Yearly Archives: 2021
Janet Sobel, Artist Who Influenced Pollock, Overlooked No More
"When Janet Sobel created one of the most recognizable artistic styles, drip painting, on scraps of paper, boxes and the backs of envelopes, she was 45...
LA Shopping Center Removes Monuments That Commemorate DW Griffith
The elephants at Hollywood & Highland, the ones that commemorate the filmmaker's movie Intolerance, are coming down. - Los Angeles Times
Guggenheim Curators Ready To Unionize
The pandemic - and the way the museum treated some of the staff during closures - helped the push for unionization, says at least...
The Children Of Blaxploitation Directors Rescue Their Fathers’ Films
Justine Henzell and Mario Van Peebles have done the heavy lifting to rescue, and in some cases help reshoot, their dads' important, overlooked (and...
After Months Of Turmoil At The Philadelphia Museum, The Director Steps Down
Timothy Rub now says he should have focused more, and much sooner (perhaps he means before the employees unionized), on gender and racial equity...
Writing About Autism And Sex
Author Helen Hoang took her own life experiences and folded them into her novel The Kiss Quotient. "I spent a lot of my life pretending...
Safely Playing Their Hearts Out At The Proms
How it's working onstage: "When the guy comes to the rehearsal room he sometimes has this suspicious look. Especially in the beginning, when people...
Getting Books Into The Hands Of Kids Who Need Them
With a young independent press, two women in Minneapolis want to take portrayals of Muslims in children's literature to a new place - a...
What About Autumn Reading, Hunh?
How "summer reading" (and beach reads) became a Thing. - The New York Times
The Author Who Became A Vaccinator
And her worries about how neither profession seems to be doing much good in this world. "Wash your hands for 20 seconds as often...
The Americans Who Transformed Ballet
Todd Bolender and Janet Reed "were expert ballet comedians, a rare talent, and intelligent, witty, well-read human beings" - and responsible for the establishment...
Targeted Ads Are Way Beyond Annoying
They create political division and can promote incredibly dangerous theories. But there are ways to resist. - FastCompany
George Rhoads, Artist Of Intricate Machines That Move Billiard Balls And More, 95
Rhoads studied painting, but his fame came from his audiokinetic sculptures, "which ranged from tabletop size to more than 40 feet high, resembled a...
China Finally Allows In A Foreign Film
And it's ... a British Christmas movie about a cat? - Variety
France’s Call My Agent Hit Cult Popularity In The US, But Its Star Didn’t...
Actor Camille Cottin, who spent a lot of time with her family during the pandemic, is bemused by her popularity. "Now you tell me...
South America’s Largest Film Collection Goes Up In Flames
On Thursday, flames engulfed Brazil's Cinemateca Brasileira, whose collection includes "more than a million archival documents and around 250,000 film reels," with the extent...
Older Kindles May Stop Connecting To The Internet
And yes, you can blame 5G for this issue. - BBC
Turner Prize Winner Says UK Cut School Arts Funding To Cut Out Criticism From...
Artist Helen Cammock: "They’re trying to eradicate the subjects that encourage people to think, and the parts of culture that really loudly challenge the...
Do Olympic-Level Achievements Make People Happy?
That depends on when you ask them. (And yes, that has a bearing on the lives of the rest of us as well.) -...
The Pleasure Of Falling Asleep With A Book
That is, with a book slipping out of your fingers, or falling on your face or stomach. - The New York Times
Broadway Announces New COVID Mandates For Its Reopening
Masks will also be required for audiences inside the theaters, except while eating or drinking in designated locations. - Deadline
How Can The Uffizi Sue Over An Image In The Public Domain?
Italian law strongly protects its heritage. The definition of cultural heritage itself under Italian law is broad: any works which “are of artistic, historical,...
A Good Death (From A Literary Perspective)
"I cannot expect to have a good death if my life did not accomplish certain specific things. And these things are not material." -...
NFTs Of Chimpanzee Art Raised (Again) The Idea Of Animal Art (And Creativity)
The launch of these NFTs is the latest chapter in a long and complex history of non-human animals in the art world. - The Conversation
Cash-Strapped Mexico Reburies Petroglyphs
“The global health contingency caused by COVID-19 forced the institutions of the different levels of government to prioritize the allocation of resources for the...
