Yearly Archives: 2021
Kerry James Marshall To Design Stained Glass Windows For Washington National Cathedral
The new work, which will replace windows depicting Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson which were removed in 2017, will be Marshall's first in...
Pennsylvania School Board Reverses Ban On Black Authors’ Books, Children’s Bios Of MLK And...
The vote by the Central York district board came after weeks of protests by students and unflattering reports in national media. The list of...
Melvin Van Peebles, Dead At 89, Was So Much More Than The Maker Of...
Over 60 years, he was a master of self-reinvention: Air Force navigator; cable-car operator in San Francisco; indie filmmaker; author (in English and French);...
Choreographer Jan Fabre Will Stand Trial For Sexual Harassment And Assault
The case, to be tried next spring in Antwerp, "stems from complaints by 20 dancers from his company who in 2018 alleged … a...
Honest Brokers And The Clement Greenberg Problem
Greenberg had made it clear that the single most lucrative move for a modern-day critic was to announce the newest new thing, the coming...
BBC Chief Says Culture Wars Make It More Difficult To Be Impartial
"I think the culture wars are raging, I think we've got a real battle on our hands. I walk a tightrope every day on...
Picasso’s Daughter Pays French Taxes With Nine Artworks
“It is an honour for our country to welcome these new artworks by Picasso. They will enrich and deepen our cultural heritage." - ARTnews
What Will Happen To Online Performances When We’re Back In Theatres?
‘We’ve had thousands of years to get good at but virtual connection is new, and we need to do some interrogation of the...
Has Philosophy Really Been Replaced By Science?
A perennial favorite of this alleged replacement of philosophy with science is the claim that, while philosophers haven’t been able to really get ahead...
Why Do We Refer To Some Composers With Only Their Last Name?
Who gets last-name-only treatment and who requires a full identification is a weightier, more politically fraught question than it might initially seem. - San Francisco...
When Did America’s First Black Theater Open? Exactly 200 Years Ago
"For the price of 25 cents — or, for a nicer seat, a hefty 50 cents — the African Theater" (which opened on Sept....
Inside The New Academy Movie Museum
While the May Co. building will be celebrated as a fine work of adaptive reuse, what will ultimately define the Academy Museum is its...
Saadi Yacef, The Man Who Started “The Battle Of Algiers”, Dead At 93
He didn't start the battle itself, but he was the top military man in Algeria's war of independence. When that was won, the new...
New Movie Academy Museum Succeeds At Celebrating Movies The Oscars Don’t
Perhaps the most notable alcoves of the Academy Museum are those where it resists the obvious, or at least takes a break from celebrating...
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet May Be Gone, But Its Successor Is Now Taking The...
The former company shut down in March after 25 years, but five of its dancers, with one colleague and choreographer Ben Needham-Wood, have formed...
Disney CEO: World Is Changing For Talent Contracts
The problem, Bob Chapek said, is that the company has found itself grappling with talent contracts that were struck three or four years ago...
Vantablack, The World’s Blackest Black? Hollywood’s Going To Be All Over It (And...
Yes, Anish Kapoor purchased exclusive rights to the color for visual art, but the entertainment world sees numerous uses for it and has been...
Signature LA: The Richard Neutra Houses
Their stories say something deeper about Neutra’s achievement, which has less to do with stylish surfaces than with underlying rhythms—the search for a shelter...
Yes, Music Really Can Be Infectious — Statisticians Apply Epidemiology To Pop Songs
"The pattern of music downloads after their release appears to closely resemble epidemic curves for infectious disease – and electronica appears to be the...
Netflix Is About To Milk The Hell Out Of Roald Dahl’s Stories
"Netflix has acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company (RDSC) and will expand their existing deal to … create a universe across animated and live...
Is The Future Of Newspapers 24/7 Online, With Actual Newsprint Only On Sundays?
That's already the case in Little Rock and Chattanooga, while the Tampa Bay Times prints only Wednesdays and Sundays. Many other papers throughout the...
Major Italian Baroque Painting Turns Up At Ordinary Suburban New York Church
An art history professor happened to be in the Church of the Holy Family in New Rochelle when he saw a painting that made...
The Rivals: As The Delta Variant Rages, Sydney Reopens Its Theatres While Melbourne Stays...
The difference is not in case numbers; it's in state government policies. New South Wales (Sydney), governed by the conservative Coalition, has relatively laissez-faire...
Long-Delayed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi At Last Has An Opening Date (And It’s Not Soon)
The Frank Gehry-designed museum, one of several starchitect-designed brand-name cultural institutions planned for the Emirati capital's Saadiyat Island, is expected to be October of...
France’s Top Book Prize Has A New Conflict-Of-Interest Scandal
One of the finalists for this year's Prix Goncourt, The Children of Cadillac, was written by François Noudelmann, the romantic partner of one of...
