Yearly Archives: 2021
‘Like The Metro At Rush Hour’: Vatican Museums Reopen To The Public, And It’s...
"Museumgoers took to social media to complain about the institution’s failure to implement effective social-distancing measures in some of its most popular spaces last...
Indianapolis Museum/Newfields CEO Resigns After Week Of Outcry
"We are sorry. We have made mistakes. We have let you down. We are ashamed of Newfields' leadership and of ourselves," the board said...
YouTube Chief Talks About What’s Next, Misinformation, And New Features
YouTube is planning an official rollout for “Applause,” a feature—already in testing—that lets viewers make cash payments to their favorite creators by initiating an...
AI Researchers Are Increasingly Worried About The Ethical Implications Of Their Work
Just as some computer scientists seem oblivious to ethical concerns, others appear to be trigger-happy with their moral outrage. - The New Yorker
Can Historians Be Traumatized By What They Study?
"The phenomenon of the historian traumatized by history remains unstudied and is not widely known. Yet anyone who has documented depravity knows the symptoms....
Study: Are “Minor” Literatures More Nationalistic?
"Our data consists of digital editions of 200 works of prize-winning fiction, divided into four subcorpora of equal size: U.S.-American, French, German, and a...
Struggling With The Meaning Of Cultural Appropriation
"Your poem was meant to be a complex double portrait of both the Black caregiver and your white grandmother, and the racist logic and...
Getting A Grip On Australia(s) Through Graphic Novels
"Comic creators have been wrestling with contemporary Australia and its identities in a series of publication coming out this year. What they show is...
The Five Flavors of Strategy
As the chaos and confusion of the global pandemic shows distant glimpses of something less chaotic, the question of “strategy” is emerging once again....
Now We Know What New Orleans Without Mardi Gras Music Is
His city—our cities—aren’t empty now. They’re just pretty much shut down. There’s a social media campaign attached to the Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s new...
How The Bay Area’s Hip-Hop Dance Crews Have Kept On Through COVID
"When the first COVID-19 lockdown rippled across the Bay Area last March, the dance community reeled. … But as the pandemic unfolded, the crews...
Martin Scorsese: How Streaming Is Killing The Movie Art
Scorsese acknowledges streamers benefit his career (without Netflix there would be no “The Irishman,” and without Apple there would be no “Killers of the...
Paul Ganson, Who Saved Detroit’s Orchestra Hall, Dead At 79
The Detroit Symphony's assistant principal bassoonist from 1969-2004, he had been with the orchestra one year when he launched the Save Orchestra Hall campaign,...
How Bang On A Can Changed Contemporary Music
These days, Bang is a sprawling artistic conglomerate, with an annual budget of $2 million to $2.5 million, a dedicated record label, a virtuoso...
Hollywood’s Hottest Young Director Is A Chinese Woman Who Makes Westerns
Chloé Zhao came to L.A. from Beijing to finish high school and go to college, got a poli-sci degree from Mount Holyoke, went to...
Indianapolis Museum Staff Demand CEO Resign Over Job Posting
A group of 85 Newfields employees and members of the Board of Governors released a public letter Tuesday that calls for president Charles Venable to...
What Better Use For An Empty IKEA Store Than As An Arts Center?
That's what could happen in the English city of Coventry: the Swedish furniture chain closed its store there last year, Coventry is the UK's...
Why Disney Really Fired Gina Carano From ‘The Mandalorian’
It wasn't just because she likened being a conservative in America today to being a Jew in 1930s Germany on Instagram. "Carano had become...
Opera Singers Help Long-Term COVID Patients Get Their Breath Back
"Called E.N.O. Breathe and developed by the English National Opera in collaboration with a London hospital, the six-week program offers patients customized vocal lessons:...
Second City Has A Buyer
Last summer, after the pandemic led to the layoff of two-thirds of the company's staff and accusations by alumni of color of serious race...
San Francisco Opera Is Returning To Live Performance With A Drive-In Show
The company's first staged presentation, set for April and May, will be a 90-minute English-language adaptation of Rossini's Barber of Seville on an outdoor...
French Mayor Ordered Museums Reopened, COVID Be Damned. French Court Orders Them Closed Again
An administrative court in Montpellier ruled that Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan (and Marine Le Pen's number-two in the far-right party National Rally, and...
Actress Fired From ‘The Color Purple’ After Anti-Gay Posts Loses Lawsuit
A British employment tribunal unanimously rejected Seyi Omooba's claims of breach of contract and religious discrimination, finding that "there is no breach of contract...
San Francisco Opera To Return To The Stage With Drive-In Opera
“There is a certain visceral quality about being in the same location together and experiencing art. I’m giddy with anticipation at the thought of...
The Cultural Significance Of Magazines
“The best way to think about magazines is as the analog Internet—they’d foster communities of people, just like on social networks,” Steven Lomazow, a...
