Category: Arts

  • Mixing Racial Messages Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art & its Discontents 2013-10-30 Ryan Wong Starting with its title, the group exhibition War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art  at Seattle’s Wing Luke museum asks a provocative question: how do those seen by Americans as products of either colonial domination or subversive desire move past those categories? How do…

  • the road weeps, the well runs dry Los Angeles Theater Center 514 South Spring Street Los Angeles, California 90013 Telephone: 213.489.0994 2013-10-24 through 2013-11-17 Thursday-Saturday: 20:00 PT (Local Time) Sunday: 15:00 PT (Local Time) Written by Marcus Gardley Directed by Shirley Jo Finney Rolling World Premiere Surviving centuries of slavery, revolts, and The Trail of…

  • (1)ne Drop Project Live Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 Telephone: 215.925.9914 Sunday, November 10, 2013, 17:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Do you know Blackness when you see it? This provocative question informs the work of Dr. Yaba Blay, whose (1)ne Drop Project depicts the stories and images of over 60 individuals…

  • Playwright Sarah Rutherford on her play Adult Supervision TheatreVOICE Department of Theatre & Performance Victoria and Albert Museum 2013-10-22 Heather Neill Interview: Sarah Rutherford The playwright talks to Heather Neill about her new drama, Adult Supervision, a story about race which is currently playing at the Park Theatre in London’s Finsbury Park in Jez Bond’s…

  • Black Beethoven and the Racial Politics of Music History Transition Issue 112, 2013 pages 117-130 DOI: 10.1353/tra.2013.0056 Nicholas T. Rinehart Harvard University Nicholas T. Rinehart debunks theories of Beethoven’s blackness and calls for a reimagining of the classical canon. The Question Was Beethoven Black? He surely wasn’t, but some insist otherwise. The question is not…

  • Review of Adult Supervision at Park Theatre Finsbury Park LondonTheater1.com London 2013-10-20 Alan Franks, Senior Reviewer Adult supervision, if you remember, is what Barack Obama said Washington needed. This was back in 2006, two years before his election as forty-fourth president of the US, and the first black incumbent of the office. So there could…

  • Playwright Sarah Rutherford: ‘Middle-class, mixed-race families are invisible on our stages’ What’s on Stage London 2013-10-10 Editorial Staff As her new play Adult Supervision premieres at the Park Theatre, playwright Sarah Rutherford discusses multiculturalism in modern Britain What’s Adult Supervision about? It’s set in 2008 and it’s about a white ex-lawyer, Natasha, who’s adopted two…

  • Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical by Todd Decker (review) Theatre Journal Volume 65, Number 3, October 2013 pages 447-448 DOI: 10.1353/tj.2013.0077 Bethany Wood Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical. By Todd Decker. Broadway Legacy series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 238. Todd Decker’s Show Boat: Performing Race in…

  • Mixed Remixed: a media festival celebrating connection October 2013 Mixed Remixed is an exciting new media festival celebrating racial and cultural connectedness which will be held June 14, 2014 at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles. Mixed Remixed brings together film and book lovers, innovative and emerging artists, and multiracial families and…

  • Contesting Identities Through Walker Dance: Mestizo Performance in the Southern Andes of Peru Repercussions: a journal dedicated to all areas of music studies University of California, Berkeley Fall 1994, Volume 3, No. 2 pages 50-80 Zoila Mendoza-Walker This article analyzes an event in the city of Cusco, Peru that reverberated throughout the entire region during…