Yearly Archives: 2021
“Friends, We Are In For The Adventure Of A Lifetime”: Salonen’s Inaugural Concert At...
Joshua Kosman: "To say that a new era ... has begun at Davies Symphony Hall is true as far as it goes. But that...
Dance Alumni Sue UNC School Of The Arts, Alleging Pattern Of Sexual Abuse
Seven plaintiffs who attended UNCSA as undergraduates during the 1980s give detailed descriptions of predatory behavior, including long-term affairs, by instructors in the school's...
Kennedy Center’s Backstage Workers Vote To Authorize Strike
The unanimous vote by members of the IATSE local comes more than a year after the expiration of their previous contract. Still at issue,...
The 50 Largest Contemporary Dance Companies In The U.S.: A Look At The Numbers
Among the key finds in this new study are that, in the aggregate, contemporary dance in the U.S. operates with less than a quarter...
Afghanistan’s Cultural Sector Goes Underground
“In Afghanistan, work in the field of arts and culture is probably one of the hardest jobs.. but we did it because we loved...
Composer Bright Sheng Removed At University Of Michigan After Showing Olivier Othello Film
“To show the film now, especially without substantial framing, content advisory and a focus on its inherent racism is in itself a racist act,...
Why The Oxford English Dictionary Has Added 6 Korean Words
"They show how Asians in different parts of the continent invent and exchange words within their own local contexts, then introduce these words to...
The Odd Contortions Of Hollywood’s New Movie Museum
The Academy has created spaces that, as it declared last year, would “prioritize the experience of traditionally underrepresented or marginalized people.” Unfortunately, this embrace...
Andras Szanto: The Permeability Of Ideas Versus Our Institutions
"To what extent does the artistic institutional system become distanced from primary creativity? The system of scientific institutions is no less problematic. Sooner or...
Capturing The Movement Of Starlings As Art
Kathryn Cooper first films the starlings in 4K resolution. Then, working with clips that range in length from less than a second to more...
The Novels That Really Want To Change The World? Satires
"'Satire ... does not come with some kind of manifesto for a better world. It tells you what's wrong; it doesn't tell you what...
How San Francisco’s Last Video Store Survives
“Part of why I work so hard doing this is that I believe people should have access to more than what’s just currently in...
Holocaust Museum LA Plans To Transform Itself With Major Expansion
When it moved into its current location in 2010, the museum expected 15,000 visitors a year; by 2020, it was getting 65,000. Now, with...
Hip-Hop Does Not Owe Anyone Political Consciousness Or Moral Virtue
"To generations of listeners, Public Enemy were the ideal of a hip-hop group: fiery and politically engaged, marching through the streets to demand change....
Performative Diversity?
The current emphasis on diversity and inclusivity, however warranted, endangers or distorts a cultural canon that we cannot (in fact, must not) wholly jettison....
How Three New York City Ballet Dancers Prepared Themselves For An Uncertain Return To...
Gia Kourlas: "To get a better understanding of what this strange time has been like, I checked in with … a member of the...
Are Audiobooks Superior To Paper?
Audiobooks aren’t cheating. They aren’t a just-add-water shortcut to cheap intellectualism. For so many titles in this heyday of audio entertainment, it’s not crazy...
60-Hour Workweeks Are Regular In Film And TV All Over The World: Survey
"A global survey of working conditions has found long working hours are now the norm across the film and television industries worldwide, with 50-...
A Wave Of Unionizing At US Museums, With Baltimore The Most Recent
"Workers at the Baltimore Museum of Art have announced plans to form a union, making the employees the latest in a nationwide push for...
Protesters Picket Opening Night At Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre
"The protest is a revival of efforts this summer …(against) what they describe as a toxic culture. … Former employees passed out fliers decrying...
Houston Symphony And Musicians Sign Longest Contract In Their History
"The contract went into effect Oct. 1 and runs through Oct. 3, 2026. The deal includes matters of health care, restoration of the musicians'...
Plagued By Internal Turmoil, American Shakespeare Center Cancels Fall Season
"(With) the Staunton, Va.-based troupe, known for its Elizabethan-style, no-frills approach to the classics, … convulsed by defections and division, it has abruptly canceled...
Nobel Prize For Literature 2021 Goes To Tanzanian Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah
The author of ten novels, born and raised on Zanzibar and resettled in England as a refugee in the 1960s, was cited for "his...
Streaming Has Killed Music Genres. That’s A Real Loss
Musical genres have long had a peculiar imaginative power and participatory quality. They aren’t just labels imposed by an industry; they’re shaped by passions...
European Movie Box Office Down 70 Percent In 2020
European movie theaters suffered a 70.4% year-on-year drop to €2.6 billion ($3 billion) in box office revenue in 2020. In terms of admissions, there...
