Yearly Archives: 2021
Ban Critical Arguments About America’s History? It’s A Familiar Tactic
We found the same arguments used by anti-radical activists as they sought for years to ban from public schools and universities Howard Zinn’s best-selling...
Now Stabilized, Could Notre Dame Reopen In 2024?
“We’re officially saying that the cathedral is now saved, that it’s solid on its pillars, that its walls are solid, everything is holding together....
How Digitization Is Changing The Essence Of Collecting Culture
The collector is the only one who decides how to arrange her possessions, ordering books by author, title, theme, or even (unfortunately) color of...
A Tonys Ceremony Full Of Apprehension
What you had all night was a temporal mash-up: Broadway’s past jockeying for space with Broadway’s future — a future that at the moment...
A Subway TikTok Artist Realizes His Dream
That might sound like a word salad, but portrait artist Devon Rodriguez's 20 million followers on TikTok really did bring him fame, money, and...
Slave Play Was Shut Out Of The Tonys
Playwright Jeremy Harris tweeted that the play had a massive impact anyway. He added, "I told my mom this was gonna happen this morning bc...
Recreating Real Life – Including Homelessness – In Video Games
Games like The Sims can get boring, so content creators add virtual challenges to keep themselves, and others, engaged. - Wired
Two Of The Nepalese Works At New York’s Rubin Museum Identified As Looted
"Though Nepal banned the export of ancient statues of deities through the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act in 1956, these and other objects of cultural...
Jagged Little Pill’s Producers Apologize For Problems With Trans And Nonbinary Actors
The producers apologized and said they had "hired a new dramaturgical team (which includes nonbinary, transgender and BIPOC representation), to revisit and deepen the script"...
What Is This Magical Streaming Gift?
It's a £5 video of Olivia Colman performing a translated lecture by Elena Ferrante, of course. - LitHub
When GBBO Met Billy Elliott
Their sensibilities, plus a true story of a Liverpool bakery's travails, ended up as Home Baked: The Musical. - BBC
Eileen Atkins Thinks Her Memoir May Disappoint Fellow Dames Maggie Smith And Judi Dench
Atkins had been thinking for years about writing a memoir. "But it was only once the pandemic hit ... that she was able to...
The Queer, Indigenous Creatives Behind Reservation Dogs
Screenwriter Tommy Pico on what that adds to the show: "Humor is a tool — a marker of resilience, a willingness to heal and...
Marina Abramovic Says She Thinks Often About Dying
As in, every single day. All the better to celebrate life, says the performance artist. "You have to think about what you’re going to...
Haile Gerima Rejected Racist Hollywood
But his 1993 classic Sankofa is finally coming into its own. - Los Angeles Times
Video Game Music Can Also Truly Be Symphonic
Consider the music of Final Fantasy at Royal Albert Hall: "The two worlds of gaming and classical music merged, and while some concertgoers wore...
If You’re An Artist Who Likes ‘Rugged’ Places, Social Media Might Be Ruining Your...
Ah, the (literally spilling over the hills, dales, glades, and coasts) humanity. - The Guardian (UK)
The Ugly Truths Of Hollywood
"I couldn’t help but think about how the approaching opening of the Academy Museum — a space that will celebrate the work of these...
The New York Times’ Tonys Live Blog
The awards, as they happen. - The New York Times
The Georgia Review Editors Explain The Point Of Literary Journals
"I'm really into thinking about the literary journal as a clandestine space for a community’s periodic meetings, a small public within a public whose...
Are NFTs A Bubble Or A Revolution?
Clearly, it's not just visual art that is part of this market: "Virtually any asset could be sold for an astronomical amount." - El...
The Tonys Are Part Streaming, Part Network, And After 27 Months, May Be Completely...
Buckle up, theatre buttercups: "There are several unusual aspects to this season’s Tonys race." Understatement of the year, NYT. - The New York Times
Karen Olivo Exits Broadway And Works For Something Better
Olivo, an alum of In the Heights, left the Moulin Rouge production over issues including industry silence about Scott Rudin's alleged abuse. She says,...
As Big Tech Gives In To Big Government, Everyone In Russia Is Harmed
Google and Apple opened offices in Russia. Then Putin pressured them to delete his opposition's Smart Voting app - and they caved. "This episode...
That’s No Rubens, Artificial Intelligence Says Of A 2.5 Million Pound Painting
Re that Samson and Delilah purchase, National Gallery, er. "I was so shocked. ... We repeated the experiments to be really sure that we were...
