Yearly Archives: 2021
What Gets Lost In Opera Livestreams?
We were lucky to have access to livestreams from across the world in 2020. But: "Although the streamed productions I later saw live had...
Artists In Louisiana Are Trying To Help Those Harmed By Hurricane Ida
"I't’s been a real grassroots, community-led effort,' Abdul Aziz, a photojournalist, told Hyperallergic. 'It’s overwhelming and beautiful, and I don’t want to say shocking,...
The Archaeology Of The Future Is Here
In Spain, an archaeology team looking at ancient Roman cities "routinely uses technologies such as ground-penetrating radar, drones and magnetometers – devices that measure...
Ernst Van De Wetering, Foremost Expert On Rembrandt, 83
A Sotheby's consultant says, "No one else alive knows as much as he did about Rembrandt; nobody else comes even close." - The New...
Piecing Together Roman Frescoes From French Ruins
In Arles, with thousands of pieces taken from the so-called House of the Harpist, "the fragments, some barely bigger than a fingernail, have been...
On Facebook, Misinformation Gets Six Times As Much Engagement As News
A new peer-reviewed study shows that "from August 2020 to January 2021, news publishers known for putting out misinformation got six times the amount...
A Shakespeare Company Of Black Women Wants To Transform Theatre
The British Mawa Theatre Company's "goal is to change the industry from within, creating more space for marginalized voices in a field that is...
Delores Custer, 79, Who Gave Food A Style
Custer, a food stylist for companies like Kraft, General Mills, and Bacardi, was "able to shape the unwieldy, the drab and the formless into...
Michelle Yeoh Wanted To Be A Dancer, Until She Got Injured
Then the actor - a mega-star in the world market - decided to take up martial arts. "I just needed to learn to transfer...
Time’s Up Post-Cuomo Shake Up Continues
Board members including Shonda Rhimes, Eva Longoria, and Jurnee Smollett have resigned, making way for an entirely new board as "the group continues to...
The Path To Becoming Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Preferred Choreographer Wasn’t Simple
But JoAnn Hunter persisted. Hunter is a "longtime Broadway performer and choreographer who has quietly become an important figure in a field that boasts...
How A Canadian Actor’s Movie Got Burdened With Carrying Marvel
The first Asian-led Marvel film "has been transformed into an unwilling test case for the future of box office blockbusters, fans' commitment to the...
Art Museums Must Tell A Richer Story About Afghanistan
What's up with U.S. arts audiences? "We have been at war with and occupied Afghanistan for two decades, yet culturally it has been a...
The Gym-Rat Maestro
Lorenzo Viotti is working on snagging young music fans via his workout, and shirtless, social media posts. - The New York Times
Has The Creepy Insect Trope Had Its Day?
Climate science shows we desperately need insects to keep the planet in any kind of balance. Horror films have disagreed - but it might...
How Netflix Took A Flop And Turned It Into A Global Phenomenon
In its first iteration on Spanish TV, Casa de Papel, known as The Money Heist in English, started strong and then massively flopped. Then...
The Evidence Is Clear For Supporting The Arts To Support Public Health
"The arts can be especially beneficial for public health in five key areas: collective trauma, racism, mental health, social exclusion and isolation, and chronic...
Does The Art World Still Have A Sense Of Humor?
Red tape and regulations have largely put paid to a congenial and very possibly no-less-profitable art world, as has the workload in oppressed, ever-leaner...
Study: Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking Is Pretty Accurate
The study found that with a group of just eight laypeople, there was no statistically significant difference between the crowd performance and a given...
Why Big-Name Writers Are Signing On With Substack
Writers flirting with the Substack idea would be better seen in footballing terms: they are probably going out on loan from their existing publishers,...
Judge Sentences Right-Wing Extremist To Read Classics
"Start with Pride And Prejudice and Dickens's A Tale Of Two Cities. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Think about Hardy. Think about Trollope. "On January 4...
China Bans “Effeminate Men” From TV
Previously, the regime has expressed official concerns and cracked down on youth online gaming, boy band culture, gambling, cryptocurrency and sports. The moves are...
At Last, China’s Notorious “Ghost Cities” Are Getting Some Actual Inhabitants
Early in the 2000s. the People's Republic created a string of new mega-developments — building much faster than people were moving in. Images of...
SAG-AfTRA Elects New Leaders
Fran Drescher has been elected president of SAG-AFTRA and, in a split decision, her opponent’s running mate, Joely Fisher, has been elected national secretary-treasurer....
It’s the Met’s First Opening Night Since The Pandemic And First Opera By A...
Justin Davidson profiles Will Livermore, a 33-year-old baritone who'd been specializing in comic parts such as Papageno and Figaro. Now he's taking on the...
