Yearly Archives: 2021
Bard Center Explores Connections Between Arts And Human Rights
The two-year, interdisciplinary MA plans to host in-person classes at Bard’s Annandale-on-Hudson campus and welcomes “current and aspiring activists, artists, and researchers” who are...
Getting In To A Concert Got A Lot More Complicated In The COVID Protocols
"Gone was the chance to rush to a concert after work and plop down into your seat as the curtain rose. Before they entered...
Is Music Universal Or Not? Depends On What You Mean
Kevin Berger: "In the past two years, the debate over whether music is universal, or even whether that debate has merit, has raged like...
How Imagination Drives Answers
The sense of wonder we get when looking at a star-studded sky is a powerful one, even today an intense and even emotional experience,...
The Young Pipsqueak Professor Who Changed The Way Everyone Thought About Homer’s Epics
"Milman Parry was arguably the most important American classical scholar of the 20th century, by one reckoning 'the Darwin of Homeric Studies.' At age...
Ted Gioia On Finding Creative Success Outside The System
"For many of us in the creative economy, too much energy is spent on working the system. My response has been to operate in...
Because Of COVID, TV Production Had To Change The Way It Works. Some Of...
"It has been a year of struggle and experimentation for the television industry, which has had to learn on the fly while trying to...
Inside James Turrell’s Roden Crater
It is Turrell’s most ambitious project, but also his most personal. He has spent 45 years designing a series of tunnels and chambers inside...
Play Something, Netflix’s New Weapon Against Viewers’ Decision Fatigue
"Today, the company is launching Play Something, a new viewing mode designed to make it easier for the indecisive among us to quickly find...
Microsoft Is Changing Its Default WORD Font… And A Billion People Will Read Differently
“A lot of customers, they really don’t even think about fonts or look at fonts. It’s only when they zoom in, that they see...
Even Square Dancing Has Gone Onto Zoom
"Contra and square dancing involve lots of other people, not just a single partner. Dancing involves live music, played with precision. It involves callers...
‘Live Shows Are About To Come Roaring Back To Full Houses’, Says One Critic
Chris Jones: "There's real evidence now of pent-up demand. Consider what is happening in Las Vegas. Cirque du Soleil, which has emerged from bankruptcy...
That Long-Awaited Final Sondheim Musical? It’s Not Coming
The show, titled Buñuel and based on that filmmaker's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel, had been in development with...
Florida Boosts Arts Funding by 24%
"The 2021-22 budget plan agreed to by the Florida House and Senate and sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis includes $26.7 million in two of...
As Western Museums Prepare To Return Benin Bronzes, Nigeria Prepares Their New Home
"The Legacy Restoration Trust … was set up by Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments, the Edo State government and the royal court...
Medieval Treasures Stolen In 1989 Recovered In Sicily
"After being stolen more than 30 years ago from a village in Italy's Tuscany region, a group of stolen medieval artifacts has been located...
Paul Kellogg, Director Of Glimmerglass Opera And New York City Opera, Dead At 84
Over 27 years at the helm of the summer opera festival in Cooperstown, NY, Kellogg raised standards, doubled the productions per season, built a...
Why Modern Science Is Vulnerable To Science Deniers
Turns out this Science entity doesn’t have a single voice, and in many cases hearing what it has to say isn’t straightforward. As intellectual...
Where Threats To Academic Freedom Are
The example of Socrates has always been both an inspiration and a warning. Heterodox gadflies tend to get swatted. In the 21st century, however,...
The Rise Of Group Curation — A New Model?
‘We believe in a polyphonic time. Essentially the problem has been about dominant narratives and to get a much wider perspective. It is appropriate...
AI Routinely Misreads Emotion In Human Faces. Should We Worry?
Today affect-recognition tools can be found in national-security systems and at airports, in education and hiring start-ups, in software that purports to detect psychiatric...
A Philip Roth Bio Is Canceled — A Sea Change In Whether Books Are...
"I think this week marks a sea change in publishers’ interest in their authors’ behavior. The cancellation of Bailey’s books came just a day...
Back From The Brink Of Collapse, Australia’s Leading Professional Vocal Ensemble Is Hard At...
Just two years ago, out of cash, The Song Company entered liquidation bankruptcy; it was rescued by a donor a month later. Then came...
Engagement Readiness Quiz
The verdict in the George Floyd murder trial provides your arts organization with an opportunity to take a very simple quiz to determine its...
CultureGrrl, the Metropolitan Museum & the Bomb Scare
At this writing, the Metropolitan Museum is safe and so am I. That said, for a brief time during my visit there Monday afternoon,...
