot of sexual, criminal, political, emotional and environmental violence.”
The Gospel Group That Has Hit It Big After The Royal Wedding
The Kingdom Choir and its leader Karen Gibson weren’t well-known, and then Meghan Markle and Princy Harry asked them to sing at their wedding. Then they sang “Stand by Me” at the May 19 nuptials. “For a group whose biggest previous audience was 200 people, the transition from obscurity to international acclaim was instant.”