Just a year ago, one of New Zealand’s largest magazine publishers decided to shut itself off and sell off its titles (if it could), portending doom for the industry. Not only were all the titles sold (and they’re still publishing), but a new wave of publications dedicated to New Zealand’s tradition of long-form feature journalism. – The Guardian
Stage Union Volunteers To Help Theatres Be Vaccination Sites
Jonas Loeb, communications director of IATSE, says this time around turning music venues into a vaccination center would require a new configuration. “It doesn’t use any unusual technique.” He adds, “The workers know those venues better than anyone else and can help hook up all necessary utilities quickly and efficiently. To them, it’s a relatively normal job, but with different stakes.” – Variety
What’s To Become Of The Trump Impersonators?
“No one is going to want to see my Donald Trump” now. Anyone who is seeking Trump comedy after Jan. 21, I just feel bad for them.” – Washington Post
A Dancer Breaking Ballet’s Gender Norms
What is unique about Ashton Edwards is that he is a man doing serious en pointe work in a professional ballet setting. “Ashton led us there,” says PNB director Peter Boal, speaking of Edwards’ request to study en pointe. “Ballet can be a little bit slow. We said, ‘Why not? Lead us and we will work with you.’ ” – NPR
Election Misinformation Online Dropped A Dramatic 73 Percent After Trump Was Banned From Twitter
Just wow. “The findings, from Jan. 9 through Friday, highlight how falsehoods flow across social media sites — reinforcing and amplifying each other — and offer an early indication of how concerted actions against misinformation can make a difference.” – Washington Post
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Director Has Some Things To Say About The Issues Facing The Festival
For one thing, there was a pandemic last year (and this year), which canceled darn near everything. Then, in November, came the fire that destroyed the Doris Duke Theatre. Pamela Tatge: “We all want to make as much dance as possible happen for our artists and our audience, so, to lose one of our primary spaces was devastating. … What has been significant to us is people’s attachment to that space and to Jacob’s Pillow as a beacon for the field of dance. The outpouring of memories, of love and support, has been remarkable.” – Berkshire Eagle
During The Pandemic, Art Going To Museums Needs Special Help
Art couriers can’t ride in trucks with art, or ride in follow cars with other people, or generally do everything they used to do in order to get art where it needs to go – and to help mount it. What’s happening now? Robots. (Well, iPads on wheels.) – NPR
Why Do Some Of This Era’s Photos Look So Much Like Renaissance Paintings?
It’s not an accident. Ask Reddit. “These comparisons, while often funny, also come across as shockingly honest. They push aside the veneer of the present and the sense that what we are experiencing is unique to the time we live in. What’s left are raw emotions, echoing through centuries.” – Washington Post
Trey Devey Shares his passion for Arts Education
“If we are empowered with creativity, with collaboration, with all of the skills that come from practicing the arts… that will lead to the breakthrough ideas.” Trey Devey, President of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, speaks to the power of arts education. – Aaron Dworkin
What A New Video Game Teaches Us About The Ancient Greeks And Masculinity
For one thing, “we need to reorient our understanding of gender and beauty to talk about hotness in antiquity.” – Wired
Dancers Are Still Trying To Break Down Gender Stereotypes In Ballet
Ashton Edwards, an 18-year-old student at the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Professional Division, got tired of studying for and dancing “male roles.” Last year, the dancer said was ready to go after something else – en pointe work. Peter Boal, the ballet’s artistic director: “Ballet can be a little bit slow. We said, ‘Why not? Lead us and we will work with you.’ ” – NPR
The True Events That Inspired The Movie One Night In Miami
The film is based on a one-act play by Kemp Powers (a long one-act play), and the playwright calls it “a work of fiction powered by the truth” – the truth being that Malcolm X, Cassius Clay before he was Muhammed Ali, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown, “four modern legends, really did hang out for one night in Miami, and yes, they really did bond over vanilla ice cream. – Vulture
An Author And Editor Says To Stop Thinking Books Have Meaning For Everyone
Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning: “I grew up middle class and I went to school, and from the school bus you’d see kids washing plates in the gutter, working at these little roadside eateries. We had to get school uniforms made, and the tailor’s apprentice would be a person your age. Books are very meaningful to me; at the same time, I believe books do nothing for a lot of people, and that is a very valuable truth too.” – The Guardian (UK)
The Movie Soul Is About A Black Man, But In Some Countries, He’s Voiced By A White Guy
Europe, excuse us, but what are you doing? “Asta Selloane Sekamane, one of the activists who criticized the casting … said in an interview that no one can claim there wasn’t enough Black talent to fill the main roles, because actors of color were hired to voice some of the minor parts. ‘It can’t be the constant excuse, this idea that we can’t find people who live up to our standards,’ she added. ‘That’s an invisible bar that ties qualification to whiteness.'” – The New York Times
The Stagehands Union Says It’s Time To Let Them Run Mass Vaccine Sites In Now-Empty Performance Spaces
This seems almost too obvious when one considers it. The people who know how to set up almost any kind of venue, run crowd control with various safety protocols, and already showed they can help create field hospitals? “The response to the tweet has been positive with union members chiming in offering their support. ‘We REALLY want to help,’ wrote one Twitter user, while another suggested using movie studio lots.” – Variety