Yearly Archives: 2021
The New Hot Spot For Art In Athens Is — Piraeus (?!)
Yes, the Greek capital's grotty old seaport, which has been busy, industrial and unpleasant for 2,500 years, is seeing serious art galleries, and the...
Data’s In: Disney To Release All Its Movies In Theatres First
It comes after Disney's successful theatrical release this month of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. - BBC
Dante’s Purgatory In A Time Of Global Uncertainty
The concept of Purgatory was relatively new when Dante was born. Dante’s conception of Purgatory is remarkably like a wilderness boot camp. Its terrain...
How 9/11 Changed Comedy
Some of the comedic experimentation that immediately followed 9/11 tested the limits of free speech for entertainers, who made up the new rules as...
How We Learn To Know What We Want
Capitalism promises an endless series of alterations —tiny changes that... don’t amount to change at all. Aesthetic education, where “one suspends one’s current values...
The Case For All Art Being Ecological
Works of art are not merely representations of the way things are but function to reveal and evolve a community’s shared understanding. Each time...
How A Public Spaces Program Is Transforming A Russian City
“We come and ask people what they want done, what they want preserved, and what they want to go. And if less than three-quarters...
Peru Has A New National Museum With Thousands Of Pre-Columbian Objects
"The Peruvian government has inaugurated the Museo Nacional del Perú, a $125m museum that was initiated by the ministry of culture to preserve the...
The Up- And Down-sides Of Envy
Professional envy can have positive and negative repercussions. Workplaces where managers make a point of comparisons — posting leaderboards or naming employees of the...
‘Negotiated Authenticity’ — What Black Scriptwriters In Hollywood Have Always Been Expected To Provide
That's how one screenwriter describes the unspoken task she and her Black colleagues usually face: "it's still white people determining what the Black experience...
Scientists Unlock Keys To Creative “Hot Streaks”
The team found that for all three career types, work tended to be more diverse just before a true hot streak than expected from...
South Korea Considers Adding A Serious Museum To Its Busiest Airport
Authorities are planning to set aside two spaces at Seoul-Incheon, one in each terminal, as a satellite location for one or two major museums....
David Pickard On Producing A Proms Season Like No Other
"My overriding memory of this summer will not be the hoops and hurdles we overcame, but the sheer joy of performers and audiences communing...
Mirga’s Successor At The City Of Birmingham Symphony Has Been Chosen
And it's sort of an internal hire: in April 2023, Kazuki Yamada, a 42-year-old from Japan who's been the orchestra's principal guest conductor for...
Remembering Producer Liz McCann
Linda Winer: "She thrived on the gamble, what she relished as the “craziness” of her unlikely life and this “business of strange accidents.” - American...
Yep, Too Much TV Really Will Shrink Your Brain, Researchers Find
A professor at Johns Hopkins found that middle-aged people who watched an above-average amount of television lost volume in the frontal cortex. (The Guardian's...
Is There *Anything* To The Idea That You Can Learn A Foreign Language While...
Well, you can't say there's nothing to it. But there's not much. And don't even think that playing recordings of the language while you’re...
For The First Time, A Dancer In A Wheelchair Will Perform With London’s Royal...
Joe Powell-Main studied at the Royal Ballet's school for four years, until his accident at age 15. Now 23 and a member of Ballet...
As London’s West End Reopens, It May Scrap Wednesday Matinees
There's plenty of demand for seats from theatregoers within England, but the audience for midweek afternoon shows is almost entirely tourists from abroad, of...
Broadway’s Biggest Hits Are Back Onstage At Last
Eighteen months after the novel coronavirus shut them all down, the long-running audience favorites — Hamilton, Wicked, The Lion King, Chicago — resume their...
George Wein, Who Invented The Outdoor Popular Music Festival As We Know It, Dead...
His Newport Jazz Festival, founded in 1954 and packed with major stars from the beginning, was the template for everything from Woodstock to Lollapalooza...
Aid For German Arts Institutions Damaged In Summer Floods
"The German government will give €30 million ($35.4 million) in aid for areas impacted by this past summer's devastating rainfall and floods, including to...
Jazz Resurgence in Pittsburgh
There are new clubs in the city and new haunts where jazz can once again be heard regularly. There is fresh talent filling out...
How Movies Changed In Response to 9/11
If the terrorist attacks had appeared like a movie, then the immediate response of Hollywood was that films released in the aftermath of the...
How The Word “Performative” Got Corrupted
What is worse, the meaning of performative in contemporary parlance, while not very precise, is almost exactly the opposite of the word’s original meaning. - Hedgehog Review
