Yearly Archives: 2021
‘Lolita’ Is A Horrifying Story. How Does It Keep Getting Past Obscenity Laws, Let...
Lady Chatterley's Lover, which now seems almost anodyne, was the subject of a criminal prosecution in 1960, but Lolita, which came out the previous...
What Have Theatre Artists Been Doing This Past Year? Eight Tell Their Stories
“This notion that we have to do something, that we have to find other ways to work. I was like, ‘Hello, this is an...
Ice Music: Performing Pieces On, And For, Literally Frozen Instruments
"Carved instruments can be either completely made of ice, such as horns and percussion, or hybrids, like harps, in which the main body is...
Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti
One contradiction stands above the rest. The man who cofounded City Lights bookstore and press and wrote the million-selling poetry collection Coney Island of...
On Zoom, Vimeo, PBS, Or An iPod, If A Theatre Company Does It, Is...
Says the artistic director of a Twin Cities company, "I believe that theatre is storytelling and we are creating a new hybrid art form....
Boy Scouts To Sell Off Norman Rockwell Collection To Pay For Abuse Claims
In a reorganization plan filed in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware this week, the Boy Scouts listed nearly 60 pieces of art by Rockwell...
At The Detroit Symphony’s Virtual Orchestra Hall, Inside The Head Of A (Virtual) Listener
Michael Andor Brodeur: "I'm 'here' to virtually attend a rehearsal of Stride, a stirring newer work from the British composer Anna Clyne. And Clyne...
Where AI Can Really Help Public Radio
That would be transcription, which is prohibitively expensive to do for every segment but which makes it far easier for potential users to find...
Roger Englander, Pioneering Producer Of Classical Music On TV, Dead At 94
At NBC in Philadelphia, he produced the first-ever telecast of a complete opera, Menotti's The Telephone, and he followed up by putting together Menotti's...
Requiring Audiences To Present Vaccine Passports — Would It Be Feasible?
On the surface, it certainly seems as if asking ticket buyers to show proof of COVID vaccination would be a good, quick way to...
Mausoleum Of Emperor Augustus, Long Neglected, Now Restored and Reopening
"Still imposing after 2,000 years, a vast funerary monument that was once the resting place of Rome's emperors is to reopen to visitors on...
Six Dr. Seuss Books Withdrawn For ‘Hurtful And Wrong’ Portrayals
"Six Dr. Seuss books — including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo — will...
Alan Bowness, 93, Former Director Of Tate Galleries And Co-Founder Of Turner Prize
"The internationally renowned scholar was the first trained art historian to become director of London's Tate Gallery, a position he held from 1980 to...
Bookshop.com Generates £1 Million For Indie UK Bookstores
Bookshop.org was launched in the US a year ago and in the UK in November. Pitching itself as a socially conscious way to buy...
Survey: When Theatre-Goers Will Be Ready To Return To Theatres
With the disclaimer that this wave of the research reflects current expectations about the pandemic, based on anxieties about vaccine distribution and the spread...
Moving Berlinale Film Festival Is An Economic Blow To Berlin
“Our entire industry is in the worst crisis since World War II,” says Thomas Lengfelder, chief executive of the Berlin Hotel and Restaurant Assn....
UK Artists Have Been Hit With A Double Whammy
"There have been two great catastrophes.The first has been the abandonment of freelancers, many of whom work in the arts. A whole swathe of...
Social Scientist: We Need To Treat Disinformation With A Vaccine
"Our information crisis can and should be treated like a virus. Responding to fake stories or conspiracy theories after the fact is woefully insufficient,...
Artificial Intelligence Has A Grammar Problem
Sometimes Grammarly doesn’t do what it should, and sometimes it even does what it shouldn’t. These strengths and failings hint at the essence of...
What’s Anthony Hopkins’s Secret? ‘No Acting Required’
"If you follow a superb screenplay, the language is a road map, and so you don't have to act.. … When you learn that...
Has COVID Shutdown Made Dancers More Adaptable?
"I am hopeful that we will see a generation that has built a confidence and competence of cognitive flexibility. That is the ability to...
MIT Has Figured Out How To Read Unopened 17th-Century Letters
In those days before mass-produced envelopes, important letters were intricately folded and then sewn shut; until now, modern-day scholars couldn't read such items without...
A Little Island Grows Off Manhattan
Little Island completes the transformation of the Meatpacking District, where for decades freight cars delivered animals to slaughterhouses that lined and bloodied the nearby...
Reviewing The First Play Written By An Artificial Intelligence Bot
"The biggest revelation, though, is that while a computer's imagination touches, somewhat randomly, on themes of love, loneliness, clowning and performance, it is most...
How To Reopen Theatres Safely? Artists Turn To Global Network
The protocols these countries have developed the past year to permit some live performances depend greatly on the magnitude of the pandemic and the...
