Yearly Archives: 2021
Behind The Debate On Critical Race Theory
“The debate isn’t about whether there’s been racism; it’s about what racism has meant and what it’s done to America. Is it something that’s...
Carlos Acosta Calls For Ballet That Reflects Now
"I don’t want to keep riding with own Swan Lake or The Nutcracker – that’s fine, I love them, that made my career...
As LA’s Center Theatre Group Director Retires, The Enterprise Needs A Rethink
"The character of Michael Ritchie’s audience has not been shaped in this devout manner. The marketing of hits has replaced more time-consuming forms of...
So Women Can’t Act In ‘Godot’, Eh? Take *This*, Beckett Estate!
In Godot Is a Woman by the theatre company Silent Faces, "three glum, bowler-hatted clowns … are waiting for the Beckett estate to answer...
Tania Leon Wins 2021 Pulitzer for Music
The Pulitzer citation describes Stride as “a musical journey full of surprise, with powerful brass and rhythmic motifs that incorporate Black music traditions from...
Is The Nation-State Still The Best Way To Organize The Globe?
The nation-state is not so old as we are often told, nor has it come to be quite so naturally. Getting this history right...
Gottfried Böhm, The German Expressionist Of Brutalist Architects, Dead At 101
He was one of postwar German's most prominent architects, and had been the country's only living Pritzker Prize winner. "His most revered works resemble...
How English Departments Waned
The old critics used familiar terms of analysis—irony, structure, symbol . . . The new theorists traded in logocentrism, “the Other,” undecidability, “infinite paradigm...
Narendra Modi Launches A Culture War Against Bollywood
" is using powerful tools to curtail the creative freedom of Bollywood — in particular the influence of Muslims, who have an outsize presence...
Goodreads Bug Erases Book Ratings
It’s unknown how many books are affected by the bug. The number of ratings per book lost seem, without any further information, to be...
Planned Film About Jacinda Ardern And Christchurch Mosque Massacre Draws Huge Backlash In New...
The just-announced project They Are Us, to be written and directed by New Zealander Andrew Niccol (writer and co-producer of The Truman Show, writer-director...
Do You Know About Virtual YouTube?
A virtual YouTube is a channel that follows an animated or virtual character instead of a real-life person. These virtual YouTubers (VTubers for short)...
As Marin Alsop Leaves The Baltimore Symphony, Why Aren’t There More Maestras At Top...
"When she took the position in 2007, she was the first female music director of a top-tier American orchestra. She was, it seemed certain...
Conductor Grant Llewellyn, Late Of North Carolina Symphony, Makes His Way Back From A...
Last summer, back home in Wales after completing his 16-year term in Raleigh, he suffered what turned out to be a three-day stroke that...
By The Numbers: Who Are The Bosses At US Ballet Companies And What Are...
" that the position of Artistic Director is held by far more men than women, while the position of Executive Director is much more...
Scottish Government Gives Multi-Million Rescue Package To Edinburgh Festivals
"The Edinburgh festivals have been offered millions of pounds in emergency funding in the face of widespread fears they may never fully recover from...
Kim Jong-Un Is On The Warpath Against K-Pop
The Dear Respected Leader has "called it a 'vicious cancer' corrupting young North Koreans' 'attire, hairstyles, speeches, behaviors.' His state media has warned that...
Two Unknown Artemisia Gentileschi Paintings Have Turned Up In The Wreckage Of A Beirut...
Art historian Gregory Buchakjian did his Master's thesis at the Sorbonne on the art collection of the Sursock Palace, where he identified two unattributed...
Britain Now Has Its First All-Black-Female Shakespeare Troupe
Says actor Gabrielle Brooks, one of four co-founders of the Mawa Theatre Company, "Shakespeare remains a staple of British theatre. He's still the most...
Should Humans Have Empathy For AI Machines?
Empathy, of course, is a two-way street, and we humans don’t exhibit a whole lot more of it for bots than bots do for...
How Toronto’s Royal Conservatory Of Music Survived The Shutdown
With now over 60,000 students having taken online practical and theoretical exams, it became a sink-or-swim moment testing RCM’s ability to keep anxious students...
UK Politicians Are Increasingly Fighting The Culture Wars
As in the US, UK politicians are wading in to debates about statues, history, and the culture that defines the country. - The Guardian
Beating The Pandemic: Science Sure, But The Arts Had A Big Role
Provincial governments and public-health authorities have, understandably, been focused on science getting us out of this – but, less understandably, they’ve neglected allowing (never...
Federal “Save Our Stages” Aid Is Tied Up And Not Getting To The Arts
This stunning state of affairs stands in bold contrast to the initial PPP and the more recent restaurant relief funds, which were on their...
The Truck Is One Of India’s Great Art Media
"Most drivers are on the road for weeks, sometimes months at a stretch, living a nomadic life and often sleeping and eating in their...
