Yearly Archives: 2021
Are American Progressive Ideas A Threat To France’s Identity?
French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their society. “There’s...
Liz Lerman Talks Movement & Discord
The choreographer, performer, writer, educator, and speaker shares her creative process and the connection between movement and discord. - Aaron Dworkin
The Latest Dance Craze Sweeping The World
Jerusalema is a song by South African house musician Master KG. Friends in Angola filmed themselves dancing to the hit - the moves have...
The Five-Second Error In The “Nutcracker” Score
He suspects the engraver made the mistake while copying the score, and it didn’t get caught during proofreading. If Tchaikovsky noticed, there’s no indication...
The Agents Behind Hollywood’s Book-To-Movie Boom
“The entire structure of the traditional book-to-film deal has changed. Our authors are now at the cutting edge of those deals, in the selling...
Rauschenberg, Twombly And Johns – A Great Art Love Triangle
Rauschenberg and Twombly were both southerners. Rauschenberg, who was quarter Cherokee, came from Texas, Twombly from the heart of the old Confederacy in Lexington,...
The Chamber Music Series Getting Ten Times Its Usual Audience (And Making Money)
There’s one metric, however, that stands out as a marker of success. Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s virtual concerts are technically free of charge, but...
We Worried About Children On The Internet And Completely Forgot About Adults
Honestly, will we never learn? "Americans have expressed their concerns about each new form of media through fears about children and youth. Younger Americans...
Rupert Neve, ‘The Man Who Made The Recording Console,’ 94
The Grammy-winning architect of modern music "is best known for designing and producing microphone preamplifiers, equalizers, compressors and mixing consoles that are sought after...
How Can ‘Our Town’ Still Feel Utterly Contemporary, 80 Years After Its Opening?
Howard Sherman, author of a new book about the play: "It's a play that people think they know. People want to paint it as...
In Britain, A Dig Reveals A Lot Of Detail About Home Life In The...
Archaeologists "were hopeful of unearthing something of interest because the area has been occupied for more than 3,000 years. But nothing prepared them for...
Playing The Man Who Betrayed Fred Hampton Sent Lakeith Stanfield Into Therapy
Stanfield says it's not only therapy that has made the last year bearable. "The one good thing about this pandemic is being able to...
So, No Spring Openings For Broadway, But You Can Find Some Gems, Safely, Online
All of this is true: "An effort to keep the industry alive has major stars taking to the virtual stage and much-lauded past productions...
The New Mexico Museum Of Art Is Planning To Destroy A Historic Chicano Mural
Not for nothing - for a new museum of contemporary art. But ... really? "'We invited the Department of Cultural Affairs,' Carrie Wood, a...
London’s Bridges Truly Are Falling Down
Or they might, soon. London needs "infrastructure week," but for real, and for much longer than a week. Take Hammersmith. "It’s obvious whom to...
Disneyland Artist And ‘Master Illustrator’ Charles Boyer, 86
Boyer signed on with Disney as a sketch artist in 1960 - and never left. "Boyer was made a Disney Legend in 2005, the...
One Idea For What To Do With Unused And Deconsecrated Churches
Artists need studios, and usually studios with light ... and churches often have that. "Places of worship are typically built to outlast their parishioners....
Why ‘Nadiya Bakes’ Is Such A Big Deal In Foodie Shows
The new show demonstrates just how drastically far food shows have come - but reminds us of how far that had to be, especially...
Teresa Burga, Groundbreaking Peruvian Conceptual Artist, 85
Burga's best-known work, 1981's Perfil de la mujer Peruana, confused many people in its day. She and a psychotherapist friend "interviewed 290 middle-class women...
What The New Movie ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’ Reveals About The United States’...
In short, and in no surprise to anyone who has studied the history of the U.S., or indeed lived that history: "Judas and the...
Outdoors Is The Way For The UK To Return To Theatre
Of course, "The British weather does not always help. A valiant 'drive-through' production of La Bohème staged in a car park by English National Opera last...
A Blow-Up Over Racism, Antisemitism, And Academic Politics In American Musicology
This story is convoluted, and needs careful reading to understand what's going on not only in musicology in the U.S. but also across the...
When Science Doesn’t Cut It
Director Iram Parveen Bilal (I'll Meet You There) explains: "I'm the daughter of a physicist mother and a chemistry professor father. ... We were...
The Hidden, All Too Contemporary, History Behind Middlemarch
No, it's not that many mediocre men are threatened by smart women (timeless!) or that mismatched marriages can destroy those in the marriage (also...
Moving The Louvre’s Collection Far From The Floods
In 2016, when the Seine flooded its banks, museum workers toiled 24 hours a day to haul thousands of artworks out of underground storage...
