Yearly Archives: 2021
National Museum Of Dance Shuts Down
"The future of the museum" — which has had financial and administrative problems ever since it opened in 1987 — "and its affiliated school...
UK Court Slaps Down Planned Highway Tunnel Near Stonehenge
A High Court ruled that the transport ministry's project for a two-mile, £1.7 billion tunnel near the monument didn't include a mandated risk assessment...
Director Of Hay Festival Resigns After Misconduct Investigation
Peter Florence, who founded the famous literary event with his parents in 1988, stepped down after an inquiry confirmed a staffer's accusation of bullying....
Dancer Accuses Former Boston Ballet Principal’s Husband Of Assault
The dancer, who was an intern at the time, accuses ballet teacher Mitchell Taylor Button and his wife, then-principal Dusty Button, of various abuses,...
Silicon Valley Wants Us To Live In The Multiverse. How Bleak Is That?
“The metaverse is a vision that spans many companies—the whole industry,” as Zuckerberg put it. “You can think about it as the successor to...
The Singular Influence Of Kerry James Marshall
The return to figurative art in the past two decades has been embraced by a new wave of younger Black artists, and for many...
How To Get At The Culture Of Anti-Vaccine Mindset
Sociology suggests that pundits and policy makers have been looking at vaccine refusal all wrong: It’s not an individual problem, but a social one....
Creativity As An Act of Activism
“I think creativity by its nature is activism,” says composer-pianist Max Richter. “It’s about meaning, it’s about experiment, it’s about the unknown, it’s about...
The Plan To Make Paramount+ Streaming Successful
The road ahead won’t be easy for ViacomCBS. Its fledgling Paramount+ was a late entry into streaming, and is essentially a rebranded and expanded...
Thriller In The Dance Company
"At times, the plot’s inevitable murder, sexual intrigue and family secrets seem almost incidental to the auditions and rehearsals, the bickering dancers and complaining...
Theatre Internships Are Problematic. What To Do?
While it is laudable that these theatres no longer run programs that contribute to the industry’s holding pattern of inequity, complete cancellation is ultimately...
How Theatre Is Being Reimagined After The Lockdown
I do think that there is a new energy, there’s a new kind of way of engaging with live performance that is very exciting....
What Our Repeated Mistakes Tell Us About Our Culture
"As fallible as human transmission can be, the fact that our mistakes in transmitting cultural information occur in systematic and directed ways, rather than...
The Woes Of Planned Blockbuster ‘Jungle Cruise’ Show The Pandemic Is Still On
That is to say, with the Delta variant tearing through countries and kids in the U.S. still unable to be vaccinated, Jungle Cruise made...
Pandemic Cautions Turned The Death Cafe Virtual
And, like old Dutch memento mori paintings, the forum lets people talk about something that happened to an awful lot of people in 2020...
Hospital Art Can Play A Vital Role In Patient Recovery
But what kind of art should it be? "Some advocate for the calming power of nature scenes, while others push for works of gallery...
When Landscape Art Gets A Big, Ugly Fence Around It
The sad, Airbnb-inflected tale of an artist whose family and nonprofit are at odds, not only dividing the artist's art from artist's house (with...
The September 11 Museum Desperately Needs Reform
Leadership bungled budgets and staff during the pandemic - but aslo has a longstanding, baked-in message that Muslim Americans say fuels war and Islamophobia....
Tasked With Writing A Family Spy History
Author Rebecca Donner knew little about her great-great-aunt. Turns out she (and her husband) were one of the most famous American spy couples of...
Going Deep On The UNESCO-Liverpool Dustup
This podcast goes all-in on the choice between preservation and potential. - The Guardian (UK)
The Newest Self-Publishing Platform Is Not What You Might Expect
OnlyFans isn't famous for its fanfic. Now, one author "says she’s already made more money in the first two days since releasing 'Ezekiel in...
The Show ‘Ted Lasso’ Needed Sarah Niles
But she needed the earnest kindness - and bawdy amusements - of the show's ethos as well. - The New York Times
Australia Will Return Artworks To India
The National Museum will return "religious and cultural artefacts include sculptures, photos and a scroll are worth around $2.2m." They are suspected of...
New York Gives Three Million Dollars To A Puerto Rican And Latinx Theatre
The Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater "champions Puerto Rican and Latino artists and produces original bilingual plays and musicals," and is about to build a...
WG Sebald’s Secret Trauma
The author of The Emigrants and Austerlitz was haunted by his country's, and especially his own family's, history of violence and genocide. - The...
