Yearly Archives: 2021
Why Do We Still Care About Shakespeare?
So why do we still read him, and why do so many people still flock to his plays, despite their archaisms lichened with footnotes...
What’s The Next Defining Tech Era?
So what can we see bubbling up in techland at the moment? If you believe the industry, metaverses (plural) – basically conceived as massive virtual-reality environments...
Bill Rauch On The Performing Arts Center At The World Trade Center
The PAC will be the final piece of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, a three-story building — 129,000-square feet with three flexible...
The Mercury Prize Glorifies Albums When No One Listens To Albums Anymore
Since the turn to online services, however, the award has undertaken an additional role. It is upholding the idea of the album in the...
LA’s New Movie Museum Has A Weird Omission: Music
The studios, of course, have a long and famous history of cluelessness when it comes to soundtracks. They’ve tossed countless original scores into the...
Why Young Korean Musicians Are Ascendant In Classical Music
Thierry Loreau, a Belgian filmmaker and TV director, sees the domination of young Koreans in classical music competitions as a cultural phenomenon, labeling it...
Time To End Artsploitation
Behind the New Museum’s veneer of social justice was rampant exploitation. Salaries were so low that full-time employees worked extra jobs. An hourly rate...
A College Honors Class Turned Its Zoom Fan Fiction Into A Film Deal
Last year, The Great Gatsby came out of copyright, and that's a good thing for a The Great Gatsby 2.0 honors seminar at the...
The Podcast About The Book Reporting On The Massive Flop That Was Bonfire Of...
Julie Salamon's book stunned the country - especially Hollywood. It "portrayed the world of big-budget studio filmmaking as a high-stakes battle, in which three...
The Awful Way The CIA Used Louis Armstrong
The CIA used the musician in what was then the Congo. "It’s genuinely heartbreaking. He was brought in to serve an interest that was...
The Creative Arts Emmys Have Crowned Multiple Winners Already
Primetime Emmys are coming up soon, but some shows cleaned up early at the Creative Arts Emmys as well. Here's the whole list. -...
Triomphe de Christo: Wrapping the Arc
At the Arc de Triomphe, "most in the crowd of onlookers just held their breath. It was a slow and meticulous operation, requiring ...
The Larger Narrative Arc Of Colson Whitehead’s Novels
Basically, it's weird jobs. "All these different jobs provide existential questions about how the world works and how they work, how they function, I...
Coronavirus Art, But Make It Optimistic
When a retired nurse saw that hundreds of vaccine vials were empty and going in the trash, she set about creating something from them...
The Movie Museum Is Finally Open
The new PR line is that "the long-awaited cathedral of movies is landing at just the right time — perhaps when the film industry needs it...
The Paintings Within A Painting Of Matisse’s The Red Studio
A new show puts it all in context - and explains why Matisse suddenly decided, when the painting was finished, to make it red....
Could This Facebook Ruling In Australia Eventually Lead To The End Of Comments?
A court ruling "promises to upend what has been a core principle of who gets blamed for bad behavior online — in ways that,...
Glasgow Gets Back Its 26-Ton Floating Head
After decades forgotten and unclaimed in a boatyard, then carefully restored, Richard Groom's Floating Head is back. - The Guardian (UK)
Nicaragua’s Government Is Arresting Prominent Writers Before A Presidential Election
"State prosecutors in Nicaragua have ordered the arrest of one of the country’s most prominent writers, Sergio Ramírez, accusing the 78-year-old novelist of inspiring...
Theatre Has An Internship Problem
Or, you might say, an exploitation problem. - American Theatre
Michel Laclotte, Champion Of The Musee D’Orsay And The New Louvre, 91
Though debate was hot about the M d'O, as it's now marketed in Paris, that "was a tepid academic tiff compared with the one...
Nino Castelnuovo, Star Of The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, 84
"If he achieved international notice with Umbrellas, he did not truly attain fame in Italy until 1967, for his role as Renzo in a television...
Lashana Lynch And The Case Of The Long-Delayed Bond Movie
The actor still won't talk about her potential future in the franchise. Lynch: Bond "could be a man or woman. They could be white,...
New Yorkers Turned To Poetry After The Towers Came Down
People sent poems to newspapers and posted poetry on bus shelters. "When we went into Manhattan to see the site where the Twin Towers...
The Conductors Climbing The Dudamel Fellows Ladder
"A striking aspect of the former fellows, however, is how little they are like Dudamel — or each other. ... The main thing these...
