Yearly Archives: 2021
Author Naomi Wolf Spreads So Many Anti-Vaccine Myths That She’s Banned From Twitter
One might even call them all lies. "The author variously claimed that vaccines were a 'software platform that can receive uploads' and that 'the...
A Choreographer Learns To Rest, To Improvise, And To Feel Joy
During what we might call "the long 2020," choreographer Kyle Marshall experienced quite a bit of change. "In this next step of his career,...
The Moomintrolls’ Essence Came From Tove Jansson’s Island
Author and illustrator Jansson found her dream island when she was in her '50s. "Klovharun in the Finnish archipelago is tiny – some 6,000...
The Creator Economy Owes A Lot To Gaming Site Twitch
When Twitch entered the picture 10 years ago, most creators - writers, artists, makers, eaters of food on YouTube - weren't yet earning...
Conductor And Soundmaker Yoshi Wada, Of Fluxus Art Collective, Has Died At 77
Wada wrote and performed music that "was characterized by dense, sustained sounds that could create mind-bending acoustic effects. He borrowed widely from different musical...
The BAFTA TV Awards Didn’t Pick Faves This Year
Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You did win two awards - best mini-series and leading actress, which Coel dedicated to the production's intimacy director:...
Pose Showed How To Tell Great Trans Stories
The show, whose third season, and run, ended on Sunday night, was set at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the gay and...
The Motion Picture Museum’s Timing Was Unlucky – And Very Lucky
Though the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's new L.A. museum was delayed, and delayed and delayed again - the last delay coming...
Jeanette Winterson Is Literally Burning Her Own Books
Happy Pride Month! Um: The author of the groundbreaking Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and many other experimental, daring works wrote on Twitter,...
How Academic Freedom Ends
Just look to Hong Kong, where by the time a group of University of Hong Kong academics gathered in a town hall meeting in...
Publishing Is So Easy To Spoof
Or so says Zakiya Dalila Harris, the author of The Other Black Girl. The book is a combined thriller and social satire that was...
Why ‘In The Heights’ Took So Long To Become A Movie
The movie has been in development since 2008. "The project stalled for many years between different directors and studios, because executives wanted more well-known...
How Lin-Manuel Miranda And Friends Made The Drama Book Shop New
From the 140-foot long sculpture of scripts and songbooks to replicas of armchairs from Hamilton, the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan will be reborn...
The Silencing Of America’s Most Distressed Areas
The newspaper crisis - and be assured, for small, local places, it is a crisis - means that areas where people need the most...
A Return To Movie Theatres, Or Not, Summer Watchlist
Choose your own adventure - couch or theatre? Crowded or distanced? Popcorn or not? (That's a trick question: Always get the popcorn.) - The...
Can We Ever Trust A Recorded Image Again?
A new documentary "focuses on surveillance and the cop-worn body-cam in specific as key topics, exploring the headquarters of the Taser, drone and camera...
Sophie Rivera, Photographer Of Puerto Rican New York, 82
Rivera began by asking her neighbors to be her subjects. "The images she made were majestic four-by-four-foot prints of everyday New Yorkers of all ages. They...
Check Your Local Little Free Art Gallery If You’re In Need Of Visual Stimulation
One artist says little free art galleries stir "feelings of 'cute aggression,' a term that describes the way our minds cope with the onslaught...
What Novelists Can Learn From The Marvel Comics Universe
Sounds ridiculous, right? What do literary novels have in common with Avengers or WandaVision? Benjamin Percy says his Comet Cycle came about because...
Frederike Mayrocker, Grande Dame Of German Language Poets, 96
Mayröcker, an Austrian, earned acclaim as a formally inventive poet, but her writing "ranged far more widely, producing an immense body of work that...
Art Basel Will Take Place In September
A successful Hong Kong venture means Switzerland gets its fair (with new safety protocols, no surprise). - Artnet
John Boyega Exits Netflix Production Mid-Filming
Production is paused for the role in Rebel Ridge to be recast and reshot. The Small Axe star left for family reasons, he said...
Bach, But Make It Upside Down
Another creative moment borne from boredom during the pandemic: "Dan Tepfer plays the first of Bach's "Goldberg" Variations. The piano is a Disklavier, which can...
The National Black Theater Makes A High-Rise Decision
The National Black Theater is trading up - and up. It will replace its current building with a 21-story high-rise, where the theatre can...
Escaping The ‘Teen On Disney’ Trap
Olivia Rodrigo has figured out something that few have before her. There's" a shift within the Disney sphere, which has apparently evolved enough to...
