Yearly Archives: 2021
Chicago’s Goodman Theatre Prepares To Live-Stream From Its Stage
"'The whole process here is to recreate the experience for the audience,' said Falls. 'The audience chooses which performance they want to see,...
Can Los Angeles Re-Establish Itself As A Cultural Capital Post-Pandemic?
"In many ways the challenges here are more intense and complex, in no small part because the virus hit at a time when so...
Benin Bronzes Are Still Being Made Today (Who Knew?)
In Benin City, in what was historically the metalworkers' quarter on and around Igun Street, skilled artists continue to make figures with the traditional...
In Egypt, 250 Ancient Tombs Discovered, Some More Than 4,000 Years Old
The burial places, all cut into rock, were found by accident in one part of a larger necropolis in Upper Egypt. Some date back...
Metropolitan Opera Returns To Stage (But Not Its Own) For First Time Since COVID...
"Members of the company's orchestra and chorus, joined by prominent soloists and led by its music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will give two concerts at...
Phylicia Rashad Named Dean Of Howard University’s New College Of Fine Arts
The award-winning actor, herself a Howard alumna, will be the first dean of the re-established college. The nation's leading historically Black university folded its...
Ex-English National Ballet Principal Convicted Of Sexually Assaulting Students
"Yat-Sen Chang attacked girls and women at the English National Ballet and Young Dancers Academy in London between December 2009 and March 2016. The...
Why Is Contemporary Architecture So Awful?
Perhaps it is that architects speak in a special language, and what looks to me like an arbitrary and ugly assortment of random stark...
Disney+ Isn’t Using Show-runners For Its Shows. A New TV Model?
Effectively, the studio is making its TV shows as if they were roughly six-hour movies, applying the same production methodology it’s used for the...
The Long Checkered Career Of The Golden Globes
Hollywood viewed the awards as meaningless at best and corrupt at worst — most notable for their open bar and the industry perks enjoyed...
YouTube Will Spend $100 Million On Creators In New “Shorts” Program
YouTube, the world’s biggest video platform, announced the YouTube Shorts Fund, a $100 million pool of money it’s promising to distribute to creators of...
Dutch Museum Directors Protest Testing Museum-Goers
In an open letter published yesterday in the Dutch newspaper NRC, 100 notable cultural figures, including Stedelijk director Rein Wolfs, artist Renzo Martens, Rijksmuseum director...
The Sweet Old Professor Who Saved Iceland’s Ancient Literary Heritage From Danish Fire
Árni Magnússon, who undertook Iceland's first-ever census and land survey, was a near-obsessive manuscript collector; he gathered many thousands of medieval documents, sagas, and...
Helmut Jahn Just Died In A Bike Accident — Might His Iconic Chicago Building...
The Thompson Center is Chicago's premier example of Jahn's work, and the project that made him famous. Intended to take government from distant to...
What Happened When A Video Game Mixed ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, Artificial Intelligence And Choose-Your-Own-Adventure?...
Last summer, the game AI Dungeon (less than a year old at the time) got an upgraded version of AI text-generation software that lets...
Immersive Van Gogh Is A Hit. But Which One?
If you’re in a major metropolitan area and have ever remotely shown interest in an art event, you may be bombarded by ads on...
Norman Lloyd, Whose Career Spanned Most Of Hollywood’s History, Dead At 106
He started his working life onstage with Eva Le Gallienne and Orson Welles; acted in films by Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, and Hitchcock (he was...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Unveils New Gehry Addition
Nearly 20 years ago, Anne d’Harnoncourt, the museum's then-director and CEO, proposed to Frank Gehry that he replicate the galvanizing effect of his Guggenheim...
With New Hosts, NPR’s ‘Invisibilia’ Podcast Is Reorienting Itself
"'Something we've thought about for a long time is how the show has historically had a strong emphasis on the individual and the internal...
Most Plays Are Just Better Without Intermissions
Charles McNulty: "I prefer to experience plays the way I experience films at the movie theater — uninterrupted. At night when I awake momentarily...
Race Is On To Save Boston Mansion Designed, Inside And Out, By Louis Comfort...
"The mansion was recently listed for sale — along with an adjoining building — with an asking price of $22.5 million. That has caused...
Dance With Prosthetic Limbs Is Getting More And More Creative
"Consider Belgian hip-hop artist Angelina Bruno. A star of the European dance circuit whose right arm was amputated at the forearm as a teenager,...
I Have A Prosthetic Leg. Dancing Has Transformed My Relationship With It.
Mickaella Dantas: "It took me a while to consider working with my prosthesis, since it has a limited range of flexibility. I struggled with...
One Down, Two To Go: Met Opera Reaches Labor Agreement With Chorus
"The union, the American Guild of Musical Artists — which also represents soloists, dancers, actors and stage managers — is the first of the...
Turner Prize Finalist Group Calls Out Turner Prize: ‘Extractive And Exploitative’
From the statement released by Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.), one of five art-and-social-justice collectives nominated for this year's prize: "The urgency with which...
