When Artists Lose Their Archives

hyperallergic.com: There is a particular kind of shame that comes with losing your own work. Not the spectacular kind. Not the kind that arrives with a public failure or a dramatic ending. This shame is quieter. It settles in the body. It convinces you not to tell anyone. It suggests that if you were more responsible, more successful, more organized, this would not have happened. It tells you that asking for help would only confirm what you already fear, that you were never supposed to need it in the first place.

What is inside Andy Warhol's hundreds of time capsules?

nextpittsburgh.com: Warhol is well known as a collector, but his Time Capsule project was his most epic collecting endeavor. Over the last 13 years of his life, Warhol filled more than 600 boxes with 300,000+ objects from his everyday life: receipts, works of art, envelopes of cash, packages of cookies, Polaroids, handwritten letters, paperwork, birthday presents, etc.

Why Jim Henson should be recognised as one of the foremost creators of fairytales on screen

theconversation.com: In March 1955, an 18-year-old Jim Henson built a puppet from his mother’s old coat, a pair of blue jeans and some ping pong balls. The lizard-like creation first appeared on Afternoon, a television series on Washington D.C.’s WRC-TV, but became a regular on the five-minute Sam and Friends puppet sketch comedy show from May 1955. Over 70 years, the creature evolved into Kermit. The bright green frog now is a cultural icon.

6 Theatre Workers You Should Know

AMERICAN THEATRE: A visual artist and theatre designer specializing in live performances and digital media, Nam studied painting, sculpture, video design, and metal craft. Recent projects include X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at the Metropolitan Opera, Yellow Face on Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company, A Transparent Musical at Center Theatre Group (CTG), Once Upon a (Korean) Time at Ma-Yi Theater Company, and Long Day’s Journey into Night at Audible Theater.

Artist Entrance: Kelly Copper

The Theatre Times: Every month, Etcetera gazes into the soul of a performing artist. We choose artistic interest over human interest. This time, we are happy to give the word to Kelly Copper (1971). Together with Pavol Liska, she founded the collective Nature Theater of Oklahoma in 2004. Using readymade material, found space, gifted properties, cosmic accident, extreme formal manipulation, and plain hard work, Nature Theater of Oklahoma makes art to affect a shift in the perception of everyday reality that extends beyond the site of performance and into the world in which we live.

4 Makeup Artists of Color Share Their Broadway-Inspired Halloween Looks

Playbill: Broadway fans know that donning theatre-inspired looks is a year-round activity, but Halloween is a great excuse to do it even more. Women of Color on Broadway Inc. (who you got to know earlier this year) and MAC Cosmetics teamed up to showcase four up-and-coming makeup artists of color showing off looks inspired by notable Broadway characters, in efforts to amplify diversity within the next generation of behind-the-scenes theatre professionals.

What Is the Role of the Artist Today?

HowlRound Theatre Commons: This time of multiple pandemics requires deep reflection on individual and institutional values and practices. COVID-19, quarantine, climate catastrophe, and a public health crisis—marked by inequitable resource allocation and tragically disproportionate health outcomes—alongside the global response to George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police and the social justice uprising that followed, have made systemic and structural racism an articulated, visible public narrative in ways that bring us to what, as Angela Davis said recently, “Is a moment that no one could see coming but many have spent fifty years preparing for.”

The movement will be beautified

Art Feature | Chicago Reader: As we reflect on the year so far and think forward to November, political art has never been more important. The Latinx community, which has a long history of "artivism," has brought power to racial struggles for decades and helped unite Chicago and capture the fervent energy this summer. In a culturally rich and diverse but segregated city, Latinx artivism shows there is power in community, especially in the midst of a pandemic that disproportionately hits Black and Brown Chicagoans the worst.

Coronavirus impact on Denver's art scene: Years of growth is lost

theknow.denverpost.com: A pair of new reports from the city detail staggering losses in Denver’s arts and culture scene after six months of coronavirus-related shutdowns, which come just after a decade of unprecedented growth.

Issued this week by Denver Arts & Venues, the two reports focus on the city’s creative economy and its music industry, respectively.

Please, please, help artists survive

New York Daily News: Since the age I proudly chucked my pacifier in the dumpster, music has spoken to some deep part of me nothing else could. It has been my refuge, my inspiration, my greatest connection to others. I’m privileged to work full-time as a musician in the performing arts. What a blessing, to create at this level alongside some of the brightest humans around.

Carers as Artists

Exeunt Magazine: I would like to talk about carers as artists, or artists who are carers. I’m not sure which one comes first.

Every Thursday for ten weeks, millions “clapped for carers” in the NHS. I’ve joined many industry Zooms about how theatre must emerge from this crisis more inclusive, but mention of its own carers has felt conspicuously absent. I may have missed something, but it doesn’t seem like decision-makers are thinking about the 6.5 million people who are conduits to inclusion.

Why pandemic represents ‘existential crisis’ for performing artists

PBS NewsHour: We look to the arts for entertainment, comfort and pleasure -- but they are also an economic engine. According to government analysis, art accounts for almost $900 billion of GDP and over five million jobs. Now, many of these people and organizations face crisis. For our Canvas and American Creators series about rural arts, Jeffrey Brown reports on what happens when the audience isn’t there.

The creative industries are hurting, not helping artists—we need a new model

Prospect Magazine: Every time you watch a television advert, go to a museum, play a computer game, or swipe right on a potential suitor, you’re indulging in the outputs of the so-called “creative industries.” Unless you can remember the time when a “smart” phone was one that simply had a snazzy cover, you would have grown up during the birth of the creative industries.

Warhol's Vast (And Zany) Archive Is The Subject Of A New Book

90.5 WESA: “I don’t think there’s another artist in the world with an archive as complete as Warhol’s or as interesting,” said Blake Gopnik, a nationally known critic and author of a forthcoming Warhol biography. “The great thing about Warhol’s archive is that it has a bit of everything in it, and I think that he wanted that to be the case. He wanted to sow confusion, rather than to clean up the story.”

The Responsibility of the Artist-Critic

HowlRound Theatre Commons: There’s an unwritten yet widely understood policy within arts criticism circles that discourages theatre critics from participating in theatre creation. It is believed that if critics are also artists, they can’t be objective.

Artist Spotlight: Ray Werner

Pittsburgh in the Round: The Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company’s Ray Werner Play Festival opens TOMORROW, Thursday, November 8, and runs through December 2, 2018. Featuring five world premieres, Raphael’s Angels, SumiSami, Our Lady of Drubbleduffy, Christmas Tassel Bell, and The Stuttering Pig, RayFest caps nine years of collaboration and friendship between Ray Werner, Festival Coordinator Monteze Freeland, and Producing Artistic Director Mark Clayton Southers.

Body Painting the World Over

Make-Up Artist Magazine: We all know the make-up industry is a beast and becoming a make-up artist requires an insane amount of persistence, passion and innovation. Any time make-up artists trudge their way through an overgrown forest of obstacles, rise to the canopy and begin to spread their wings so to speak … we here at Make-Up Artist magazine take note. Because, like, that’s totally not an easy thing to do.

Braddock wants to offer 37 apartments to artists

www.nextpittsburgh.com: The borough of Braddock is moving ahead with plans to turn the old Ohringer building into 37 low-income apartments for Pittsburgh artists.

Gregg Kander, an investor and developer who is working pro bono on several Braddock properties, said that as of August 2 he and other organizers in the community have lined up several million dollars in conditional funding from the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, a nonprofit specializing in housing resources across the state.