Yearly Archives: 2021
Oscars Producers Say It’s A Good Thing The Pandemic Has Upended The Evening
Well: "Changing the Academy Awards, a 93-year-old American institution, has typically proven an exercise in futility. Tweaks have been tried along the way, yet...
Helen McCrory, Star Of Peaky Blinders And Harry Potter, Has Died At 52
McCrory's husband, actor Damian Lewis, announced the news of her death on Twitter. "I’m heartbroken to announce that after an heroic battle with cancer,...
The Brooklyn Art Library Wants Your Filled Sketchbook
But first, it needs to sell you a blank book. "The Sketchbook Project works like this: people interested in submitting a sketchbook order a...
There’s So Much Black Pain Onscreen, Including, Some Say, Way Too Much Painful Fiction
Right now, though not only right now, there's an issue with Black horror. "Black horror faces a distinct paradox: The genre has long been...
The Teams That Save Spain And Portugal’s Shop Signs, From Neon To Giant Calligraphy...
Across the Iberian peninsula, more than 50 groups are working to save what they can of the cityscapes that are under what they feel...
The Accent That Most Actors Won’t Even Half-Try
Yes, it's Philly. Despite how much those of us outside the area might think we know it, "the characters in Rocky don’t talk like they’re...
What Does Dudamel’s Paris Opera Appointment Mean For Los Angeles?
For star conductors, of course, it's not unusual to have appointments both with an orchestra and an opera company. And Dudamel's contract with the...
A Scammer Is Targeting British Literary Prizes Via Paypal
The emails appear to come from the winning authors, and to connect to Paypal accounts that could conceivably be associated with them. "Over the...
After Reports Of Abuse, Scott Rudin Claims He’ll ‘Step Back’ From Broadway
Rudin emailed the Washington Post on Saturday to issue an apology for years of causing pain to colleagues (and employees). He also wrote that...
The Weird Pilots That Didn’t Make It To TV
TV networks spend about $100 million a year in developing pilots for series. Only a small number get to the schedule. Even fewer become...
The Exploding Market For NFT Art
Most people still do not really understand it, but with the influx of cryptocapital into the NFT art market, all eyes are now glued...
Fake News As A Virus
What’s different today is the speed, scope and scale of misinformation, enabled by technology. Online media has given voice to previously marginalised groups, including...
Where Dance Is Online
Somehow, despite the continued strain and strife, many dance companies have successfully adapted to the evolving digital stage — reimagining Nutcracker seasons, digitizing never-before-seen...
Head Of New York Theatre Workshop To Step Down After 34 Years
James C. Nicola, the artistic director of New York Theater Workshop, announced on Friday that he will step down in June 2022. At that...
How Cellphones Power Popular Music In Africa
“While I was doing the recording, it became really apparent that the cellphone was such a prominent actor in that transaction,” says Christopher Kirkley....
‘Navy Twerking’: Why All Australia Is Arguing About A Dance Clip
"A video of dancers twerking in hotpants at … went viral when it emerged on Wednesday. But the music video-style choreography — featuring...
The Forgotten Land Artist
Nancy Holt was always serious. Her journals show how other artists loved talking through ideas with her. She was very close to Michael Heizer,...
Now We Know This Wax Bust Is Definitely Not A Leonardo. How Do We...
Back in 1909, a couple of very prominent German art historians decided, for various reasons, that a wax figurine of the goddess Flora that...
Calculation: San Francisco Says Arts Venues Can Reopen. But Are Audiences Ready To Return?
How rigorously will patrons expect to be protected from the dangers of the COVID-19 virus? Have entertainment habits atrophied during a hiatus of more...
A Dance Critic On How The Pandemic Has Changed Her Work
Deborah Jowitt: "Inevitable distractions occur when filming (or viewing) dances in this climate. Dog walkers may intrude. A pet cat may decide on a...
Will NFTs Empower Artists?
As blockchain technology evolves, transaction speed increases, and transaction fees decrease (all of which are slowly, but surely happening) and more content becomes uniquely...
How The 1918 Flu Pandemic Changed America’s Public Libraries
"Public libraries in the United States started to proliferate in the late 1800s and early 1900s, often founded by women's clubs and other social...
Venice’s Gondola Tradition Is Endangered
The anthropologist Elisa Bellato has called this an ‘identity crisis’ for the artistic manufacture of the gondola. While the boat made with cheaper materials...
Key Arts Figure In Belarus Freed From Prison After International Campaign
"Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska, the director of the Watch Docs Film Festival in Belarus, has been released from prison and had charges against her dropped following...
Through Assassination, Official Harassment, And Right-Wing-Media Smears, A Theatre In A West Bank Refugee...
The Freedom Theatre, founded in the Jenin camp in 2006, has as dual missions "to build back Palestinian identity destroyed by years of brutal...
