“Protest as Mann may, her work belies the distinctions she insists on—between Eros and sex, emotional worldliness and sexual innocence, safety and danger, fiction and reality. In the photographs the children are both knowing and naive, their bodies whole and violated. They are innocent and erotic—and sexually alluring—all at once.”
More Former Students Allege Ballet Instructor Took Nude Photos Of Them
“It is strange how we all sorta knew what was happening – and knew it was not right – but did not understand how wrong it was.”
Retiring MOCA Curator Alma Ruiz Talks About Everything, Including The Deitch Years
“We were short-staffed, I think that is acknowledged by everyone, but we were all trying to do our best. We also knew that the situation had to be temporary, and were looking forward to a resolution that would bring the museum back to its former self. There were low moments.”
Facebook Is Eating (Has Eaten?) The Internet
“Increasingly, Facebook is America’s news editor. Only it’s an editor with a vague and amorphous set of value—news judgment that is tailored to every reader’s own behaviors and likes.”
‘Abortion,’ ‘Miscarriage,’ or ‘Untitled’? A Frida Kahlo Lithograph’s Complicated History
The personal history behind the images may be (as so often with Frida) yet more complicated.
How The Sacramento Symphony Is Being Reborn
“Against all odds, the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera is coming back with a series of small, free concerts beginning on May 5. The schedule includes 10 to 20 “arts invasion” concerts held in bars, coffee houses, schools, streetscapes, museums, and possibly the airport.”
Social Media Is Driving New Interest In Vintage TV Shows
“You know that if you re-release a cult show like the X-Files that the big fans of those shows are going to tweet that … And all of a sudden you’re getting all this kind of free publicity that’s aimed at exactly the audience you need.”
In Syria, A Cynical Ploy To Rebuild Ancient Sites
“Though the war is still raging, the government has already established a Ministry of Reconstruction in Damascus that has allegedly begun selling property. It has also burned land registry offices and deleted title entries, presumably to keep people from reclaiming their houses and businesses after the war ends (more than half of Syria’s citizens have fled the country).”
How Did The “Happiness Industry” Get To Be A Thing?
“Children may soon be taught “happiness” in schools. Being miserable is no longer socially acceptable. There are now computer programmes designed to influence the way we feel. Face-reading software will soon be able to identify moods. Global firms have “chief happiness” officers.”
The Rules For Being In A Public Space Together Are Changing
“Perhaps we are entering a new age of radicalism individualism, in which the very idea of enjoying public space together is giving way to something more anarchic and carnivalesque.”
Do Dance Audiences Concentrate Harder?
“I’ll venture to say dance audiences are better behaved than other crowds because they’re more immersed in the show. They’re not as distractible. That feeling you have, when a dancer leaps lightly across the stage and you’re carried along with her — that’s your brain, your whole sensorimotor system, responding sympathetically to another human body in motion.”
Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist Says He Will No Longer Draw The Prophet Muhammad
“Muhammad ‘no longer interests me,’ Rénald Luzier, who works under the name Luz, said in an interview with the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles … ‘I’ve gotten tired of it, just as I got tired of drawing Sarkozy.'”
‘Embarrassing And Unprofessional’: Critic Says Wall Text At New Whitney Museum Willfully Misrepresents Him
An angry Christopher Knight: “Being misquoted is one thing, but being completely misrepresented in an art museum wall text is quite another – especially when something I wrote more than 20 years ago is used as a slur concocted from the direct opposite of my critical opinion.”
How Hollywood Keeps Women Out Of Directors’ And Producers’ Chairs
“At top U.S. film schools, women and men are almost equally represented. … Yet between the day these women graduate and the day, a few years later, that their male college peers begin showing up in film credits, most women filmmakers vanish into obscurity.” Here’s a look at the ways it happens.
Sussing Out The Tony Nominations With Charles McNulty
“If an overarching narrative exists, it’s willfully postmodern. … Stare long enough into the chaos, however, and a few patterns, can be divined.”
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Little Hope Of Saving Nepal’s Treasures
“In many places, the detritus of centuries-old temples and palaces has been left unguarded, diminishing chances to eventually rebuild one of the world’s largest clusters of cultural heritage sites.”
A List Of The World’s Top Art Collectors
“Our roster of collectors features those who have been most active within the past 12 months and have shown a remarkable commitment to collecting.”
The Bible Has Gone From (Super) Hot To Not In The Western Art World
“There seems to be no end to the creativity the Bible engenders – which makes it a crying shame the Museum of Biblical Art has to close, and a tragedy if we cannot acknowledge one of the great sources of modern culture.”
The End Times Are At Hand For New York’s Museum Of Biblical Art
“The small, secular museum, which is dedicated to exploring the Bible’s influence on Western art, is a casualty of Manhattan’s astronomical rents. For the past decade, the museum had been renting space inside the American Bible Society (ABS) building near Lincoln Center for $1 a year. In February, ARS announced it had sold the building and planned to move to Philadelphia.”
Christianity Is Dying In European Countries. What Happens Now? [VIDEO]
“That’s not necessarily a problem. But it’s worth thinking about why people made up religion in the first place.”
Musicals Dominate Tony Nominations
“Three wildly different new musicals, ‘An American in Paris,’ ‘Fun Home’ and ‘Something Rotten!’ were showered with Tony nominations Tuesday morning, setting up one of the toughest choices for Tony voters in years.”