Yearly Archives: 2021
San Antonio Symphony Management Demands To Slash Orchestra’s Size By 40%
In renegotiations for the final year (2021-22) of the current contract, management had proposed cutting salaries in half, down to $17,710 per year. Their...
After 35 Years, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls To Depart
" decision, which he said was not made under any kind of internal or outside pressure, brings the exit of Chicago theater's premier auteurist...
Jaap van Zweden To Leave New York Philharmonic In 2024
" announced that he would leave his post at the end of the 2023-24 season, saying that the pandemic had made him rethink his...
Britain Has A New Culture Secretary (And It Looks Like She’s A Doozy)
"Boris Johnson has appointed Nadine Dorries as culture secretary, giving a first Cabinet post to an outspoken MP who has previously accused the BBC...
The Developing World Is Collapsing Under COVID And Its A Danger To All
Unless the Western world wakes up, and helps out the developing world with vaccines and treatments, we may be facing a situation in which...
An “Epochal” Decline For NYC?
New York City, the financial and business capital of the world, and until very recently a hub for tourists, may well be the canary...
Why Are Cities Still Building Super-tall Buildings?
"I'm almost insulted by the reminder that the high-rise virus continues to spread. Waste of energy, waste of resources, almost impossible to protect indefinitely....
No, Not All Judgments Or Opinions Are Equal
Popular dogmas such as “judgments of artistic value are subjective” and “all judgments of artistic value are equal”, university literature departments have undercut aesthetic...
How Things Change When Your Dance Video Becomes A Viral Sensation
She’s earned a following of more than 250,000 on Instagram and 460,000 on TikTok — as well as amassing 15.3 million likes on TikTok....
Our Classrooms In Crisis
At this moment of ferocious contestation over the meaning of the classroom, we might a closer look at what actually goes on there. -...
Embattled Berkshire Museum Suddenly Loses Director
The museum’s statement did not explain the reason for Jeff Rodgers’s exit, after roughly two and a half years, or what he plans to...
This A Cappella Quintet Can Mimic Your Electronic Devices
"Traditional a cappella groups cover pop lyrics and full music beds with impressive skill. But one group in South Korea, called MayTree, is taking...
Problem: Making AI Addicts
When we look to concrete problems in present-day AI systems, we see other — stranger — ways that things could go wrong with smarter...
It’s Not Easy To Be Both A Professional Dancer And Religiously Observant
"By and large, the North American dance community is secular and leans politically to the left. For Orthodox Jews as well as some evangelical...
Blowback On Productivity
If you accept that increased productivity helps the common good, the question becomes how to reliably achieve these increases. Until recently, the answer to...
Why Short, Soft-Spoken, Fey Truman Capote Was So Popular With The Strong And Powerful
"In the beginning, they'd look down on him. But everybody who took the time to speak with him was captivated by his intellect; it...
Most Diverse Booker Prize Finalists List Ever
Four debut novelists – Diane Cook, Avni Doshi, Douglas Stuart and Brandon Taylor – are up against the acclaimed Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga, and the Ethiopian-American...
There’s Lots Of Complex, Intricate Movement In The Broadway Play ‘Pass Over’. Don’t Call...
"There's not even blocking," says director Danya Taymor (Julie's niece). "I mean, there's a little blocking." That was worked out by the director and...
The Gender Gap Is Growing In Our Universities
“In almost every rich country, women earn the majority of bachelor’s degrees. Almost every country that gives men and women equal access to education...
Loving Or Hating Ebooks: The Quality Of ‘Bookiness’
"Whether you love or hate ebooks is probably a function of what books mean to you, and why. … What it means to read,...
Professional Classical Musicians Have The Same Physical Problems (Other) Athletes Do
LA Phil violist Ingrid Hutman: "When we're injured, we tend to go to sports doctors because that's what's available. It's very difficult to find...
LA MoCA Makes it Official: Johanna Burton Will Be Its Solo Director
Two weeks ago, she was named executive director, working alongside Klaus Biesenbach, whose title was changed to artistic director. Last Friday, Biesenbach was appointed...
Public Radio Is Moving Into The ‘Urban Alternative’ Format
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is giving a total of $1.3 million to public stations in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Jackson, Mississippi to develop digital...
The New Yorker’s Archivist Counted Up Decades’ Worth Of Nonwhite Writers’ Bylines, And …
Erin Overbey: "As someone who's done the research, seen all the numbers, I can tell you that things are simply not changing quickly enough...
Japan’s ‘Nobel For The Arts” To James Turrell, Yo-Yo Ma, Sebastião Salgado, Glenn Murcutt
The Praemium Imperiale, including ¥15 million ($136,000) for each recipient, is awarded for painting (Salgado, a photographer), sculpture (Turrell, a light artist), music (Ma,...
