Yearly Archives: 2021
Choreographer Annie-B Parson Says The Pandemic Has Made Us All Dancers
"I realized right away with COVID that people were becoming dancers, in that their spatial awareness was growing. We were literally afraid of each...
Zoom – It’s A Song Lyric, It’s A Facilitator Of Romance…
As a nonsense word perfect for a doo-wop song. It's a video app that connects people and (sometimes) facilitates romance. - WBUR
Now That ‘The Great Gatsby’ Is In The Public Domain, Will It Be Understood...
The novel has been misinterpreted for a long time: just after it was published, Fitzgerald complained to Edmund Wilson that "of all the reviews,...
Historic Weyerhaeuser Corporate Campus, Under Threat Of Development
The site, which the City of Federal Way annexed in 1994, has been lauded over the years for the pioneering way it intertwines building...
Did The BBC Censor This Play About Buckingham Palace?
"Peter Barnes had 14 soliloquies on BBC Radio 3 under the umbrella titles Barnes' People and More Barnes' People. They attracted remarkable actors,...
At Last Minute, Trump Made The Arts Commission Overseeing Capitol All-Male, All-White
"After Donald Trump made a flurry of hasty, last-minute appointments to the board that oversees the design of much of what is built in...
Orchestras Must Overthrow The Tyranny Of Subscription Programming, Says NY Times
Anthony Tommasini: " locks them into standard-issue, week-after-week programs loaded with the classics and sprinkled, at best, with unusual or new choices. … Why...
They’ve Found The Emperor Hadrian’s Breakfast Room, And It Was Quite Something
"Researchers discovered the breakfast area within the ruins , and it reveals how the emperor and his wife began each day with an impressive...
Whatever Became Of Shelley Duvall? This.
A sting of Robert Altman films in the 1970s made her into a major movie star with a Best Actress win at Cannes. Then...
Netflix And Dave Chappelle Make Peace, And His Show Is Back
"I asked you to stop watching the show and thank God almighty for you, you did," he told an audience in Austin. "You made...
L.A. MoCA Is Restructuring, Will Hire New Executive Director
"Museum of Contemporary Art Director Klaus Biesenbach will take on a new role as artistic director … will focus on programming, collections and...
Jazz Pianist Chick Corea, 79
"Since the 1960s, Mr. Corea had been a prolific and dynamic force in music, building on his early training in classical music, Latin jazz...
Southern Hemisphere’s Largest Arts Festival Watches And Waits As COVID Restrictions Come And Go
"Adelaide Fringe festival is scrambling to determine how the sudden closure of South Australia's borders to Melbourne residents may affect dozens of its shows....
How The San Francisco Symphony Has Rebranded
The modern approach plays out in its new look, which patrons will see on everything from posters outside the box office to tickets to...
Criticism As Context
Understanding postcritique begins with understanding what has been the dominant mode of interpretation in literary studies for many decades: critique. Critique involves giving an...
Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Write Compelling Novels
If computers could do literature, they could invent like Wells and Homer, taking over from sci-fi authors to engineer the next utopia-dystopia. And right...
LA’s Empty Museums
Los Angeles, where the coronavirus pandemic has been particularly severe, is the largest city in the nation whose museums have yet to reopen even...
Robert L. Herbert. Who Changed The Way We Look At Impressionism, Dead At 91
"When Professor Herbert began delving into Impressionism, the field was threatened by a kind of anemic gentility, arid formalism and French literary theory. His...
#Queertheballet Explained
"Without visible exemplars, many queer women and non-binary people question their own place within the art form. “Growing up, I felt like I was...
In Praise Of The Most Underrated Punctuation Mark
"That semicolons, unlike most other punctuation marks, are fully optional and relatively unusual lends them power; when you use one, you are doing something...
Vancouver Art Museum Backs Down Its Major Expansion
Fundraising for the project has been at a virtual standstill for the past two years, since Vancouver’s Chan family, headed by Burrard International Holdings...
What Do You Get When A Drag Queen Crosses Streaming Theater With A National...
What you get is writer-performer Kris Andersson's Dixie’s Happy Hour, "a 95-minute performance streamed to patrons of 21 arts centers and theaters across the...
This Year’s Oscars: Brought To You From All Over
For several years in the 1950s, starting in 1952, Oscar night featured simultaneous gatherings in Los Angeles and New York. One can imagine something...
How Breakdancing Got Itself Into The Olympics
"The story of breaking's meteoric rise to the Olympic stage — it's set to make its debut at the Paris Summer Games in 2024...
A More Diverse Oscars, Sure. But Look A Little Closer…
In a category that has historically overlooked female directors, this feels like progress. After all, only five women have ever been nominated for the...
