Yearly Archives: 2021
UK Vinyl Record Sales Hit Highest Level Since 1980s
UK record labels enjoyed a 30% boost in income from the sale of vinyl records last year to £86.5m, the highest total since 1989,...
Unprecedented: The Smithsonian Is Searching For Six Museum Directors
The institution has never searched for six directors simultaneously — although it has never had to develop two new museums at once, either. The...
The Unusual Places Dance Went Out This Year
From parking garages to lakes and rooftops, outdoor performances can be exhilarating for artists and audiences alike. Vistas that would be impossible to re-create...
Are We At A Creative Reckoning?(It’s All Good)
Deborah Cullinan: "When we finally arrive in this future, we, the people, will be brazen about the power of artists and of art and...
Screens Versus Pages – How We Read Depends On What We Read On
Because we use screens for social purposes and for amusement, we all — adults and children — get used to absorbing online material, much...
Science Fiction Was Depicting Climate Change More Than A Century Ago
"For a few decades in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, authors from across ideologies and genres published stories that today would be...
Warner To Start Theatrical Release Of Its Movies Again
But the window between theatre debut and release to streaming will be shortened. The shortened theatrical window matches recent changes from other studios instigated...
Dance Was An Integral Part of Christian Worship For Centuries
In the earliest period of Christianity, dance was frowned upon as pagan. (St. Augustine, in his typical way, was particularly scornful.) But when folks...
Jean Nouvel Wins Competition For Dramatic New Opera House In Shenzhen
The design of the Opera House takes on unconventional forms, opening up the space and integrating the opera house into the Greater Bay Area....
3,000-Year-Old Gold, Silk, Jade Discovered In China Could Rewrite History
"The treasures unearthed at the Sanxingdui site in Guanghan, Sichuan, belonged to a highly-developed civilisation that may have lasted for thousands of years but...
COVID Shutdown Has Wiped Out Entry-Level Hollywood
"While the pandemic overturned the lives of workers industrywide, those just beginning to establish their careers in an industry that is notoriously difficult to...
Advertisers: If We Can’t Put Commercials On Netflix And Amazon Prime, We’ll Just Have...
"With more people home and glued to their streaming services, many of which don't allow advertising, companies are finding they need to be creative...
How Our Stories Frame Our Issues
"Why should storytelling matter so much? Because it conditions us to respond to society. Artists teach us what to take notice of and what...
The Best Character Actors In The Business (Well, Most Of Them)
" the results of an industrywide survey we conducted to answer one simple question: who are the most memorable character actors working today? To...
Actors’ Equity Faces Rebellion Of Its Own Members Over COVID Restrictions
"Quietly simmering frustrations erupted publicly last week, when more than 2,500 union members signed a letter, circulated by a Broadway performer and signed by...
Paris Review Names New Editor (The Second Emily In A Row)
The magazine, co-founded and long run by the late George Plimpton, "has a new editor, only the sixth since being founded in 1953, but...
Mills College Will Shut Itself Down
The 169-year-old liberal arts college in Oakland, which has left an extraordinary legacy in American arts (especially contemporary classical music), is one of the...
Soprano Christine Goerke Named Associate Artistic Director Of Michigan Opera Theatre
"The move brings a singer at the peak of her international career to Detroit. She will perform locally at least once a season, take...
Actor George Segal, 87
" long career began in serious drama but who became one of America's most reliable and familiar comic actors, first in the movies and...
After National Backlash, Australian Festival Cancels Artwork That Was A Very Bad Idea
"On Tuesday afternoon organisers of the festival, which is run by the Museum of Old and New Art , announced that the work...
How “Dance Marketing” Helped An Indian Clothing Company Flourish
Telling us how the team came up with the idea of dance marketing, Lekhinee shared, “We were going to launch our Saris. We were...
How To Understand NFTs And What It Means For The Art World
"Imagine digital Beanie Babies, but with only one existing copy of each. For art works, the N.F.T. format functions a little like a museum...
Blurb-Off
Book blurbs are ridiculous. And competitive, as it turns out. - The New Yorker
The Genius Of Natural Selection. Will AI Wreck It?
"On the face of it, many of the familiar characteristics of animals and plants that we see around us would simply disappear if the...
Imagination Is A Superpower
Aristotle called this imaginative power phantasia. We might mistakenly think that phantasia is just for artists and entertainers, a rare and special talent, but...
