Yearly Archives: 2021
Marshall Marcus Talks the UN and Arts Organizations
The Secretary General of the European Union Youth Orchestra shares about the connection between the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the mission of arts...
Steven Leigh Morris On What Did In LA Stage Alliance
"When members of the community say about LASA that they didn’t feel included or respected, my heart goes out to them. I ran the...
What I’ve Learned Watching Dance Online For A Year
Work filmed or streamed that is performed with a live audience present cannot replicate the exchange of energy, delight, sorrow, laughter, and tears of...
Hot Off The Press — How The Sacramento History Museum Became A TikTok Star
Museum docent Howard Hatch started making short videos of him working an old printing press. Soon the museum had more than a million followers...
How To Help Students Catch Up After Lockdown? The Arts
Research confirms that arts education contributes significantly to social-emotional well-being as well as college, career and citizenship readiness. - San Diego Union-Tribune
How Gabby Giffords Uses The French Horn To Help Her Recovery
The ex-Arizona representative was shot ten years ago. She's rebuilt her life with constant therapy, including playing the French Horn, which helps with her...
Artist Rachel Whiteread Has Changed Her Art, And Her Life
Whiteread won the Turner Prize when she was 30, the first woman, and youngest artist, ever to win - and she id it for...
After More Than A Year Apart, Singers Miss Collaborating
Afro-Brazilian musician Luedji Luna: "It’s been a sad year for artists and for the three of us: What we love doing most is performing...
Poets Lost A Lot Of Readings, Series, And Opportunities During The Pandemic, So What...
"For readers still thawing from a year in isolation, two questions in poem are especially prescient: 'How to start again? How to wake...
The Boston Symphony’s Lucia Lin Says Classical Music Is Not Eurocentric
And she has the duet series to prove it. Lin, who commissioned duets before adding interviews to her presentation of new work: "In the...
The British TV-Watching Public Complained A Lot About An Excess In Coverage Of Prince...
As a matter of fact, there were so many complaints about the bump in programming for special coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh's death...
The MTV Show ‘The Real World’ Jump-Started Reality TV As We Know It, But...
In 1992, television wasn't all about the latest competition or race or humiliation reported to the camera. So when The Real World started, it...
The New Ascendance Of The Nature Memoir
We're all looking for something - solitude, connection to nature, an escape from our houses and apartments - and so, publishing is providing us...
We Know Theo, But What About Vincent Van Gogh’s Sisters?
He (and Theo) had three. From reading a book that includes some newly translated letters, we can learn that "Lies was frustrated that...
Benita Raphan, Maker Of Lyrical Short Films That Hover Between Documentary And Experiment, Has...
Raphan's "genius" films - about people with unusual minds and talents - weren't quite documentary; they were that, but more. "Up From Astonishment (2020), her...
The Great Depression’s Dance Marathons Were An Exploitative Craze
They might sound like yet another fun thing for young people to have done back in the day, but no. They were even deadly,...
The Hollywood Bowl Is Back, With Celebration And Caution, For The Summer Of 2021
Though the bowl will be limited to 4,000 in a venue that seats 17,500, the excitement is real. "The organization is still ramping up...
Gianluigi Colalucci, Restorer Of Michelangelo’s Colors, Has Died At 91
In the 1980s, Colalucci led the team that restored the Sistine Chapel. "To paint the Sistine ceiling, Michelangelo labored atop a towering scaffolding, his...
The Messy, Low-Budget, Rediscovered Late Soviet Era Lord Of The Rings
The 1991 project was believed to be lost. "But after Tolkien fan clubs urged the broadcaster to scour the archives of its Soviet...
Performers In South Africa Protest For More Government Help During The Pandemic
For the performing arts community, the closure of Cape Town's Fugard Theatre was something of a last straw. "In just a decade of existence...
BAFTA Wins Include A Fair Number Of Surprises
Chloé Zhao won another directing award for Nomadland, which also won best film on the second night of the mostly online awards. Anthony Hopkins...
Stephen Hawking — A Life In Ideas Obscured By Celebrity
Hawking was no Newton. He said so himself. At a White House event in 1998, First Lady Hillary Clinton read a question from the...
Dancers Are Still Trying Everything To Make It Through The Pandemic
Real talk: "Kathleen Tiernan, a trainee at Ballet Austin, fears that the pandemic will financially stunt the ballet industry for years to come. 'I...
Scott Rudin’s Abusive Behavior Was An Open Secret
Why did the media not come out and treat it as the truly awful (and unacceptable) fact that it was? "Unlike past stories, The Hollywood Reporter’s...
Chloe Zhao Wins Director’s Guild Honor, Cementing Her Status As Presumptive Oscar Favorite
Zhao, director of Nomadland, is the first woman of color and only the second woman ever to win the DGA award. Though director David...
