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Latest News in Black Art: Roxane Gay Named Board President at Performance Space, Alexis Assam Joins Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as Assistant Curator, Emma Amos Catalog Wins Gold Medal & More
Latest News in Black Art features news updates and developments in the world of art and related culture Author and Art Collector Roxane Gay is the new board president at Performance Space New York. | Photo by Reggie Cunningham Appointments BESTSELLING AUTHOR and art collector Roxane Gay is the new president of the board at Performance Space New York. Located in the East Village, the nonprofit describes itself as “the birthplace of contemporary performance as it is known today.” Gay’s books include “Hunger,” “Difficult Women,” and “Bad Feminist.” A contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, she announced a new publishing imprint in May, Roxane Gay…
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‘Rust’ Assistant Director Dave Halls speak outs
“Rust” assistant director Dave Halls on Monday referred to as for the business to “reevaluate its values and practices” just after the demise of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Halls has been one particular of the individuals questioned by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office in an investigation into how Hutchins died, right after a direct bullet was discharged by a gun held by actor Alec Baldwin as he was rehearsing a scene. The gun was intended to incorporate dummy rounds, in accordance to crew associates on set that working day. The bullet hit Hutchins in the chest and then ongoing into the shoulder of director Joel Souza, according to the Sheriff’s…
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‘Rust’ assistant director was fired from 2019 movie after gun discharged on set
LOS ANGELES — The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a motion picture set previous week experienced been fired from a movie in 2019 immediately after a gun unexpectedly discharged on the established, injuring a crew member, a producer for that movie mentioned Monday. The former incident occurred in New Mexico through the filming of “Freedom’s Route,” said the producer, who worked on the movie. The assistant director, Dave Halls, was removed from the set promptly and was fired later on, in accordance to the producer. “Dave was really remorseful for the occasions and recognized the motives he was getting terminated,” the…
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Alec Baldwin assistant director had history of unsafe practices, prop maker says
LOS ANGELES — The assistant director on the established of “Rust” in which Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins experienced previously permitted an unsafe functioning setting on productions, in accordance to a prop maker who worked with him. The male, Dave Halls, “at to start with he appeared like an more mature, affable to start with [assistant director] with the normal operate of idiosyncrasies, but that facade soon disappeared,” claimed the prop maker, Maggie Goll, who mentioned she was referred to as to do the job on Hulu’s “Into the Dark” anthology sequence in February 2019. “He did not preserve a safe and sound doing…
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