Yearly Archives: 2021
New Guidelines Suggest Actors Set Nudity Boundaries Before Filming
To keep actors safe - and, of course, to cover their own liability - some productions are now employing intimacy coordinators. But contracts can...
Statues Are Living The High Life In Boris Johnson’s Britain
Lucky statues! "Without themselves needing to organise, these historically neglected members of the inanimate community have within the last few months secured privileges, protections...
So You Want To Be In The Movies
The easiest part of being an extra, ahem, a background artist, is that you just have to be there. "Being an extra requires no...
A Monument To Jefferson Davis In The Hands Of Anti-Racist Activists Becomes A Toilet
The monument, stolen (or "liberated," if you prefer) from a cemetery in Alabama, will now be returned to its former owners, United Daughters of...
This One Key Trick Predicts Blockbuster Success
Despite what every podcast host says (is forced to say?) and what your author friends tell you, it's not five-star reviews. Those are literally...
A New Path Forward For Museums
Art museums sometimes have difficulties responding to the current moment, by design. A new show in Louisville might change some of that. "Conventional encyclopedic...
Anne Beatts, Who Broke Into National Lampoon And Saturday Night Live Before Getting Her...
Beatts helped shape the early days of Saturday Night Live. "'It was pretty much any adjective you want to throw at it,' she told...
Frieze Los Angeles Writes Off 2021, Makes Plans For 2022
The art fest was planned for February, then July, and at locations all over the city (supposedly to promote social distancing). But as July...
Where The World Of Comedy Throws Obstacles, These Women Have Forged Their Own Paths
It's not easy for a woman in comedy, and that's doubly true for a Black woman. Ask Ziwe (who now has a series on...
We’re Living In A Golden Age For Documentaries, But They Have To Drop Their...
The rush of documentaries - they are cheaper to make, and especially if they're true crime, there's a willing and eager audience - has...
Taylor Swift, Reclaiming Her Music With A New, Re-Recorded Release Of An Early Album
The business side of music can be vicious for its musicians, and when a label owned by a man you loathe gets to profit...
A New Cache Of Money For Strapped Venues – If Only The Website Would...
The Small Business Association opened a grant portal for arts venues closed down by the pandemic - and, after a few hours of deep...
The Show Wynonna Earp Came At A Dark Time For Queer Women On TV,...
In 2016, 25 queer women characters on TV died on scripted TV and streaming shows. But Wynonna Earp promised to be different. With the...
The Inevitability Of Fake Art
It's every art dealer's nightmare, but if a fake is a beautiful painting, what's our problem with it? We care about authorship is why...
Actor Riz Ahmed Says He’s At His Best When He’s Overwhelmed
Ahmed, whose performance in The Sound of Metal has been nominated for countless awards this season, doesn't prefer the easy life. When he was...
Ethel Gabriel, Who Ran Parts Of RCA Victor For 40 Years, Has Died At...
Gabriel began working at RCA when she was a student at Temple University, testing records for manufacturing imperfections. And she didn't leave. "Gabriel often...
The Big Winners From Night One Of The BAFTAs
Ma Rainey, Mank, and others win on the first night of the British Academy Film and Television Arts awards, when mostly the crafts are...
Stuck In The Post-Truth World — How Do We Get Out?
We now consider disinformation a defining part of the contemporary experience. In 2016, Oxford Languages chose post-truth as its word of the year. The...
How Blockchain Is Transforming Partnerships
Blockchains may radically transform many facets of business life, but they’re a tool particularly well suited for collaborations. Put simply, blockchains are digital ledgers...
Twyla Tharp Talks Dance With Terry Gross
"This last year, with the pandemic and its disruptions in terms of routine, discipline, just ordinary day-to-day activities, the body doesn't know itself at...
The Art Of Doing Nothing Architecturally. It’s A Revolution
In a world in which flamboyance and style have long determined how an architect becomes a star, this approach – doing nothing – is an...
Guilty Pleasure? What’s So Guilty About It? “Low” Culture Has Triumphed
"Everything that was once considered lowbrow is now triumphant. It is still common for people to talk of “guilty” cultural pleasures—TV, dance music—about which...
Dana Gioia On Being An “Information Billionaire”
"I think poetry has a social function but it’s a relatively complicated and subtle one, which is to say, the reason that we have...
Workers Start Cutting 1000 150-Year-Old Oaks To Rebuild Notre Dame’s Timbers
Experts have felled 59 of the trees at the Villefermoy forest in the Seine-et-Marne region, and a further 26 oaks will be donated by...
Yes, There Really Was An Eleanor Rigby
Paul McCartney invented the details of her life as recounted in the famous Beatles song, but he found her name on a gravestone in...
