Yearly Archives: 2021
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Approves Musicians’ Contract With No Pay Cuts
"The pact, announced this week, was passed unanimously by the musicians, the SPCO board and the board of the American Federation of Musicians Local...
Yet Another Director Forced To Resign From Berlin’s Volksbühne
Three years after Chris Dercon ended his brief, dissension-plagued tenure at the theatre, his successor as artistic director, Klaus Dörr, quit after it became...
‘Poetry Out Of Pragmatism’: An Assessment Of Pritzker Prize Winners Anne Lacaton And Jean-Philippe...
Oliver Wainwright: "It is a fitting moment for a prize once reserved for flamboyant sculptors of icons to be awarded to a practice that...
Pritzker Prize Goes To Architects Whose Motto Is ‘Never Demolish’
More fully stated, the professional creed of Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal is "Never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform, and reuse!"...
$69 Million For A Digital File? It Isn’t About Art
Sebastian Smee: "No painting by Titian or Raphael has ever fetched as much as “Everydays.” So of course this is big news. But it’s...
Lost Music, Lost Books, Lost Culture
"Most music from the past is lost. Written, performed, then fading into obscurity, like the millions of books in our libraries that no one...
NFT’s Are Making Artworld Problems Worse
It turns out the NFT craze has many parallels to the art world. After even a few short days in the aftermath of the...
Theatre Leaders In Five Countries Talk About How Their Companies Have Coped With The...
Ivo van Hove at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Stéphane Braunschweig at the Odéon in Paris, Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Kajsa Giertz...
Will NFT’s Revolutionize The Art Market?
Once data is “on-chain,” it cannot be deleted, and it can be reviewed forevermore by anyone with access privileges and enough technological know-how. This...
Study: One Quarter Of UK Theatre Freelancers Have Quit
Theatres have collectively reported losses of nearly £200 million following a year of closure, according to a survey which also reveals that a quarter...
Will Russians Have To Run All Cultural Programming Past Censors Again?
"Over 1,000 cultural figures, including artists and curators, have addressed a letter to President Vladimir Putin and parliamentarians expressing fears that law is...
How The Arts In Australia Have Been Slowly Undermined
The last thirty years have seen management displace the creators to become the powerful figures of the arts world … Increasingly, even the section...
‘Little Did I Know’: A Theater Critic Considers The Anniversary Of The COVID Shutdown
Helen Shaw: "The pandemic has been a period of getting a lot of 'little did I know' stuff out into the open, including (but...
A Political Winner In Boston — The Arts?
"As it happens, this year’s wide-open mayoral race — a political rarity in Boston — offers the cultural sector a golden opportunity to flex...
Wayne Shorter And Esperanza Spalding Turn To Crowdfunding For Their Opera
"Iphigenia is not an adaptation of the Greek myth as much as it is an intervention into myth-making itself," reads an explanation on the...
The Indigenous Choreographer And The Presenter — A Dispute Spirals
The dispute burst into the open earlier this year when Emily Johnson severed her connection with Peak Performances and wrote about her decision in...
Could Netflix Transform Africa’s Cinema Ecosystem?
In Sub-Saharan Africa there are and have been numerous impressive filmmakers, but only Nigeria and South Africa have fully developed industries in which films...
NFT’s Explained: A New Funding Model?
Known as NFTs, such tokens have taken off in recent weeks in what’s either an ecologically destructive speculative bubble or a promising new funding...
Netflix And Amazon Want To Make Lots More Programming In India, But Hindu Nationalists...
"U.S. video streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are looking to the Indian market to power their global growth. But their shows...
Boris Johnson Says The Elgin Marbles Will Not Be Returned To Greece
"Boris Johnson has used his first interview with a European newspaper since becoming the UK's prime minister to issue a point-blank rejection of the...
What Should A COVID Memorial Look Like?
Justin Davidson: "No memorial, no matter how grand or artful, can encompass the infinite varieties of pain, or comfort everyone who experienced a global...
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Will Happen This Year, But Outdoors Only
"Even by the standards of 2020, Jacob's Pillow had a tough year. Not only did the dance center in Becket, Mass., have to cancel...
Comparing Different Countries’ Pandemic Relief Funding For The Arts
"We added up the total emergency cultural aid packages from nine countries around the globe to show you how they compare. We looked at...
Why Did It Take Four Years For Spain’s National Library To Report The Theft...
"The technical department had known that the original had been replaced by a copy since May 2014, when book restorers discovered it by accident...
This Year, The Salzburg Easter Festival Will Be The Salzburg All Saints Festival
The state of the pandemic being what it is just now, management didn't want to cancel the event entirely as they did last year,...
