Yearly Archives: 2021
Alice Clark Brown, A Black Woman Who Starred In A Very White Circus, 68
She was the first Black woman to star in a Ringling Bros circus, and "photographs from the time show Ms. Brown triumphantly astride her...
What Are Los Angeles’ Theatres Doing In Response To The Delta Variant?
Pivot, pivot, pivot, keep on pivoting - and require proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 tests. - Los Angeles Times
How An Actress Known For Playing Dramatic, Troubled Roles Ended Up In Ted Lasso
Juno Temple didn't even know how to act in a comedy, she says. Brendan Hunt, Lasso co-creator and colleague: "She’s just playing the truth...
What’s Going On With High-Profile ‘Restructuring’ In Barcelona’s MACBA?
Accusations of xenophobia, and two more high-profile resignations, follow an email about "restructuring" that eliminated the positions of Tanya Barson, the English curator, and...
American Ballet Theatre Predicts Massive Audiences In The Fall
Performance-starved audiences may flock to Lincoln Center after the ABT resumes indoor live performances this fall, the ED says. "There is so much pent-up...
What Can Be Done To Protect Sacred Sites From Relentless Scientific Curiosity?
Apologies alone aren't going to suffice. "Tribal representatives and archaeologists are demanding an accounting of protected cultural sites in order to identify damage caused...
The Magic Of Chilean Photographer Sergio Larrain
Not to mention the magic of stumbling over the work of a great artist by accident. - The New York Times
Musician And MacArthur Genius Rhiannon Giddens On Failure – And Success
Giddens, a singer, taught herself banjo after graduating from Oberlin. She says, "To suck at something is actually painful and we don’t really like...
Shame On, And For, Both Liverpool And UNESCO
The citizens of Liverpool should be on the same side as UNESCO. "They have the same enemies: the shoddy and contemptuous treatment of the...
DC Has Re-Emerged As A Broadway Tryout Town
The post-pandemic (and possibly post-45) change: "As theater returns to robust live-ness, Washington has been cast in a significant role once again, as a...
Arturo Schwarz, Refugee Who Became A Surrealism Tycoon, 97
Schwarz was expelled from Egypt in 1949, arrived penniless in Italy, and went on to found a prominent gallery devoted to Dadaist and Surrealist...
Rebooting Old Series With A BIPOC Cast Might Actually Harm Diversity Initiatives
What about original stories developed by BIPOC creators? "Reboots take up so much bandwidth for the network, for the studio ... that they have...
Asian Composers Only Make Up Two Percent Of America’s Upcoming Concert Seasons
Asian and Asian America composers explain the ways they've had an impact on - and been affected by - the sometimes exoticizing world of...
How A Vacuum Cleaner Became An Icon
Henry wasn't planned, but his beloved status even survived this: "Charles and Diana received one of the first models as a wedding present in...
Little Free Library Tries To Break Free Of Its White, Wealthy Neighborhood Stereotype
LFLs are often criticized for their placement. A new program in Detroit aims to change that access, and the books behind the glass doors...
The Porch Concerts Of The Pandemic Are Here To Stay
They began as a safe way to unite (and maybe pay) artists - and now Brooklyn's Ditmas Park is a music hub. - The...
England’s New Monument To Shopping And Instagram
Yikes: "Rearing up at the western end of Oxford Street as a faceted green shell ... the 25-metre high Marble Arch Mound is one of the...
Marvel Has All The Money In The World, But Can Its Actors Do Accents?
A dialect coach weighs in on the Russian accents of Black Widow. "In the ideal world, I invite the actors first to get into...
Live Theatre Is Endangered Again, Still
On Friday, the Public Theater canceled its show for the third night in a row because of a positive COVID-19 test. Can we ever...
When A Revered Musician Makes Very Bad Choices
Eric Clapton's "dangerous stance on vaccines has forced yet another conversation about the importance of 'separating the music from the man.'" - Los Angeles Times
Overhauling ‘Traditional’ Monuments With An Indigenous Focus
In the wake of nationwide protests, Native artists are changing the way U.S. institutions see, and commission, public art. - FastCompany
The League Of Unfortunate Writers
When your book release happens the same week - or day - that most of your country locks down for a pandemic, well ......
A Lackluster Opening Olympics
Unfortunately, the messaging was muddled — the ideas crowding one another out — by a ceremony most notable for how small and muted the...
Where AI Is Scariest? Its Ability To Speak
Artificial intelligence is an ethical quagmire. Its power can be more than a little nauseating. But there’s a kind of unique horror to the...
Misconceptions About The Relationship Between Arts And Sports
While there are many sports devotees in the Australian arts sector (as a search for the Twitter hashtag #aflartsmafia reveals), the fallacy continues that...
