“The women are part of a movement of female ghost hunters that they say has grown in recent years, and they’re hoping many more young girls will be encouraged to join after the highly anticipated women-led remake of Ghostbusters hits the big screen.”
The Long Philosophical Shadow Of Conceptual Art
“Conceptual art opened up possibilities of making work that you could call art in completely nontraditional ways: You could walk, you could write, you could take a photograph. A million things you could do could all be art, and that was very, very new, and very radical.”
Is It Time For Film To Concentrate On Muslim Women?
Luc Dardenne: “‘Muslim women; women [in general] are the future of society, I truly believe that.’ He continued by drawing a parallel between how women react to injustice, compared to men. ‘They feel responsible and they are free and make a society move forward.'”
Culture’s Having A ‘Girl’ Moment. But What Does It Mean?
“To be called ‘just a girl’ may be diminishment, but to call yourself ‘still a girl,’ can be empowerment, laying claim to the unencumbered liberties of youth. As Gloria Steinem likes to remind us, women lose power as they age. The persistence of girlhood can be a battle cry.”
Pulp Fiction Will Never Die
“Mainstream literary writers — people like Anne Tyler, who I like very much — are fighting over a smaller and smaller patch of ground. And genre writers are writing with more maturity. What genre writers understand now is that when someone dies, someone is out there to mourn them. Every death has a repercussion. So there’s a maturity that wasn’t always there before. These are novels about social conscience, reflecting what’s going on in our world.”
Ballet Without Tutus
“‘Ballet is like a push-pull between feeling and logic,’ [Alonzo] King says. ‘Every human being has both, and ballet is a balancing act between the two. If you get too much logic it defies what you might be feeling, and yet with too much feeling things become unbelievable.'”
Anti-BP Activists Gate-Crash British Museum Opening To Protest
“The piece was made of materials including crude oil from the Gulf Coast, a teargas cartridge from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, and 340 lines of black stones, which, according to a release from the group BP or Not BP?, ‘symbolizes how BP’s operations in Egypt are ‘surrounded by human rights violations’.'”
New Director For San Diego’s Soon-To-Expand Museum
Kathryn Kanjo: “We have this collection that wants to see the light of day and has no physical space. … We show it regularly but we don’t show it steadily.”
Sofia Coppola Directs Her First Opera – With Valentino As Costume Designer
The production of La traviata at the Rome Opera is still in rehearsals, but it has nearly sold out its 15-performance run – and is, according to the company’s general manager, “already the biggest box office hit in the history of the theater from 1880.”
Ambassador Theatre Group Forces Out Its Founder And CEO
“Howard Panter, a knighted titan of British theater who had been ambitiously leading his company into the American market, is suddenly out as leader of the company that he and his wife founded 24 years ago.”