Yearly Archives: 2021
Turns Out Everything We ‘Knew’ About Kids And Reading Was Wrong
For instance, boys like fiction just as much as girls do. And developing brains need stories - that is, fiction - in order to...
The UK Suddenly Has A Lack Of Filming Space
Disney and Netflix need the UK, but they're not alone, according to a new report that says it's time to build more studios and...
Vinyl Is A Perfect Medium For Discovering Classical Music
Why? "The rough edges of a medium are what allows us to get a grip on it. When I hold a record in my...
Why Netflix Movies Look So Weird
It's technical: The company "requires narrative feature films made for Netflix be shot on cameras with a 'true 4K UHD sensor.'" - Fast Company
An Investigation Into Sony Music Australia Yields Hordes Of Complaints
More than 40 former employees have contacted the investigating law firm "since allegations of a toxic workplace culture first aired and its Australian chief...
At Last, Bringing A Native Perspective To The Met
Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha) lives to "show you how a 19th-century ceramic, textile, carving or painting is made and how it is connected to...
Anti-History Is On The Rise
History needs context - but not according to a certain faction on the American right-wing political spectrum. - The Atlantic
Creating An Opera About The Ugly Side Of Desire
Composer Amanda Feery got a range of advice about composing her first opera, and she decided to ignore almost all of it. - Irish...
The New TV Series ‘Schmigadoon’ Tries To Sing Away Problems Of American Musicals
And that only works because its musical-theatre-loving creator writes all of its songs - every single one. - American Theatre
The Language That Poetry Shares With Comic Books
Eve Ewing, multihyphenate creative person (and sociology prof), calls writing poetry and writing comic books her most meaningful "cross-pollination." - The New York Times
An Indigenous Perspective On Frida Kahlo
Basically: "Kahlo, born to an affluent German father and mestiza mother (Spanish and Purépecha), adopted the popular fetishization and sanitization of the Tehuana favored...
Men Still Don’t Read Women
This remains true, with big financial and other consequences: "Why does this matter? For a start, it narrows men’s experiences of the world." -...
Is This 51,000-Year-Old Giant Deer Bone Carving Art?
Depends on whom you ask. "Dr. Terberger prefers to call it a complex decoration, perhaps a precursor to art." - The New York Times
Chekhov, Munro, And Endings That Change It All
If you want to be surprised, to have everything recast for you in light of new information, read Alice Munro's stories to their ends....
Thomas Cleary, Who Translated Classic Works Of Eastern Philosophy, 72
Cleary "translated scores of Buddhist, Taoist, ancient Chinese and other texts into English, greatly broadening access to these works in the West." - The...
Will Indie Films Survive The Pandemic?
Independent film producers don't have studios' deep pockets - and "a loss of insurance coverage and a surge in production costs have created a...
How To Have A Massive Hit In England
Get your men's sports teams to play well, and the rest follows. - The Guardian (UK)
Are We In The Metaverse Now?
Have you played Animal Crossing during the pandemic? Zoomed into work? You're in it. (We're all in it.) - The New York Times
The NYer Short Story Cat Person Goes Viral Again
This time the discourse is about whether writers can, or should, use real-life details in their fiction. - The Guardian (UK)
Despite The Headlines, There Is No Debate Over Actual Critical Race Theory
CRT critics "aren’t arguing against anti-racist thinkers. They aren’t arguing against critical race theorists. These critics are arguing against themselves." - The Atlantic
Celebrating LA’s Spoken Word And Poetry Culture
Summertime tells the stories of "a diverse community of young artists who turned to poetry as a way of coping with hardship." - Los...
Making Dance More Visible At The Venice Biennale – And Always
Royal Ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor is out to change how we all see, and feel, dance, especially after living through the pandemic. - The...
One Of The Last Members Of Auschwitz’s Women’s Orchestra Has Died
Esther Bejarano played the accordion in the orchestra and then "dedicated her life to music and to the fight against racism and anti-Semitism." -...
Taking Photographic Inspiration From Ovid
The Metamorphoses is the classic work on nature and change, in both of which we've all been immersed for months. - The New York...
Four Years After Deadly Rally, Lee Statue Is Gone
Charlottesville removes Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues four years after white supremacists marched, and murdered, to keep them up. - Slate
