Yearly Archives: 2021
Manfred Fischbeck, Who Built Audience For Avant-Garde Dance In Philadelphia, Dead At 80
"For more than 50 years, was an indefatigable contributor to the contemporary experimental dance scene in Philadelphia and around the world. … Mr....
Right-Wing Populists In Europe Are Going After Public Broadcasters
"In some countries, such as Hungary and Poland, illiberal governments are turning them into mouthpieces for the ruling party. In others, such as Germany...
Bayeux Tapestry May Be Too Damaged To Travel To UK
There was quite some excitement in January of 2018 when President Emmanuel Macron announced that the 950-year-old, 2,300-foot-long needlework depicting the Norman Conquest would...
California’s Arts Institutions Will Reopen June 15 (Won’t They?)
"California officials shocked the performing arts community Tuesday when they announced plans to fully reopen the economy June 15 if certain vaccination and hospitalization...
Suspect Arrested For Theft Of Van Gogh And Hals Paintings In Netherlands
"The police announced on Tuesday morning that they had arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of stealing both Vincent Van Gogh's The Parsonage Garden...
India Eliminates Appeals Of Film Censorship Board’s Decisions
"The Indian federal government has passed an order that scraps the Information and Broadcasting ministry's Film Certification Appellate Tribunal, the first avenue of appeal...
Entertainment Venues Fear Problems With A Vaccine Passport
Out of 700 businesses surveyed by the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA), which represents businesses like nightclubs, bars and festivals, 70% felt that vaccine...
How We Make Language
Today, our world has over 7,000 languages, each with its own words and particular grammar. These languages are so mindbogglingly different that you might...
“Godzilla” Is A Hit — And It Could Change How Movies Are Distributed
It’s the kind of hybrid release that would have seemed impossible to pull off prior to the pandemic. Today, it’s the clearest indication yet...
Machines Will Save Us/Machines Will Kill Us — Time To Figure It Out
"We once obsessed about how to restrain machines we could not predict or control — now we worry about how to use machines to...
Why Is Shakespeare Still Such A Big Part Of Our School Curriculum?
This has serious consequences for what ought to be the primary function of high school study: developing a love of reading that will last...
They Tell Aspiring Writers To Read Read Read. What If That’s Wrong?
"Now that I am a published writer, it is against this backdrop, of limited exposure to books in my adolescence, that I find the...
Morris Dickstein, Cultural Historian And Literary Critic, Dead At 81
"A self-described 'freethinking intelligence yet a child of the ghetto,' … a public intellectual who examined such topics as the cultural ferment of...
Venice Passes New Rules Restricting Biennale Business — Will They Help Or Hurt?
It may be a hasty measure in which practical consequences have not been thought through, or it may, as some suggest, be an indirect...
Latvia’s Huge Body Of Traditional Poetry Is Finally Appearing in English
The verses, typically four lines long and metrical, are called daina. Thanks to an effort to transcribe them in the 19th and 20th centuries,...
American Museums Versus Looted Art — They’re Failing
"In 2008, the AAM admirably pledged to fight the trade in looted antiquities by passing a set of guidelines for its member institutions that...
How Do You Become A Broadway Choreographer? It’s Not Easy, But It’s Fairly Straightforward
"In much of the dance world, the process of becoming successful as a choreographer can seem frustratingly oblique. On Broadway, however, that path is...
The Arts Went Online During COVID — What Happens When Theatre Audiences Return?
“Right now, a streamed concert that sells well will just about cover the cost, and we have to proof every second of the video....
Salman Rushdie: India Is No Longer The Country I Wrote About In ‘Midnight’s Children’
"When I wrote this book I could associate big-nosed Saleem with the elephant-trunked god Ganesh, the patron deity of literature, among other things, and...
A Supreme Court Ruling On Computer Code Has Hollywood Worried
"While a copyright dispute about computer code might not seem like a subject of particular consequence for them, an opinion from Justice Stephen Breyer...
The Spectacular Golden Parade Of The Mummified Pharaohs
"Crowds gathered on Saturday to witness the multimillion-dollar spectacle of 18 kings and four queens making the 7km journey (four miles) from the Egyptian...
Another Pandemic Silver Lining: Overhaul Of Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall Is Way Ahead...
"With concerts in the hall canceled since March 2020, construction began in earnest over the past few months. Work is expected to continue for...
Guillermo Del Toro Absolved In ‘Shape Of Water’ Plagiarism Case
"The producers of The Shape of Water will no longer have to contend with a copyright lawsuit that claims that Oscar-winning Guillermo del Toro...
Want A Subscription With Top Seats To Broadway Shows At Philly’s Kimmel Center? Give...
"The Kimmel Center is instituting a mandatory $1,000 donation for access to the best seats in its Broadway series. That's $1,000 up front, before...
A Report From New York’s Wary Return To Indoor Shows
"Like budding flowers awakening just in time for spring, music, dance, theater and comedy began a cautious return this past week as venues were...
