Yearly Archives: 2021
Eva Coutaz, Longtime Director Of Classical Label Harmonia Mundi, Dead At 77
"Having started her career with Harmonia Mundi in 1972 as a press officer, she went on to produce more than 800 recordings with artists...
Cicely Tyson, 96
"Regal in bearing, with willowy beauty and delicately chiseled features, Ms. Tyson was known for embodying women of great poise striving under great pressure....
Cheech Marin’s New Museum Gets A Green Light
After years of planning, the long-awaited Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, California, has finally received the green...
With No Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans Creates Floats Out Of Houses
"Look around Rona, socially distanced float houses have become a thing. A really big thing. Apparently, if you to take the parades off our...
The Perils Of Our Time Demand An Artistic Response
Deborah Cullinan: "The events of the past year, and the shocking insurrection that took place at the Capitol on Jan. 6, have reinforced the...
A Rethink In Investing In Smaller Arts Organizations
"It is time to make significant investments in these smaller organizations to increase their capacities and develop a practice that does not make becoming...
This Was An Odd Year For Movies. The Oscars Should Reflect That
"The kinds of movies that traditionally contend for awards — mid-budget dramas with recognizable stars and respectable historical subjects or social themes — were...
Biden’s Inauguration Was Driven By Creativity. So Let’s Use That Creativity…
There can be no national recovery, no American Rescue, without the creative economy, and the 5.1 million creative workers who make it up. And...
Improvised Comedy: How New York’s Standups And Clubs Are (Barely) Making It Through Lockdown
"Despite a state ban on live comedy performances, the pandemic hasn't destroyed the New York comedy scene — it just pushed it underground. …...
Govan’s Folly? Stuck in the LACMA Quagmire
In decades of covering museum buildings, I’ve mostly refrained from “reviewing” a building that hasn’t gone up yet. That’s why I’ve hung back from...
The Cure For Disinformation
"The internet contains, for better or worse, a significant amount of humanity’s intellectual and creative outputs. It’s also a cesspool of outrageous falsehoods. Having...
We’re Seeing More Deaf People On TV. Now Let’s Hear Some Of Them.
"Many deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals have welcomed the increase in visibility that deafness and hearing loss have enjoyed on TV lately. … But for...
Study: Can Machines Make Good Therapists?
A recent study invited college students to talk about their emotions via an online chat with either a person or a “chatbot” (in reality,...
Is Choreography Is Protected By U.S. Copyright? Yes And No
It's a messy enough business that the first commercial choreography for a pop music video (an industry where you'd think there's enough money involved...
The Genius Equation (Or How You Can Become One)
"If you’re a prodigy with a great gift for something, you can simply do it – yet might not be aware of why and...
Wigmore Hall’s Free Streamed Lockdown Concerts Have Been Quite A Success. They’re Also Expensive.
The performances — by such well-known artists as Mitsuko Uchida, Steven Isserlis, and the choir Stile Antico — cost about £3,000 each for personnel...
The Inauthenticity Of Working In A Digital Medium
"With digital, there is no such thing as authenticity. You are trusting that it is what it is. I feel eventually no matter how...
$100 Million Holocaust Memorial And Museum Planned For Site Of Babyn Yar Massacre
"The complex will include a dozen buildings, including two separate museums — one for Ukrainians and Eastern European Jews killed in the Holocaust, and...
New Online Dictionary Tracks History Of Science Fiction Vocabulary
"The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction includes some 1,800 separate entries, from actifan and aerocar to zero-gravity and zine. … A historical dictionary devoted...
COVID And Theatre: How Half A Dozen Different Countries Are Coping
Here are reports from Taiwan ("Shows go on – with precautions in place"), Italy ("A sharply divided theatre world"), the U.S. ("Struggling on despite...
Museums Around Europe Face Yet More Weeks Of Lockdown
Except in the countries where they aren't: the Uffizi in Florence welcomed all of 800 visitors when it reopened last week, and Belgium declared...
Actress Cloris Leachman, 94
" began her astonishingly prolific eight-decade career performing radio plays as a child in Iowa. She appeared in Shakespearean comedy and Eugene O'Neill melodrama...
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Isn’t Cancelled (Yet), But It Is Postponed
With ongoing uncertainty about the future course of the pandemic, Cannes organizers decided they had no choice but to change this year's dates from...
The Culture Wars Come To Slovenia
Perhaps it's better to say the culture wars have been brought to the tiny ex-Yugoslav republic in the Alps, courtesy of prime minister Janez...
The Plight Of The Artist… As Expressed In A Cartoon
There is ample absurdity to wring from the fine-art ecosystem, where hierarchies and quid pro quos rule. Players ruthlessly engage in an unspoken competition...
