Yearly Archives: 2021
What TikTok Has Taught Us About Learning
A recent Harvard study showed that students actually learn more when education is built on “active learning,” which promotes working collaboratively on projects. And now,...
How Did A Cranky Old Scholar Come To Own An Indigenous Language?
Frank Siebert’s writing system was an obstacle for people who were eager to learn the language. “It was a giant pain for everyone,” he...
How NFTs Fit Into The Performance Art Tradition
"As a scholar of communication and performance studies, what interests me is how NFTs are redrawing parts of the art world in radical ways...
‘I’m Just Free, Now That I Don’t Have To Worry About Fees’: Frank Gehry...
"Buzzing through his sprawling work space, the architect said he has now reached a point in his career where he has the luxury of...
Filtered
As I hear my student playing the piano through Zoom, just for a moment, I think I am hearing Paderewski in 1912. The sound...
Raising the flag
As it happens, I don’t care at all for Childe Hassam’s better-known etchings — I find them fussy — but lithography brought out a...
How Social Media Has Collapsed Our Expression Of Thoughtful Ideas
"Without the distance between self and thought, self and utterance, we are unable to entertain, probe, or debate ideas. We are unable to change...
A Year Into The Pandemic, Dancers Talk About How They’ve Adjusted Their Movement And...
"How are dancers developing performance energy? How can artistry best be communicated through the camera? What is the best angle to present technique? Dance...
New Director Of Pompeii Talks Culture Of Archaeology
"I would like to reiterate the concept I have of archaeology not only as a study of beautiful objects or monuments but also of...
A Lawsuit About AI And Intellectual Property Law Now Involves R2D2 And WALL-E
An American company is suing a Chinese company in U.S. federal court for copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property violations. The goods in question?...
Two Beloved California Movie Theatre Chains To Close
ArcLight's stable includes the prized Cinerama Dome Hollywood. The Dome, built in 1963 by Pacific Theatres' parent company the Decurion Corp., is the crown...
Singing By Hand: How To Translate Songs Into American Sign Language
"A good A.S.L. performance prioritizes dynamics, phrasing and flow. The parameters of sign language — hand shape, movement, location, palm orientation and facial expression...
When 1970s Boston Was A Hotbed Of Contemporary Music
In its own buttoned-up New England way, it was a modernist hotbed. Each of those institutions was like a little fief, with eminent composers...
The Saga Of The Jefferson Davis Chair Comes To An End (And No, It...
A shadowy art/activist collective calling itself White Lies Matter made a bit of a stir earlier this month when it stole a chair dedicated...
Nature Documentaries Are A Lot More Like Porn Than You’d Like To Think
It's not just that they're wildly popular and can be addictive. It's because nature documentaries have at least as much artifice as any studio-produced...
The Surrealists Would Have Loved TikTok
In fact, reporter Angela Watercutter compares the 15-second-video service old Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse: "The platform, thanks to its duetting and stitching functions, automates...
Where Second City’s New Chief Means To Lead The Improv Institution
Says Jon Carr, who came to the company's Chicago headquarters from Dad's Garage in Atlanta four months ago, "It's a little strange, because there’s...
Is The CEO Who Saved Waterstones Turning Around Barnes & Noble, Too? Well, He...
To be fair, James Daunt was not at all as self-aggrandizing as that headline suggests when he spoke to the Independent Book Publishers Association...
New Turn In Saudi Arabia-vs.-Louvre ‘Salvator Mundi’ Drama (It’s Still About Spite, Though)
Last week several news outlets reported, based on a French TV documentary, that the world's most expensive artwork wasn't in the Louvre's big 2019...
Fabio Luisi, Dallas Symphony Music Director, Takes A Third Orchestra
The Italian maestro, who is also chief conductor of the Danish National Symphony and is now winding up his term as music director of...
Benin Bronzes Are Not Safer Held In The West, Say Researchers
“They have been equally unsafe in the hands of British, not least because of attack in 1897, which destroyed so much royal and sacred...
Top Music Industry People Weigh In On The State Of Streaming
Senior figures from Spotify, Apple and other streaming services have commended the virtues of streaming, and few in the world of music would dispute...
Dallas Symphony Invites Out-Of-Work Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Musicians To Play Joint Concert
“Someone on our team said, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun if we could bring together musicians around the U.S. who are not working, for some...
And Now: Virtual DJ’s Powered By AI
"Virtual entertainment is the new cultural center of gravity," Authentic Artists founder and CEO Chris McGarry told Protocol. Authentic Artists has developed a dozen...
Doubting Thomas: Greenville County Museum Sells “Alma’s Flower Garden” in a Non-Transparent Transaction
Taking a page from the problematic playbooks of the Berkshire, Everson and Baltimore museums, the Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, has become...
