Yearly Archives: 2021
Songwriters Are Getting Screwed By Streaming Too
Last month, Midia Research, which specializes in music and digital media, released a study, “Rebalancing the Song Economy,” that was commissioned by Abba's Bjorn...
UK Government Slashes Funding For “Creative Subjects” In Universities
The government has said subjects like music, dance, drama and performing arts, art and design, media studies and archaeology are "not among its strategic...
Muti: COVID Year Was An Experiment In Global Culture
Riccardo Muti called the experience of the past year “an unnatural global experiment” that had “stunned” the world. “If we truly took into account...
The Compromises Of Live-Streaming
Livestreaming adds an additional layer of technical complexity and cost but doesn’t necessarily improve the audience’s experience of the play itself. Pre-recording allows the...
Inside The Museum Of Disgusting Food
As with the Museum of Sex, in New York City, and the Museum of Ice Cream, in San Francisco, the Disgusting Food Museum is...
The Late Eli Broad: My Talk with the Under-Appreciated Overachiever Who Energized LA’s Cultural...
“Everything I’ve done in my life,” he told me at the beginning of our wide-ranging conversation in his office, “has really been to challenge...
Gabriela Muñoz Speaks About the Importance of Collaboration
The Senior Program Coordinator of the National Accelerator at ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts speaks about the impact of collaboration and...
The Science Behind Your Ums… and Ahs…
Indeed, these verbal hesitations have been viewed as undesirable since the days of ancient Greece and, more recently, the American linguist Noam Chomsky characterised...
The Culture Of Citations That Props Up Writing
"Like many systems that appear meticulous, the writing of citations is a subjective art. Never more so than in fiction, where citation is an entirely...
A Wild Spoof Sends Up The Absurdity Of Academic Science Publishing
"Take a bunch of clever, ambitious people and tell them to get as many papers published as possible while still technically passing muster through...
The Improbable Survival Of Seattle’s Annex Theatre
“Our motto is ‘big, cheap theater.’ ” “I’d rather make a glorious failure than an apologetic win.” “We’re the cockroach of the arts —...
What’s Behind Attacks On Critical Race Theory?
"The exact targets of CRT’s critics vary wildly, but it is obvious that most critics simply do not know what they are talking about....
Spotify’s Imposter Problem
That new album by your fave, the one you haven't heard hyped on social media or in music magazines? It's probably by a deliberate...
La Scala Is Opening Again
With a 500-person limit, a record high in private funding, new digital streaming infrastructure, and a mandate to be more ecologically conscious, the Milan...
Could New York Get A Really Good Penn Station?
Justin Davidson refuses to relinquish hope. "The MTA, Amtrak, and NJ Transit have jointly released not one but two possible visions for rebuilding the rest...
Director Barry Jenkins Says Maybe America Never Has Been Great
The director of Moonlight took on a 10-part adaptation of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad partly because it was such a wellspring of fear....
Manzoor Ahtesham, Who Brought Bhopal To Life, Has Died Of COVID At 73
Ahtesham wrote of his native city with care and love. One of his translators said, "He had this almost magnifying glass of an eye....
The Pandemic Massively Accelerated A Digitization Trend
Today, we can see music, theatre, visual art, and new movies all from our chairs, couches, and beds. A year ago, not so much...
Charles Dickens Hid A Lifelong Grief In A Locket
Dickens' 17-year-old sister-in-law collapsed one night as she returned from the theatre, and died in the arms of the writer. "A failure of Hogarth’s...
Cirque De Soleil Is Back, Almost
The pandemic forced Cirque to shutter 44 shows all over the world. Now, performers are getting ready - as ready as they can, within...
Cryptoart Isn’t New, And It Isn’t All NFTs
Instead, it's a way for independent digital artists to make a living. "Beneath the glossy auction houses, breathless headlines and outrage, there is a...
Artists Following In Their Mothers’ Footsteps
Dance, publishing, painting, music, and the stage - having an example, an inspiration, and a mentor in the house can both block and encourage...
Former Dance School Comptroller Pleads Guilty In Million Dollar Fraud Case
Sophia Kim, former comptroller for the Kirov Academy in Washington, D.C., "gambled with funds she was overseeing as the academy’s comptroller. Over nine months...
NFTs Are The Newest Tulipmania
"Art NFTs put me in mind of film auteur Werner Herzog’s distinction between the 'truth of accountants' and 'ecstatic truth.' NFT mavens wax lyrical...
Getting At Reality Through Blurred Photos
When artist Tabitha Soren had her third child, a friend suggested she photograph the experience. "Time can turn photographs into metaphor or allow them...
