Just Postponed (or Cancelled)

Lorde in Israel

The Liam Gallagher Lincoln Theatre show still seems to be in postponed-or-canceled limbo.

Any future Neil Diamond show.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/arts/neil-diamond-retires-parkinsons.html

St Vincent
Baltimore

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club postponed their last two shows–in Orlando and Charlotte–to May due to the flu.  Not sure if they will follow suit with tomorrow's 9:30 date, but it does not seem promising.

ggw wrote:
Chuck Close Exhibit @ NGA

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/arts/design/chuck-close-sexual-harassment.html?action=click&contentCollection=Art%20%26%20Design&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Also, this is NOT an apology.

If we are going to refuse to show the works of a quadriplegic who spoke crudely to his models, then what are we to do with Picasso, whose brutal emotional and physical abuse of women is legendary? Or Gauguin, who spread STDs across Tahiti, raped women, and took a 14-year old bride?

ggw wrote:
If we are going to refuse to show the works of a quadriplegic who spoke crudely to his models, then what are we to do with Picasso, whose brutal emotional and physical abuse of women is legendary? Or Gauguin, who spread STDs across Tahiti, raped women, and took a 14-year old bride?

Muhammad's marriage to Aisha was consummated at nine or 10, and a whole lot of people dig that guy.

Oohbooy

ggw wrote:
If we are going to refuse to show the works of a quadriplegic who spoke crudely to his models, then what are we to do with Picasso, whose brutal emotional and physical abuse of women is legendary? Or Gauguin, who spread STDs across Tahiti, raped women, and took a 14-year old bride?

Or Jackson Pollock…Difference is those dudes are dead and Chuck Close is still alive.

I don't know how it will be handled. I do think it is possible to separate the artist from the art, and that men are not going to be respectful overnight just because everyone is saying #metoo now.

BUT, these non-apology apologies are really pissing me off. Just say "sorry" and "I'm working to be a better person." Is it that difficult?

K8teebug wrote:

ggw wrote:
If we are going to refuse to show the works of a quadriplegic who spoke crudely to his models, then what are we to do with Picasso, whose brutal emotional and physical abuse of women is legendary? Or Gauguin, who spread STDs across Tahiti, raped women, and took a 14-year old bride?

Or Jackson Pollock…Difference is those dudes are dead and Chuck Close is still alive.

Agreed.  I'm not defending Close, but I do find the decisions about who is penalized and who is not to be arbitrary.  Perhaps the criteria is dead vs. alive, but nobody has said so. 

Pollock is an interesting example.  NGA is still promoting a special exhibit of one of his mega-paintings but makes no mention of the hell that Lee Krasner endured as his wife.

ggw wrote:but I do find the decisions about who is penalized and who is not to be arbitrary.  Perhaps the criteria is dead vs. alive, but nobody has said so. 

yes this is a whole new era
artists tend to be some fucked up people to begin with
it's much easier to separate the artist from the art when they are dead tho..

St. Vincent at the Hippodrome

excontradiction wrote:
St Vincent
Baltimore

Yep

Peggy Cooper Cafritz @ Politics and Prose

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/peggy-coopercafritz-grande-dame-of-the-washington-arts-and-education-scene-dies-at-70/2018/02/18/0f6bb948-14c1-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html?utm_term=.0b85f309b61e

It's official, Liam Gallagher's show is cancelled and will not be rescheduled.  Refunds coning through Ticketfly or from location of purchase (if paid for with cash).

Total bummer

the pussy riot US tour?

Russia’s Pussy Riot: Two Members of Punk Group Disappear After Protests in Crimea

The Tommy Stinson show at the brewery in Baltimore

"We sadly need to postpone this show due to weather. We will reschedule, stay tuned."