Yearly Archives: 2021
The Musical That Changed Broadway 100 Years Ago
Not only did Shuffle Along bring jazz to Broadway, it was the first African American show to be a smash hit. Its composer Eubie...
Media Companies Are Consolidating Again. Sound Familiar?
For decades before the internet, TV was dominated by the Big Three: CBS, ABC, and NBC. Movies were probably brought to you by Paramount,...
Colleges Give Record Average 59 Percent Discount On Tuition This Year
The average discount rate for first-time undergraduates reached 53.9 percent -- an all-time high -- during the 2020-21 academic year, according to NACUBO’s preliminary...
COVID Protocols In Place, Canada’s Movie, TV Production Is Busier Than Ever
Canada's film industry has managed to continue through the pandemic, in many cases as busy — or more — than before global industry shutdowns. In...
How The Crowd Amplifies And Defines Art
Until last year, the crowd was the trademark of the city. All through the day and night, people shoaled together, hurrying through streets, dawdling...
How James Bond Complicates Amazon’s $9 Billion Bid To Buy MGM
Other companies have kicked the tires on MGM at various points during a stop-and-start sales process that has been dragging on for months. Industry...
Why Conservatives Are Afraid Of The 1619 Project
For the past five years, conservatives have been howling about the alleged censoriousness of the American left, in particular on college campuses. But the...
Climate Change Is Erasing The World’s Oldest Art
Flowing water deposits minerals in the void spaces beneath the mineralized outer crust, and some of those minerals crystallize into mineral salts. As those...
Are Christie’s Warhol NFTs Fake?
Christie’s is collaborating with the Andy Warhol Foundation to stage an NFT sale comprising little-known digital art works from the Pop master’s archive. After the...
What’s The Thinking Between The UK’s Proposed Cuts In Arts Education?
The government’s recent proposal to cut funding for arts higher education by 50%, covering music, dance, drama and performing arts, art and design, media...
AI Will Win, Of Course. The Question Is How Humans Will Adapt
"There is going to be massive disruption. The technology is developing very rapidly, possibly exponentially. But people are linear. When linear people are faced...
A Theory Of Our Identities As Our Networked Selves
Some philosophers have pushed against such reductive approaches and argued for a framework that recognises the complexity and multidimensionality of persons. The network self...
San Francisco’s Guaranteed Income For Artists Program Gets A Financial Boost From Twitter Founder...
StartSmall’s gift will extend the pilot, administered by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in partnership with Mayor London Breed, in two ways. The...
Indie Producers Form First New Hollywood Union In Decades
More than 100 indie feature filmmakers have unanimously ratified its constitution, and more than 300 have signed letters of intent to join. - Deadline
Instagram Is Full Of Perfect Ballet Bodies, But TikTok Offers More Fun And A...
Dancer Jennifer McCloskey first realized her medium was TikTok in 2020, during the shutdown. "On her feed, McCloskey seamlessly blends comedy, criticism of ballet...
That Viral Band The Linda Lindas Gets A Record Contract
The girls went absolutely viral for a video of their performance at the Los Angeles Public Library, especially a clip with their song "Racist...
Former Moonlighting Showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron’s Time At CBS Ends After An Investigation
After multiple writers left the show following season five, the show investigated. The writers - who all refused to be named out of fear...
Kathleen Andrews, The Woman Who Helped Bring Us Ziggy, Cathy, And Doonesbury, 84
Kathy Andrews and her husband Jim, "with his best friend, John P. McMeel, concocted a newspaper syndication company from the basement of the Andrewses’...
Michael Morgan Talks about Developing Young Conductors
The Music Director of the Oakland Symphony speaks about innovation and helping train promising young candidates for the podium. - Aaron Dworkin
Adapting A Bestselling Historical Novel For The Stage During A Global Pandemic Isn’t Easy
But, of course, Hilary Mantel isn't really into easy. She and actor Ben Miles had to figure out their newest Thomas Cromwell adaptation: "You...
Don’t Count Print Newspapers Out Yet
Well, not quite yet, anyway. "When futurologist Ross Dawson published his 'newspaper extinction timeline' in 2010, he predicted that newspapers would cease to exist in the...
Should We Call Great Women Artists By Their First Names?
Maybe. It depends entirely on the scholarship, and the artist. And then there's research: "The same artist with different names can be confusing even...
A Japanese Composer, A Burkina Faso Storyteller, And A Congolese Rapper Make Opera
Composer Keiko Fujiie, who moved to Burkina Faso and built a house where the musicians can practice without annoying their neighbors, hopes to tour...
When An Actor Agrees To Take A Subject’s Secrets To The Grave
Actor Diego Boneta could only play famously secretive musician Luis Miguel for Netflix after studying the musician for years - and hiring both an...
Librarian Ruth Freitag, Who Helped Isaac Asimov And Carl Sagan With Research, 96
Freitag, "a reference librarian at the Library of Congress for nearly a half-century, was unknown to the general public. But she was, in more...
