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Antivirals: The Other Minority in the Art World

According to a 2018 UK survey, only 18% of those working in visual arts, music and acting come from the working class. In the publishing sector, the number dropped to 12%. And the number, for sure, can only have dropped after the pandemic. With this statistic, the Pink Collar Gallery, a space that only exists online, dedicated to showing the work of people from underrepresented groups, commissioned five British artists to meditate on the question. It is worth spending some time in the gallery clicking, for example, on the video that Erin Dickson has made about her process of eliminating her Newcastle accent with a pronunciation coach, to get a posh accent from the south of England more comparable with a job in the arts. The artist Shonagh Short has designed an interactive slot machine with icons of the working class (bags of chips, soccer balls) and, when three in a row is achieved, rewards the player with phrases like this one, from the artist's father: "any that he uses the word workshop in a context other than light engineering is an asshole”.

'NOVA ONADA'

If there had been something called nova onada, a Catalan nouvelle vague , its flagship film would be Tomorrow will be another day (1967), which has been screened this month at the Filmoteca de Catalunya as part of the cycle of films chosen by the photographer Colita. For having, the film even has an original poster copied from Godard's Vivre sa vie and shows a Barcelona in black and white that has never looked so much like Paris. Roman Gubern wrote a script that mixes luxury and underworld, with a Juan Luis Galiardo Belmondiano and a Sonia Bruno a la Anna Karina who arrive in the city in a stolen convertible, a prostitute with model aspirations and a criminal of incalculable photogenicity

LE BRON JAMES AND THE DISAPPEARED END OF 'THE SOPRANOS'

Antivirales: La otra minoría en el mundo del arte

Does Tony Soprano die? The fade to black that David Chase placed at the end of the last chapter ensures that the discussion continues. Now it is known that Edie Falco and James Gandolfini shot a short in which Tony survives and goes to the FBI's witness protection program. The video must be saved by Chase and now Falco has told about it in a podcast about the Knicks, the New York basketball team. In 2010, LeBron James terminated his contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers. All the powerful teams in the NBA wanted him, but there comes a time when you have to use your imagination to offer a über-millionaire player something he doesn't have. That's when the Knicks came up with the idea of ​​shooting an apocryphal ending of The Sopranos with their stars, to convince James, a fan of the series. It didn't help. The player signed with the Miami Heat.

DID NABOKOV INVENTE EMOTICONS?

In 1969, New York Times reporter Alden Whitman sent written questions to Vladimir Nabokov. One of them read like this: "Among all the living writers and those of the immediate past, where do you place yourself?" And he replied: "I often think that there should be a special typographical sign to indicate a smile, some kind of concave mark, a supine parenthesis that I would now like to look for in answer to his question." The detail appears in the book Strong Opinions, which includes interviews and conferences by the author of Lolita, and was found by the journalist Emily Temple. Thirteen years after that response, two professors at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh messing around with what would become the Internet came up with the :) symbol to indicate when they were joking.

FOMO IS BACK

One thing that the pandemic took away was FOMO, the Fear Of Missing Out or fear of missing something. Since everyone was missing out on everything as a way of life, there was no danger here. We regret to inform you that with the progress of vaccination and the relaxation of measures in places other than Madrid, where they were already relaxed, FOMO has returned. A clear indicator was the Los Hermanos Cubero concert at the Coliseum a couple of weeks ago, which ended with Christina Rosenvinge, Rodrigo Cuevas, the Grupo de Expertos Solynieve and Amaia Romero on stage and which brought back those who were not there. to see that insidious feeling of doing everything wrong.