Yearly Archives: 2021
As Pandemic Drags On, A Boom In Online Writers’ Groups
"Some of these informal gatherings have flourished as people who once shied away from writing groups — because of the time commitment, commute or...
BBC Plans Major Transfer Of Production And Jobs Away From London
"The blueprint for the plan, which is called 'The BBC Across the U.K.,' commits at least an extra £700 million ($978 million), cumulatively, across...
Met Opera Musicians Agree To Renegotiate Contract, Will Get Paid For First Time In...
"The musicians, and most of the Met's workers, were furloughed in April, shortly after the pandemic forced the opera house to close. Months later,...
Two Presidents Of Pace Gallery Step Down After Allegations Of Abuse And Ethics Breaches
"Douglas Baxter and Susan Dunne, who have worked at the dealership for decades, are leaving the gallery" in a restructuring of top management. "Their...
France’s Erstwhile ‘Museum Of The Colonies’ Is Now Led By The Son Of A...
"Pap Ndiaye, a historian and academic of Senegalese and French descent, was last month appointed to revitalize the Palais de la Porte Dorée —...
Italy’s Highest Court Saves 800-Year-Old Monastery From Steve Bannon
"The Council of State ruled that the Culture Ministry was correct in cancelling the concession it had given to the Dignitatis Humanae Institute," a...
DesertX Cancels Judy Chicago Smoke Piece Over Environmental Concerns
The two-month-long Coachella Valley biennial known as Desert X will not include a relocated Judy Chicago piece, the artist has told The Times, and...
LA Movie Theatres Reopen And Sell Out Of Tickets
The No. 1 circuit’s Burbank location sold out 22 of its 32 showtimes, while Century City sold out 18 of its 30 showtimes yesterday....
How To Trust Art “Experts”?
We seem to have an insatiable appetite for finding "masterpieces" and consequently may readily believe in "expert" judgment. But what is the value of...
UK’s Telegraph News Site Plans To Pay Reporters By How Popular Their Stories Are
“I’d call the mood mutinous. If you’re writing royal stories or big political news or coronavirus stuff or you’re famous then you’re going to...
Moving Beyond The “New World” Symphony
To help break this inertia, we must confront a work that has left indelible marks on music in this country: Antonin Dvorak’s “New World”...
Report On The State Of The Art Market
For all the talk of robust online viewing rooms and hybrid auctions, with sales reportedly doubling in 2020, all market segments “experienced declines last...
How Freelance Musicians Have Been Coping This Past Year
“It took 25 years for me to reach a point in my career where I was constantly preparing for the next orchestra concert, opera...
Should Museums Tell The Public About Missing Art?
"Museums have at times withheld information about thefts, fearing that revealing security weaknesses could make other institutions less likely to loan them art or...
Is It Finally Time To Get Rid Of Your CD’s?
"Here millennials sit, following begrudgingly in the boomers’ wake, at the centre of a generational Venn diagram: in the unique position of having CDs,...
What Made Graham Greene So Peripatetic? Misery
Constant bullying at school (he was the headmaster's son, and he paid for it); repeated adolescent suicide attempts; Benzedrine and Nembutal and lots (and...
California Museums And Theatres Are Reopening; I’m Going To Wait
"I’m taking my cues from the health experts, who are preaching a different message from state, city and municipal officials. While COVID-19 new infections,...
As Ballet Companies Move Toward Reopening Without Knowing What The Rules Will Be, How...
"'What would you do if you had no idea when a season would begin, what venue capacity you could perform in and what the...
America Will Get Performing Arts Back This Summer — In Open-Air Spaces
"All around the country, companies that normally produce outdoors but were unable to do so last year are making plans to reopen, while those...
Protests By Arts Workers Demanding Reopening Spread All Over France
"Some 30 theatres and concert halls are occupied in Strasbourg, Lille, Nantes, Châteauroux, Toulouse, Besançon, Marseille, and Saint-Etienne. All of the culture workers inside...
Afghanistan Bans Girls From Singing
In a letter to school boards last week, which was leaked to the media, Kabul’s Education Department said girls aged 12 and above would...
James Levine Dies at 77
Levine had been in precarious health for more than a decade, canceling many of his performances after 2008 and undergoing spinal surgery. Even when...
Is MoviePass About To Return From The Dead?
The "Icarus of subscription services" seemed too good to be true when it started selling $9.99-a-month memberships that would let you see a movie...
More Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Found, The First In 60 Years
"The Israel Antiquities Authority, which carried out the excavations, believes the new scroll, written in Greek, is actually a missing part of the “Book...
AAMD (Barely) Rejects Extending Lenient Rules On Deaccessioning Art
"In an informal poll, members of the Association of Art Museum have voted 91-88 against asking its trustees to explore a controversial change in...
