Yearly Archives: 2021
The New Book Shortage Is Starting To Snowball
Print books are in trouble: "Trucks are more expensive, containers are more expensive, labor is more expensive. ... It used to be that you...
The Metaverse: All Hype, Or The Next Big Thing?
A science fiction trope becoming real, "It doesn’t necessarily exist . It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a...
A Request: Please Don’t Let Amazon Eat The Film Industry
"There are eerie similarities between pre-1948 Hollywood and today’s streaming market. ... The top five streaming companies dominate." And Amazon would like to be...
A Fire In London Means The UK Is Missing Subtitles And Transcriptions
The interconnected world can be a real pain when TV subtitles and audio transcriptions just disappear into the smoke - and Deaf and blind...
As Six Reopens On Broadway, Who’s It For?
The hip, fannish crowd is almost the same as it was at shutdown, with a large fillip of relief joining the giddy thrills. "The...
Artists Are Questioning The Motives And Funding Of Their Own Galleries – And Countries
"Welcome to the life of a 21st-century activist artist, whose work is as likely to be exhibited at an international human rights tribunal as...
How Munch Created His Madonna
The sketches below the surface show all the ways it could have gone wrong. - The Observer (UK)
The Choreographers Who Ended Up On A Cruise Ship
Serious choreographers, pandemic, cruise ship? Yes: "The creative team has plunged into the challenges of making a work at sea as part of a...
Congress Is Looking At A Bill Designed To Help Arts Workers
And cultural workers need the money, and purpose: "Creative jobs dropped 53% between late 2019 and mid 2020, recovering only halfway since then, and...
Did Clint Eastwood Endorse CBD Products?
Six point one million dollars says he did not (and a company that owns the rights to his likeness also did not). - The...
How A Homeless Kid From Baltimore Eventually Became The New Mexico Symphony’s Principal Tubist
Imagination, hard work, and a big dose of luck propelled Richard Antoine White's career, he says. - Baltimore Sun
Melvin Van Peebles And The Power Of Artistic Exile
"It is hard to get perspective on your surroundings when your face is being ground into the dirt, or as Van Peebles might have...
This Year’s Turner Prize: Too Worthy For Its Own Good?
The prize was supposed to be populist, but now, and for the past few years, it seems to be idealist instead. "Â The traditional criteria...
Musicians Flee Afghanistan And The Taliban
After trying for a month, "more than 100 young artists, teachers and their relatives affiliated with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, a celebrated school that...
Humans Can Train To Be Alone With Our Thoughts
And we can even find it pleasurable - once the cravings for instant responses from our phones wear off. - Psyche
Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jazz Master Of The Hammond B3 Organ, 79
Smith, who backed Gladys Knight and Dionne Warwick, formed his own quartet, and collaborated with hundreds of others, said the organ was "sunshine, rainbows,...
How Choreographer Bill T. Jones Keeps His Creative Fires Burning
"If you see 45 gestures, made independently, strung together with various musicality and rhythms, against a beautiful song, and then the same gestures juxtaposed...
Can Museums And NFTs Find Common Ground?
For this to work, "museums need to acknowledge NFTs as a natural step in the evolution of contemporary art in sync with our digitally...
Romania’s Enescu Festival Persists Despite The Pandemic
The Romanian "embodied an ideal of the complete musician in his roles as composer, virtuoso violinist and pianist, conductor, teacher and generous mentor to...
The Golden Globes Try Again
Can adding 21 members, six of whom are Black, solve the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's PR issues? "While some within the organization believe that...
Aladdin, Finally Back On Broadway, Halts For Two Weeks After Breakthrough Cases Emerge
"After only one show, Aladdin was paused again because COVID-19 cases were detected within the company." Testing allowed the show to resume for one more performance...
Liverpool, Home To Peaky Blinders And The New Batman, Gets Its Own Film Studios
In addition to hosting Doctor Who and other shows, "the city has previously doubled up as New York for productions including Harry Potter prequel...
The New York Phil Is Essentially On Tour For Its Entire Season
Moving all of the instruments - and all of the music - is no small task. - The New York Times
Wait, Why Does Seinfeld Look So Different On Netflix?
It's all about the ratios. - Slate
The Guardian Of The Art Of Black Lives Matter
In 2020, in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square, fencing to prevent protests was covered with artwork - and it all "became a symbol for the...
