Yearly Archives: 2021
How Social Media Has Ruined Art?
The public sphere has been replaced with emotional outbursts and opportunities for consumption. Museums have followed suit, relinquishing their mission to enlighten and challenge the public...
The Cultural Jewels Of Caracas Decay As Venezuela’s Crises Drag On
As petrodollars flowed and it became one of Latin America's most prosperous cities, Caracas built cultural and architectural landmarks such as Parque Central, the...
Salman Rushdie Is Serializing His Next Novel On Substack
"'I'm going to kind of make it up as I go along, but I have some starting points,' he says. Aside from the novella,...
As If COVID Weren’t Enough, Texas Arts Venues Now Have To Worry About Handguns
As of Sept. 1, any adult in Texas may carry a gun in public, concealed or not, without any license. Private businesses and venues...
New Orleans Museums Got Through Hurricane Ida In Decent Shape — So Far
With the post-Katrina levees and fortifications having done their job, the city's art institutions suffered no flood damage. The worry is how long the...
Nielsen’s Accreditation For National TV Ratings Suspended
"The suspension is the latest salvo in a months-long joust between TV networks and the company that has long tabulated (their) viewership, … (as...
Composer Mikis Theodorakis, 96
"He was known outside Greece for the remarkable scope of his talent — a catalogue of more than 1,000 songs, film scores, symphonies, operas...
Edinburgh Festivals Bounce Back From COVID, Selling More Than Half A Million Tickets
With pandemic restrictions (excepting some audience capacity limits) lifted just around opening day, 520,000 tickets were sold for events at the International, Book, Film,...
How Do We Get Beyond A Rush To Judgment?
The modern online public sphere, a place of rapid conclusions, rigid ideological prisms, and arguments of 280 characters, favors neither nuance nor ambiguity. -...
Collector Buys Fake Banksy NFT
The piece did enough to convince a buyer – confusingly named Pranksy – to pay the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of pounds only...
About That Basquiat Painting in Tiffany Blue…
Basquiat died in 1988 at 27, but in the last few days all sorts of people with various relationships to both him and his work...
Romance Writers Of America Rescinds Award Over Genocide Charges
Romance Writers of America, which earlier this month rescinded an award given to the 2020 novel “At Love’s Command” over complaints that it “romanticized...
Why Wikipedia Has A Compelling Need To Transcend Languages
Wikipedia leaders presented a new initiative that could theoretically unify the information presented by all of the other Wikipedias, a proposed language-independent encyclopedia that...
Francesca Harper Named New Artistic Director Of Alvin Ailey II
Her mother, Denise Jefferson, directed the Ailey School from 1984 until her death in 2010. Harper didn’t just attend dance classes at the school; she...
Diana Taylor, Michael Bloomberg’s Partner, Named New York City Ballet Board Chair
A longtime banking professional in both the private and government sectors and the first woman to chair the board of directors in the company's...
Youth Radio Station Pokes Fun At Older Music Fans In A Tweet (It Didn’t...
“Did it hurt? When you aged out of the youth radio station,” the national youth broadcaster tweeted. - The Guardian
Mosul Had A Beloved Street Of Bookstores. Only One Has Reopened Since ISIS Was...
"Not long ago, it was one of countless bookstores along the wide avenue lined with arched windows and doorways. … Four years after the...
Nation-building Abroad? We’re Not Very Good At It At Home Either
"I know something about this rhetorical vagary because it involves nominally the same efforts America supposedly applies to strengthen its own communities that are...
Without Warning, Board Of Documentary Festival Locks Out Entire Programming Staff
Days after Sheffield DocFest artistic director Cintia Gil departed over "artistic differences," seven festival programmers found themselves locked out of their email accounts and...
Facebook Admits: Engagement Might Not Be The Gold Standard
Optimizing for engagement is at the heart of many of the criticisms of social platforms. An algorithm that’s too focused on engagement might push...
Soprano Teresa Żylis-Gara Dead At 91
The Lithuanian-born, Polish-raised singer, known as an especially reliable artist with a beautiful lyric soprano, had an unusually wide repertoire, from Bach to Mozart...
Paramount Is Suing Insurance Company Over COVID Shutdowns On New “Mission Impossible”
The film was shut down seven times as a result of the pandemic and now Paramount Studios, the movie’s distributor and producer, is suing...
Eternal Return: Known Forgeries Keep Turning Up In The Art Market
"Anyone who thinks works of art declared fake simply disappear in disgrace or are destroyed should talk to Jane Kallir, author of the catalog...
The Real Problem With The New Architecture At The World Trade Center Site? Fear
Justin Davidson: "This is a landscape shaped by fear. It has been formed not only by the reasoned response to a documented threat but...
What The Latest Study On The Secrets Of Stradivaris And Guarneris Found
"According to new research … violins made by Antonio Stradivari and his contemporary, Giuseppe Guarneri, were treated with proprietary blends of mineral salts, which...
