They have YouTube channels, they expand repertoire, they perform in unconventional places. These are musicians who are building the future of classical music. - USAToday
"The arts in the past four years have evolved in ways that are as broad and powerful as they are now commonplace. Many artists and arts groups seem determined to do nothing less than change the world. As one example, there’s probably not a single major museum, orchestra, or arts center that isn’t thinking about inclusion in everything it...
Understandably, much of the energy directed toward the problems of pandemic social life has been spent on keeping people tied to their families and closest friends. These other relationships have withered largely unremarked on after the places that hosted them closed. The pandemic has evaporated entire categories of friendship, and by doing so, depleted the joys that make up...
A book critic considers. "Relative to the amount of space it takes up in the collective and capitalist imagination, the internet has had less of an impact on contemporary fiction than one might expect. It is increasingly acknowledged in novels, but it seems oddly difficult to represent well. I don’t know whether that’s because most of us have been...
Hollywood, in search of the next Shtisel, a hit show for Netflix. Apple TV+ and HBO Max are also trying to cash in, both by buying shows already in existence and funding new Israel-focused shows and storylines. - Los Angeles Times
The mural, which also depicts women including Nina Simone, was the result of a popular vote four years ago. But "the far-right party Vox had called for the mural in the Madrid neighborhood of Ciudad Lineal to be removed and replaced with another representing five male and five female paralympic athletes. The current work, which is painted on the walls of...
At least, that's what one emoji-loving CEO proposes. "Millennials and post-millennials now make up at least 65% of the workforce in the U.S. Emojis are an essential part of how most of this generation communicates in their personal life. Businesses typically view communication skills as highly valuable in employees, so why suppress such an important tool?" Ah. Side-eye surprised...
"All in all, the oracular quality of these lines, their sheer wisdom, makes of Beckett, much against his will, no doubt, something of a sage." - The Irish Times
Who could put it better than this? "There is much to learn within the pages of the so-called bonkbuster – and, no, not all of it is about sex." - The Observer (UK)
Is it still March 2020? What content are we watching? Who even knows? Well, your museum. The Walker Museum's public programs manager: "People are looking to their local arts organizations for online content. Even though you can see the Berlin Philharmonic or go to the Met programs, I think there's still a real interest in what's happening in...
Zendaya's move on the pandemic-filmed Malcolm and Marie may be a new standard for the industry. Of course, it helped that she and her costar had some say in the production and its finances. "We got to create this financial structure where all of our crew members also got points on it, so when it sold, they made money...
Perhaps some of it might be found in erasure. "Sometimes when it’s hard to write, that constraint gives you a place to start. It’s a bit like a painter working with a limited palette: You have both a solid foundation from which to begin your poem, and the challenge to create something using only what you have in front...
The nurse, who has been working on COVID-19 wards for months, beat 12,000 other applicants to the Goteborg Film Festival, where she'll live alone on a lighthouse for a week, watching 60 films. Lisa Enroth "said she hoped to enjoy 'being part of a totally different kind of reality for a week.'"- BBC
Peter Dunn, the head of CBS' 28 news stations, and another staffer - the senior vice president for news - were suspended, and an outside law firm hired to investigate an alleged culture of sexist and racist bullying. - Los Angeles Times
