Yearly Archives: 2021
Manet Painting Unseen For 140 Years Headed To Auction
"The oil on canvas painting, named after the dog, a griffon called Minnay, is one of a series of eight dog paintings Manet produced...
Salonen And San Francisco Symphony Open Streaming Platform
"The new on-demand streaming service, dubbed SFSymphony+, is scheduled to launch on Feb. 4 with a chamber program curated by Salonen as part of...
Biden Axes Trump’s ‘1776 Commission’ On History Curriculum
"President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued an executive order to dissolve the 1776 Commission, a panel stood up by President Donald Trump … as...
Art Basel Postponed To September 2021
"In another blow to Art Basel and its owner, MCH Group, the art fair's organizers have postponed its flagship edition in Switzerland for the...
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Will Happen, But May Be Postponed To July
"With the Cannes Lions still on track to run June 21-25, it’s feasible that the Cannes Film Festival could be assembled in time...
Meet Maya Phillips, The NYT’s Newest Critic-At-Large
"There have been a lot of bad things happening this year, obviously. But the good thing about being a critic during this pandemic is...
Wikipedia @20: A Little Piece Of Utopia Left On The Internet?
As more and more of the internet is consolidated, discredited, and co-opted by capital, Wikipedia begins to look like a vestige of a bygone...
The Historian And The Nazi Art Thief
“The paper trail for these art plunderers, as for most second-rank figures in Nazi Germany, largely dried up after their interrogations and de-Nazifications in...
The Man Saving Cities One Historic Building At A Time
“These once-dead buildings are now living spaces where people work, eat and carry out their lives,” says Luis Martín Bogdanovich, the general manager of...
Mattel Rolls Out A New “Maya Angelou Barbie”
The new Barbie, whose face is “sculpted to Dr Angelou’s likeness” and who is wearing a head-wrap, jewellery and floral print dress on its...
The Power Of Jigsaw Puzzles To Put The World Back Together
If maps are representations of a larger reality, then jigsaws are maps too. Indeed, they began life this way, as ‘dissected maps’. Invented by...
‘Moulin Rouge!’ — An Oral History Of A Broadway Smash Snuffed Out By Disease
"Set in fin de siècle Paris but supercharged by 75 pop songs, it opened to a rave from The New York Times ('This one's...
Ominous Juxtaposition? Biden Flanked by Duncanson’s “Rainbow” & Statue of a Murdered President
Am I the only one who gasped at the photo in this tweet? - Lee Rosenbaum
Why Germany Is The Greatest Arts Nation
This is the greatest modern artistic nation in Europe. Art history tends to get it all wrong, exaggerating the glamour of French art, just...
Read (And Watch Again) Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Poem
Here's the video and the transcript. - The Hill
Roger Mandle, Who Ran RISD And Co-Founded Qatar’s Museums, Dead At 79
As director of the Toldeo Museum of Art, he organized a pathbreaking (and record-breaking) El Greco exhibition. As president of the Rhode Island School...
The Tiniest Art Gallery (And Please Take The Art)
“The idea is pretty simple — anyone is welcome to leave a piece, take a piece or just have a look around and enjoy...
When They Make A Movie About Your Wife’s Illness And Death, And Critics Hate...
Journalist Matthew Teague made his career covering war and disaster zones, but it was a longform essay for Esquire about his wife's terminal cancer...
How Amanda Gorman Became Amanda Gorman And Poet Laureate For The Inauguration
Her precocious path was paved with both opportunities and challenges, an early passion for language and the diverse influences of her native city. Gorman...
Google And France Make Deal To Pay News Outlets For Content
"Google and a French publishers' lobby said on Thursday they had agreed a copyright framework under which the U.S. tech giant will pay news...
Remembering Director Mike Nichols
A vocal opponent of the auteur theory, which gives directors primary credit for the films they make, Nichols treated cinema as a fundamentally collaborative...
Glastonbury, UK’s Largest Rock Festival, Cancelled For Second Year In A Row (Thanks, COVID)
"In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth," the organizers said in a statement, "it has become clear that we simply will...
Black Dancer Sidelined At Berlin State Ballet Won’t Give Up Struggle
"Berlin first black dancer, Chloé Lopes Gomes, said she has been made to feel different because of her skin colour since she first...
The Prado Will Re-Hang Its Collection To Feature More Work By Women And Non-Spaniards
" has announced plans to make a 'far more inclusive' place by reordering its permanent collection to ensure greater representation of works by...
Art Collector/Felon Tries To Redeem His Reputation With Museums (Built With Spaniards’ Tax Money)
" Polo, a financier whose roller-coaster career included a major art fraud scandal that landed him in prison, has recently resurfaced in central Spain,...
