Yearly Archives: 2021
How Decades Of Curriculum Battles Have Set The Table For Today
Earlier battles over curriculum provided the template for today’s anti-Critical Race Theory, anti–1619 Project political campaigns. - Slate
Why Globalization Is In Disfavor
It is not globalization that has brought us to the brink of the abyss, but the peculiar strain of globalization that emerged in the...
Where Is The Art World After COVID? Look To Documenta
Documenta is also a barometer for changes in the world around it, as a major new exhibition in Berlin demonstrates. - The New York...
A Theatrical Experience That Makes You Wonder If It’s Theatre?
Theater is perhaps the closest term to describe the experience, but even that is poorly suited; “Liminality” evades any one category or definition, though...
Art Is Increasingly Being Used To Launder Money — The Feds Are Moving In
They have realized how useful art has become as a tool for money launderers, and are considering boosting oversight of the market and making...
How Movie Audiences Are Different
The movie audience is a singular and enigmatic organism. It can’t really be compared to the audience for live events such as theater, music...
What If We’ve Been Thinking About Intelligence In The Wrong Way?
Intelligence can be found, in part, in our brains, but perhaps even more importantly in our hearts and skin, in the architecture of the...
How To Organize Your Books (Or Not)
Shelving exemplifies “two tensions, one which sets a premium on letting things be, on a good-natured anarchy, the other that exalts the virtues of...
Advice For Living With A Writer
“I am a writer, and I lived with a writer, Roger Zelazny, so I know perfectly well that living with a writer is sort...
The Bludgeon Of History — And How It’s Defining Our Politics
Today it is not conservatives but liberals who are most sincerely committed to American history. Yet they too have evolved, perhaps even more dramatically,...
When Graphs And Charts Were A Revolutionary Way To Think
A psychologist and a statistician argue that visual thinking, by revealing what would otherwise remain invisible, has had a profound effect on the way...
Is Paris Supplanting London As The Visual Art Capital?
Part of the recent surge comes down to Brexit jitters. Since the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, industry players speculated...
Listen To A Never-Aired 1979 James Baldwin Interview (And Read Why It Never Aired)
The far-ranging interview was a resounding success... When the reporter inquired about the delay in airing it, ABC reported that it had been scrapped,...
David Brooks: Behold The New American Renaissance
Covid-19 has disrupted daily American life in a way few emergencies have before. But it has also shaken things up and cleared the way...
What Makes A Great Football Anthem?
According to folk singer Martin Carthy, the football chant can be considered one of the last embodiments of the oral folk tradition. - The...
Will The Chinese Government Strip Hong Kong Of Its Colonial Markers?
Ultimately, one wonders what item of Hong Kong’s colonial baggage the next publicity-seeker will attempt to steal away. - The Critic
Anthony Braxton: Still Pushing At The Edges Of Jazz
"A conversation with him can easily pinball from contemporary politics to ancient Egypt. But what he's most eager to talk about now is ZIM...
Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas Speak Up
Life as a pioneer, life in a pandemic: They have been friends for over half a century, and have held each other up through...
Is “Improving” Your Personality A Thing?
Maybe we should all try to become more compassionate or honest or forgiving, but there’s no comparable moral demand for shy people to become...
Mimicking Clubhouse, Spotify Adds Live Audio Chat Function
The Greenroom app lets any user host or participate in live rooms, as well as record live conversations. - Variety
Naples, Florida Tries And Tries, But Just Can’t Settle On Arts Policy And Funding
"Hours devoted to discussing, refining, retooling and rejecting arts policies for Collier County over the last 10 years: Roughly 500 Committee meetings, public forums...
Two Members Of Hollywood Foreign Press Association Quit, Slamming Inaction
"There has been no contrition, no humility, little recognition of our faults, no inspiring leadership. We do not wish to be associated with a...
Actors’ Equity And Producers Settle On COVID Safety Rules For Broadway Tours
"The 17-page agreement says that producers must require all members of the traveling company to be fully vaccinated and mandates free weekly virus tests....
Edinburgh Festivals Warn Of Bankruptcy If COVID Rules Aren’t Changed
"Our festivals, and creatives across the sector, are effectively prohibited from trading our way through to recovery, while hospitality and sports are being supported...
Using Dance To Heal Rape Survivors In Congo
"'I started doing this because of the girls who came to us in a state of silence. They were raped at a young age...
