Yearly Archives: 2021
A New Era In Our Relationship With “Non-Human” Things
For the first time, Timothy Morton wrote, we had become aware that “nonhuman beings” were “responsible for the next moment of human history and...
How Did We Finally Get To A Consensus On Repatriating The Benin Bronzes? (A...
"To better understand this critical turning point, Artnet News brought together three key figures for a conversation about the restitution of the Benin bronzes:...
Santa Fe’s Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Announces Big Expansion
The museum owns the former Safeway building, where its Education Center is located; the 1870s Bergere House, where museum administrative offices as well as...
Alvin Ailey ADT In The Age Of BLM: Artistic Director Robert Battle
"The foundation is the experiences of African Americans in this country — and knowing that is not monolithic. Within the diversity in African American...
Yemen’s War Is Erasing Its Past
Yemen's museums, the richest in the Arabian peninsula, are a reminder of the toll that war has taken on the country's cultural heritage, often...
Graeme Ferguson, Co-Inventor Of IMAX, Dead At 91
After he and his brother-in-law, Roman Kroitor, created documentaries for Expo 67 in Montreal that used multiple screens and projectors, they decided to invent...
Rethinking The Orchestra Business
The Symphony’s shift to a customer-centric approach is also reflected in their departure from sending the industry standard “killer offer” coupons to first-time audiences...
TV’s Tricky Question: To Include COVID In Storylines Or Not?
"It was an issue, if not the big issue, that writers across Hollywood had to face: how to plan a season amid an evolving...
‘Come To The Theatre And Arrest Us’: Andrew Lloyd Webber Says He’ll Reopen His...
In response to news that Boris Johnson's government is considering postponing the full reopening of performance venues scheduled for June 21, the musical theatre...
Staffers At ‘The New Yorker’ Threaten Strike, Picket Anna Wintour’s House
The magazine's salaried employees formed a union three years ago and have been negotiating for higher pay (at a publication known for low wages)...
New York City Mayoral Race: What The Candidates Have To Say About The Arts
"As the June 22 primary draws near, we rounded up the top six contenders" — in alphabetical order, Eric Adams, Kathryn Garcia, Dianne Morales,...
New York’s $25 Million City Artist Corps: Here, At Last, Are The Details
"Just over a month ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that as part of NYC's post-pandemic recovery, the city will be investing $25 million...
Kirill Serebrennikov Barred From Leaving Russia To Attend Cannes Festival
The award-winning, beleaguered dissident — famous recently for his dance and opera productions — is also a filmmaker, and he has a new title,...
Where That Hudson River School Painting Sold By The Newark Museum Will End Up
Thomas Cole's Arch of Nero wound up being one of the symbols of the ongoing argument about US museums' deaccessioning of artworks in order...
This Is How Easy It Is To Troll Book Folk
What’s important to note about these hoaxes is that they are absolutely terrible—totally artless, not believable at all, only really a “fool me once”...
Kate Winslet: A Huge Increase In Roles For Women My Age
"I do feel proud that as a woman in the film industry in her mid-40s, having been doing this job since I was 17,...
Are Board Members Of UK Cultural Institutions Being Punished For Disagreeing With The Government?
The science author and historian Sarah Dry withdrew as a trustee of the Science Museum Group in March after she was asked to support...
Should You Become An Art Critic? Take This Test!
"Your ability to express what you see in an artwork, to explain why it is good, and to examine the ways in which it...
Venice Cruise Ship Ban Ends — Ships Return To The Lagoon
Residents were caught by surprise on Thursday when a cruise liner sailed into the lagoon city for the first time since the pandemic began,...
Uncertain But Hopeful, Carnegie Hall Announces Reopening Plans
"The upcoming season will be more modest than usual: about 90 concerts, compared with a typical slate of 150, though more may be added...
Mehretu’s To-Do, “Day’s End” & Diller-Dally: Inside & Outside the Reopened Whitney
As CultureGrrl readers will remember, my first post-pandemic visit to a museum — the Metropolitan — did not end well. Happily, things went more...
AI Is All Around Us Now. But Is It?
"In the past, statistical analysis at this scale was limited by the complexity of the task and the lack of mathematical and computational tools....
Queering ‘Giselle’
Katy Pyle and her company, Ballez, have a new work called Giselle of Loneliness (click here if you don't get the reference) "that grapples...
The Scholar Who Proved Homer Didn’t Exist
The Iliad and the Odyssey weren’t written by Homer, because they weren’t written at all. They were products of an oral tradition, performed by...
How Podcasts Became Substitutes For Friends During The Lockdown
"The number of podcasts … ballooned, filling voids in the professional lives of the hosts and the social lives of the listeners, and in...
