Yearly Archives: 2021
In Crimea, Russian Government Is Trying To Wipe Out Tatar Heritage: UNESCO Report
"The report ascribes a goal of erasing traces of their cultural presence on the peninsula and weakening 'the fundamental role of the indigenous Muslim...
Why This Musicologist Quit Academia
In recent years the dogmatic mode of thinking, in which uncritical commitments are enforced by mechanisms involving public humiliation, no-platforming, and attempts to have...
Myanmar’s Arts Community Is Caught Between Military Dictators, Floods, Economic Turmoil, And COVID
"People are focused on survival … and caring for their loved ones," says one artist in Yangon. Adds another, "It's dangerous to do a...
Why This Filmmaker In Myanmar Is A Fugitive From The Junta
Director Na Gyi and his wife (and leading actor) would be in hiding even if their latest film weren't about a lesbian romance: they...
Jane Powell, Wholesome Star Of Classic Movie Musicals, Dead At 91
"An actress and singer who first appeared in movies as a teenager, (she) became a sunny stalwart of Hollywood musicals in the 1940s and...
Here’s The First-Ever Piano With 108 Keys
The instrument, designed and handmade by Wayne Stuart of Stuart & Sons in Australia, has a nine-octave range, two octaves more than a standard...
Stephen Sondheim, At 91, Is Working On A New Musical
As he told Stephen Colbert this week, "I've been working on a show for a couple years with a playwright named David Ives, and...
A Previously Unknown Van Gogh Is Now On View In Amsterdam
"Study for 'Worn Out,' as the drawing is being called, has lived in a private Dutch collection since the first decade of the 20th...
Paris’s Musée d’Orsay ‘Can No Longer Be A Tourist Factory,’ Says Its New Director
That would be Christophe Leribault, until now director of the city's Petit Palais and, before that, of the Musée Delacroix. He replaces Laurence des...
Dudamel’s Conducting Fellowship Program Is Paying Off Big Time
The main thing these former fellows may take home from L.A. is indoctrination. New music here is part of the daily diet. Dudamel’s curiosity...
See The Six Architecture Finalists for This Year’s Stirling Prize
A bridge, a museum, a mosque... Here's where the best of UK architecture is in 2021. - BBC
Report: Hollywood Streaming Companies Hire More Women Than Traditional Studios
The long-running industry report card finds that in the 2020-21 television season, women accounted for 52% of major characters on streaming programs were women,...
Our Notions Of Privacy Are Ancient. Do They Fit In Our Modern World?
The evolutionary biologist E O Wilson once said of the source of human challenges in the 21st century that ‘we have palaeolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology’. - Psyche
Minoru Yamasaki – The Architect Weighed Down By The World Trade Center
His long career has become, for many, a caricature or outright failure, the stuffing wedged between the two disasters of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex...
‘Learned Behaviour’ At The Royal Ballet: How A Case Like Liam Scarlett’s Could Happen
Luke Jennings: "His behaviour (was) egregious and exploitative, but his is not an isolated case. It is symptomatic of a culture I have seen...
How A Jazz Musician Found 30,000 Facebook Followers During COVID
Since shortly after the pandemic effectively closed the world down in March 2020, Jim Clayton’s Danforth area home — more specifically his dining room...
Liv Ullman And Jessica Chastain On Playing The Same Role In ‘Scenes From A...
"Forty-eight years after the original aired, Ullmann is still aghast at her character's decision to have a later-in-life affair with her ex-husband — 'In...
Baryshnikov The Dancer Becomes Baryshnikov The Photographer
“I can see the almost spiritual obsession with dance that I myself have felt, but now observe it from the outside,” Baryshnikov says by...
Playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie Dead At 85
" was a mainstay of the experimental theater world, … especially known for America Hurrah, a form-bending trio of one-acts that opened in 1966...
Reframing Disinformation
“It turns a huge question about the nature of democracy in the digital age – what if the people believe crazy things, and now...
Missing For Two Years Now, Where Is Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet?
The fully functional 18-carat commode, titled America, became world-famous while on exhibit at the Guggenheim. (The Trump White House wanted to borrow a van...
Are We Looking In The Wrong Places For The Sources Of Disinformation?
The Commission on Information Disorder is the latest (and most creepily named) addition to a new field of knowledge production that emerged during the...
Soprano Carmen Balthrop Dead At 73
Part of the third generation of Black opera singers to become international stars, she performed throughout Europe and the US, achieving wide fame in...
Unknown Tennessee Williams Story Sees Print At Last
"Honored worldwide as a playwright, Williams also wrote dozens of short stories. A rarely seen piece, 'The Summer Woman,' set in Italy, appears...
Scaffolding At Stonehenge As First Repairs In 63 Years Get Underway
Workers will stabilize cracks and holes in the stones of the 4,500-year-old monument and will replace concrete mortar used in the 1958 repairs with...
