Yearly Archives: 2021
Artists Protest Plans To Raze Major Art Institutions In Delhi
A massive government redevelopment plan - funded and touted by Prime Minister Narenda Modi - will demand "the demolition and relocation of iconic Indian...
Apple Wants To Upend Podcasts The Way It Did Music Downloads
The company - which was one of the first to jump on the podcasting train, providing podcast sourcing through iTunes in 2005 - is...
Theatre Has Long Been Fatphobic, And Actors Are Speaking Out
An errant sentence in a New York Times article (since reworded) led to a lot of participation from actors via social media. They're fed...
Writers Know All Too Well The Other American Epidemic
And it was one exacerbated by the virus - loneliness. - The New York Times
During Covid, Geology Students Still Did Fieldwork – Via Video Game
Two geology professors built a 3D replica of Sardinia, and it worked so well (including providing a vital connection for lonely, isolated students to...
The History Of The Hollywood Foreign Press Association And Black Movie Critics
It's not great, as we all know. Here's the detailed story of Samantha Ofole-Prince, who was invited in 2013 to become a member, sponsored...
Novelist Brit Bennett Is Considering What To Think About Next
Her newest book is a deliberate picture of how America wasn't ever really great at all for quite a few people. And what's she...
Bob Koester, Of Delmark Records And Chicago’s Jazz Record Mart, 88
Koester funded his recording company by selling jazz and blues records at his store. He "was a pivotal figure in Chicago and beyond, releasing...
Masks And Other PPE Won’t Leave Movie Sets Anytime Soon
The one thing movie crew members - at least the vaccinated ones - can give up is face shields. One guild member says, "As...
Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad Is Different From Other Slavery Stories
Some of the show, though it does depict the violence of enslavement and other forms of anti-Black oppression, draws on an almost spiritual connection...
It’s Actually Good For Ellen – And Us – That Her Show Is Ending
Though she handled the end of the talk show far worse than anyone thought she could, even given the circumstances, she had to get...
We Need Unconventional Art Now More Than Ever
After 15 months of COVID-19 restrictions, deaths, infections, fear, and all kinds of life challenges, we must have more public art. "It does a...
The 90-Day Theatrical Window For Movies Is Fully Dead
Thanks, Disney: "After months of teetering precariously on the precipice, the final blow came on Thursday following Disney’s announcement that Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of...
How Spotify’s Podcast Dance Around Music Copyright Constraints
Basically, it owns both: Some shows use "a hybrid format, which Spotify calls 'shows with music' or 'music and talk, that allows creators to incorporate...
The Brontes Probably Died Young Because Of Their Water
It came from a graveyard. Or maybe some public privies. In any case, the water was very, very bad. - LitHub
Behind The Scenes At The Reopening Of The Hollywood Bowl
"If reopening the Bowl is like riding a bike," the L.A. Phil president and CEO says, "the organization has swapped out a Tour de...
A Dancer Who Connects A History Of Dance Through Her Body
"To watch her dance, especially to jazz music, is to watch historical distance collapse. Steps and attitudes separated by eras flow through her improvising...
Time To Do Away With The Idea Of The Artist As Transgressor?
"Abusers are often shielded not only by this “myth of authenticity,” but by another myth, which pervades all the performing arts, and indeed all...
Longtime Curtis Institute Dean Robert Fitzpatrick, 75
Mr. Fitzpatrick served as dean at Curtis from 1986 to 2009 and was dean of students and executive assistant to the director from 1980...
At 50 Pianist Lars Vogt Was Diagnosed With Cancer. Here’s What He’s Learned
For sure, in classical music, we have internalized particularly strongly an ideal image of ourselves—which we think we need to communicate to others— as...
Paul Meecham Named Executive Director Of The Tucson Symphony
Paul Meecham comes to the job after leading the Utah Symphony & Opera for three years and a 10-year run as CEO of the...
Increasingly — Vaccination Has Its Privilege
Come summer, the nation may become increasingly bifurcated between those who are permitted to watch sports, take classes, get their hair cut and eat...
Revisiting TikTok Before It Was TikTok, A Long, Long Time Ago
"From 2014 to 2018, the Chinese app Musical.ly was where kids — as in, literal children and very young teenagers — would lip-sync to...
Research: Livestreaming Has Become A Vital Connection
“Our research has highlighted how important it is for audience members to be able to communicate with, and feel connected to, each other and...
Analyzing The 17-Year Cicadas’ ‘Grand Magic Insect Symphony’ — And Joining In
"Only the males can vibrate a section of their abdomen called the tymbals to make either phaaaaaroah drone sounds or chchchchhwhhhs noise waves, depending...
