Yearly Archives: 2021
Choreographer Jan Fabre To Stand Trial For Abuse Of Power, Sexual Harassment
Serious allegations made by current and former dancers in his Antwerp company, Troubleyn, became public in 2018. After a lengthy investigation, that city's labor...
Dutch Government Makes Big Change In Restitution Of Nazi-Looted Art
"Particularly significant is the Dutch Government's new approach to 'heirless art.' … Now, in cases where no heirs can be identified, any artwork deemed...
Book Sales Soar Year-Over-Year (Duh!)
It comes as little surprise that statistics newly released by the Association of American Publishers found that total sales for the 1,358 publishers that...
Louise Bourgeois And Her Exploration Of Pain
“The subject of pain is the business I am in,” Louise Bourgeois once remarked. Like Emily Dickinson whose business was “circumference,” Bourgeois circled her...
Scientists Use Scans To Determine Whether National Gallery Vermeers Are Authentic
The two paintings are not obvious fakes. Indeed, one is considered a masterpiece, but they are unusual in the oeuvre of Vermeer: smaller than...
Juilliard Pulls Video Of Zukerman’s Racist Masterclass
At one point, Zukerman told a pair of students of Asian descent that their playing was too perfect and that they needed to add...
Watching Pinchas Zukerman’s Offensive Juilliard Masterclass In Real Time
"I did watch the virtual class unfold live, and I can attest that this was the appropriate course." - Violinist.com
Using Novels To Predict The Next War
The idea that novelists are modern-day Cassandras – “speaking always truths, never grasped as true” – may sound positively esoteric. - The Guardian
An Intimacy Coordinator Explains How Exactly He Works On Set
"Your boundaries can change given the person, given who's in the room, given I'm on a sofa not a bed, that changes how I...
Judge Strikes Down Feds’ Monopoly Case Against Facebook
The judge eviscerated one of the federal government’s core arguments, that Facebook holds a monopoly over social networking, saying prosecutors had failed to provide...
A New American Heroine: Sapphire’s ‘Push’ At 25
Tayari Jones: "The miracle of Sapphire's gift is that she weaves her sharp social commentary and critique into the fabric of this story without...
What Might Have Been — A Plan For NPR To Be An Arts Powerhouse
Once upon a time, kids, NPR was to have taken its place among other national broadcasters around the world to become the standard for...
Broadway’s ‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ To Be Cut By Half
Before the pandemic, the award-winning hit played in two parts running a total of more than five hours. As theaters reopen, Cursed Child will...
YouTube Buys Naming Rights For New 6000-Seat Theatre In LA
The 6,000-seat performance venue at the Hollywood Park sports and entertainment complex in Inglewood, Calif., will be called “YouTube Theater.” - Variety
Pulitzer-Winning Poet Stephen Dunn Dead At 82
"He departed from the 'confessional' style of self-lacerating poetry and considered himself instead a 'meditative' or observational poet. Writing in a plain, unfussy style...
Turns Out AI Can Be Pretty Easily Fooled By Patterns
The ability to succeed at the task can be thought of as a foundation for all kinds of inferences that humans make. - Quanta
LA’s Echo Theater: 25 Years As A Hotbed Of Offbeat New Work
Artistic director Chris Fields: "We've had a very simple system at the Echo. We read a play every week amongst ourselves and talk about...
To Protect Your Orchestra Players From COVID, Change Their Layout: Study
A study undertaken over the past season by the Utah Symphony and University of Utah researchers found that a new seating arrangement could reduce...
They’re Back To Dancing At Jacob’s Pillow, Even If It’s All Outdoors
The dance festival in the Berkshires is coming back from last summer's cancellation, the first in its 89-year history, and the destruction of its...
Stolen Picasso And Mondrian Works Recovered In Greece
Picasso's Head of a Woman and Mondrian's Stammer Windmill, taken from the National Gallery of Greece in 2012 in a seven-minute robbery, were seized...
Painting Falls Off Wall, Turns Out To Be Lost Rembrandt
The Adoration of the Magi hanging in a country house near Rome was assumed to be a copy. But, five years ago, the owners...
Lyric Opera Of Chicago Sees Reason, Will Have Intermissions
About six weeks after announcing that, as a COVID safety measure, it would eliminate intermissions when it resumes live performances — and just over...
Philadelphia’s Annenberg Center Changes Name
"Penn Live Arts is the new moniker for the group and series long known as the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The switch...
Suffering Under The Weight Of Happiness
Wanting to copy the happiest people in the world is an understandable impulse, but it distracts from a key message of the happiness rankings—that...
No Surprise: How AI Is Choosing The Next Pop Stars
Musiio is just one of many hi-tech firms changing the way songs are categorised, playlisted and promoted, to eventually reach the ears of millions....
