Yearly Archives: 2021
We Will Soon Be Able To Fix Our Own Phones
Drop your phone? At long last, we'll all be legally allowed to repair it. - The Verge
A Famous Guitar Joins The Museum Of London
The Clash's smashed guitar isn't trash - it's treasure. - The Guardian (UK)
Cannes Away From Cannes Is Safer, And No COVID Tests
But a critic sees a lot fewer movies that way. - Los Angeles Times
Man Arrested For Trying To Peddle Fake Basquiats And Harings
The FBI said, "Mr. Pereda conned art buyers, hoping his victims wouldn’t see the difference between real art and a forgery." - The New...
When Artists Decided To Make Pop Culture The Raw Materials For Their Work
In the 1950s and 60s artists increasingly looked at the products of pop culture as ideas and materials they could use for their own...
Bookshop Fined By Hungarian Government For Selling Book Featuring LGBT Families
The shop has been fined for selling a children’s story depicting a day in the life of a child with same-sex parents, with officials...
How They’re Planning To Televise The Tokyo Olympics Without Fans
Those plans include an “online cheer map” and a “fan video wall” that will be made available to TV rightsholders, and which will also...
Study: Public Broadcasting Has To Do Better Programming for Teens
“Overall, our interviews suggest that there is a significant gap in youth understanding of the value of public media as something distinct from commercial...
Claim: Streaming Is A Dark Hole That Is Killing Indie Films
Independent filmmakers “need the real curators, the festivals, academies, critics. We need producers who will fight for a voice that is unique, rare, ambitious...
Why The American Sitcom Has Endured for So Long
“If you look at what people watch on streaming platforms, it’s all sitcoms. What’re the most valuable properties out there? - The Guardian
Can Walking Tours Be Turned Into Theatre?
Alexis Soloski considers four of them currently running (if that's quite the word) in New York City, suggesting that they can be a good...
What’s At Stake For Arts Venues Stranded By Bungled Federal Assistance Program
Since the program was created with the passage of the Save Our Stages Act in December, the grant been plagued by glitches and delays....
Former UK Culture Minister Calls For Electronics Tax To Fund Arts
In a column co-written with artist Yinka Shonibare, Ed Vaizey, culture minister under David Cameron and now in the House of Lords, argues for...
Just How Do You Determine What’s Cultural Appropriation?
Scholarly consensus regarding cultural appropriation has long accepted that the lines between cultural appreciation and appropriation may be difficult to clearly determine in real...
Is This A Time To Open A New Performing Arts Conservatory?
Even as institutions are merging and closing due to the pandemic, Danny George and Ricky Loftus George are planning to receive students at the...
We All See The World Through Our Own Lenses. So What About a Lens...
As we emerge from the pandemic, we’re not just walking around without masks, we’re learning how to re-enter our bodies. - The New York...
This Woman Has Been Playing Piano For 104 Years, And She’s Still At It
Colette Maze was born in 1914, began picking out melodies on the keyboard by age three, released her first CD at 84, and recorded...
Don’t Be So Quick To Call It A Cult
If we accept that cult members have some degree of volition, the job of distinguishing cults from other belief-based organizations becomes a good deal...
New Yorker Cartoonist Danny Shanahan Dead At 64
Over three decades he published more than 1,000 witty single-panel cartoons in The New Yorker and other magazines, with characters ranging from cats and...
Why Amazon Really Bought MGM
As Jeff Bezos bluntly put it in 2016, "When we win a Golden Globe, it helps us sell more shoes." But isn't Amazon's own...
Hunter Biden’s Gallerist Will Keep Buyers’ Identities Secret, Even From The Artist
Both the dealer himself and the White House say this will prevent even the appearance of influence-buying by purchasers of paintings by the President's...
Real-Life Protagonist Of ‘Cat Person’ Comes Forward
When Kristen Roupenian's New Yorker story went viral in 2017, Alexis Nowicki got a flood of text messages from people she knew asking if...
Owner Sues French State For Right To Sell Leonardo Sketch Abroad
Once the drawing was identified as a da Vinci, the Culture Ministry put an export ban on it and offered to buy it for...
Closure Of Five South London Arts Meccas Cost UK Economy £330 Million: Study
The report says that dark houses at the National Theatre, Old Vic, Young Vic, Southbank Centre, and dance company Rambert led to an economy-wide...
National Ballet Of Canada Names New Artistic Director
Hope Muir, Toronto-born and currently AD at the Charlotte Ballet in North Carolina's largest city, will succeed Karen Kain at the start of 2022....
