Yearly Archives: 2021
The Man Who’s Saving Rohingya Folk Tales
Mohammed Rezuwan is himself one of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya driven out of Myanmar by that country's military and mobs. He now...
The Hermitage Hops On The NFT Train
Following in the footsteps of the Uffizi in Florence, the St. Petersburg museum will auction off digital tokens of five works in its collection,...
Amar Ramasar, Last Remaining NY City Ballet Dancer Involved In Sexting Scandal, Will Retire
The 39-year-old's decision to end his 20-year career with the company next May comes three years after the scandal roiled City Ballet and two...
How Activists Got New York The Beautiful New Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
The much-praised new branch of the New York Public Library, across 5th Avenue from the famous flagship, wasn't supposed to happen. The NYPL board...
Young People Are Using France’s Culture Pass To Buy … Manga
Granted, the program was only just gearing up when the pandemic closed arts venues, but officials' hopes that 18-year-olds would use their few-strings-attached €300...
UNESCO’s Latest World Heritage Sites
Among the monuments added are Madrid's Paseo del Prado and Retiro Park, the old port of Guangzhou, Peru's ancient Chankillo observatory, Mexico's 16th-century Tlaxcala...
Simon Rattle: We’ve Lost Many Musicians in the Pandemic
“Many of the first-choice people said, ‘Look I’m sorry, I’m not doing this any more. I have a family. I had to take another...
We Need New Thinking About Looted Art
‘Looted’ is a contested term: it covers a spectrum from out-and-out pillage to ostensibly legal transfers of title that may have occurred under coercion...
NPR Revenue Only Declined Two Percent Last Year
The public radio network’s operating revenue slid just two percent in 2020 to $270.1 million. And last year’s revenue was actually up seven percent...
Why English Is Such A Chaotic Collection Of Letters And Pronunciations
From the early Middle Ages, various European languages adopted and adapted the Latin alphabet. So why did English end up with a far more...
Theatre Critic Assumes Fellow Critic Is White, Then Has To Reassess When She Discovers...
I felt ashamed of my mistake, for not seeing a colleague for who he really is. “How limited your perception is, Lily!” I thought....
Barry Diller: Only Ten Percent Of Movie Theatres Will Survive
“Because of streaming, because of the pandemic, because of the enormous production of longform content … the word movies — what we think of...
Henceforth, The Main Unit Of Entertainment Is Not TV Or Film But Corporate Universe
The proof (as if Marvel weren't enough): Space Jam: A New Legacy — whose subtitle should be "Warner Media: We Own the Rights to...
Our Habits Aren’t Just Mindless — They Actually Help Make Us Smarter
Even our most mundane habitual routines actually display a great deal of intelligence. Indeed, they are often intelligently context-sensitive and flexible in such a...
In ‘The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas’, Gertrude Stein Depicted Great Artists And Writers....
"Such was the ire that the magazine transition published a Testimony Against Gertrude Stein. Matisse raged at his wife being described as having a...
ABT Executive Director Says She Will Depart To Work On Social Impact Fund
Kara Medoff Barnett will be leaving to lead social impact marketing and strategy at First Republic Bank and develop the recently established First Republic Foundation. -...
From Cretan Bull-Vaulting To Simone Biles: A Brief History Of Gymnastics
Yes, circa 1500 BC, leaps and vaults were done on or from the back of a live bull, not an inanimate, leather-covered "horse." -...
The Difference Between Music Education and Not
"I felt so small. A half Navajo and half Apache girl writing 'fancy' music for a quartet — something I had never dreamed of...
France May Just Be A Bit Ambivalent About Teaching Its Regional Languages
In the 19th century, French schools were forbidden to teach in Breton, Basque, Provençal, Corsican, etc. Starting in the 1970s, interest revived and some...
YouTuber Deepfakes Mandalorian So Well That LucasFilm Hires Him
One of those fans did so well, Lucasfilm has hired him to help it ensure its upcoming projects won't feature underwhelming de-aging and facial visual effects....
Portugal’s Four Greatest 20th-Century Writers Were Actually One Person
Fernando Pessoa published not only under his own name, but under three different personas as well. These weren't pseudonyms (he called them "heteronyms"): the...
Scattered Parts Of 14th-Century Triptych Reunited At Getty Museum
The exhibition of works by Paolo Veneziano includes the reassembly, for the first time in decades, of pieces of the so-called "Worcester triptych," which...
Charles McNulty Panned A Play. The Playwright’s Hurt Father Wrote Him, And That Got...
"Generosity for generosity's sake will only hasten (critics') redundancy. But candor and compassion aren't antithetical terms." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
New Opera Company Debuts In Chicago
The Opera Festival of Chicago focuses on Italian works which may be somewhat familiar from recordings and broadcasts but rarely get professional productions in...
Host Of Public Radio’s ‘The Takeaway’, Tanzina Vega, Resigns
"The well-known journalist has been on medical leave for months at the same time the network has looked into human-resources complaints against her, including...
