Yearly Archives: 2021
Designers Are Working To Make US Airports Less Miserable (And Maybe Even Pleasant)
"A clutch of new terminals and recent upgrades to existing concourses from New York City to San Francisco demonstrate ways both small and large...
The Sad, Confused Final Days Of Robert Indiana
Whether Indiana was the subject of fraud and abuse—and how much he knew about it all, if that was the case—is something we’ll likely...
Xi Jinping’s Crackdown Is Reshaping China’s Culture
Just this year, authorities have gone after social media, high-profile actors, highbrow artists, reality TV, K-pop fans, feature films, video games, and "sissyness". Intelligentsia...
Elizabeth McCann, 90 – Broadway Producer Extraordinaire
In a dizzying four-decade career she won nine Tony Awards and gave New York audiences more than 60 Broadway productions, including such hits as...
A Real-Life ‘Black Swan’ Homicide? TV News Takes On The American National Ballet Fiasco
The CBS newsmagazine 48 Hours does a 42-minute report on founders John and Ashley Benefield, the idealistic dance company that collapsed just as it...
Boston Globe And Boston University To Relaunch 19th-Century Abolitionist Newspaper
Envisioned as a 21st-century online successor to the United States' first anti-slavery newspaper, The Emancipator will operate as a not-for-profit and will focus initially...
After 18 Months Dark, Metropolitan Opera In Mad Dash To Reopen
As the head of the makeup and wig department puts it, "I would love about six months. We have six weeks." - The New...
RSC Chief Gregory Doran Steps Down Temporarily
The Royal Shakespeare Company's artistic director is taking indefinite compassionate leave (the UK equivalent of family/medical leave) to care for his husband, actor Antony...
NPR ‘Weekend Edition Sunday’ Host Lulu Garcia-Navarro To Depart
After working as an international correspondent starting in 2004, she became host of the Sunday morning flagship in 2017. She made the announcement on...
M+, Hong Kong’s Long-Delayed Contemporary Art Museum, At Last Has An Opening Date
It's been 18 years since the project was first proposed, and there have been messy conflicts over costs and content (notably over the inclusion...
Cellist Sebastian Hess Dead At 50 Of Brain Aneurysm
A student of William Pleeth and Mstislav Rostropovich, he made his solo debut at 18 with Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic and developed...
The Unusual History Of Free Jazz
Given the revolutionary nature of the music, it’s no surprise that many in the field greeted it with such disdain. - The Guardian
New Movie Museum Shows LACMA Made A Mistake Selling Old Department Store
Christopher Knight: "Although the department store would not have made good art museum exhibition space, it is now very easy to see how well...
Two Huge Tom Cruise Movies Are On Hold. Will Hollywood Survive?
Suddenly, the unthinkable had happened: Tom Cruise seemingly now had nothing to do. - Deadline
Where We Are Now In Teaching Machines To Learn
High hopes for the imminent arrival of general AI have been there from the very beginning, and the successes of machine learning keep them...
Australian Court Rules Media Can Be Sued For Comments On Posts
It comes after a former teenage prisoner sued media companies over Facebook comments posted below articles about his mistreatment in detention. - BBC
Do Big Film Festivals Still Matter?
These days it pays to look at things from a sober perspective, but let’s face it: glitz can be fun. - Toronto Star
What’s The Latest Dangerous Distraction For Drivers? Infotainment Screens On Their Dashboards
"With American traffic fatalities recently hitting a 15-year high, an infotainment arms race seems like the last thing we need right now. The car...
Of Writing And The Usefulness Of Cliches
It was only with the emergence of an artistic movement, beginning around the mid-18th century, that probable language came to be regarded less as the building...
Katherine Dunham Was More Than A Choreographer And Ethnographer. She Was An Entrepreneur.
Her Ballet Nègre in Chicago, founded in 1930, was only the second ballet company of any kind in America. Her revues Tropics and Le...
How Expertise Is Being Redefined
I believe there exists a modicum of groupthink in an established expert community; solidarity in opinions may be seen as desirable among some in...
How On Earth Did Experimental Downtown Drama Land On Broadway?
"An unusually large proportion of the 10 plays opening this fall are what one producer calls ‘formally inventive’ and others might label downtown, avant-garde,...
Rethinking The Idea Of Theatre As Public Space
In a world dominated by Netflix, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Twitter, the idea of using theatre to drive change and inform our political life...
A Choreographer’s Podcast Examines How The Hell You Can Eke Out A Living In...
Miguel Gutierrez's Are You for Sale? explores "the ethical entanglements between art and money": the convoluted systems of philanthropy and grant applications, the good...
Artificial Intelligence Will Likely Be More Tool Than Human Replacer
Though a wide range of A.I. technologies have improved by leaps and bounds over the past decade, even the most impressive systems have ended...
