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Yearly Archives: 2021

Kurt Westergaard, Whose Muhammad Cartoon Triggered Years Of Protest And Violence, Dead At 86

"(His) 2005 caricature of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban touched off violent protests by Muslims, prompted a massacre that left 12 people...

Major Cutbacks At SF-MOMA

The museum will stop publishing its online journal Open Space and its podcast Raw Material, drop its film programming after the fall season, and,...

Hollywood Studios And Unions Agree: Vaccinations May Be Required

SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, DGA, and the other major unions have a new agreement with the studios' trade association to reduce mask mandates and the frequency...

Longtime Met Opera Mezzo Jean Kraft Dead At 94

A character singer admired for her dramatic skills, she sang with the company for two decades in nearly 800 performances. - Opera News

Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden’s Controversial Revamp Gets Key Approval

"The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts has voted to approve Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto's proposed redesign of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden...

Hell And High Water Came: Andrew Lloyd Webber Shutters ‘Cinderella’ Because Of COVID

In June he said that he would open his new West End musical at full audience capacity no matter what. Yet, now that England...

What Does Netflix’s Purchase Of Famous LA Movie Theatres Mean?

Under the deal, the Cinematheque will continue to program autonomously on weekends, while Netflix will use the theater for their premieres and special events...

What Will Happen To The Music I Collected On Spotify?

"I feel uneasy about the hundreds of playlists I’ve taken the time to compile on the company’s platform: 10 or 20 years from now,...

NYC’s Historic Cherry Lane Theatre Bought By Lortel Foundation

The foundation is a few blocks from the Cherry Lane Theater on Christopher Street and has managed the building for the past decade. The...

Bourdain Voice Deepfake Reminds Us Documentaries Aren’t Real Reporting

The deluge of nonfiction filmmaking and its seemingly endless permutations has rendered the term "documentary" almost meaningless. - Washington Post

That Tune You Can’t Get Out Of Your Head? Annoying, Right? But There’s A...

These so-called earworms — gross — are annoying but useful, as new research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in June helps illuminate...

When Ideas In Accademia Get Out Of The Lab, They Can Be Dangerous

There’s a huge leap in jumping from these general, aggregate findings to believing that such simple ideas can guide the behavior of complex states...

Are Master’s Degrees An Educational Scam?

In some ways, they’re more similar than they might seem. Many of them are one-year certificate programs. We don’t call them that. We call them master’s...

Is Changing The Name Of The Yale Drama School Worth A Big Donation?

To quote Shakespeare, “what’s in a name?” Quite a lot, it turns out, in these days of societal reckoning. - Los Angeles Times

The Anthony Bourdain Voice-Fake: Documentaries Have Been Faking For Some Time Now

A reenactment and a voice fake actually do different versions of the same thing: Both cement a reality in your mind — the image...

Here’s a Counter-Factual: Social Media Is Making Us… Nicer?

In person, we still know how to be classy friends. But class is tricky on social media. No one can be expected to read...

The Emotional Return To Tanglewood

One young musician: "What you want to do is play with people—you don't want to record iPhone videos and upload them to a cloud!...

Adapting Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Into An Action Film Was Quite The...

As anyone who's read the poem in English Lit classes (or for fun?) can imagine, the challenges ran deep. - LitHub

Graham Vick, Opera Director Who Sought Out New Audiences And Formats, Dies Of Covid-19...

Vick, who founded the Birmingham Opera Company, "made exciting and experimental stagings at opera houses across the world." - The Guardian (UK)

Movie Theatre Owners Blame Drop In Black Widow Numbers On Disney Plus

The cinema owners' association claimed that profits from Black Widow were less than expected, even when Disney added in those buying the movie to...

Dance Choreography Can Make Humans More Comfortable With Robots

For instance, "areas of robotics research like social navigation, where robots update their paths to account for nearby humans’ movements, implicitly build upon dance improvisation."...

The Friendliest Artist In America

Pope.L is finally having a moment, "but he does not take it for granted. 'The institution is always about itself,' he says of museums."...

The Hidden History Of Women Heroes Of The Holocaust

Judy Batalion didn't mean to find all of this out, but she stumbled across a book in Yiddish - which she speaks and reads....

It’s A Weird Performance Summer

Do you need a mask? Does the venue require social distancing? What about proof of vaccination? It all depends. - The New York Times

Can We Ever Truly Know Van Gogh?

Thinking of all of the immersive Van Gogh shows, a critic wonders, "Can an artist’s work be reimagined to give an audience in modern...
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