Yearly Archives: 2021
The Extraordinarily Improbable Path To Publication For This Booker Nominee
After many rejections, An Island was published by tiny indie press Holland House in a print run of a mere 500 copies owing to the pandemic....
Australian Ballet Cancels Rest Of Season In Melbourne
We'd hoped that stories like this were in the past, but, with the Delta variant spreading and vaccinations lagging in Australia, the company felt...
Twitter Changed Its Font. Users Aren’t Happy
The font that they’re calling Chirp is extremely similar to GT America, which is itself based on Franklin Gothic. They changed the spacing ever so...
A Boom In Murals Brightens Buffalo
"In today's Buffalo, … many locals are now filled with a kind of confidence and optimism that defies population trends and poverty rates. That...
Yayoi Kusama Sculpture Swept Out To Sea In Storm
The sculpture, a giant black and yellow polka-dotted pumpkin by the celebrated artist Yayoi Kusama, has stood at the end of a pier on the...
Exploring The Door-Closing Chimes Of The World’s Subway Systems
"Ted Green has been collecting … the telltale chimes — beeps, ding-dongs, jingles and arpeggios that warn riders around the world to stand clear."...
Critic Michael Phillips: Go Inside A Movie Theatre Right Now? Maybe Not!
With the delta variant in our lives now, studios and film distributors who have the nerve to require in-person screenings for review are being...
What Should Theatres Do When Actors Aren’t Vaccinated? And How Will They Know?
Last month in the Bay Area, rumors that the actors in a two-hander were performing unvaccinated in a 99-seat house led to the cancellation...
Trove Of Intact Late-19th-Century Opera Sets Discovered In Old Colorado Mining Town
The collection of flats and drops had been languishing in the attic of the Tabor Opera House in Leadville. The theater was built by...
All Over The World, More Governments Are Censoring More Books: Study
A "Freedom to Publish" report from the International Publishers Association covers hundreds of examples of censorship since the start of the COVID pandemic —...
The Old Flagship Barney’s Will Become A Department Store Of Art Galleries
The three guys who brought Maastricht's TEFAF to New York are turning the Madison Avenue building into Art House, which will host exhibitions and...
Tony Bennett, At 95, Retires From Performing
The two concerts he gave with Lady Gaga at Radio City Music Hall last week were his finale, says his son and manager, and...
Discovery Network To Sue Poland Over New Media-Ownership Law
This week the country's parliament passed a bill barring ownership of a broadcaster by any entity outside the EU. Discovery, which owns TVN, Poland's...
London’s Southbank Centre Names New Artistic Director
Mark Ball, currently Creative Director of the Manchester International Festival, will be directing the programming at the British capital's equivalent of Lincoln Center and...
When NYC Dance Companies’ Artistic Directors Started Talking…
Newly close colleagues and friends, they have shared ideas, problems, strategies and solutions, and for the first time will present a series of performances...
You Believe In Privacy? Turns Out We Believe In Convenience More
Despite this surge in support for privacy, we’re looking at a situation where routine surveillance of citizens will continue to become normalized—not through coercion,...
Study: NYC TV Production Back To Pre-Pandemic Level
After a brutal 2020, TV production was one of the first industries back to work in the city and continues to advance. - Deadline
Justice For College Improv!
Eliminate the distinction between collegiate and professional improv, because there is none. We henceforth reject the label “amateur improvisers.” “Improvisers” is embarrassing enough, we...
Saving The News? We Need To Rethink The News
More and more observers are agreeing that a wholesale rethinking of how news is produced is necessary if rigorous, trustworthy journalism is going to...
The Problem With Novels About Life With The Internet
Ephemerality is the intractable problem plaguing most writing about the internet... Even if we’re stuck with social media for the long haul... its trends...
Against Beach Reading
No, this isn't a polemic against the less-than-heavyweight material stereotypically enjoyed on a blanket on the sand. This is a polemic against reading at...
Would Extinction Be Such A Bad Thing?
Since we are considering whether extinction might be better than continuing to exist, the question arises whether some pains could be so great that...
Establishing Serious Theatre In The French Countryside
The Federation of Local Festivals and Theaters, formally launched this month at the Avignon Festival, is made up of 17 rural companies started by...
Evel Knievel Museum Moving From Kansas To Las Vegas
According to a report on Monday, the museum dedicated to the career of Robert Craig Knievel, who became known for his death-defying stunts and...
Have The Coen Brothers Broken Up?
Well, there's no indication they've quit speaking to each other, but it seems Ethan has moved into live theater, leaving the movies to Joel....
