Yearly Archives: 2021
Black, Queer, And Other Theatre Artists Left The Flea To Protest Racism
Now the Fled Collective artists are back, in collaboration with the theatre, after 18 months of restorative justice work. - American Theatre
Do We Need A New Bill Of Rights For An Artificial Intelligence-Driven World?
Absolutely, we do. "Some of the failings of AI may be unintentional, but they are serious and they disproportionately affect already marginalized individuals and communities."...
Book Sales Soared In Britain During Lockdown
Can the physical, print book continue its run this year? Independent bookstores would really like books to keep selling, even when people aren't trapped...
Do Streaming Release Strategies Even Matter?
Whether episodes are released week by week (Only Murders in the Building) or all at once to binge (Squid Game), well, experts haven't yet...
Netflix’s Trans Workers Protest Dave Chappelle’s New Special
The comedian has often told transphobic jokes, and the streamer's workers are fed up. Software engineer Tara Field "tweeted a grim and long list...
A Portrait Of Chopin Bought At A Flea Market Turns Out To Be From...
The portrait was peeling with age, and it hung for three decades in a private home in Poland after that consequential flea market find....
The Wexford Festival Opera Turns 70
Elaine Padmore, artistic director 1982-94: "I was the casting director. I chose everything: repertoire, production teams, every singer, even the chorus. That was wonderful....
The Workers’ Fight That Could Transform Hollywood
These are some of the stories IATSE members have been sharing: "Eighteen-hour workdays with no lunch breaks. Car accidents caused by sleep deprivation. A...
World History, According To Disneyland
"The castle at the center of the park, homage to the glorious medieval years after the bubonic plague wound down, when fair maidens...
Maria Ressa Just Won A Nobel – Only The 18th Woman In 126 Years...
With half the world made up of women, the obvious question arises: Why have so few been granted the committee’s most prestigious prize and,...
The Fall Of Rome Didn’t Happen When You Think It Did
The fall of Rome in 476 is a historical turning point that was invented nearly 50 years later as a pretext for a devastating...
The Right To Be Forgotten: Should Newspapers Have To Remove Your Name If You...
“The big concern here is that, basically, news organizations are now willingly performing much more extreme acts of censorship of their own content than...
New Player In Billion-Dollar Music Rights Management
HarbourView is the latest player in what has become a high-stakes contest in the music business: the ownership and control of catalogs of songs,...
When Jan Swafford Was Asked To Review An AI-Written “Beethoven Tenth” Symphony
“Not for me,” I said. “I know pretty much what I’ll think about it, and my review could get snarky.” “If so, that would...
Oscar Wilde — Martyr? Wit? Predator? Artist? “Posing Somdomite”? All Of The Above, Which...
"The refracted versions of self that appear in his writing allowed him to test out real-life modes of being; in turn, the acts of...
Of Poetry, Plagiarism, And Artistic Influence
Where were the limits exactly, in what was deemed to be a case of poetry plagiarism? How many lines that emerged while writing, any...
Explaining The Unexplainable Career Of Laurie Anderson
Sam Anderson: "The anti-careerism of her career is part of what has made her illegible to mainstream audiences. Although a legend in some circles,...
The Transformative Conductor: David Alan Miller @ 30 Years Leading The Albany Symphony
“The orchestras I've worked with have been a bit like ocean liners. Very big, little hard to turn around. And I would say the...
How A Little Book-Of-The-Month Mail-Order Club Laid Ground For The Gay Rights Movement
"In early-1950s America, Donald Webster Cory had probably the largest L.G.B.T. mailing list in the country, and maybe in the world." (Mr. Cory was...
The New Musicology: Beethoven Was Just an “Average White Composer”?
"These various controversies are far from simple disputes between ‘conservatives’ and ‘progressives’ but emblematic of a discipline in which some protagonists lack a sense...
So How Did the Elgin Marbles End Up At The British Museum In The...
The short answer is that Lord Elgin simply took them from the Parthenon and shipped them home to London. True as such, but, as...
Edward Snowden: Balancing Risk, Reality And Facts
The true challenge is not to enumerate the risk, but to live with it; to stake out the resilient middle ground between denying danger altogether and...
Verbatim Drama, Straight From Real Life, Comes To Broadway
Tina Satter, whose Is This A Room is a transcript of the FBI interrogation of intelligence leaker Reality Winner, and Lucas Hnath, whose Dana...
What Runaway Hit “Squid Game” Shows About South Korea’s Problems (It Isn’t Pretty)
"(The Netflix series's success) might be somewhat ironic given that Squid Game is all about socioeconomic divides, the exploitation of the poor by the...
“A Gonzo Ethnography of Academic Authority”: Tenured Princeton Professor Gets Fired And Goes Nuts...
Alejandro Zaera-Polo, having been pushed out as dean of Princeton's architecture school in 2014, was dismissed from the faculty by unanimous vote of the...
