Yearly Archives: 2021
Inside The Implosion Of ‘Reply All’: Where The Fallout Fell
The conflict over the podcast's, and producing company Gimlet Media's, diversity and equity problems unfolded amidst a fraught unionization campaign and negotiations for the...
The Implosion of ‘Reply All’ And How Gimlet Media Went Awry
When Reply All, Gimlet's tentpole podcast, began airing a four-part series about the reportedly unhealthy and racially exclusionary workplace atmosphere at Bon Appétit magazine,...
How Amazon Blocks Libraries From Lending E-Books
Librarians have been no match for the beast. When authors sign up with a publisher, it decides how to distribute their work. With other...
Inventor Of The Cassette Tape, Lou Ottens, Dead At 94
As chief of new product development for Philips in 1960, Ottens invented the first portable tape recorder. But it was reel-to-reel, a format which...
Why Are There So Few Women Percussionists In Orchestras?
"Today, in London’s seven top orchestras, women only account for 3% of all the timpani and percussion positions. In fact, there are more men...
Men Dancing En Pointe: Why Should Only The Women Get To Do It?
Dancing on the tips of the toes has always been part of the ballerina mystique; traditionally, men have done it only for comedy. Now...
San Francisco Opera Costume Shop Creates Sing-Safe COVID Masks
The opera's wardrobe team crafted the mask from materials used in making its corsets -- with a billowy shape aimed at allowing ample room...
The Switch To Virtual Concerts Has Changed These Musicians’ Work Permanently
"It seems like a good time, as the pandemic continues to block live performances in all but a few socially distanced, outdoor shows, to...
Yahoo News Is On TikTok? Yes, And It Has Over A Million Followers
Yahoo may be seen by much of the minivideo app's Gen Z core audience as a dinosaur, but Yahoo News has been on TikTok...
How The Arts Can Be A Tool In Community Wealth-Building
"Too often, arts-based approaches undermine rather than support equity, as Richard Florida … now acknowledges. … How does one ensure arts-based development avoids this...
Touring Broadway Shows Are Gearing Up To Restart In The Fall
"Subscription packages for some of Broadway's biggest hits are being sold at a handful of the nation's performing arts centers, while a host of...
These Fragments Were Dismissed As Fake 140 Years Ago. Were They Actually The Oldest...
An antiquities dealer in Jerusalem came forward in 1883 with what he claimed were fragments of the original book of Deuteronomy. After scholars at...
Netherlands Is Creating Master Blueprint For Returning Artworks Looted From Colonies
" On 29 January, the government of prime minister Mark Rutte became the first in Europe to approve a central mechanism for repatriating colonial...
Angry French Arts Workers Occupy Theatres, Demanding Reopening
"Theatres, cinemas, museums and other cultural spaces have been shut since France's last full lockdown in October, and … thousands marched in cities across...
Hollywood Made Out Big Time In The Stock Market
A month before "meme stocks" like GameStop and AMC Entertainment took flight and captured the public imagination, many of the world’s entertainment giants were...
Using Lockdown Boredom For Good
"During this period of soul-crushing boredom, it would be valuable to pay more attention to what people are feeling and thinking, rather than trying...
The Artistic Power Of AI
"AI as scientist conception runs the risk of missing out on a — the — characteristic feature of AI, particularly machine learning. Once this...
The Constant Crises Of British Theatre
The UK’s theatrical culture is obsessed with the idea of theatre as storytelling, both as a discourse and as a conditioning of what the...
Research: The Intricacies Of Detecting Bullshit
Recently, researchers have begun to treat bullshitting as having two separate dimensions. “Persuasive bullshitting” is motivated by a desire to impress or persuade. “Evasive...
How To Fix Our Online Dystopia? It’s A Design Problem
In this new wilderness, democracy is becoming impossible. If one half of the country can’t hear the other, then Americans can no longer have...
What Has An Entire Year Lost To The Pandemic Done To Top Ballet Pros?
"In ballet when you lose a year, you lose a lot. It takes years of sacrifice and training to become a professional, and the...
Dance Among The Irradiated Ruins Of Fukushima
Eiko’s performative gestures are captured in opulent compositional detail as she defiantly inserts her body amidst crumbled buildings, vine-encrusted train tracks, large bags of...
There’s Nothing New About Cutting Offensive Stuff From Children’s Books, So Calm Down About...
For instance, ugly ethnic stereotypes from the 1920s and '30s were removed from the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books all the way back...
$158 Million Restoration Of Air Force Academy Chapel Is Biggest Modernist Preservation Project Ever
Listed as a National Historic Landmark District, the Air Force Academy campus is still one of the most advanced fusions of technology, education, art,...
Hollywood Stars, The Theater Needs Your Help!
"In one of the more surprising revelations of the shutdown, it turns out that the American theater has no towering figure even attempting to...
