Yearly Archives: 2021
The Biographer Has Been Accused Of Abuse. Should We Ignore The Book?
"If an artist is a bad person, should that change the way audiences interact with his art? In this particular case, if the author...
Honkaku: The Japanese Detective Novels Catching On In English
"Honkaku translates as 'orthodox', and refers to the crafting of fiendishly clever and complex puzzle scenarios – such as a murder in a locked...
Big Bump In UK Book Sales In 2020
UK consumer book sales climbed 7% to £2.1bn last year as people "rediscovered their love of reading" in lockdown, the industry body says. -...
The Forgotten Female Playwrights (150 Of Them!) Of 17th- and 18th-Century France
"Now a growing movement within French theater is reclaiming the work of forgotten female artists, and reviving a lost concept along the way: le...
Liam Scarlett, Death, And How The Dance World Deals With Scandal
"Scarlett’s death raises many issues. Foremost has been a widespread unease about the way that many dance companies in recent years have seemed to...
Why Viewers With Thousands Of Options Are Choosing To Stream Old TV Series
The Office and The Sopranos were two of the biggest hits of 2020, according to streaming services, which have recently paid hundreds of millions...
YouTube On Pace To Be Bigger Media Company Than Netflix
In its first-quarter earnings report Tuesday, Google parent company Alphabet said YouTube brought in revenue of $6.01 billion in advertising revenue during the quarter —...
Indian-American Calls For Paris Opera Ballet To Cancel ‘La Bayadère’
Rajan Zed, an advocate and the founder of the Reno-based Universal Society of Hinduism, has previously called on other companies, including Houston Ballet, the...
The Birth Of The Paid Claque (Annals Of Opera History)
Back in the early 19th century, "the directors of the Paris Opera saw no reason to leave the success of their performances up to...
Theodore Lambrinos, Prolific Baritone, Dead Of COVID At 85
A longtime soloist at the Met and a mainstay of New York Grand Opera's summertime productions in Central Park, "over his 60-year career he...
Using Origami To Create Emergency Shelter For Disasters
A team of applied mathematics specialists at Harvard spent three years of calculations and trial-and-error to design a lightweight plastic structure that's about the...
Trial Indoor Performance With Audience Of 4,500 Shows Little Indication Of COVID Transmission
The event, a rock concert at an arena in Barcelona on March 27, required attendees to have an antigen test beforehand and to wear...
The Jane Austen Museum, Slavery, And The Culture Wars
"This month, the museum, Jane Austen's House, touched a nerve when its director said that it would include details about Austen and her family's...
Archaeologists Alarmed By Proposed Renovation At Acropolis
"Plans for a major renovation project to the western entrance of the Acropolis have met with strong opposition from archaeologists in Greece and across...
Samsung Founder’s Heirs To Donate Thousands Of Art Works In Inheritance Tax
The Lee family, including his widow and three children, expects to pay more than 12 trillion won ($10.8 billion) in inheritance taxes, which is...
An Argument Against Our Meritocracy
It is obvious that “not everyone is born with the same academic gifts,” deBoer writes, but among teachers and educational officials there is a...
Police Bust Massive Hollywood Ponzi Scheme
Zachary Horwitz collected $690 million from investors for movie deals authorities say were fictitious. The HBO and Netflix contracts he used to convince Russell...
Oscars Ratings Plunge 58 Percent From Last Year’s Record Low
Among adults 18 to 49, the demographic that many advertisers pay a premium to reach, the Oscars suffered an even steeper 64 percent decline,...
How A 1967 Recording By The Who Predicted Where Pop Music Would End Up
The contradictory impulses about pop’s progress and possibilities at its heart make The Who Sell Out sound like a perfect snapshot of music at...
Workers Discover Two Hidden Frescoes In The Uffizi
According to the museum, an unknown person “protected” the Cosimo II artwork before it was plastered over. “Maybe this unknown savior wanted it to...
Former English National Ballet Principal On Trial For Alleged Sexual Abuse Of Students
"Yat-Sen Chang, 49, has been charged with 12 counts of sexual assault and two counts of assault by penetration against a female aged 16...
Dallas Opera Launches Its Own Streaming Channel
“We view it as a second stage,” said Ian Derrer, the Dallas Opera’s general director and CEO. “And it has accessible on-ramps for many...
Was The Emperor Nero Really So Wicked? Probably Not
Says the curator of a new exhibit on the Roman monarch at the British Museum, "Nero's memory was contested after his death, and that...
Maureen Dowd: Has Hollywood Lost Its Inspiration?
As a Hollywood writer friend of mine said after she watched “Nomadland”: “That was not entertainment. That was Frances McDormand having explosive diarrhea in...
Is This Guy Really At The Center Of The Century’s Greatest Art-Forgery Scandal?
Over the past seven years, "this scandal — now known as 'the Ruffini affair' — has engulfed figures ranging from curators at the Louvre...
