Yearly Archives: 2021
Wisconsin School Works To Save Ojibwe Languages Before Native-Speaker Elders Disappear
On the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation, near Lake Superior in the northwestern corner of the state, is a K-8 school called Waadookodaading ("a place...
Valery Gergiev, Politics and Putin
By arranging himself with the powers that be, Gergiev has maneuvered his way to a singular position in Russian cultural politics. On January 30,...
The Black Violinist Who Premiered Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata
"Born in 1778, in Biała Podlaska, Poland, Bridgetower started playing the violin at an early age. His father John Frederick Bridgetower (probably of...
Hong Kong’s New M+ Wants To Be One Of The World’s Great Contemporary Art...
"The has set M+ the target of being the first museum of its kind in Asia and to be ranked among the top...
Lois Kirschenbaum, New York’s Most Beloved Opera Superfan, Dead At 88
Night after night, through multiple performances of a production's run at the Met or New York City Opera, Lois (the city's entire opera community...
What Killed L.A. Stage Alliance? It Wasn’t That One Dumb Mistake
Los Angeles sound designer and playwright Howard Ho — the boyfriend of actress Jully Lee, who was the subject of the dumb mistake at...
Enormous Golden Modernist Mobile Removed From Lincoln Center Will Be Installed At LaGuardia Airport
There was a minor uproar in December when Lincoln Center announced that Richard Lippold's Orpheus and Apollo, which had dangled in the multi-story upper...
It’s 2021, And Italy Is Finally Abolishing Film Censorship
"It will now no longer be possible to block the release of a new film or demand edits for moral or religious reasons. Filmmakers...
Protestors Occupying French Theatres Carefully Dance Through A Minefield
"After trade union representatives in Paris entered the shuttered Odéon Theater, a movement to occupy playhouses spread rapidly. … Yet with the infection rate...
Survey: How Students Attitudes About Arts Education Are Changing In The COVID Era
Student responses show that their biggest concerns are the high cost of tuition for remote classes and the changes to their social lives on...
Kennedy Center Turns 50 (And Unveils Celebrations)
The 50th anniversary celebration is part of 1,110 dance, theater, jazz, comedy and musical concerts and events in the 2021-2022 season. The total represents...
A Computer Code Written In Cree
My desired output for this language is graphical based. I originally envisioned it as a kind of “Processing for Indigenous Languages”. Where the output...
Live Theatre Returns To Live Theatre In NY — And It’s… Different
The line of people he came to greet waiting to see the first performance of Blindness at the Daryl Roth Theatre off Union Square...
The Transitory Influence Of Hemingway
So what can Hemingway tell us about what American writers owe to Hemingway? Whatever that debt is, it’s a lot, according to the various...
Art At Scale: Putting All Of The UK’s National Collections Online
Art UK brings together over 3,000 public collections on one shared, economically efficient platform, allowing them all to reap the benefits of scale and...
Behold The World’s Largest Collection Of Magazines
" Hyman's collection now stands at around 150,000 editions of roughly 5,000 titles. They form the bulk of HYMAG, a dedicated magazine library housed...
Join the Conversation
I have said before here that the time for talk is long past and that figuring out a way to prod real action on...
How Reporters Are Fighting To Save The Storied Tribune Newspapers From A Hedge Fund
The worried reporters would need to recruit community allies. Hire a public relations firm to sway public opinion. And most crucially: Figure out how...
Video Game Technology Helps Recreate Sound Of 16th-Century Scotland’s Chapel Royal
"Researchers have captured how they believe choral music would have sounded when played and sung in the now-ruined chapel at Linlithgow Palace, west Lothian,...
Are Virtues Of The Past Casualties Of Progress?
If we cannot slow down and grow cautiously, evenly, gradually into our new technological and political possibilities and responsibilities—even the potentially liberating ones—the last...
As Performances In Italy Remain Banned, Competitive Ballroom Dancing Waltzes On
" are preparing for the Italian Championships in Rimini in July and as such are allowed to keep practicing, given that the government considers...
Producer Scott Rudin, “Monster” Boss
Even as others have been canceled or have dialed back their aggression, Rudin's behavior has continued unabated, leaving a trail of splintered objects and...
Recreating A 2,000-Year-Old South Indian Lyre
The yazh is a seven- or 14-stringed harp, built over a wooden bowl resonator covered with hide like a drum, that's referenced in Tamil...
The Tensions Between Meritocracy And Equity
"Between those who see meritocratic admissions as giving fair rewards to hard work and ability, and those who demand that schools focus on students’...
‘What If Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare, But Someone Else Wrote Him First?’
That's how one scholar summarizes the theory that the plays of William Shakespeare were written, yes, by the glover's son from Stratford-upon-Avon — but...
