Arts news

• This Is How Easy It Is To Troll Book Folk

  08-06-2021 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  What’s important to note about these hoaxes is that they are absolutely terrible—totally artless, not believable at all, only really a “fool me once” situation if you were born or signed up for a Twitter account yesterday. Their relative success is even more embarrassing when you consider that the targets are supposed to be readers, people who approach language actively, if not critically. – BookForum
  
  Read more

• Kate Winslet: A Huge Increase In Roles For Women My Age

  08-06-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I do feel proud that as a woman in the film industry in her mid-40s, having been doing this job since I was 17, that I’m being given this space to fully embrace all of these changes that life’s years have left my face and body with.” – BBC
  
  Read more

• Are Board Members Of UK Cultural Institutions Being Punished For Disagreeing With The Government?

  08-06-2021 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The science author and historian Sarah Dry withdrew as a trustee of the Science Museum Group in March after she was asked to support the government’s position on contested heritage. Meanwhile, the re-appointment of the Bangladeshi-British academic Aminul Hoque as trustee at Royal Museums Greenwich was vetoed by the government earlier this year, prompting Charles Dunstone, the chair of the museum board, to resign. Hoque was reportedly rejected because of his focus on “decolonisation&
  
  Read more

• Someday their plinth will come… Guardian letter writers on a statuary fantasy | Letters

  08-06-2021 19:18
  
  Alec Mitchell says his recent lack of success is best represented by an empty plinth, Keith Flett says he’s not ready to be cast in bronze, Jeanette Hamilton laments no mention being made of female contributors, and Christine Grieve complains that the idea has gone to her husband’s headFlattering as it is to figure in Michael Cunningham’s statuary fantasy (Letters, 4 June), the bare fact is that nothing of mine has made it into your pink section since last September; many other
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Barbers, books and boozers: how migrant hotspots inspired the Serpentine Pavilion

  08-06-2021 07:00
  
  The bars, cafes, bookshops and even hair salons of London all fed into this year’s enormous pavilion. Sumayya Vally, the project’s youngest ever architect, explains allFragments of fluted classical columns collide with steps, ledges and bits of curved moulding, like an impromptu playground collaged together from an architectural salvage yard. It is an intriguing dream landscape, with ghostly echoes of familiar London features, all rendered in creamy shades of cement and brought toget
  
  Read more

• Experiments In Opera: Philip Glass At The Circus

  08-06-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The revelation of “Circus Days and Nights” is existentially simple and direct. Cut through a thin layer of tawdriness and cheap tinsel that may be on its surface, and you discover that a circus can exist only thanks to absolute trust. The life of every acrobat lies in unerring balance. Balance is the religion of circus life. Trust and balance, of course, are the two essential things our polarized societies need to regain. – Los Angeles Times
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!