Yearly Archives: 2021
President Biden Reverses The Truly Terrible 45 ‘Classical Architecture’ Order
The executive order, which the former president signed "in December after losing his bid for re-election, was titled 'Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture,' and...
German Study: Concerts, Museums, Performances In Theatres Are Safer Than Other Indoor Activities
The researchers found that if kept at 30% capacity with everyone wearing a mask and following proper precautions, museums, theaters, and operas are safer...
How Museums Use Consultants To Hide Behind Their Biggest Problems
“Consultants are hired to tell museums the truth,” says Adrienne Horn, the president of Museum Management Consultants and a former executive board member for...
New Director Takes Control Over Pompeii Site
"He was among the first crop of foreigners picked to direct an Italian museum or cultural site as part of what was a contentious...
What Will Happen If Publishing Giants Merge?
"Perhaps the industry’s biggest concern about the merger, especially among agents and authors, is what it will mean for book deals. An agent representing...
How Memory And The Passage Of Time Fold On Top Of One Another
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrung meaning from time. Each day is so like the former. April disappeared entirely; Thanksgiving feels as close, or faraway,...
London School Of Contemporary Dance Overhauls Everything To Become More Diverse
"The drive to create a more diverse dance curriculum and the aim to harness digital capabilities to prepare graduates for a post-Covid world means...
Rajie Cook, Who Designed The Pictograms We See Everywhere, Dead At 90
"In 1974 Cook & Shanosky Associates, a design firm started by Mr. Cook and Don Shanosky a few years earlier, won a contract to...
How Novels Can Help Plan Our Way Through COVID Recovery
As sources for possible future scenarios capable of providing strategic foresight, or producing alternative future plans, novels can also help businesses create dialogue on...
The History Of ‘Madama Butterfly’ In Japan
"It was not the 'alien' music that disturbed the Japanese audience" at the Tokyo premiere in 1914 (there had been a Western music school...
A Life Listening To Jazz: W. Royal Stokes
No one could have predicted Stokes’s zigzag jazz life, including him. Born in D.C. in 1930, he was a teen obsessed with boogie-woogie records;...
The World’s Largest Bach Website, Brought To You By A Computer Engineer In Tel...
The Bach Cantatas Website, founded 20 years ago by Aryeh Oron, includes texts from Bach's sacred works in multiple languages, discographies, history and analysis...
Is It Time… Finally… To Kill The Book Blurb?
In 1936, George Orwell claimed that “the disgusting tripe that is written by the blurb-reviewers” was causing the public to turn away from novels...
Literature Is A Technology, And It Should Be Taught Like One
Neuroscientist-turned-English-professor Angus Fletcher: "It's a machine designed to work in concert with another machine, our brain. The purpose of the two machines is to...
Race, Privilege, And Values Collide At Smith College
"This is a tale of how race, class and power collided at the elite 145-year-old liberal arts college, where tuition, room and board top...
A New York Times Reporter Tries To Learn ‘Podcast Voice’
Alexis Soloski: "It’s recognizable enough that Portlandia and Saturday Night Live can parody it. It suggests intimacy, a rumpled authenticity. Because if someone were...
Podcasting Is Becoming Big Business. Will That Ruin It?
Even as media companies pour billions into the industry, "its formats and business practices are still developing, leading producers, executives and talent to view...
Lessons From The Explosion Of Online Dance During The Pandemic
"With audiences and funders generally letting dancers decide what (and how much) to produce while distancing requirements are in place, the incentive to go...
California Lost 175,000 Creative Sector Jobs In 2020
The latest edition of an annual study from the Otis College of Arts & Design found that "the creative economy lost more than 13...
Lincoln Center To Open 10 Outdoor Spaces This Spring
"The broad initiative, known as 'Restart Stages,' … plans for a cabaret-style stage, a dedicated area for families that will feature arts activities...
Was This Picture Painted By A Human Or By AI? Most Folks Can’t Tell,...
"A majority of respondents were only able to identify one of the five AI landscape works as such. Around 75 to 85 percent of...
Major Layoffs Coming At London’s V&A Museum
"Vast cuts at the Victoria and Albert Museum are feared to be imminent, with curators and conservators in the line of fire. … Details...
Stage Actors In Paris Offer ‘Poetic Consultations’ By Phone
"'I am calling you for a poetic consultation,' said a warm voice on the telephone. 'It all starts with a very simple question: How...
Former Producer Accuses KCRW Of Systemic Racism
Cerise Castle said in a podcast interview and on social media on Monday that her time at KCRW was “marked by microaggressions, gaslighting, and...
More People Are Sending Nude Selfies Of Themselves. Why?
As the pandemic forces relationships to be conducted remotely, more people than ever are resorting to the virtual exchange of intimacies. Last autumn, a...
