Yearly Archives: 2021
Mellon Foundation Is Giving $125 Million In Recovery Funding To Artists And Small Orgs...
" which has also received contributions from the Ford Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, will provide up to 2,400 artists with a no-strings-attached...
If US Orchestras Want More Diverse Conductors, They Have A Source Of Them Very...
Zachary Woolfe: "There are more of them than ever, and they go by a variety of titles: assistant, associate, fellow, resident. Almost every major...
Hong Kong’s State Broadcaster Forbidden To Report Political News
"'We were informed that no political story is allowed,' says Emily*, an RTHK employee who, along with others interviewed for this article, asked for...
Confusion And Upheaval At New Zealand Opera As One-Third Of Board Resigns
Three members of the national company's governing body (reportedly the three with the most experience with and connections within the industry) stepped down in...
Carolyn North, Still Dancing At 83
In her life, North, "the Bay Area-based dance therapist, writer, and flutist, has talked her way into a summer dance intensive camp, having had...
Women’s Interests In Gaming May Finally Become Mainstream
Billions of dollars are on the table for an industry that has historically been not just hostile but actively damaging to girls and women...
Supply Chain Shortages Are Costing Hollywood A Bundle
Constructing sets has become wildly more expensive: "A sheet of plywood was $20 or $30 in recent years but is now roughly three times...
How Memory Works
Precise stimulation may be able to retrieve vanished memories from where they're encoded - and create fake memories as well. - LitHub
Tenor Russell Thomas ‘Plays’ It Forward
Thomas, named artist in residence at the Los Angeles Opera and about to star in the new LAO COVID-safe performance of Oedipus Rex, says...
Luis Biasotto, Argentine Dancer And Choreographer, Dies Of COVID At 49
Biasotto was the co-founder of Grupo Krapp with his longtime artistic partner, Luciana Acuña, who wrote, "Luis moved comfortably in the abyss. The emptiness,...
When Xerox And ‘101 Dalmatians’ Saved Disney’s Animation Studio
Up through Disney's previous animated feature, Sleeping Beauty, each cell in a film had to be traced and copied by hand, often more than...
Artful Manager: The Book
I’m thrilled to announce the publication of The Artful Manager: Field Notes on the Business of Arts and Culture in paperback and eBook formats....
Millennials Are Killing Off The Philly Accent
"Linguists trace this shift to Philadelphia's elite schools. Any way of speaking that falls outside the norm is viewed negatively in certain settings, so...
Broadway Theatre Owner Cited In Stagehand’s Death
The citations from the federal government's Occupational Safety and Health Administration were issued to the Shubert Organization for the Winter Garden Theater "six months...
Queering Flamenco (Which Could Really Use It)
"When the journalist and filmmaker Ana González was growing up near Madrid, in the nineteen-nineties, flamenco seemed both ubiquitous and retrograde. For González, this...
The Complicated Legacy Of Betty Crocker
This single cookbook defined American womanhood, but there were a few issues. For one thing, Betty Crocker wasn't a person. - LitHub
Some Performance Venues Are Having Way Too Hard A Time Getting Federal Relief Money
"As the emails finally started arriving late last week, some business owners got the good news they had been long awaiting: They would be...
Investment Funds Are Obsessed With Old Rock And Pop Songs – Why?
It's not because they'll live forever; think of the precipitous decline of Elvis' music and memorabilia. It's because they're hot right now and for...
George Beasley, Dead At 89, Built A US Radio Empire
He started in 1961 with one AM station, which he ran while working as a high school principal, in small-town North Carolina. Sixty years...
Now Netflix Wants To Move Into Video Games
" has been approaching senior game industry executives about joining it to lead the creation of a subscription games service, according to reports. …...
‘Why Should The Best Show People Somehow Keep Making The Dullest, Tackiest Hodgepodge Of...
"Even when not being manipulated by moneybags, the awards have regularly represented Broadway as a neurotic mess: defensive about its marginality, embarrassed by its...
As Pandemic Lifts, US Museums Are In Less Dire Shape Than Feared
"A year ago, the outlook for U.S. museums appeared grim: a July 2020 survey conducted by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) found that...
JoAnn Falletta’s Successor At Virginia Symphony Is Eric Jacobsen Of The Knights And Brooklyn...
The 38-year-old conductor and cellist is also music director of the Orlando Philharmonic and the Greater Bridgeport (Ct.) Symphony, but he's best known in...
Dan Frank, Brave And Influential Chief Editor Of Pantheon Books, Dead At 67
He shepherded the work of a remarkable group of authors ranging from Cormac McCarthy to Jill Lepore to Oliver Sacks and beyond. Perhaps his...
International Booker Prize Goes To David Diop’s ‘At Night All Blood Is Black’
"Diop, the author of two novels, and his translator Anna Moschovakis, split the £50,000 annual prize, which goes to the best author and translator...
