Carole King’s 1971 Tapestry album cover is an iconic image, with King sitting by the window of her California home, her cat, light shining in, bare feet and unfussy hair, the look of a woman deeply comfortable with herself.
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“I didn't see any Native theatre, but I saw Native people made fun of. And so what that does to your consciousness? There's just so much work that has to be done to remove that, before you can go forward, and celebrate, and have joy.”
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“I could go to Shakespeare rehearsal [as a kid],” Sayet told me, “but I couldn't go to Mohegan language class. There was no opportunity for me to learn my language, because it was something that society has said should be destroyed.”
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“One of the first steps to achieve equality is the recognition of women artists of the past. Knowing our past is the only way to build a better future for women artists and therefore it is crucial to acknowledge their work and raise awareness about them,” says French-born artist Laurence de Valmy.
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During the COVID crisis, artists and arts organizations need our support. In our new blog, learn how to support local arts, find innovative programs and online programming started up during quarantine, & discover local artists.
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Shipwreck, which starts out as a conventional drama about a group of old friends gathering together for a weekend, meanders its way from the mundane to the surreal. It wanders deliberately and just as deliberately leaves the viewer with more questions than answers.
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The Havel Project reminds us that the stubborn determination of the individual can undermine totalitarian systems, and that revolutions can be born of childlike imagination and whimsical fun.
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Right to Be Forgotten, a timely new play for the digital age written by Sharyn Rothstein and directed by Seema Sueko, is having its world premiere production at Arena Stage, in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle.
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Arena Stage’s production of August Wilson’s Jitney, newly extended through October 27, 2019, is a tour de force. It’s moving.
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Walking through the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ new exhibition, The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction, is a solemn, intimate experience.
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When you think of Abstract Expressionism of the 1940s and 1950s, a New York-centered, male-dominated movement comes to mind.
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Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview, which won the 2019 Pulitzer is an exercise in setting up expectations, subverting those expectations, and then completely throwing them out the window.
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This is what Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art at the Freer | Sackler Gallery commented when asked about the American media’s portrayal of the exhibit, My Iran: Six Women Photographers, currently on view at the gallery.
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As a child, New Orlean’s born artist, Anne Marchand was enchanted by what lies between the earth and sky.
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