Yearly Archives: 2021
Peter G. Davis, Classical Music Critic For The New York Times And New York...
Davis "presided over the field during boon years in New York in the 1960s and ’70s, when performances were plentiful and tickets relatively cheap,...
Where Did All Of Hollywood’s Women Go?
In 1917, Warner Bros. had eight films directed by women. In 2017, it had ... one. What the heck? Well, for one thing: "Female-focused...
That Podcast Exposing One Media Empire’s Bigotry And Workplace Bullying Came Under Fire For...
This is a twisty, turny saga that does not in any way make the original media empire - Bon Appetit, of course - look...
The Show’s Going On Down Under
This sounds wildly exotic and dangerous to most theatregoers in the U.S. right now: "A few days ago, Kylie Estreich went to a theater...
Is There A Way To Change, And Improve, Arts Nonprofits?
Issues: "Change will feel snail-like as long as white organizational leaders, tenured professors, board members, and funders control and dictate, the pace of inclusion...
The Music And Life Lessons Of Piano Teacher Cornelia Vertenstein
Vertenstein, a Holocaust survivor, was 93 when she died earlier this month. She "began giving lessons at age 14 in war-torn Romania. She did...
Scorsese Says Streaming Algorithms Are Ruining Film
True? Film has always had marketing, PR, and of course ratings: "It would be a mistake to present the old gatekeepers in romantic colours...
As The Tonys Remain Undetermined, Where Are Previous Nominees Now?
A Broadway stage manager who's now in graduate school for (logically) organizational leadership project management: "I initially thought, well, I'll get a class or...
Why Are So Many Writers Having Difficulty Writing During COVID?
“The problem with writing is it’s just another screen, and that’s all there is … I can’t connect with my imagination. I can’t connect...
Cancellation Of New London Concert Hall Adds To UK Musicians’ Woes
“It’s a further confirmation of the parochialization of British music and the arts,” said Jasper Parrott, a co-founder of HarrisonParrott, a classical music agency,...
American Shakespeare Center Loses Director, Will Be Actor-led
Ethan McSweeny has served as artistic director of the American Shakespeare Center since 2018. He announced his resignation effective Feb. 11, 2021. - Washington Post
When Anthony Haden-Guest Met The Christos
It was during the Running Fence project that Christo and Jeanne-Claude took me to meet the Charles Schulz, the late creator of Peanuts, who had a home in the...
Consider The Ushers…
Usher is a variant of the French huisier, from the Latin ostiarius, a custodian of the doors. The role comes from early modern theater,...
Breakthrough: Scientists Figure Out How To Talk To Dreamers In Their Sleep
An international team of researchers was able to achieve real-time dialogues with people in the midst of lucid dreams, a phenomenon that is called...
Pigs Have Learned To Play Video Games
In a research lab at Penn State, "four pigs — Hamlet, Omelette, Ebony and Ivory — were trained to use an arcade-style joystick ...
How Hollywood Has Shaped Our Views Of The Presidency
When the idea and the office of the president was regarded with a sort of reverence, presidential representations were more heroic, historian Dean J....
When Thornton Wilder Came Up With An Act Four Of ‘Our Town’
"Following his enlistment in the military in World War II, only ten days before he would age out of eligibility for active service, Wilder...
The Real Failures Of Our Cultural Policies
"The hidden costs of socially engaged arts practice is inextricably connected to the crisis of social care and service provision. It is also a...
Why Do We Have Such Trouble Getting Monuments Of Women Right?
Consider, for instance, the new, widely derided "For Mary Wollstonecraft" monument in London. "Why couldn't a statue of Wollstonecraft, the individual woman, be seen...
Why “Noisy” Brains Are So Attractive (And More Difficult)
"The use of antidepressants has inadvertently left many of us less able to feel empathy toward others, laugh, cry, dream, and enjoy life just...
How To Spot A Forged Dead Sea Scroll Fragment
"In 2009, the Green family, owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of arts-and- crafts stores, began acquiring a series of weathered fragments advertised as...
Finally, The Obama Presidential Center Is Underway
"This month, in the wake of an appeals court decision favorable to the city and the recent completion of federal reviews, Mayor Lori Lightfoot...
Thousands Are Angry About New Bronze Doors For 800-Year-Old Cathedral
"Plans to mark the 800th anniversary of Burgos's magnificent Gothic cathedral with three enormous new bronze doors have ushered in an unholy row, with...
Could This Series Be The ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ For The 14th Amendment?
"The new Netflix series Amend: The Fight for America, produced by Will Smith and Larry Wilmore, seeks to not through song, but extended,...
What’s At Stake For Chicago With The Sale Of Second City (To A New...
Chris Jones: "The issue now is the future of an institution that is not just a major tourist draw to Chicago but one of...
