Yearly Archives: 2021
Lessons For Us From China’s Cultural Revolution
Trump failed to purge all the old élites, largely because he was forced to depend on them, and the Proud Boys never came close...
A Need For Orchestras To Be More Nimble In Scheduling
Until the arrival of the coronavirus, the prevalent model was not particularly friendly to rapid response. Symphony orchestras did a good deal of planning...
Longtime Folger Theatre Director Janet Griffin To Step Down
The announcement means the departure of one of Washington’s longest-serving theater chiefs and an opening in a company with a prestigious literary pedigree: It...
Building Preservation Run Amok? LA Grapples With What To Save
If the owner is explicitly saying the business itself won’t survive, keeping the building around as a cultural monument raises additional questions about what...
Highlights Of 125 Years Of The NYT Book Review
"In many ways, the Book Review’s history is that of American letters, and we’ll be using our 125th anniversary this year to celebrate and...
‘It’s Muybridge on Steroids’: Herman Cornejo And A ‘Photo-Scientist’ Make A Totally Different Dance...
In DANCELIVE by Herman Cornejo, shot by Steven Sebring using his specially developed in-the-round camera system, viewers can "watch from up close and...
New Access: Super High Resolution Images Of Raphael’s Sistine Chapel Drawings
The V&A partnered with the Factum Foundation to create the high-resolution color, infrared and 3-D scans in 2019. And last year, in honor of...
The Pop-Up Newspaper Covering ‘The World’s Largest Protest’
For two months, many thousands of farmers have been staging a massive sit-in with their tractors on the highways around New Delhi, demanding that...
What Happens To Whistleblowers Who Outed Their Arts Organizations?
After the open letters are published, the articles are out, and the declarations are made on social media, what happens to the people behind...
Season Three Of ‘Serial’ Is Headed To HBO
"The third season of the award-winning podcast, which arguably set in motion the current boom for non-fiction audio series, was set in the Cleveland...
What Small Chicago Arts Groups Have Learned About Working Online
Before the pandemic, in-person classes offered by the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company tended to be small, with only 8 to 10 students. But over...
Running The Prix De Lausanne Ballet Competition Despite The Pandemic
Since this year's 78 contestants from 20 countries can't travel to Switzerland, they're submitting pre-recorded videos. The jury members (masked and socially distanced, of...
Why Cities Won’t Be Done In By COVID
Despite the long tradition of anti-urbanism in the U.S. that always seems to see the demise of cities just around the corner, they will...
These Classical Music Organizations Have Always Been Focused On Racial Equity
The long-overdue work that larger institutions have started on in the wake of last summer's Black Lives Matter protests has been the day-in-day-out project...
Pakistan’s Submission For This Year’s Oscars Is Banned In Pakistan
The director, Sarmad Khoosat, is (or was) a popular member of one of the country's most beloved entertainment families; the film itself, Zindagi Tamasha...
Stand-Up Comedian Jailed For Jokes He Hadn’t Told Yet
On New Year's Day, Munawar Faruqui, a rising talent in India's relatively new comedy circuit, was starting off a two-week tour with a gig...
Will The Big U.S. Publishing Houses Be Backing Away From Conservative Political Books?
"There are some in the industry who believe houses have a responsibility to publish a wide range of viewpoints, seeing it as a First...
‘A $75 Million Bet That The Future Of Photography Won’t Always Involve Cameras’
"Leading stock photography company Shutterstock announced today that it has acquired TurboSquid, a digital media company that sells 3D assets, for $75 million. The...
In Rape Case, Filmmaker Luc Besson Is — Well, Not Exonerated, Exactly …
The charge by actress Sand Van Roy was first made in May 2018; it was dismissed for lack of evidence nine months later, and...
Pompeii’s Museum Is Completely Open For First Time In Decades
"The Antiquarium, a museum located on the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii, fully reopened this week for the first time in more...
Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museums Ponders A Name Change
After reporting in the Kansas City Star turned up evidence that William Rockhill Nelson, the Nelson in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art was a segregationist, the...
When Everything Is Seen Through A Screen, What Is Theatre?
"Digital performance has only exacerbated the definitional crises during this year of hard and soft quarantine. At a recent UCLA roundtable on the subject...
Proposed: Why The Art World Needs Populism
"On closer inspection, there is an asymmetric battle between a grassroots struggle to redistribute power, and those who place institutional preservation at the center....
The New Elite: Those Who Have Been Vaccinated
"A leisure class of the newly vaccinated will mean that hotels, catering services and other businesses will be scrambling to employ bartenders, servers and...
Sculptor Barry Le Va Dead At 79
" became part of the New York art scene during the late 1960s and went on to be associated with the Process art and...
