Yearly Archives: 2021
New York’s First Queer History Museum Will Be Hosted By New York’s First Museum...
As part of a major renovation and expansion of its Central Park West headquarters, the New-York Historical Society (founded 1804) will devote an entire...
Steady And Strong: The State Of Public Media Over The Past Decade
That's the conclusion of a new report from the Pew Research Center. Results for last year in particular were that terrestrial public radio listenership...
Co-Founder Of Philly’s Wilma Theater To Depart After 40 Years
Blanka Zizka, who with then-husband Jiri turned a small, experimental company into a major regional theater, is stepping down just 17 months after she...
This Is The Reason Bill Cosby Got To Walk Out Of Prison
Why did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturn the 83-year-old star's 2018 sexual assault conviction? Because of the Fifth Amendment and a bait-and-switch. Here's a...
San Francisco Ballet’s Executive Director Up And Quits
"Kelly Tweeddale, the former symphony and opera executive who was hired in 2019 as executive director of the San Francisco Ballet, stepped down from...
Here’s What Will Be At The First Post-COVID Edinburgh Fringe
It's 170 shows rather than the 3,000+ that were standard pre-pandemic, there's still a big online component, many of the shows sill be outdoors,...
A Battle Between Under-40s And Over-40s At Publishing Houses
“The distinction really is between social media natives who don’t really treasure free speech because they’ve had a lifetime’s worth and think it’s overrated,...
How To Tell If You’re Part Of A Cult
It is language that can best clue us in as to whether an organization we have joined is a cult or is at least...
Artworks Leaving UK As Museums Deal With Cash Shortage
UK museums can hardly try to buy multi-million-pound works of art when they are making large numbers of staff redundant as a result of...
James Cuno Steps Down As Head Of Getty
In 2011, Cuno was appointed to lead the Getty Trust, which manages four Los Angeles–based organizations: the Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, the...
How People Come To Deny Science
People live in information filter bubbles created by powerful algorithms. When those in your social circle share misinformation, you are more likely to believe...
What To Do With All Those Empty NYC Storefronts? Put Art In Them
Last June Barbara Anderson founded Art on the Ave, which creates free exhibits in New York City neighborhoods by using empty storefronts as gallery...
Inside The Workshop Where Some Of The World’s Best Pointe Shoes Are Made
A visit to Freed of London, where 24 skilled craftspeople make ballet shoes, many custom-fitted for dancers at the likes of Britain's Royal Ballet...
The Internet Is Rotting. What To Do?
Links work seamlessly until they don’t. And as tangible counterparts to online work fade, these gaps represent actual holes in humanity’s knowledge. - The...
Donald Barthelme, Maybe The Least Likely New Yorker Writer Ever
"By most standards, many of his stories aren't stories at all. They don't have plots, or even realistic, believable characters. … In the manner...
David Frum: Why Are States Turning Against Academic Testing?
Across the U.S., blue-state educational authorities have turned hostile to academic testing in almost all of its forms. - The Atlantic
The Shed Wants You To Play Pokémon Go On The High Line, But With...
The two New York institutions have collaborated on The Looking Glass, an exhibition in which all the artworks are in augmented reality, and you...
David Geffen Gives $150 Million To Make Yale Drama School Tuition Free
The school said that, starting in August, it would eliminate tuition for all returning and future students in its masters, doctoral and certificate programs....
Children’s Author Patricia Reilly Giff, Who Wrote The Kids Of The Polk Street School...
"Over nearly half a century, more than 100 books for young readers. She delighted younger ones with the adventures, misadventures and high jinks...
How Artists Are Using Tech/How Tech Is Art
The NEA research examines the creative infrastructure supporting tech-focused artistic practices and provides insight into the existing challenges and opportunities faced by artists and...
Why The Minister Who Slashed Britain’s Funding Of Museums Is Now Chairman Of Its...
George Osbourne, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in David Cameron's Conservative government from 2010 to 2016, instituted savage cuts to the budgets of...
Fox News To Pay $1 Million Fine To New York City
The settlement with the city's Commission on Human Rights is for "a pattern of violating of the NYC Human Rights Law" — that is,...
‘Hamilton’ Has Grossed $650 Million. Why Did It Get At Least $30 Million In...
The Broadway production and each of the show's touring companies are incorporated separately, and each corporation can qualify for a $10 million Shuttered Venue...
Storm Blows Roof Off Stuttgart’s Opera House
On Monday night, pieces of the building flew onto the ground; water flowed down the lighting rigs and flooded parts of the stage —...
Houston Grand Opera Names New General Director, Opera San Jose’s Khori Dastoor
The former soprano only became general director of the company in 2019, though she worked in administration starting in 2013 and started her career...
