Yearly Archives: 2021
It’s Time To Reassess The Architecture Of The Twin Towers
Rowan Moore: "Japanese-American Yamasaki was dismissed by his contemporaries for being 'dainty', 'prissy', 'epicene', 'ballet school', for example, on account of the slender gothic-looking arcades...
Nickolas Davatzes, A Force Behind The A&E And History Channels, 79
Davatzes' analysis and plans changed cable. He said, "By network standards, ... our viewership will always be limited. But that is the function of...
Rewriting The Final Night Of The Proms
"This wonderful event must be forward-looking, rather than scanning backwards to old tropes of empire – however good the tunes. It is the ultimate...
Sheila Bromberg, Harpist For British Symphonies And Oh Yes, The Beatles, 92
Bromberg was a busy harpist and mom when her "agent called on March 17, 1967, to offer her a three-hour stint that night as...
How The World Of Theme Parks Affected The New Academy Museum
Dream it and you can do it, or at least you can pretend to lift your own Oscar at the long-awaited museum. - Los...
Some Of The White Art World Is Finally Cluing Into Dindga McCannon’s Work
The artist is well known in many circles - after all, "for more than five decades, McCannon has been making work rooted in who she...
Translators Should Be Named On Book Covers
Weirdly, "the underlying assumption on the part of many publishers seems to be that readers don’t trust translators and won’t buy a book if...
Will Hollywood See Another Bloody Friday?
Not likely, but for the below-the-line workers (props, costumes, camera people, etc.), "after months of protracted negotiations with the major studios, 13 IATSE Hollywood...
Does Publishing Miss The 45th President?
All signs, and an absolute onslaught of books, point to yes. - The New York Times
Hollywood Has Sold Out To China
And it's not likely to change anytime soon. - The Atlantic
Italy Seizes 500 Fake Francis Bacon Works
"Five people have been charged with criminal conspiracy to authenticate and circulate fake works of art and fraud and money laundering." - The Guardian...
All Of The Winners At The Venice Film Festival
And the Golden Lion goes to ... a movie with a very timely subject. (Plus all of the other winners.) - Variety
Soprano Teresa Zylis-Gara, Stalwart Of The Met In The 1970s, 91
Zylis-Gara "displayed a plush voice, impressive versatility and beguiling stage presence during a three-decade international career." - The New York Times
The Real-Time September 11 Conversation Between August Wilson And John Lahr
August Wilson, responding to Lahr, on the morning of September 11, 2001: "Yesterday was a different world, and I am mourning for it." -...
That Didn’t Take Long: LA MoCA Leader Flees To Berlin
Just eight days after the Museum of Contemporary Art said Klaus Biesenbach would run the Los Angeles institution with a newly named co-leader, Biesenbach...
Where The Wisdom Of Crowds Falls Short
Our recent research suggests that while group deliberation can indeed increase the accuracy of forecasts, it can lead you astray when it comes to making a...
Why This University Professor Resigned
Students are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues. Faculty and administrators have abdicated the university’s truth-seeking mission and instead drive intolerance of divergent...
The Problem With Music About 9/11
Is composing a piece of music linked to 9/11 a straightforward means of evoking a type of uncomplicated emotional reaction? Is this disaster a...
Gymnasts Are Getting Dancier — And Getting Attention
Recently, it seems, an NCAA routine goes viral every year not necessarily for its technical content, but for the sheer quality of the dancing....
Pioneering Theatre Critic Andy Propst, 56
Propst is best known as the founder of AmericanTheaterWeb.com, an early online home for America's not-for-profit theaters, and the first serious attempt to provide...
Why The Arts Struggled To Express 9/11
For a long time it was safer to go small. - The New York Times
Have A Look At The New Yorker’s Original Mission Statement
So many things about the magazine — in both content and design — are recognizable today that it's easy to forget that, when Harold...
Why Bach Is So Compelling
To appreciate the music of Bach, it can be instructive to understand both the mechanics and the mechanic: the musical systems, and the man...
Stand-Up Comedians Look Back On Their First Shows After 9/11
"Every comedian's response to the attack wasn’t necessarily positive, just like every American's wasn't. Comedy didn't save the country after 9/11, but it did...
Why Hybrid Film Festivals Are The Future
Online festival screenings have attracted large and enthusiastic new audiences for independent and artist-led film. The hybrid edition of Sundance 2021 reached an audience...
