Yearly Archives: 2021
This Year’s Kennedy Center Honors Are A Breath Of Fresh Air
The five honorees said that the six-month delay, and the loss of so many performance opportunities and spaces during the pandemic, made this weeklong...
How Jane Rogers Took On Britain’s Very Male Literary Establishment In The 80s
Rogers: "When I started work on Mr Wroe’s Virgins I was 35. I was wildly ambitious, and had a chip on my shoulder. Faber had published...
Please Stop The Streaming Wars
It may be time to just quit everything. "My eyeballs are considering taking themselves off the market entirely. They’re sick of being courted, coaxed...
How Colonial Williamsburg Is Producing Progressive Theatre
The truth is, enslaved people formed the majority of the town's population at the time depicted at the site. New interpreters and an urgency...
And Now Tattoos Will Be Sold As NFTs
But the owners won't need to get tatted in real life. "In this new marketplace, customers will be buying the exclusive rights to the...
Movie Theatres Are Begging Audiences To Return
Apparently, 70 percent of the moviegoing public - which is, let's note, far higher than the percentage of fully vaccinated people in the U.S....
An Israeli Airstrike Has Destroyed Gaza’s Largest Bookstore
"The beloved Samir Mansour Bookshop was destroyed on Tuesday by an Israeli airstrike. The shop, which was established in 2008, had thousands of books, including the largest...
Italy Wins EuroVision
Congrats to Italy's Måneskin. But yikes to the UK (which, technically, is no longer in Europe anyway?). "The UK's James Newman came last, getting...
What Might Opera Look Like In A Post-Pandemic World?
Let the Long Beach Opera show you. "Guests have the choice of watching this production “tailgate-style” or from inside their automobiles. The action occurs...
Show Our Arts Orgs The Money, Please
U.S. arts organizations are still waiting for that cultural institution money to flow. "Business owners are wary of the promise after weeks of delay...
How A Book Gets Adapted For A Movie
It's not always obvious or a direct line. Start with a good story. Characters that lift off the page. And then it gets complicated....
Want To Sponsor Artwork In The Notre Dame Restoration?
The organization Friends of Notre Dame de Paris is letting the public donate directly to sponsor some of the cathedral’s individual artifacts. To date, 10 artworks have been...
A Film That Takes Us Inside The Met Museum In A Difficult Year
"The film puts us on remarkably intimate terms with the gargantuan organism that is the Met and the many tasks that keep it running....
Dysfunctional DC Arts Commission To Get A New Leader
If approved by the D.C. Council, Reginald Van Lee will lead an 18-member board that critics describe as dysfunctional, toxic and beset by cronyism...
Do Away With Classics Because They’re Imperialist?
"As the field’s most famous practitioner, and a dedicated anti-racist and feminist, Mary Beard takes a middle position: she believes neither that classics deserves...
How The AI That’s Supposed To Revolutionize Dubbing Foreign Films Actually Works
"The technology is related to deepfaking, which uses AI to paste one person's face onto someone else. … It involves capturing the facial expressions...
The Pitfalls Of Public Philosophers
"We urbanites, who dwell in the medium of public political discussion, also live in the element of opinion. Leo Strauss loved to intimate that...
Meet The Grand Old Man Of Kathakali
Kalamandalam Gopi, who's about to turn 84, has been studying and performing the dance-drama form from the Indian state of Kerala for 70 years,...
Why Are Telecom Companies So Bad At Media?
"Joseph Epstein once wrote that “Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.” He must have been talking about the...
‘This American Wife’: When Yale Drama Grads Take On The ‘Real Housewives’ Franchise
"This project takes formal cues from lensed images. It's styled as an episode of Real Housewives run amok, and the team cites French surrealist...
Claim: Virtual Reality Is Where The Internet Was 20 Years Ago
With VR evolving at its current rate, movie nights or game nights could eventually turn into cyber nights, a new norm for those under...
Sometimes The Best Way To Preserve Ancient Mosaics Is To Rebury Them
" an art form that is usually in good condition when first discovered because floors are the first area to be naturally buried over...
Gavin Larsen: The Everyday Ballerina
"I danced some fabulous ballets and fabulous roles. And yet there’s hundreds more like me — thousands maybe. We might be exceptional in one...
Sex Scenes On Screen Aren’t Disappearing. In Fact, They’re Getting Better.
"Today's sex scenes are first and foremost fun — as ideally sex itself should be — and emphasize the truthful over the tasteful. In...
‘The French Author Is No Longer Just The White Man Over 50’; The Gallic...
"Major publishers have created special collections to promote first-time authors and ethnic minorities while new publishing houses are opening the field to a larger...
