Yearly Archives: 2021
Author Of ‘War Horse’ Insists He Wasn’t Trying To Censor Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’
" described '21st-century sensibilities' as having prevented the inclusion of the play in Tales from Shakespeare, his retelling of 10 Shakespeare plays for...
Unknown El Greco Painting Discovered In Spain
The small canvas depicting Christ carrying the cross and wearing the crown of thorns, owned by a private individual, was authenticated after two years...
Dorms Designed By Louis Kahn In India Saved From Wrecking Ball
The board of governors of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad admitted that an international outcry prompted their decision to call off plans...
Lee Breuer, Experimental Stage Director, Dead At 83
"A tenacious outsider who refused his sole Tony Award nomination — for his biggest hit and only Broadway show, the Sophocles adaptation The Gospel...
As Australia’s Arts Festival Season Begins Amid The Pandemic, All Eyes Are On Sydney
"The Festival is poised to open on Wednesday and its administrators are on high alert. Though Covid-19 case reports remain low, the...
Sydney’s Reopening Theatres Say They’re ‘COVID-Safe.’ Are They?
The Opera House finally became the last of the city's major venues to require masks, but enforcing the policy is not easy, and most...
IRS: Executors Undervalued Prince’s Estate By $80 Million
The IRS determined that Prince’s estate is worth $163.2m, overshadowing the $82.3m valuation submitted by Comerica Bank & Trust, the estate’s administrator. The discrepancy...
The TikTok Musical That’s Already Earned $1 Million
At a running time of 51 minutes, and with perhaps only half the numbers required for a full adaptation of the 2007 animated Oscar-winner,...
The Institutions That Used To Support Creative Work
"Artists in the middle of the twentieth century flourished not because the economy was inherently favorable to them, but as a result of powerful...
Frida Kahlo Has Become An Icon – At The Expense Of Her Art?
Her claims to eminence were those of someone who as a woman of her time, and disabled too, needed to find ways to make...
Lessons For Classical Music After The Lockdown
"Yes, musical organizations will talk about learning pragmatic lessons from this pandemic. But as the industry begins the long march back toward some semblance...
25 Dancers, Choreographers And Companies To Watch In 2021
Want to know where dance is going in 2021 as the world (hopefully) comes out of COVID lockdown? Here are 25 bright lights to...
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Musicians Protest Met Tactics
“Every other major orchestra has been compensated since the very beginning of the pandemic. Met management is using the pandemic opportunistically. They are not...
Congress Passes New Controls On Antiquities In The Defense Authorization Bill
Regulators have long worried that the opacity of the antiquities trade, where buyers and sellers are seldom identified, even to the parties in a...
Study: Was Stonehenge Built As A Giant Amplifier?
The study found that people who spoke or played music inside the monument would have heard clear reverberations against the massive standing stones. Testing...
Star Museum Directors Talk The Future Of Museums
As the Ford Foundation’s president, Darren Walker, recently told me, “museums are in a crisis because America is in a crisis.” Museums shape narratives...
Quibi Didn’t Last, But Its Shows May Move To Roku
The short-form site crashed and burned mere months after rolling out millions of dollars worth of shows, but Roku is already offering ad-supported free...
The Return Of The (High School) Radio Play
The teen actors couldn't perform outside because it was too cold, and they couldn't film because their school went virtual partway through the term....
John Outterbridge, Sculptor Of Cast-Offs And Inspirational Arts Mentor, 87
Outterbridge, also an influential (and "magical") arts administrator and educator, was a master of the assemblage, using the sculptures to tell stories about history...
How A 65-Year-Old Actor Became An Instagram Maven
Leslie Jordan wasn't planning any of this, not the 5.5 million followers or the media attention. But, hey, lockdown. "Out of boredom, he began...
For Independent Bookstores, The Long 2020 Nightmare Is Not Nearly Over
The legendary Powell's still sits empty of customers, no matter how many people may be buying online or via curbside pickup. The hope for...
Uncovering – Literally – The Forgotten And Hidden Work Of Italy’s Women Artists
In Italy, for centuries, women weren't allowed to work as artists, but many did anyway. The group Advancing Women Artists has been working its...
In Many Countries, Losing Restaurants Means Losing Community
Diego Salazar, former chair of the World's 50 Best Restaurants, has had a longer quarantine than many people. Sure, he and his wife order...
Painting In Apocalyptic Times
The Canadian artist painting 2020 for a spot across from Salvador Dalí's Santiago El Grande, which includes a nuclear bomb going off: "I wanted...
The Acts Of Art And Creativity Censored In 2020
The year was terrible for global pandemic reasons, but also for brutality against artists, journalists, writers, playwrights, cinematographers, and more. How bad was it?...