Yearly Archives: 2021
Ellen Havre Weis, 64, Founder Of The Museum Of Modern Mythology
The museum was a once renowned San Francisco tourist destination where a vinyl Michelin Man rubbed elbows with a lifesize statue of Colonel Sanders. - The...
Sarah Kaufman On How She’s Different From Other Dance Critics
"It's a small part of my job to cover performances inside a theater. … My goal (is) to reveal that dance is in us,...
How Will The Humanities Record The COVID Plague?
The account by the Greek historian and general, Thucydides (460-400BC), of how the Athenians responded to their virulent plague in the fifth century, directly or indirectly...
Goodreads Has An Extortion Problem
The site has a bullying problem, too. Huge traffic and inadequate moderation have allowed "review bombers" to threaten authors: Pay us or we'll flood...
Frank Gehry Turned An Old Bank Building Into A Concert Hall For Less Than...
You'd expect a concert hall to cost 10 or 20 times that amount. What's more, after the bank moved out, the place was, among...
They’re Going To Auction Off $100 Million Worth Of Picassos In Vegas
MGM Resorts collected the 11 works for sale and, for a time, had had them on display at the Bellagio resort. The company says...
Longtime NPR Host Neal Conan Dead At 71
"(He) was a mainstay of NPR programming for most of (its) half-century, joining the outlet in 1977 as a producer and departing in 2013...
Lonnie Bunch Introduces Smithsonian’s New Initiative On Racial Reckoning
"Beginning with a national summit on August 26, a series of integrated events — from conferences to town halls to immersive pop-up experiences —...
Conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti Dead At 75
A student of Sergiu Celibidache, Gelmetti served as principal conductor or music director of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony (1989-1998), the Rome Opera (2000-2009), Sydney...
The Physics Behind Executing This Common Gymnastics Move
If the wolf turn was just about balancing on one foot, it probably wouldn't be in an Olympic-level beam routine. It's the spin that...
How Museums Are Responding To Climate Change
After all, museums aren’t much more than glammed-up, oversized attics, right? How high could their carbon footprint really be? - Washington Post
A Smaller Edinburgh Fringe Festival — Is It Better?
For some in a city with a population of only around 500,000, a break from the Fringe last year, followed by a much smaller...
Instagram Is Turning Away From Photos To Videos. Artists Are Angry
The move has the artistic community seeing Pantone 032. Though there’s no way of knowing how many artists, architects and photographers have left the app,...
What Happens To Pop Music Stars When Recording Labels Lose Confidence
Stats from UK music trade body BPI say that only one in 10 signed artists are expected to succeed commercially, and if the...
How Seattle’s Last Remaining Video Rental Store Plans To Go National
Scarecrow has approximately 140,000 titles, on physical media. Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu — combined — have approximately one-third of that, and the ephemeral...
Is Cancel Culture Stifling Comedy? In A Word, No.
"If the 'wokeism is killing comedy' crew are motivated by a genuine devotion to great comedy, then they can relax, because it is in...
China Will Ban Karaoke Songs With “Illegal” Content
According to one CNN report, a song called "Fart" was blacklisted. The lyrics of the song read: "There are some people in the world...
Why Bollywood Is Cranking Out The War Movies This Year
Basically, it's because Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing the country in a more militaristic direction, especially with regard to Pakistan. And "India's wars...
We’re Being Cajoled To Be Positive. It’s Not Helpful
The pressure to try to adopt positivity as a constant state of being has begun to feel exhausting. Some have gone as far as...
Are We Finally Getting Over The “Show Up For Dance Class, Even If You’re...
Dance psychologist Lucie Clements says we should reassess the value of "pushing past the pain": "You are risking more harm than good if someone...
Cautionary Tale For Publishers: Andrew Cuomo’s Book About Dealing With The Pandemic
When the manuscript began circulating, several major publishing companies vied for it in a frenzied auction, with bids soaring into the seven figures. -...
Egypt’s Greatest Living Novelist Explores Why The Tahrir Square Revolution Failed
Alaa Al-Aswany on his The Republic of False Truths: "I made a big mistake. I thought the revolution was representing all Egyptians, but we...
Counting: American Orchestras’ Programs Take A Leap In Diversity This Season
In 2017-18, 2% of works performed were written by women, and 3% by composers of color. By 2019–2020, it was 6% of works by...
The Pandemic Has Shown Us That Museums Should Give Up On Blockbuster Shows: Chris...
Says the former director of Tate Modern, now at Paris's Grand Palais, "We probably cannot afford to ship works back and forth, and will...
Provincetown And Its Performers Step Nervously Back Into Action
The arts-dependent Cape Cod town got clobbered by last year's lockdowns, but with vaccination rates up and caseloads down this summer, the scene joyfully...
