Yearly Archives: 2021
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People Are Returning To Movie Theatres. Just Not Enough Of Them
With pandemic limitations in mind, as of early July, the overall domestic box office has reached $1.05 billion in ticket sales, down 42.3% from...
Signs Netflix Is In Decline?
Netflix is the Kleenex of streaming, a brand so dominant it can stand for the whole of the market. (It’s not “Hulu and chill,”...
A Tale Of Two Booksellers, Just Off The Kabul Bazaar
"One is a former communist, the other a former mujahid. Both have witnessed and participated in Afghanistan's turbulent history over the past half century....
Great Storytelling? Try America’s Mass Market Novels
To take a genre or mass-market work seriously means recognizing the quiet skill in its pages. - The Atlantic
Hearings On London’s Grenfell Tower Fire Made Into Theatre
Stage director Nicolas Kent and former Guardian security editor Richard Norton-Taylor have edited hundreds of hours of testimony, from early warnings to "bragging about...
How The LA Times Brought Down The Golden Globes
“When we were working on the story, it didn’t occur to us in our wildest dreams that not only would NBC pull the show,...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Become A Master Of Visual Communications Tools
Alexandra Lange takes a look at the New York City congresswoman's "ability to get her message across visually, through graphic design, through fashion, and...
Experts Stunned By Huntington Museum’s Decision To Allow Iconic Old Master To Travel
Sending the picture abroad was unanimously opposed by the expert team, who believed travel puts the prized work at grave risk. - Los Angeles...
The Man Who Made Munich An Opera Mecca Says Farewell
As superintendent, and with Kirill Petrenko as music director, Nikolaus Bachler made the Bavarian State Opera a beacon of "artistic excellence, destination programming and,...
ABT’s “Jeremy Irons Of Dance”
Kevin McKenzie has been with American Ballet Theatre since 1979. "If you do only the classics, you are a museum, so we tried to...
Jivan Gasparyan, Who Entranced The World With An Armenian Shepherd’s Pipe, Dead At 92
"What he accomplished was remarkable — not just in terms of his personal achievement, but also what he accomplished for his instrument's profile. …...
Beeple Starts Up A Cross Between Christie’s And Sports Illustrated, But For NFTs
It's not enough that he sold his own NFT for $69 million. The graphic artist and some even richer tech and entertainment types have...
Bury Old Movies & Shows That Now Seem Offensive? This TV Network Has A...
" 'Can We Talk About This?' video initiative … is designed to acknowledge what may have been acceptable at one point in history is...
City Of Dallas Wants To Offload Its Classical Radio Station
The City of Dallas owns a classical radio station? Yep. WRR Classical 101 FM, which celebrates its 100th birthday next month, is operated by...
New York City Considers Setting Up ‘Nightlife Districts’
"The city's Office of Nightlife is recommending that officials identify areas with low residential density 'where a limited 24-hour program might be tested."...
Dilip Kumar, Bollywood’s First Great Realistic Actor, Dead At 98
"In a career that spanned five decades, Kumar is widely regarded as the finest actor India has ever produced. Starring in some of the...
Eliot Feld’s Successor At Ballet Tech Named
Dionne Figgins, a former Dance Theater of Harlem lead and Broadway performer, will be the new artistic director of the free-of-charge ballet education program,...
Who Should Next Run The National Ballet Of Canada?
Looking beyond the National Ballet, unless one imagines someone like choreographer Crystal Pite wanting to run a big company, there are no obvious standout...
Why Are So Many Musicians Looking To Space For Inspiration?
It is understandable that musicians believe in extraterrestrial beings: after a year socialising over Zoom or from behind a mask, every interaction IRL feels...
Let’s Take A Look At How Museums Deal With Ownership Of Nazi-Era Collections…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston have repeatedly rejected the heirs’ claims for paintings that were sold at...
Extraordinary Times: Smithsonian Natural History Museum Turns To Art To Demonstrate Climate Change
The museum staff decided the situation is so complex that they had to turn to photography and conceptual art to address it. - Washington...
Resolving The Differences Between Conscious Choice And Intention
The decisions that I am aware of speak for me, the conscious agent, who I am and how I impact the world, either locally...
John McWhorter: What’s Wrong With The Language Police
Apparently, we must retire victim, survivor, trigger warning, and African-American too. We must do so, that is, if we seek to ignore some linguistic...
The Danish Language Is So Weird That Even Danish Kids Have Trouble Learning It
Researchers "have found that the uniquely peculiar way that Danes speak" – mangled consonants and 40 different vowel sounds – "seems to make it...
