Yearly Archives: 2021
AI And The Mystery Of Consciousness
The collective confusion around the arrival of virtual beings, the horror mingled with wonder, is apparent right from the start. - LitHub
Taking Stock Of The Destruction At Dobson Pipe Organ Builders
The factory — where the organs of Verizon Hall at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, St. Thomas Fifth Avenue in New York, Merton College Chapel in...
Fury Over Choice Of Bosses For Pompidou Center’s Brussels Branch
A jury made up of museum professionals selected Kasia Redzisz, a senior curator at Tate Liverpool, to be artistic director of Kanal-Centre Pompidou, the...
Restrictions On Movie Content In China And Hong Kong Put Hollywood In Difficult Position
"As Hollywood faces a deteriorating relationship with China, it appears committed to keeping the flame alive even if that means going to humiliating lengths....
More Details About Pretty Yende’s Detention At CDG Airport (She Was Not Strip-Searched)
"Yende took to social media to share her experience, saying she was 'stripped and searched like a criminal offender' during the ordeal, which lasted...
NEA Expands Access To Millions In Pandemic Relief Funding
"The National Endowment for the Arts announced Wednesday that it will make $80 million in pandemic relief available to more arts and cultural organizations,...
Edinburgh Fringe Venues Get Lifeline From Scottish Government
"The Scottish Government and the city council have joined forces to offer £1.3 million worth of support to leading venue operators to help offset...
Chief Of London’s Barbican Centre To Depart (Is This About The Racism Controversy?)
"Nicholas Kenyon, the Barbican's managing director for 14 years" — and, prior to that, controller of BBC Radio 3 and director of the BBC...
Summer UK Music Festivals Beginning To Cancel For Lack Of Insurance
A government-backed insurance scheme, or a lack of it, has become a make-or-break factor for festival organisers who are deciding whether to continue with...
AI Used To Restore Rembrandt’s “Night Watchman”
"It is wonderful to be able to now see with our own eyes The Night Watch as Rembrandt intended it to be seen." -...
After 25 Years Victoria Morgan Steps Down As Director Of Cincinnati Ballet
To right the organization's financial ship she had to make tough choices early on—the first task the company's executive committee gave her was to...
A History Of America As Told Through Its Self-Help Books
These “secular bibles” (the Bible is not one of them) are “books for daily life that ostensibly taught readers one subject, all while subtly...
Battle Of The Book Blurbs
The hyperbole on book jackets—both the plot summaries and the lists of adulatory adjectives that go with them—have long frustrated authors, but no one...
Can LA Design Its Way Out Of A Housing Crisis?
During the second half of the last century and the beginning of this one, Los Angeles County fell a million homes behind, relative to...
When ‘Rent’ Came To Cuba
Andy Señor, Jr., a Cuban-American actor and director who played the role of Angel on Broadway and helmed productions of the musical around the...
What’s So Difficult About The Color Violet?
"Over the past 20 years, I visited 193 museums in 42 different countries. Equipped with 1,500 Munsell colour chips – the world-standard samples for...
Robert Quackenbush, Who Wrote Stories Of Detectives With Feathers Or Fur, Dead At 91
"His stories about Miss Mallard, an inquisitive duck who solves crimes around the world in plots that resemble Agatha Christie capers, were adapted into...
Reconciling With Cezanne
You don’t look at a Cézanne, some ravishing late works excepted. You study it, registering how it’s done—in the drawings, with tangles of line...
How Did This Pair Of 17th-Century Paintings End Up In The Dumpster At A...
A 64-year-old man spotted the artworks — a 1665 self-portrait by Pietro Bellotti and a painting of a youth by the 17th-century Dutch artist...
How To Repurpose Those Office Skyscrapers?
Instead of designing buildings for specific purposes that may fade or disappear, architects and developers should create buildings that can accommodate a variety of...
Another Thing Brexit Could Be Messing Up: Hit British TV Series
"Last year, EU countries agreed that 30% of offerings on streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime should be European-made. The concern among...
How Ancient Jungle Cities Kept Reinventing
Not only did societies such as the Classic Maya and the Khmer empire of Cambodia flourish, but pre-colonial tropical cities were actually some of...
Kazuo Ishiguro On Whether Literature Really Deserves To Have A Nobel Prize
"I want to say, of course literature is just as important , but this is something in the dead of night I kind of...
As Viewers Flock To Streaming Video, One Cable Channel Keeps A Devoted Audience: Turner...
"The Atlanta-based TCM has long been the sanctuary of classic film on TV, presenting mostly pre-1980 movies commercial-free with a deep respect for moviemaking...
Here’s What It Takes To Move A 60,000-Pound Fresco By Diego Rivera
"After a four-year, multimillion-dollar undertaking involving mechanical engineers, architects, art historians, fresco experts, art handlers and riggers from the United States and Mexico, the...
