Yearly Archives: 2021
How To Increase Equity For Blacks In Dance? ‘Ask Different Questions’
Choreographer Robert Moses: "The notion of change is sophomoric. The idea is to give people honest opportunity to be part of whatever they're intending...
The Relativity Switch
This story may sound like a metaphor. But it’s actually a case-in-point. - Andrew Taylor
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dies at 101; His Pictures of a Gone World Remain
A literary era passes. It was already past, yet it still has influence. My account is minimal in the scheme of things but here...
Jazz beats the virus online
Chicago presenters of jazz and new music, and journalists from Madrid to the Bay Area, vocalist Kurt Elling, trumpeter Orbert Davis and pianist Lafayette...
Why Librarians Have Been Unsuccessful At Fighting Misinformation
"This failure has many roots: The low social status of teachers and librarians relative to those in other professions, the lack of consistent instruction...
Turkish Government Harasses Kurdish Theater, Accusing It Of ‘Terrorist Propaganda’
"In a country where Turkish is the only official language, speaking Kurdish is sometimes seen as an act of rebellion." (It is the mother...
Roberto Bedoya Talks About Place-Making
I was so surprised how “place-keeping” became such a sticky word across the country. I was offering a strong artist’s point of view about...
Critics Say The Prado Broke The Law When It Acquired A 20th-Century Painting
"The Prado paid €70,000 (around $85,000) for La Boulonnaise, a 1929 work by the Spanish painter María Blanchard. … But the move has riled...
Why Literary Canons Are Important
"For those who view the very notion of the canon as inherently elitist, it’s worth noting that the phenomena mostly clearly implicated in its...
Gérard Depardieu Formally Charged With Rape And Sexual Assault
"An actor in her 20s … accuses Depardieu of having raped and assaulted her at his Parisian home on two separate occasions in August...
What Is Native American Comedy?
"I’ve debated different scenarios in my life about “What is Native?” And that is like the million-dollar question, at least within Indigenous communities at...
Slate Suspends Podcast Host Mike Pesca After Internal Slack Chat About N-Word
Pesca, a public radio veteran who has been hosting Slate's daily news podcast, The Gist, since 2012, was suspended indefinitely without pay this week...
Pandemic Has Knocked Out Oscar Campaign Season, So Awards May Get Weird
"The process helps winnow the field of competing films for upcoming awards shows, a kind of hive mind forming around the season's leading...
UK Museum Workers’ Unions Fear Boris Johnson’s Government Wants To ‘Airbrush’ British History
"Prospect, the FDA union and PCS union wrote that their members were 'deeply worried' that the government was challenging the independence of museums and...
Spotify Is About To Open In 85 More Countries
The move adds a billion more potential customers to the market for the audio streaming giant, which will now be available in 178 countries...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Backbone Of San Francisco’s Literary Scene, Dead At 101
A poet in his own right as well as proprietor of the bookstore and publishing house City Lights, Ferlinghetti became famous in 1957 when...
After Six Years, Google News May Be Returning To Spain
"Google is negotiating individual licensing deals with a divided Spanish news industry that could allow the U.S. tech giant's news service to resume in...
Commercial Art Galleries In UK Can Reopen Before Museums Do, And Museum Folks Are...
"Museum and gallery leaders in England have expressed anger, disappointment and bafflement at why commercial art galleries – which count as non-essential shops –...
The Group Of Seven Has Defined Canadian Art For 100 Years. It’s Time To...
After 101 years of reproducing the Group of Seven’s art to the point of saturation, it feels like the time has come to give...
San Diego Cultural Advocate Larry T. Baza, 76, Of COVID
"For more than four decades, Baza used his voice advocating for San Diego’s artistic and cultural community at the local, state and national levels....
How The Smithsonian Is Celebrating Its 150 Years
“The Smithsonian was always about how it could help the country reimagine itself, understand itself,” said Bunch, a historian and founding director of the...
He Invented New Instruments To Express The Soul Of His Troubled Homeland
Joaquín Orellana, one of Guatemala's leading composers, calls his creations útiles sonoros ("sound tools"), and many of them are de-and-reconstructed versions of his country's...
“Black Art’s” Blackout: Who’s Absent from HBO’s Survey of “Today’s Top African American Artists”?
Although it gives us fascinating inside-the-studio glimpses of several important artists at work, Black Art: In the Absence of Light insufficiently illuminates the depth...
Governor: NYC Movie Theatres Can Reopen
Governor Andrew Cuomo said "cinemas in the city will be permitted to operate at 25% capacity, with no more than 50 people. Moreover, other...
Charles Hill, Heroic Undercover Art Detective, Dead At 73
"Hill's willingness to take major risks in order to find some of the world's greatest stolen artworks" — most famously, Vermeer's Lady Writing a...
