Yearly Archives: 2021
What Was ‘The Mona Lisa Of Ancient Egypt’? A Gaggle Of Geese
"Called Meidum Geese, the painting was discovered in the 1800s in the Chapel of Itet at Meidum. Itet was the wife of the vizier...
Sorry, But The Golden Globes Are Just Problematic.
Who votes for these things? The members, currently totaling a scant 87 compared to the nearly 10,000 eligible Oscar voters, of the LA-based group...
What Happens When Public TV And Radio Stations Combine With Digital News Startups
"The cultures of public media (nonprofit, built around broadcast, sometimes a little sleepy) and digital news startups (often for-profit, built around text, real-time and...
Glimmerglass Opera Festival To Build Outdoor Stage For 2021
The opera festival in Cooperstown, New York, directed by Francesca Zambello, will offer — in "the most ventilated area we could find" — 90-minute...
Texas Ballet Theatre Loses Its Headquarters To Winter Storm
The snow and frigid temperatures that struck Texas in late February caused "a massive water pipe break" at the company's office/studio complex in Fort...
Stratford Festival Will Open This Summer, But With A Short Season Held In Tents
In a regular year, it's North America's largest summer theatre festival, but with the pandemic only barely starting to subside, Stratford is planning to...
Unknown Titian Painting Identified In English Village Church
"The Last Supper was gifted to St Michael and All Angels Church in Ledbury, Herefordshire, in 1909. Art historian Ronald Moore believes he has...
‘Lamborghini’ Of Ancient Roman Chariots Unearthed At Pompeii
"The chariot is preserved in remarkable detail, officials say, with four iron wheels, metal armrests and backrests, and a seat perched atop that could...
UK To Spend Another Half Biillion For Arts Sector’s COVID Recovery
The government is topping up the £1.57 billion ($1.9 billion) Culture Recovery Fund announced last July with an extra £300 million ($416 million), with...
The Pronouns Problem
For now, pronoun declarations are both novel and blatant — which can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on whether you’re...
American Cynicism Has Reached Our Breaking Point
Cynicism, at scale, makes democracy’s most basic demand—seeing one another as we are—impossible. And America, at the moment, is saturated with it. - The...
James Darrah On The Future Of Opera
“I think the future of that looks like we embrace the cinematic, and digital media side of opera to an even greater degree. And...
The Man Who Figured Out How To Make Millions On Song Rights
In less than three years, Merck Mercuriadis has become the most disruptive force in the music business. Put simply, Hipgnosis, his company, raises money...
Vienna Philharmonic Sends Letter In Support Of Met Opera Orchestra
"The world is watching. 30% of the members of the MET Orchestra can no longer sustain a living in New York City due to...
Pandemic Polemics: Metropolitan Museum’s Off-Key NPR Message vs. Cleveland’s Harmonious Storage Show
The Met's premature revelation that it might take advantage of the AAMD's relaxed deaccession standards, selling art to pay for "care of the collection,"...
The ‘Versailles Of Wales’ Is Falling Into Ruin
Can anyone force the Kimmel House's offshore corporation owners to save it? - The Observer (UK)
Ireland, Britain Reach Agreement In Century-Long Dispute Over Art Collection
The background to the 10-year (at least) truce: "In 1915 the Irish art collector Sir Hugh Lane was among nearly 1,200 people who died...
Amazon Films Are Getting More Respect
The game-changers were the pandemic, and also awards-nominated movies One Night in Miami and Sound of Metal, not to mention Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Those...
The ‘Guernica’ Replica Tapestry Hanging In The UN Has Been Repossessed By Its Rockefeller...
A spokesman for the UN Secretary General said, "I feel sad and a sense of loss looking at that empty wall. ... The tapestry...
Studies: EMail Is Making You Miserable!
A study, published in 2019, looked at long-term trends in the health of a group of nearly five thousand Swedish workers. They found that...
What The Writers Guild Learned From Its Fight With The Agencies
For one thing, it's OK to fight. Writers are also seeing back pay come in - and letting the union win it for them...
Off With All Our Heads – The Online World Loves To Misquote Lewis Carroll
But why? Alison Flood investigates why Britain's Royal Mint and an actual Carroll commemorative collection have been getting quotes wrong ... and then printing...
Australian Theatre Is Lighting The Way For The West End And Broadway
Actors get temperature-taking robots; there's Hamiltizer for your hands if you're rehearsing Hamilton; and then there are the actors who can't hug - so...
Ripping Up The Netflix Streaming Playbook, And Winning
The Mouse - Disney Plus, in this case - has a huge back catalog, and it's also doing this little thing called dropping a...
Books: A Coronavirus Lifesaver
At least that's what a bookseller turned newly-minted Instagram book reviewer (that is, a Bookstagrammer) says. He hasn't seen his family for nearly two...
