Yearly Archives: 2021
Beaming Music To Potential Extraterrestrial Life
The SETI Institute is ready to take music to Mars, or wherever. While it's a listening project, it's also now a beaming project. A...
The Forgotten Black British Writers That A Booker-Winner Wants To Bring Back
Bernadine Evaristo, author of 2019's Booker prizewinning Girl, Woman, Other, is launching, or relaunching, a series of Black British novels that didn't quite make...
Tonys Voting Has A Plan, But The Awards Date Is A Mystery
The Broadway League and the American Theater Wing: "One, the much-delayed awards will be scheduled 'in coordination with the reopening of Broadway.' And two,...
Looking For Movies About Wall Street For, Well, Reasons?
You won't find them on the usual streaming suspects. - The Verge
Corky Lee, Photographer Of Asian America, Dies Of Covid At 73
Lee, the son of immigrants from China, "was determined both to restore the contributions of Asian-Americans to the historical record and to document their...
The Amazing Japanese Rice Field Murals
There’s a village meeting each year to decide the theme. Village officials make a simple computer mockup and then ask art teachers to make...
Survey: When American Arts Organizations Plan To Resume Live Performances
The study surveyed 104 organizations, including 91 in the United States and 13 in Canada, from Dec. 12, 2020 through Jan. 12, 2021. The...
Amanda Gorman Invited To Recite Poem At This Year’s SuperBowl
She will be reciting at the Super Bowl pre-show on Feb. 7, before the Kansas City Chiefs play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. - NPR
A Lawsuit Over Schenkerian Music Theory And A Huge Debate Over How Music Theory...
At its best, music theory creates simplified models that help us understand how compositions are conceived and constructed while leaving space for the mystery...
A Trump Presidential Library? The Argument Against It
"The danger of Trump using a presidential library to burnish his image is far more serious, with the ex-president and his surrogates still promoting...
Why “Our Town” Still Resonates 80 Years Later
With the country splintered, its institutions shaken, a book documenting a classic American play affirming shared life experiences and bedrock values seems especially timely....
Australian Dance Theatre’s Artistic Director Stepping Down After 22 Years
Garry Stewart took the helm at Adelaide-based ADT — which is the country's oldest contemporary dance company — in 1999 and choreographed 20 original...
Simon Rattle’s Departure From London: Sign Of A Post-Brexit Musical Exodus?
"At the darkest hour, with concert halls shuttered and musicians facing visa hell, Rattle’s defection is being regarded, rightly or wrongly, as a loss...
78s Were More Than Just Caruso, Ma Rainey, And Dixieland — They Were Used...
In fact, outside North America and Europe, 78s were the standard record format well into the 1960s, and they hold an enormous variety of...
Playwright: We Need To Stop Cancel Culture
“I do not consent to being part of an arts community that engages in witch hunts of people who don’t think like me,” Carmen...
Mike Birbiglia On Doing Comedy Over Zoom
"I've done about 18 of these virtual shows, and I've learned things from them that I thought I had long understood after 20 years...
Apple’s Tim Cook: We Have To Say All Engagement Isn’t Good Engagement
"At a moment of rampant disinformation and conspiracy theories juiced by algorithms, we can no longer turn a blind eye to a theory of...
After 30 Years, Co-Founder/Editor Of London Review Of Books Retires
"Mary-Kay Wilmers … was one of the founders of the literary magazine in 1979, along with Karl Miller and Susannah Clapp, became co-editor in...
The Improbable Story Of A Disney Movie That Almost Didn’t Get Made
"So, uh, how — and why — did all of this happen? Here is the oral history of The Emperor’s New Groove, an irreverent,...
New Design For COVID-Safe Pop-Up Theatre
The Vertical Theatre, as it's called, will be modular, with a capacity of 1,200 to 2,400, seated in small groups separated (if necessary) by...
Public Radio And TV Face Looming Shortage Of Broadcast Engineers
"The workforce of broadcast engineers — those who know to fix broadcast transmitters, tubes and wires — is reaching retirement age. … Far fewer...
Hey, Joe And Kamala! You Know Who Can Help You Save America? Arts Researchers!
"In addition to being creative thinkers and makers, many artists, designers and architects are also researchers whose work reveals new insights and approaches to...
Did Stock-Trading Redditors Just Save Live Cinema?
Or, if not the entire movie-theater business, at least AMC. The pandemic had made the already-difficult financial situation of the world's largest cinema chain...
Museum Of The Bible Gives 5,000 Artifacts Back To Egypt
"The collection" — which, the museum says, has "insufficient reliable provenance" — "includes manuscripts and papyrus fragments with texts written in Coptic, hieratic and...
Botticelli Portrait Is Now Most Expensive Old Master Painting Ever Sold (Except For ‘Salvator...
"A sterling 550-year-old portrait by the Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli that was the star lot of Sotheby's Old Masters sale has sold for $92.2...
