Yearly Archives: 2021
Netflix Is Spending $17 Billion On New Content
That’s a notable uptick from the streamer’s 2020 spend of $11.8 billion, as the pandemic prompted production delays across the industry, and a 2019...
Inside James Turrell’s Masterwork-In-Progress In Arizona’s Painted Desert
For 45 years, the light sculptor has been designing and building a complex inside Roden Crater, a volcanic cinder cone about 50 miles northeast...
Infrastructure For Creative Workers?
That view is to see the rise of Substack and podcasting and Bandcamp for musicians who want to escape the tyranny of the record labels and...
At Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater, New Leader Means To Really Live Up To Its...
Says Ken-Matt Martin, who was named artistic director last month after having been Robert Falls's number-two at the Goodman, "If I figured out how...
To Understand The Human Brain, We’re Going To Have To Get Inside It. Cue...
As the risks reduce and the research possibilities open up, then it is easy to imagine how we could slip, unnoticing, from thinking the...
A Critic Considers Where Music And Writing About It Meet, And Where They Miss
Thomas Larson, former music critic for the Santa Fe New Mexican (1980-82), now a staff writer at the San Diego Reader: "Figuring out that...
Kristy Edmunds On The Moral Imperative/Opportunity Of Continuing
"How do you support artist relief, raise money, how do you help people still feel like they haven’t disappeared? It has been a huge...
Ballet In America Is Having A COVID-Induced Baby Boom
"A career in ballet lasts only as long as a dancer's body does. If they're lucky, dancers can perform into their 30s — or...
Why Is Howard University Closing Its Classics Department?
Amid a move for educational “prioritization,” Howard University is dissolving its classics department. Tenured faculty will be dispersed to other departments, where their courses...
The Tech That Lets Opera Singers Rehearse With Accompanists Remotely
Says San Francisco Opera general director Matthew Shilvock of the platform, called Aloha, "It allows a singer and a pianist to essentially be in...
Harriet Tubman’s Lost Family Home Discovered In Maryland
The site, on land recently added to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore, includes ten acres that Tubman's father, Ben Ross,...
Chicago Says It Will Spend $60 Million On Arts Throughout City
The initiative, called Arts 77 (referring to Chicago's 77 neighborhoods), takes in multiple programs spread over several departments of the municipal government. Along with...
Richard Wright, Who’s Been Dead For 60 Years, Has A New Novel Coming Out
"In July 1941, Richard Wright, then America's leading Black author, began writing the novel he felt was his masterpiece. Written 'at white heat,' …...
Chiefs Of ‘The Gold Standard Of Art Film Studios’ Retire After 21 Years
Steve Gilula and Nancy Utley have been at the helm of Searchlight Pictures since the turn of the millennium, and one could argue that...
With The Castros Gone, Will The Arts In Cuba Be Any Freer?
Since Raúl Castro's government had recently had another period of censoring art and arresting artists, there's some hope — off the island, at least...
Entire Board Of New Zealand’s National Organization For Museums Resigns
"The entire board of Museums Aotearoa has abruptly quit after concerns about its governance and management. The organisation’s remaining executive director, Phillipa Tocker, is...
Class Struggle, Artists, And Changing The World
Struggle without class analysis results in the many empty institutional statements and surface-level concessions we’ve seen across the United States this past year. Class...
Reconnecting: Linking The New Moral Purpose
"For all sorts of understandable reasons, we have become very wary of public and social norms. We are conscious of the legacy of appealing...
NFTs — Not Just For Art Anymore
"What we are primarily focusing on at Time is how NFTs relate to subscriptions, memberships, and access to unique experiences, which would allow us...
Lesson: Streaming Theatre Works When It’s Designed For It
The problem that companies like ACT had been having, said Randy Taradash, was that they weren’t just having to juggle new technology, but also...
As The Pandemic Eases, Netflix Forecasts Much Lower Growth
This year Netflix is forecasting 6 million new subscribers, the lowest first-quarter increase since 2017, well down on the almost 16 million sign-ups in...
The Walkie-Talkie, Big Underpants, And The Bathtub: What Modernist Architecture’s Abhorrence of Imitation Has...
For centuries, great architecture involved innovation and invention within the context of established, tried-and-true styles, materials and techniques — and the result was buildings...
The Pursuit of Equity
The intent is to overcome the very real danger that the nonprofit arts industry’s “equity statements” could easily become like the “thoughts and prayers”...
Study: The Psychological Benefits Of Attending Live Theatre
We found that attending these plays increased empathy for people depicted in them and changed people’s political attitudes about a variety of issues related...
Literary Scholar And Critic Denis Donoghue Dead At 92
"First at University College Dublin and later at New York University, Professor Donoghue carved out a middle ground in the contested landscape of late-20th-century...
