Yearly Archives: 2021
What Will Happen When The College Culture Wars Come For Public Radio?
Nearly two-thirds of NPR stations are affiliated with colleges or universities, and "with higher education at the crossroads of the culture wars, public media...
The Golden Globes Will Not Be Televised On NBC
But they are happening, and they will be televised - on the CW Network. Will anyone in Hollywood care? - Los Angeles Times
The Pacific Northwest’s Only Latinx Theatre Plans Its Comeback
Milagro Theatre's artistic director: "It brought home the value of what we do — that we are practitioners of live theater. ... How do...
Tango Is Back, Baby
During the pandemic, tango suffered more than most other dance forms. "There is no distance between bodies; partners lean into each other, faces and...
The Team Orchestrating Your Brain’s Consciousness
This new framework points to a view of the brain as a fusion of the local and the global, arranged in a hierarchical manner. -...
Visa Delays Are Crippling US Music World
The delays have hampered many industries, but they are particularly upending classical music, which relies on stars from all over the world to make a...
How Opera Invented The Modern Fan
Theater impresarios quickly recognized them as their ideal audience: the true-blue fans who reliably subscribed to the whole opera season; bought programs, autographed photos; and drummed...
Is There A Role For Art In A Post-Liberal World?
The liberal beliefs that underpin today’s international art world are only shared by a tiny minority of the global population. Yet the West’s art...
An Audio Producer On The Process Of Becoming Deaf
I know neither birdsong nor silence, and yet am acutely aware that countless people struggling with their own version of “life is unfair” would...
The Benefit Of Watching Horror Movies
People can derive pleasure from recreational horror, whether in a haunted attraction or in front of the screen. For some, it is about maximum...
The Professor Who Showed Us That Teaching Writing Is More Than Just Correcting Mistakes
Mike Rose at UCLA "heralded a paradigm shift in the way writing is taught in our educational system. … (He) asked teachers to understand...
Tracking Arts Unemployment: Still Grim
As of August 2021, the national rate had fallen below 6% while the sector rate increased to over 10% once again. - SMU Data...
London Mayor Announces Plan For Huge New Cultural District
The former industrial district in Newham, East London, a big destination for new immigrants, will get film, music, and art studios as well as...
Chicago Art Institute Fires 150 Docents
Once you cut through the blather, the letter basically said the museum had looked critically at its corps of docents, a group dominated by...
Chicago Art Institute Board Chair Explains Why 150 Docents Were Fired
Robert M. Levy: "In order to succeed, the Art Institute and our peer group must let go of the museum tenet of “this is...
K-Pop Isn’t Just Music, It’s Become A Dance Genre
"From the comical horseback-riding step in PSY's 'Gangnam Style' to the carefree peace-sign–wielding grooves in BTS's 'Permission to Dance,' K-pop choreography often goes viral....
Rotten Tomatoes And Measuring The Divide Between Critics And Audience
The new Disney Plus documentary on Dr Anthony Fauci, which explores the personal side of the controversial figure, has a certified 91 percent approval...
As Netflix Has More International Hits, Subtitles Are Becoming A Serious Issue
Some observers have been criticizing the English titles for Squid Game in particular, with one Korean-American even saying "If you don't understand Korean, you...
Twelve Predictions About The Future Of Music
Dead musicians will start by giving tours in concert halls, but as the cost of the technology goes down, they will begin performing everywhere....
This “Library” Lends Artworks To Hundreds Of Museums
Since 1984, the Broad Art Foundation (yes, as in Eli and Edythe) in Los Angeles has made more than 8,700 loans (well over 200...
Landscape Architect Who Rehabs Contaminated Sites Is Inaugural Winner Of Oberlander Prize
Julie Bargmann, whose firm is called D.I.R.T. ("Dump It Right There") has been given the first Oberlander Prize, a $100,000 biennial award for landscape...
Gallerist Margo Leavin, Who Helped Make L.A. Into A Contemporary Art Capital, Dead At...
For more than 40 years, she presented some of California's most important artists (e.g., John Baldessari, Alexis Smith) and major solo shows of the...
Higher Education Is Now An American Culture War Battleground. Public Radio Could Get Trampled.
Many listeners don't realize how enmeshed public radio is with higher ed: two-thirds of NPR outlets are affiliated with colleges or universities, many of...
Just What Are Esa-Pekka Salonen And His “Collaborative Partners” At The San Francisco Symphony...
Esperanza Spalding: "You may know who you're writing for, the instrumentation, the length. … But once you actually start populating the spaces with notes...
And Who Are These San Francisco Symphony “Collaborative Partners”, Anyway?
Here's what to know about Nicholas Britell, Julia Bullock, Claire Chase, Bryce Dessner, Pekka Kuusisto, Nico Muhly, Carol Reiley, and Esperanza Spalding. - San...
