Yearly Archives: 2021
Canada Post Issues Two Commemorative Stamps Honoring Dancers
"Each Permanent domestic stamp, designed by Stéphane Huot, features a dynamic image of its subject in performance. Karen Kain almost breaches the borders of...
LA Dance Studios Struggle To Survive
"Some factors that helped the studio persevere? A landlord who is postponing the studio’s $22,000 monthly rent payments, PPP loans totaling more than $110,000,...
Amazon Earnings Soar, Streaming Up 70 Percent
Video streaming — sometimes a throwaway in the company’s earnings announcements — was this time a centerpiece. Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who is...
The Expert Problem — What We Need To Trust Science
"Complete rejection of expertise not only makes little epistemic sense (for there is no doubt that expertise exists); the complexities of the modern state...
Should Hollywood Abandon Georgia?
"Here we are in 2021 and many still think they can affect change by pulling their business from the very people who helped get...
Authenticity Is Overrated
"Everyone else might be taken, but the effort to be ourselves is the surest path to being just like everyone else, especially in the...
The West’s First Superstar Composer (His 500th Anniversary Is This Year)
Josquin des Prez was, in his day and for more than a century after his death in 1521, the most influential and most revered...
Why Publishing Consolidation Suggests A Bleak Future For Books
“Canadian authors will have fewer houses to present their manuscripts to,” explained executive director Kate Edwards. “A culture of ‘blockbuster’ publishing will become more...
Vincent Van Gogh Was His Own Worst Enemy (Just Read His Letters)
"The tone of the letters consistently is that of a man still aflame after a violent argument, gradually subsiding into a hot puddle of...
LA Opens A Tiny Home Village For Homeless People
“The city keeps investing in these temporary shelters, but everyone acknowledges that there’s nowhere to move to from these shelters. And if it’s not...
Blackface Didn’t Start With American Minstrel Shows. It’s Been Around For Centuries
"The origins of blackface minstrelsy are much older than most people know, with deep roots in the English medieval and Shakespearean theatrical traditions. Understanding...
Machines Are Getting Pretty Damn Good At Writing
In July of 2019, Microsoft invested a billion dollars, which allowed OpenAI to create a supercomputer with two hundred and eighty-five thousand C.P.U. cores,...
If You Don’t Start Until Your Teens, Can You Still Make It In Ballet?
"The ballet world is filled with stories of dancers who first pointed their toes as toddlers and became professionals as teenagers. But what about...
Indonesian Theme Park Ordered To Take Down Lights That Violate Chris Burden Copyright
The theme park had recreated Burden's collection of street lamps that he made for the front of the LA County Museum in Los Angeles....
How Kate Winslet Went About Mastering The Notoriously Tricky Philadelphia Dialect
"Few sounds are as difficult to master as the rounded Os, erratic As, dropped consonants and smushed syllables of the Philadelphia accent — or...
These $63 Million Paintings, Literally Kidnapped And Held For Ransom, Are Now The Subject...
The Shchukin Gallery, which sells Russian art in Paris and New York, is suing a Russian oligarch for damages and attorney fees of $950...
How Pixar Pushes The Boundaries Of Color To Push The Buttons of Moviegoers
"In a way, every filmmaker is really just playing with moving light and color on surfaces. That's the whole ball game, a filmic given....
Germany Takes Care Of Its Opera Houses, Even Through COVID — But There’s A...
"'What we learned in the crisis was that the public purse was very much willing to keep alive in Germany,' says Dieter Haselbach,...
Amsterdam Branch Of The Hermitage In Danger Of Closing Permanently
"After laying off 25% of its full-time staff, including those who had been there since opening day," the only Western European satellite of the...
France’s Cultural Venues Get An Official Reopening Date
"Museums, theatres, cinemas and concert halls will reopen on May 19, along with non-essential shops and outdoor seating at cafes and restaurants, Macron...
Scottish Government Ordered To Reconsider Six-Foot-Distance Reopening Rule After Arts Groups Rebel
Following a personal intervention by the culture minister, "controversial new guidelines which will force Scotland's arenas, concert halls and comedy clubs to impose two...
UK Artists Demand Action On Post-Brexit Touring Crisis
"We are extremely concerned by the lack of progress which has been achieved over the last three months to unravel the mountain of costly...
A $2 Billion Plan Would Transform LA’s Arts District
An Arts District cold-storage plant dating to the 1890s would be replaced with housing, offices, a hotel and shops in a proposal unveiled Thursday...
Theatre Festivals Are Reopening In The UK. But What Should Their Role Be?
Many will grapple with an uncertain theatre landscape and uncertainty over how audiences might behave as society opens up. And this is at a...
Poetry Foundation Picks A New President
Michelle Boone’s appointment "may mark a turning point for the foundation, which has been criticized as insular and slow to respond to changing times....
