Yearly Archives: 2021
As Glaciers Melt, Relics From WWI’s Alpine Front Emerge
On the 10K Mount Scorluzzo in Italy, "the Austro-Hungarian soldiers who occupied those barracks were fighting Italian troops in what became known as the...
New York Plans To Give Artists Work This Summer
Like the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, NY's City Artist Corps is a relief program that "will pay hundreds of local artists to...
Bandwagon Is Changing The NY Phil’s Relationship With The City
Instead of the whiff of noblesse oblige and platitudes about the uplifting nature of classical music, this is about working together. "The key phrases...
How Sesame Street Went From Radical Experiment To Mainstream Success
When the show premiered, it wasn't the beloved Big Bird and Elmo experience that people think of today. "In 1969, Sesame Street unveils and there is...
Where Tap Dance Came From, And Where It’s Going
It's a long history, and a new generation is reviving the art even during the pandemic. - CBS News
Doctor Who And Torchwood, And Men Behaving Badly
First there were reports that Noel Clarke, who played Mickey from 2005-2010 on the Doctor Who reboot, was a serial sexual harasser and bully....
Nashville Isn’t Coming Through For Women
But TikTok is, forcing country radio to pay attention, and give opportunities, to young singers in new ways. - The New York Times
Streaming Theatre Will Do For Now
But nothing can replace the live experience. "Call it immediacy or authenticity, unpredictability or uniqueness, but it’s part of the reason people pay more...
Is Drawing In Decline In Britain?
Some of the nation's top (male) artists are unhappy about the lack of drawing classes, bemoaning the lack of compulsory drawing classes at the...
Lloyd Price, Whose Smash Hits Prefigured Rock, Dies At 88
Price, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, had his first big rhythm and blues hit with "Lawdy Miss Clawdy"...
What Will Happen To Eli Broad’s Grand Dreams For Los Angeles?
Broad's vision was of a Champs-Elysées on Grand Avenue, but all with his stamp on it. "Broad’s ambitions ought to prod Angelenos to consider...
The End Of Net Neutrality Was Riddled With Fraud
Fraud - and 8.5 million (Eight. Point. Five. Million.) bot comments secretly created by ISPs to urge against net neutrality. To be fair,...
Writing, It Turns Out, Can Be Rather Difficult
Masterful essay writer Elissa Mashuta: "This is the dilemma at the heart of the process: writing would be easier if I had an assured...
Hollywood Publicists, Netflix, And Amazon Push Golden Globes Group To Reform
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's released list of "reforms" didn't impress anyone much. Instead, the list set off "a remarkable cascade of criticism toward...
Broadway Reopens In Four Months, But Theatre Workers Still Need Help
A survey released by the Actors Fund says that "40% of the arts and entertainment respondents reported being more food insecure during the pandemic,...
Lyn Macdonald, Who Preserved The Voices Of WWI Soldiers, 91
Macdonald was a producer for the BBC in 1973 when she "was given what she thought would be a one-off journalistic assignment: to accompany...
Emma Donoghue ‘Toned Down The Horror’ In Room
Those who read the book or saw the movie may not quite believe it, but the real-life case from which the author drew her...
Can These Movies Save The 2022 Oscars?
Yes, it's a bit early to start placing bets, but still: "There are many nervous insiders hoping the post-pandemic pendulum will swing back toward...
Martin Bookspan, The Voice Of The Lincoln Center, 94
Bookspan realized young that he probably wouldn't make it as a solo violinist, but he brought music to anyone with a radio or TV....
Why American Remakes Of Foreign Films Don’t Always Go To Plan
Art house films in particular bear the marks of their specific directors and writers - and that often doesn't translate (sorry, Another Round and...
The Big Screen Experience Is Unparalleled
No matter what you've got in your house, there's nothing like watching a movie in the theatre with scores of other people. Then there...
Art Frieze New York Is Back, And So Are The Art Parties
Someone even asked, "Are we going to pretend nothing happened?" But no, not at the fair itself: "To gain admittance at the Shed at...
When Conditions Are Ripe To Fall For Misinformation
"People become more prone to misinformation when three things happen. First, and perhaps most important, is when conditions in society make people feel a...
Ross Douthat Sees Mediocrity Everywhere, Laments Paucity Of “Great Thinkers”
"My own favoured explanation, in The Decadent Society, is adapted from the American sociologist Robert Nisbet’s arguments about how cultural golden ages hold traditional...
What It’s Like To Play The Violin Of Violins
The Sala Paganiniana, where Il Cannone resides inside the Palazzo Tursi, is monitored by scientists, experts, and bodyguards. The instrument is played monthly by...
