Yearly Archives: 2021
Refugee Kids, Cameras, And The Art Of Healing
The Syrian refugee children, presented with analogue cameras and film, "burst out laughing and say: 'These are cameras from my parents’ time.' ... But,...
Portland’s Damaso Rodriguez Steps Away From Artists Rep
Shepherding the theatre's downtown building through a sale, debt restructuring, capital campaign and construction isn't easy. Oh, and then there's the pandemic. Rodríguez says...
The New York Public Library Changes Its Mind
After an outcry, the NYPL says its Picture Collection will remain accessible to the public - still browsable, still circulating. The collection "has been...
The Jewish Refugees Who Helped Bring Chinese Ballet To Shanghai
May 21, 1933: "Shanghai had never seen an evening like this before, with Chinese and Western performers all working together." - Los Angeles Review...
Sally Rooney’s New Book Hits Weird New Benchmark
The data show that Beautiful World, Where Are You is the most reviewed book of all time. - LitHub
In Film, People With Autism Are Often Depicted As Brilliant Or Exceptional
Think, of course, of Rain Man. Austistic folks say they would make some different choices. - The Guardian (UK)
Christo’s Fleeting Farewell To Paris
Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris: "Christo overwhelms us, prods us, makes us talk. ... He plays with light, with the Paris sky that...
A Decade After Occupy, Thinking About Art’s Place In The World
"At times, the radical optimism of Zuccotti Park seems like a distant planet. Other times, it seems like we broke the ice to a...
What If You Could Own A Piece Of An Invaluable Piece Of Art?
A good investment? Possibly. However, art investor funds have a mixed track record (including a lot of failures). - FastCompany
The Best Ever Sword And Sorcery Books
Or the best for this not very fantastic time on the planet, anyway. - Washington Post
The Marvelous Music Cafe Of Manchester
The café, which has managed to remain open during the pandemic, helps people with dementia sing, dance, and play instruments. Some even manage to...
Who Should Win The Emmys Tonight?
And who will win? - Los Angeles Times
Adalberto Alvarez, 72, Bandleader Who Revitalized Cuban Dance Music
Álvarez "was known as 'El Caballero del Son' (the 'Gentleman of Son') because of his passion for the genre and the infectious enthusiasm with...
San Diego’s New Waterfront Concert Venue Makes A Splash
Of course I am describing a special place, not the kind of home most orchestras could hope to build in their neighbourhood. But the...
Is Social Media Like Alcohol Addiction?
To me, it sounds like alcohol—a social lubricant that can be delightful but also depressing, a popular experience that blends short-term euphoria with long-term...
Wave Of New Plays By Black Playwrights…
The plays are arriving at an existentially challenging moment for Broadway, when theaters have been closed for a year and a half, when the...
Science Works On Explaining How Much Sleep We Need
Although great progress has been made in developing sophisticated models and explaining phenomena such as circadian rhythms, jetlag and details of EEG recordings of...
Body-Shaming In Opera
“Diversity applies to pretty much everybody except fat people,” opera critic Uwe Friedrich tells me. The pressure to conform to a societal ideal of...
Researchers Explore What Juices The Echo Chamber
“You really don’t know whether this person making a good-sounding argument is really smart, is really educated, or whether they’re just reading off something...
What’s Even The Purpose Of Political Writing Anymore?
Osita Nwanevu: "The morsels of rage and misery we offer might not have much political effect, but they do feed an online writing economy...
How The Pandemic Is Changing How Lincoln Center Works
Usually, our work requires a year or two in advance planning. But now we’re building the plane as we’re flying. So it’s really shown...
A New Movie Revives A Surprisingly Old Genre: Black Westerns
Just as there really were African-Americans in the Old West, Westerns with Black casts (first shown to segregated audiences) were made from the 1930s...
Osage Nation Decries Sale Of Important Prehistoric Cave Art
The two-cave system is nestled within a 43-acre stretch of land in Missouri, about 60 miles west of St. Louis. Scholars have called it...
Afghan Singers Recount Their Flight From The Taliban
The BBC interviewed half a dozen musicians who have had instruments smashed, relatives killed, and threats issued since the extremists took over Afghanistan last...
School Mural Altered In LA After Community Complaints
The artwork was part of a 2016 project to place murals around the campus. Two years later, the Wilshire Community Coalition, a group led by...
