Yearly Archives: 2021
Cuban Artists Demand Removal Of Culture Minister
The Cuban activist group 27N submitted a legal request for Alonso’s removal to the National Assembly of People’s Power on February 3 on behalf...
Why Is The Turkish Government Trying To Sue This Cultural Organization Out Of Existence?
"While art philanthropist Osman Kavala has been jailed in Turkey for more than three years without conviction, the country has now filed an unprecedented...
Getting At What Truth Really Is (Not That Simple)
"True seems to be that which is in accordance with the facts or reality, the way things simply are. But it is not as...
Using Social Media To Preserve The Uyghur Language — And Keep It Up To...
Uyghur, a Turkic language that uses the Arabic alphabet, has about 10 million native speakers, most of them in the Xinjiang province of northwestern...
Star Soccer Star Touts Ballet Training For Performance
The images shared by the ballet company had soccer fans’ heads turning when they emerged. Such a sports star dabbling in ballet may have...
How To Design A Memorial For The COVID Pandemic?
Several places in Italy and Great Britain are considering the question, and a few memorials have already gone up. " are not intended as...
Why Joffrey Ballet Is Only Now Making Work To Stream
Staging a full-length performance digitally "would break the bank," says artistic director Ashley Wheater, who doesn't really like streamed dance much. "I'm embracing it...
Will Upright Citizens Brigade Ever Reopen? ‘I Don’t Know’, Says Amy Poehler
In a feature interview for The New York Times Magazine, the co-founder of the famed, and now troubled, improv company and school said, "It’s...
Douglas Turner Ward, Pioneering Black Theater Artist, Dead At 90
A writer and director as well as an actor, he wrote a 1966 New York Times Op-Ed titled "American Theater: For Whites Only?" that...
France Is Trying To Raise Millions To Buy De Sade’s Filthiest Manuscript
"The French government is appealing for corporate help to acquire the manuscript of the Marquis de Sade's notorious The 120 Days of Sodom, valued...
It’s A 17,300-Year-Old Kangaroo: Australia’s Oldest Rock Art Identified
"A nearly-life-size depiction of a kangaroo — realistic genitalia included — is the oldest known rock painting in Australia. Scientists recently pinpointed its age...
Facebook Ends Australia News Ban After Deal With Government
The the government may not apply the code to Facebook if the company can demonstrate it has signed enough deals with media outlets...
Long Beach Opera Hires James Darrah As New AD
During the pandemic, Darrah’s affinity for film allowed him to pivot to digital content with ease. Over the last six months, the director has...
Australia’s Restless Dance Company Faces A Funding Crisis
When the Australia Council announced its latest four-year funding winners in 2020, Restless was a shock omission, as were La Mama Theatre in Melbourne...
Inside What Makes Tom Stoppard Tick
Anthony Lane: "Many folk, less deserving than Stoppard, and with scarcely a whit of his charm, are greeted with godsends. What marks him out...
Defining The Struggle Inside to “Do The Right Thing”
"From the first-person stance, you navigate the world as an agent trying to realise your projects and satisfy your desires. From the second-person perspective,...
Clarion
Someone’s calling, maybe me. C. C sharp? D? My scalp tightens, which makes me wonder where I am, and who, too. But this voice...
Jeff Alexander Shares the Importance of Live Orchestral Music
The President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra speaks about the importance of live, in-person concerts and the day-to-day leadership of a major symphony orchestra....
Think The Arts Stand Apart From Political Issues? They Can’t Be
As we are now experiencing in new ways with COVID-19, we cannot have a just arts sector within an unjust world. And moreover, we...
Philip Guston’s Daughter Speaks Out On Postponement Of Her Father’s Show
To Musa Mayer’s dismay, her father, an antiracist and the son of immigrants who had fled antisemitic persecution, was now having his complex images...
New Possibilities As Classical Music Explores Music By Black Composers
Somewhere, in an attic or a music library or maybe hiding in plain sight, are pieces by non-white-male composers that, with the right kind...
Jazz Is Dying During The Pandemic
The pandemic has wrecked an already vulnerable jazz industry by forcing live music shows to halt. Musicians and club owners have turned to online...
How Boredom Is Changing Us
Another way the pandemic has had an impact on the economy is by making people bored. By limiting social engagements, leisure activities and travel,...
The Phillips Turns 100
The museum in Washington, DC, founded by Duncan and Marjorie Phillips, was a sensation when it opened as a museum of modern art, and...
In Canada, The Supreme Court Is Facing A Major Case About Comedy And Freedom...
At issue: Whether the comedian Mike Ward harmed a disabled teenager by mocking his disability, calling him "ugly," saying that the youth would die...
