Yearly Archives: 2021
What Our Comparisons Of Humans To Animals Say About Us
Calling a person an animal is usually a comment on their unrestrained appetites, especially for food (‘like a hungry animal’), for sex (‘they went...
Jazz Trombone Great Curtis Fuller Dead At 88
"Mr. Fuller was among the dozens of musicians to emerge from the fertile mid-century jazz scene of Detroit, where he learned to play intricate,...
Interpol Debuts A New App To Track Stolen Art
Last week, the global crime-fighting group debuted a new app that aims to make the process of identifying and reporting stolen works as simple...
Nobel Committee Was Nervous About Giving Prize To Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fifty years on (as is the rule), documents on the deliberations for the 1970 prize have just been made public, and some committee members...
Archaeologists Object To Plans For New Floor For The Colosseum
Experts including Rossella Rea, the former director of the Colosseum, have raised concerns about the project’s €15m ($18.2) price tag, and claimed that the...
San Diego Symphony Has A New $85 Million Outdoor Venue
The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, located on the downtown waterfront, seats up to 10,000 people and (because it's San Diego and they can)...
NPR Is Starting To Put Its Most Popular Podcasts On Traditional Radio
The traffic started out the other way, of course, with over-the-air programs being released as or adapted into podcasts. "But podcasting has turned into...
Hollywood Is Now Producing Companion Podcasts To Movies And TV Series
Why? Money, of course: to put it in business-speak, the companion podcast "offers a new way for creators to diversify IP assets." What's the...
‘There’s Something Going On’ — Who Will Really Be Running LA’s MOCA?
"As the Museum of Contemporary Art prepares to reopen after a historic pandemic closure, it finds itself in the midst of restructuring, moving director...
As Broadway Prepares To Reopen, Here’s How It Will (And Won’t) Be Operating Differently
"Ticket-buyers are being told they will be required to wear face masks (although it's not clear how changing advice from the Centers for Disease...
Bayreuth Festival: Christian Thielemann May Have Lost His Other Job, Too
At the beginning of this week it was announced that the conductor (who was, when he was younger, hailed as a new Herbert von...
St. Paul’s Cathedral In London Is Running Out Of Cash And Could Close
With the pandemic having cut off the revenue from tourist admissions, the landmark's income is down by 90%. The engineer in charge of maintenance...
Tech Versus Big Journalism
A war is on between the tech titans and a relentless generation of largely digital-native reporters looking to speak truth to power while racking...
SAG/AFTRA Sign First Agreement On Social Media Influencers (What Does That Mean?)
The Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists' national board voted to adopt its first-ever agreement for influencers—personalities and performers paid to...
Nicholas Kenyon’s New History Of Western Music
The book’s subtitle, New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition, makes its soft boundaries clear. As managing director of London’s Barbican Centre, and former...
Companies Are Struggling To Become Data-Driven. The Toughest Part? Culture
The goal is to "invite people who have not been thinking about this topic to really think about it in their day-to-day work. It...
Inside The Art NFT Boom
No one quite agrees on what this gold rush means. If you ask hard-core champions of Bitcoin — the often-libertarian “crypto natives,” as they...
The Sounds Of Japan’s Ancient Music, Recorded More Than A Century Ago
"Let's set the scene. It's February 28, 1903, and 12 musicians from the Imperial Household Orchestra are seated in front of a gramophone horn...
Do we know how changing prices affects the income-diversity of audiences?
Real care has to be taken with comparing data on prices and audience characteristics, because the prices were set in the first place as...
How A Dallas Choir Made $375,000 With An NFT “Crypto Music”
“2020 had all been about crypto art. We believe that Betty’s Notebook is the birth of crypto music. It makes music truly ‘crypto native’,”...
A New York Times Critic Sees His First Play Since COVID — In The...
Jose Solís: "Theater in my hometown? 'A lot has changed since you've been gone,' said Inma López, a producer and ensemble member at Casa...
A Bitter New Orleans Graffiti War Over… Dan Marino?
To outsiders, street painters of all sorts might seem to be natural allies. But that’s not always the case. Rivalries and territorialism are always...
What Goodreads Has Done To My Reading, And Why I’m Giving It Up
"Quantifying, dissecting and broadcasting our most-loved hobbies sucks the joy out of them. I find myself glancing towards the corner of the page to...
A Multi-Million-Dollar Trade In Fake Native American Art
We’re talking about everything from Navajo turquoise and silver to Zuni inlay. It’s a huge tourist draw and one of New Mexico’s most important...
Dancer StuartHodes @96 – How To Dance Through Life
"I think anything that you do with every particle of yourself can be wonderful, and it can make you forget the world. It’s magic....
