Tag: 05.15.21
A Years-Long Argument Over Conceptual Art, Capitalism, Classism, And Stir-Fried Noodles
Art critic Enid Tsui looks at the perennial controversy over Rirkrit Tiravanija's performance piece untitled (pad thai), in which the artist creates a "micro-utopia"...
UK Culture Minister: I Won’t Allow Our History To Be Cancelled
"Confident nations face up to their history. They don’t airbrush it. Instead, they protect their heritage and use it to educate the public about...
Hollywood Has An Issue With Women Action Heroes
Well, it has issues with women, aging women, of any type, but nevertheless: "40-something actresses rarely lead action films—even though Jolie is 13 years...
WhatsApp’s Weird Privacy Debacle Hints At Deeper Tech Issues
When WhatsApp - for years, owned by Facebook - asked users to agree to a privacy update for something that had been true since...
The Shy Performance Poet Who Writes About Everything From Sex To Death
Hollie McNish, who once changed her name to "Hollie Poetry" - what she now calls "a search engine name" - says that sex and...
David Ludwig talks technology in the arts
The Artistic Advisor to the President and Chair of Composition Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, also Artistic Director of Curtis Summerfest, speaks...
Apple Wants To Upend Podcasts The Way It Did Music Downloads
The company - which was one of the first to jump on the podcasting train, providing podcast sourcing through iTunes in 2005 - is...
Theatre Has Long Been Fatphobic, And Actors Are Speaking Out
An errant sentence in a New York Times article (since reworded) led to a lot of participation from actors via social media. They're fed...
Writers Know All Too Well The Other American Epidemic
And it was one exacerbated by the virus - loneliness. - The New York Times
Novelist Brit Bennett Is Considering What To Think About Next
Her newest book is a deliberate picture of how America wasn't ever really great at all for quite a few people. And what's she...
Bob Koester, Of Delmark Records And Chicago’s Jazz Record Mart, 88
Koester funded his recording company by selling jazz and blues records at his store. He "was a pivotal figure in Chicago and beyond, releasing...