Yearly Archives: 2021
The Case For Banning The Unvaccinated From Theatres
If universities, such as Yale, Stanford and UCLA, are planning to require returning students to be fully vaccinated, why can’t performing arts venues do...
How Tourism Is Killing Our Favorite Cities
While the number of visitors remains below the threshold, tourists use services and provisions designed for residents. Once this threshold is crossed, however, residents...
How Glyndebourne Didn’t Miss A Step
Throughout the pandemic Glyndebourne has been notably agile, putting on outdoor performances last summer and leading the brief UK return to theatres in the...
Study: BIPOC Arts Workers In LA Earn 35 Percent Less
On average, entry-level arts administrators in Los Angeles County earn $36,847 annually—a figure that’s higher than the $31,200 minimum wage in the area, but...
Amazon Makes Deal To Lend Books Through The Digital Public Library of America
The deal represents a major step forward for the digital library market. Not only is Amazon Publishing finally making its digital content available to...
Why People Hate The Sound Of Their Own Voices
The discomfort we have over hearing our voices in audio recordings is probably due to a mix of physiology and psychology. For one, the...
A Years-Long Argument Over Conceptual Art, Capitalism, Classism, And Stir-Fried Noodles
Art critic Enid Tsui looks at the perennial controversy over Rirkrit Tiravanija's performance piece untitled (pad thai), in which the artist creates a "micro-utopia"...
Record man Koester’s blues and jazz legacy
Chicagoan Bob Koester, proprietor of the Jazz Record Mart and Delmark Records for nearly 70 years, is a model of music activism and entrepreneurship...
Still Burning: The Condition of Burnout
To be burned out is to be used up, like a battery so depleted that it can’t be recharged. In people, unlike batteries, it...
Veiled Threats: A New Sitcom About An All-Female Muslim Punk Band (?)
In We Are Lady Parts, "the stakes are high: can an extra guitarist give Lady Parts the edge they need to get out of...
Critic And Comic: Sarah Silverman And AO Scott Talk About A Provocative Review
"This sounds corny, but that’s what I love about art, especially comedy. It’s not evergreen. It changes so much every time you return to...
The Hidden Treasures Of The St. Louis Central Library
"First editions of Palladio and Alberti as well as 16th century printings of Vitruvius — oh, and first editions of Piranesi etchings that once...
Inside One Texas Museum’s Controversial COVID Response
Early on, positive press rolled in for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, focusing on the MFAH’s safety precautions for guests, who would be...
If You’re Incorporating ASL In Your Play, Please, Please Don’t Do These Things
Brian Cheslik, theatre teacher at the Texas School for the Deaf: "Please know that I am writing this from a place of love and...
Garth Drabinsky — Back On Broadway
"The show is produced by Garth H. Drabinsky, the Tony-winning producer behind Kiss of the Spider Woman, who was sentenced to seven years in...
Seeing How Musical Instruments Actually Get Made
"The process of making musical instrument is generally out of the public eye, and there's often a mystique about how those particular tools-of-the-trade are...
A Sci-Fi ‘Rite Of Spring’ Set In The Arctic
Choreographer Andrea Schermoly, who created this wintry take on Stravinsky's modernist classic for Louisville Ballet's online "Season of Illumination": "I'd seen a short film...
Art Gensler, Who Founded World’s Largest Architectural Firm, Dead At 85
"Over the decades, Gensler's firm has designed universities, hotels, sports stadia and universities, touching almost every part of the built environment. It has created...
Asking The Museums That Have Benin Bronzes About Repatriation
"The contentious objects, known to have been looted from the Benin Royal Palace in 1897, are scattered across some of the most prominent museums...
The Amenities This Developer Is Adding To Apartment Buildings Are Theaters And Gallery Spaces
Mind you, this isn't just any old real estate mogul: it's Dasha Zhukova, the collector who founded the popular Garage Museum Of Contemporary Art...
At Last, Bourse de Commerce—Pinault Collection Opens In Paris
"The reopening of Paris museums this week finally gives billionaire tycoon François Pinault the chance to showcase his vast contemporary art collection in the...
Actor Charles Grodin, 86
" made his mark in both comedy and drama, onstage and on screen and as a writer and director. He often adopted a quirky...
Why Do Canadians Like American TV More Than Canadian?
How do you get Canadians to care about the homegrown equivalent of the Emmys or Oscars when they seem more interested in American content?...
How TV/Movie Costumes Shape Our Perceptions Of Royalty
In film and TV dramatisations of familiar royal tales, the audience is presented with a romanticised and glamorised vision of royal history. Sumptuous silks...
What The Pandemic Has Cost The Arts
"There is another thing the rest of us, the audience, do not fully appreciate: the crisis is rooted in the destruction that was visited...
