Yearly Archives: 2021
Violinist James Buswell Dead At 74
After debuting with the New York Philharmonic at seven and studying at Juilliard, he became one of the key members of the Chamber Music...
How The Smithsonian Crowdsourced Weather Reports In The 1800s
The Institution handed out weather monitoring equipment to 150 volunteer observers across the country. Each day their reports arrived by telegraph, and the Smithsonian...
Hong Kong’s Art Market Is Flourishing. But New Security Laws Threaten
Never before has the vitality of the market felt so disconnected from the everyday lives of Hong Kong people. - Artnet
Assessing The Pause On Broadway
"I always say the pandemic was the universe telling everyone to go to their room and think about what they’ve done. And while we’ve...
Amazon Wants To Robotize Your Home. Do You Want It?
Science fiction is clearly a leaping-off point for Amazon's next wave of product ideas. Suri Maddhula, director of software for Amazon's Astro, even said as much:...
Netflix Reveals Its Most-Watched Shows
Shonda Rhimes’ “Bridgerton” Season 1 scored as the No. 1 series based on both number of Netflix households and time spent viewing (in the...
TikTok Passes One Billion Users
TikTok’s popularity soared during the pandemic, becoming the most-downloaded app in the world in the first quarter of 2020, with some 315 million downloads in that...
“Nothing Else Like It On TV, Before Or Since”: Soul Train, 50 Years On
"It was the iconic Black music and dance show, a party every weekend that anyone could join from their living room. (On It's Been...
The Case For The Greatness Of “Singin’ In The Rain”
In Singin’ in the Rain, the late Clive James felt he encountered “the absolute concentration of an entire popular culture at its most powerful.” As...
Despite The Uncertain Times, One Ballet Company Has Increased Its Size By 21%
Western Australia has had only one new COVID case in 30 days, and, at least when resource prices are high, the state has money...
Meet The Boston Symphony’s New Leader
The orchestra has a deep pool of artistic talent, a fiercely devoted following, and Gail Samuel’s predecessor, Mark Volpe, grew the BSO’s endowment to roughly...
Preserving The Cree And Ojibwe Languages — With TikTok
"Combining humor, everyday language use, and relatable situations, these videos" — from the Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre in Winnipeg — "are contributing to...
Ten Rules For How To Deal With Critics
Here are ten rules I try to live by in my own experiences with harsh feedback. - Ted Gioia
The New Hotness In Theater Set Design? Glass Boxes
"Even before COVID-19, many ambitious productions had been taking place … in elaborately engineered glass cubes that evoke high Modernism. … There wouldn't seem...
San Francisco, St. Paul, Pilot Minimum Guaranteed Incomes For Artists
Both pilots have received private funding. In San Francisco, after initial city funding, the team raised an additional $3.4 million from #startsmall, a pandemic-relief fund...
Bob Moore, Bassist Who Helped Establish The “Nashville Sound”
"As a mainstay of the loose aggregation of Nashville session professionals known as the A-Team, (he) played on many of the landmark country hits...
“Fire Shut Up In My Bones” At The Met Isn’t Just A Landmark For...
Justin Davidson: "Librettist Kasi Lemmons and composer Terence Blanchard … haven't blown up the genre or bent it to new purpose or smuggled anything...
Kenya Bans Documentary About Young Gay Man’s Struggle For Acceptance
The Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) announced a prohibition on the exhibition, distribution, possession or broadcast of I Am Samuel on Thursday, … saying...
San Antonio Symphony Is On Strike
Two weeks ago, orchestra management made a "last, best and final" contract offer which would cut the number of full-time musicians by 40%; Sunday...
Another Dancer Accuses Former Boston Ballet Star And Her Husband Of Rape
"The dancer, identified only as Jane Doe 100, is one of five female dancers who say Mitchell Taylor Button and his wife, former Boston...
Fraud, Theft, And Breach Of Contract As Conceptual Art (This Is Not Theoretical)
"A Danish artist was given tens of thousands of dollars by a museum to reproduce an old sculpture. Instead, he pocketed the money and...
Four Billion Euros. That’s France’s 2022 Budget For Arts And Culture.
"This historic progression", said culture minister Roselyne Bachelot, "will bring to +15% the lasting increase in the means which have been allocated to culture...
This Year’s MacArthur Fellows
"As we emerge from the shadows of the past two years, this class of 25 Fellows helps us reimagine what's possible," said MacArthur Fellows...
Why Remote Work Is The Future
“A remote-first company can access the best talent in the world. An office-first company can only access those who live within a certain radius...
Is Literature “Technology”?
Angus Fletcher claims that fairy tales, free indirect discourse, autobiography, and such are “technology,” and that their primary purpose is medicinal, so that neuroscience...
