Yearly Archives: 2021
E.M. Forster’s Most Influential Novel Was The One He Couldn’t Publish
As it circulated in manuscript (it was only published posthumously) from the author to Christopher Isherwood and onward, Maurice "became first an open secret...
What Social Media Needs To Learn From Traditional Media
Even if there were a dozen major social networks, each one would still need to deal with the content dilemmas plaguing the existing juggernauts....
You Can Now 3D-Print Yourself A Whole Gallery’s Worth Of Miniature Historical Statuary
A user of the 3D-printing platform Sketchfab has assembled digital renderings, ready to download and print fabricate, of artworks ranging from an ancient Egyptian...
The Only Degree Program In Dance In The State Of Arkansas Has Been Axed
The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas-Little Rock formally voted last week to eliminate the school's BA in dance. A formerly tenured...
Ebony Magazine’s Former CEO Committed Fraud To Keep It Alive, Alleges SEC
Willard Jackson, who was forced out in 2020, is one of several men accused of diverting crowdfunded investment money raised for marijuana-related business ventures;...
Last Suspect In Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Robbery Dead At 85
Robert Gentile, a mob figure who did several stints in prison on unrelated charges, refused for decades to speak with FBI agents about the...
London Arts Orgs And Audiences Are Jeopardizing Their Comeback By Being Lax About COVID
Mark Pullinger finds that, while venues' staff may be masked themselves, they're not requiring patrons to have face coverings or proof of vaccination (to...
It’s Just Too Much Trouble For EU Groups To Hire British Musicians Post-Brexit, Warns...
"People who are normally hired by organisations abroad are being told, 'I'm sorry, we just don't have the capacity to bring somebody from the...
Riccardo Muti Extends Chicago Symphony Contract For One More Season
His term as music director was set to expire next summer, but with the pandemic having shut down CSO concerts for the period when...
Poetry: The New Digital Divide
Online discussion has created a new landscape for the consumption and production of poetry. To outsiders, there is either a swarm of names or...
Big Changes In Theatre During The Pandemic, Right? Well…
In many interviews I’ve included a simple question: Apart from a pandemic-necessitated lockdown and now a tentative reopening, have you actually seen change in...
Twitter As A Critical Medium?
I learned a lot about myself as a critic while live-tweeting, and a lot about criticism: about how and when opinions are formed, and...
Turnaround: Benin Artists Offer Contemporary Bronzes To British Museum
The Ahiamwen Guild of artists and bronze casters says it wants to change the terms of the debate by giving the British Museum contemporary...
New Metropolitan Opera Radio Host Named
Only the fifth person to serve in this capacity, Debra Lew Harder follows in the footsteps of former legendary voices of the Met, Milton...
How An Opera By A Black Composer Finally Made It To The Met
The company's certainly had opportunities before: William Grant Still submitted scores in 1919 and 1935; both were casually dismissed. So Terence Blanchard was astounded...
French Pianist Colette Maze, 107, Releases Her Sixth Album
It's that humor, a sense of optimism and her beloved piano that have buttressed and comforted this centenarian through an often difficult life. Maze...
Was An Exploding Space Rock The Inspiration For The Story Of Sodom And Gomorrah?
Archaeologists report that the destruction, circa 1650 BC, of the city of Tall el-Hammam was caused by a large meteor disintegrating in the atmosphere...
What’s Behind The Proliferation Of All Those Immersive Van Gogh Rooms?
At least five companies — including, controversially, one major museum — have stepped up with immersive exhibits based on the life and work of the famous...
How Jasper Johns Changed Modern Art — And My Life: Jerry Saltz
"Looking at Johns's work, I sometimes almost no longer feel like a person. I wonder if I have died in the instants between synapses...
Thirty Years Ago Nirvana Changed Seattle Music Forever
The album represents a moment in time when everything about Seattle culture changed. The very words “Seattle music” meant something different afterward, both in...
Elia Kazan’s Annotated Script For The First Stage Production Of “A Streetcar Named Desire”
The script, along with 100 pages of unusually detailed notes for the actors, comes from the pre-Broadway New Haven tryout in the fall of...
The Met Museum Is Selling Art To Raise Money. Should It?
As sloppy as AAMD’s new rule is, being born of a rattled, anxious moment, it’s clear who it’s intended to help, and it’s not...
Somalia Gets Its First Public Movie Showing In 30 Years
"The event was held at the National Theatre of Somalia, whose history reflects the tumultuous journey of the African nation. It has been targeted...
For the Second Time In Two Years, America’s Chinatowns Are In Danger
"(The delta variant surge has) worsened a host of additional issues, like technology and language barriers and pandemic-stoked xenophobia. Community organizations fear that the...
Dutch Police Arrest Suspect In Thefts Of Van Gogh And Frans Hals Paintings
DNA evidence at the crime scenes, museums in suburban Amsterdam (van Gogh's The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring) and Leerdam (Hals's Two Laughing...
