Yearly Archives: 2021
NYC To Consider Repealing Cabaret Ban On Dancing
Legislation proposed on Aug. 26 by Adams and New York City Council Members Keith Powers and Mark Levine would “end the city’s zoning laws...
Saleem Kidwai, Scholar Who Revealed India’s Queer Past To The World, Dead At 70
"By translating literature about same-sex love from 15 Indian languages composed over more than 2,000 years," the anthology he co-edited "challenged the modern homophobic...
The Happy, Sad Life Of Painter Bob Ross
The sad end of the Bob Ross story is just not as compelling as its joyful beginning and middle. - The New Republic
As It Gears Back Up, Here’s What American Theater May Have Learned During Its...
"The pride-in-resilience, show-must-go-on attitude has started, at last, to be paired with other questions: Whose show? Why must it go on? Last year's reckoning...
Just How Paranoid Is LA MoCA? (A Lot!)
At the end of the day Wednesday, a museum email arrived in my inbox with the almost-but-not-quite-news — along with a certifiably crazy list...
Meet LA MoCA’s Next Director
Joanna Burton joined the Wexner in early 2019 after its longtime director, Sherri Geldin, retired. In May, she hired Kelly Kivland away from the...
A New Resource We Didn’t Realize We Needed: The Black Film Archive
Maya Cade, by day the audience development strategist at The Criterion Collection, built up a full register, with synopses and links, of about 250...
Ballet Companies Try To Make This Year’s Nutcrackers COVID-Safe
"Some are imposing restrictions on performers and audience members under 12, who remain ineligible for vaccines. Others are trying to minimize contact between young...
A Gay History Exhibit Went Up At Missouri’s State Capitol. Then It Came Right...
"Making History: Kansas City and the Rise of Gay Rights" opened last weekend and was supposed to be there through Christmas. It lasted four...
As D.C. Changes Its Arts Funding Model, Things Are Getting Contentious
After last month's announcement that the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities is moving $5.3 million in grants from large, traditionally dominant institutions...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Revamps Its Artistic Directorship
Three associate artistic directors, Scarlett Kim, Mei Ann Teo, and Evren Odcikin, join artistic director Nataki Garrett "to serve as a nonhierarchical team working...
Doctors In Brussels Are Prescribing Museum Visits To Treat Stress
A three-month trial at one of Belgium's largest hospitals involves selected mental health patients getting free visits — by prescription only! — to five...
Helsinki’s Mayor Says It Should Declare Itself An English-Speaking City
Why? Because the powers-that-be want more foreign professionals and tech workers to settle there — and foreign professionals and tech workers don't want to...
YouTube Music Surprises – Now Has 50 Million Subscribers
While global market leader Spotify still has a healthy lead — its most recent total paid subscribers was around 165 million, announced earlier this...
Fortnite Suspends Dance Moves In MLK Tribute Game After Racist Emotes
The March Through Time experience launched August 26, recreating the Lincoln Memorial and US National Mall where King delivered the speech, and incorporated informational exhibits and...
A Kids’ Battle Of The Books Program That Has Them Eager To Put Away...
Every year for the past six years Hepburn Penny has organized a Battle of the Books program that sees kids between the ages of eight...
Architects Use Video Gaming Tools To Explain Projects
"We see games as a tool for engagement, for connecting people thinking about how they can become collaborative design environments." - Dezeen
The Surprisingly Big Business Of Library E-Book Lending
The burst in digital borrowing has helped many readers, but it has also accelerated an unsettling trend. Books, like music and movies and TV...
Professional Theatre Deep In A French Mountain Forest
"Hundreds of productions have been performed at the Théâtre du Peuple, a 126-year-old playhouse 45 miles from the German border. Yet no matter how...
How Digital Tech Will Kill Nation States (A History)
If we want to figure out how network technologies like Internet and Blockchain will change the world, we need to understand how the nature...
At Nearly 90, Philadanco’s Joan Myers Brown Isn’t Stepping Down, She’s ‘Moving Over’
"I'm wishing people would understand that I need to shore up this organization. So, if I drop dead, the organization won't be saying, 'Aunt...
Consolidation: Four Prominent Galleries Join Up Under One Roof
In joining forces, the foursome are betting they will be more effective together than separately at a time when the gallery sector has seen a...
World’s Only Manufacturer Of Biblical Harps Destroyed In Wildfire
"Founded in 1984 by American immigrants Shoshanna and Micah Harrari, the tiny workshop" — called King David Harps and located near Jerusalem — "was...
Did That Robot Look At Me Funny?
It has long been known that making eye contact with a robot can be an unsettling experience. Scientists even have a name for the...
Now Amazon’s Even Moving Into Live Audio
"The effort, led by Amazon's Music division, includes paying podcast networks, musicians and celebrities to use the feature for live conversations, shows and events....
