Yearly Archives: 2021
Van Gogh Died Penniless, But His Paintings Paid For His Sister’s Mental Health Care...
Van Gogh died in 1890. By 1909, Anna, the oldest Van Gogh sister, "wrote of selling a picture that he had given Willemien, enabling...
Cepillin, Clown Beloved Across Latin America, Has Died At 75
CepillÃn, whose non-performing name was Ricardo González Gutiérrez, was a Mexican clown with a half-century-long career. He "hosted TV shows broadcast from Mexico, sold...
Producers, Actors, And Publicists Are Keeping Pressure On The HFPA
Even weeks after the Golden Globes, Hollywood isn't relenting; this reckoning has been a long time coming. "Now, with the very survival of the...
We Know Amazon Is A Danger To Workers And Retail, But Do We Care?
Well, that's ... a good question. "We know how Amazon treats its workers, how it squeezes its sellers, how it devastates small businesses, and...
A Return To Episodic TV
Is the binge better? Or is it OK to let episodes marinate for a week before returning to a story? When Netflix first dropped...
The Guy Who Possibly Found The Author Of Shakespeare’s Source Material For Hamlet
And other plays too. This isn't a "Shakespeare didn't write his own plays" theory; it's a theory about an Elizabethan playwright named Thomas North...
Beloved New York Bookstore The Strand Has Become A Union Busting Stereotype
This is not great. "The past year ... has laid bare just how perilous a job you like, or even love, can be when...
The New Rules Of Moviegoing
Start with an "electrostatic disinfectant sprayer," add in a seat buffering system, and don't forget prepackaged condiments for your popcorn. (But ... what about...
A Paris Ballet Star Dances With Memories, And Anselm Kiefer Paintings
Hugo Marchand's new memoir speaks of feelings that seem to beset nearly every dancer - of not belonging, of self-doubt, and of stage fright....
Composer Hannah Peel Goes Deep Into The Trees, And Neuroscience
Peel's star has been ascending, with work for TV and movies, and hosting a new, controversial BBC music show - and she managed, with...
Marianne Carus, Founder Of Cricket Magazine, 92
Carus believed that children should read - and see - high-quality short stories, poetry, and art. In 1982, she said in an interview, "So...
Palm Springs Art Museum’s Executive Director Resigns Just Before Museum Reopens
Louis Grachos had a two-year stint, including a year of pandemic shutdown marred by controversy surrounding the museum's response to George Floyd's killing and...
Maryland’s State Song Has Been Booted By Lawmakers
The state legislature voted to scrap the state's official song. Why? "The pro-Confederate Civil War-era tune features lyrics that denigrate Abraham Lincoln as a 'tyrant' and...
Computers V. Humans – What’s Possible?
The greatest imaginative challenge seems to be foreseeing which changes will arrive sooner than expected (computers outplaying chess grandmasters), and which will be surprisingly...
Warner Studios Cancels Plans To Build Tram To The Hollywood Sign
The effort, dubbed the Hollywood Skyway, would have cost the studio an estimated $100 million. The tramway would have taken visitors on a six-minute...
Small Independent Opera Companies Are Saving Opera
Across Canada, indie opera companies are making the art form cool again;Â daring and provocative again. Pre-pandemic, the collective mass of these companies was on...
Museums Battle Over The Ethics Of Selling Art To Survive
The debate has grown heated in recent weeks, pitting museum against museum, and forcing the association — which serves as the industry’s referee and...
The Controversies In Translating Amanda Gorman
"In one camp, translators argue that the issue is representation in the field, not whether a white translator is incapable of translating an author...
The Invitation Of Translation — And Its Pitfalls
The act and the art of translation requires the permission to transcend borders, the permission to make mistakes, and the permission to be repeated,...
Could A Joint Dictionary Unify North And South Korea? (Well, No)
Being that the South has been open to the rest of the world while the North has been sealed off for seven decades, the...
Streaming Passes 1 Billion Subscribers (But Theatre Box Office Tanks)
For the first time ever, subscriptions to streaming services surpassed one billion, reaching 1.1 billion globally. At the same time, box office receipts plummeted...
The Royal Shakespeare Company At 60
"In 1960 Peter Hall created a theatrical revolution. He turned a summer Shakespeare festival in Stratford-on-Avon into a year-round enterprise based on a permanent...
Oscar Nominees Told Zooming In Not An Option For The Event
"We are treating the event as an active movie set, with specially designed testing cadences to ensure up-to-the-minute results, including an on-site COVID safety...
IKEA Has Turned Its Catalog Into An Audiobook
"When IKEA canceled its beloved print catalog last year, it hinted at plans to venture into new formats to better reach an increasingly internet-dependent...
The Bottom Line: How America’s Arts Organizations Are Doing
A new report looks at the balance sheets of the country's arts organizations. Community and theatre organizations fared the best, while museums and symphony...
