Yearly Archives: 2021
Visitors Are Flocking Back To Berlin’s Museum Island
Free admission on Sundays certainly helps: tens of thousands are showing up on weekends. - Bloomberg CityLab
What The Little Island Reveals About Manhattan Island
Little Island discombobulates many of the ways in which the body physically adapts itself to the pulse of the city. You are neither busy...
Can This Technology Help You Be A Better Writer?
Lynit is a digital platform that helps authors visualise, plan and weave together the various elements - such as characters, plot arcs, themes and...
Why NBC’s Olympics Broadcasts Didn’t Get Ratings Gold
The 14-day average of 16.5 million viewers through Wednesday is down a whopping 41% from the audience for the 2016 Games in Rio. -...
Are Writers Being Left Behind In The New World Of Streaming?
“Creatively, it’s sort of like the Wild West — you can do anything you want and find a home for it, but financially it’s...
Race And Classical Music — Challenging A Reckoning
Heather MacDonald's Part 2: "The biggest victim in the racial attack on classical music is the music itself. Once the poison of identity politics...
Get Real! C’Mon — Your Membership Is Expiring!
Same dance, different day, eh, hoss? Just wanted to remind you that your membership is expiring soon. So we’re kind of getting down to the wire here. -...
The Art Of Distraction
It hardly matters how committed you are to making the best use of your limited time if, day after day, your attention gets wrenched...
The Problem With Anti-Racist Self-Help Books For White People
Be careful what you wish for. To anyone who has been conscious of race for a lifetime, these books can’t help feeling less brave...
Artists Aren’t Just Born, They’re Made
If you want to make digital art, you need to learn to code. A training in film will help with moving-image art. So much...
Why Such Disdain For Theatre That Is Commercial?
The antipathy for the commercial sector of the theater, especially from the inside and often fueled by envy or elitism, is far from new....
Instagram Pivots To Video, Leaving Photographers And Other Artists Out Of Sorts
Back in the day, "when it launched in 2010, Instagram courted the artistic community, inviting respected designers to be among its initial users and...
The Painful Cost Of The Writing Life
The financial cost, the personal cost, the emotional costs ... who chooses this? - LitHub
Voters Picked Mulholland Drive As The Best Art-House Movie Of Twenty Years Ago
Better than Monsoon Wedding? Better than Sexy Beast? Better than Amèlie?! Well: "The film remains [David Lynch's magnum opus, a perfect distillation of his...
Like Many Others, This Small Theatre Company Would Just Like The Old Normal Back,...
At the Broadway Rose Theatre in Tigard, Oregon, the founder and managing director is so very done with the pandemic. "We’re a live theater...
Nach Waxman, Who Founded Manhattan’s Bookstore Of Culinary Knowledge, 84
Waxman founded Kitchen Arts & Letters in a former butcher shop in 1983, and for decades, he provided what he called "professional tools" for...
What’s Up With The Not-Quite-There Dream Ballet In The Musical Spoof Schmigadoon?
Though they become a joke in the fifth episode of the show, dream ballets used to signal deeper emotions in musicals - but now...
Medieval Literature Scholars, Movie Critics, And Fans Of King Arthur Walk Into A Bar
And they all disagree about the most recent adaptation of the anonymously written poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - the movie starring...
We Need To Talk About The Ethics Of Digital Resurrection
The latest in questionable use of an artist's likeness or image, and/or voice, after death: "A hologram of Whitney Houston will perform a six-month...
Jacob Desvarieux, Musician Who Created Zouk Style, Dies Of Covid At 65
"Desvarieux and the founder of Kassav’, the bassist Pierre-Edouard Décimus, created a style called zouk by fusing Afro-Caribbean traditions of the French Antilles with sleek...
There’s No Joy For An Actor In Playing A Perfect Character
That is, the character might be perfect for the actor - perfectly broken. - The Observer (UK)
A Brief History Of Art At The Olympics
Leni Riefenstahl, Andy Warhol, the Black Power salute, and this year's floating heads - there's a long history of, and often a large budget...
Jane Withers, Child Star Of Depression-Era Hollywood, 95
Withers was "an antidote to the cloying sweetness of Shirley Temple," and later became moderately famous as Josephine the Plumber in Comet ads. -...
How The Met Became Cooler Than MoMA This Summer
Live music, of course: "By activating these spaces in ways that shed the Met’s stuffiness, the museum is broadening what performance can be." -...
As Golden Gate Park Enacts A Car Ban, Its Museums Stress Out
The road through the park has been closed since the start of the pandemic - and so have the museums. But now, as museums...
