Janice Mirikitani, Poet Laureate Of San Francisco And Fighter For Justice, 80
Mirikitani was interned with her family during WWII, and later called poetry the language of liberation. She was the founding president of a social...
The Museum That Tries To Explore, And Value, Joy
And Black joy in particular. The museum's founder, poet and photographer Andrea Walls, "sees the Museum of Black Joy as a inheritor of the Black...
The Loneliness Of The Full-Time Writer
It's a luxury writers with other full-time jobs long for - but the lucky often discover the luxury of being a full-time writer is...
Beloved Singer Songwriter Nanci Griffith Dies At 68
The leader of the Blue Moon Orchestra and a generous promoter of others' work as well as her own, Griffith's "best-loved songs were closely...
Museums In The US Start To Reassess Their African Collections
European museums have been reevaluating for a while (and not just since Black Panther), but now "the question for U.S. institutions, which aren’t directly...
The Only Way The Mouse Could Win A Streaming War
Disney needs a good streaming app - and fast. But it's probably not ready. - FastCompany
The Concert Business Goes Through Whiplash As Delta Variant Spreads
"Concert promoters, like other arts executives, are hoping that velvet ropes of vaccination requirements around cultural events can serve as an incentive for fans...
Blockbuster Series Have Become Incredibly Complicated, But Why?
There's "an endless succession of sequels, prequels, reboots, spin-offs and connected crossovers. This is all great news for diehard fans, but civilian punters now...
The Arts Are Now Allowed – And Encouraged – To Help Drive Vaccinations
The CDC has released official guidelines, and some nonprofits are offering money, to get artists to create vaccination messages that bypass the traditional messages,...
Gallery Selling Hunter Biden’s Art Says It Will Follow Ethics Guidelines
Might those wishing to curry favor with the Biden White House buy the paintings? The administration has set guidelines, and prices and buyers are...
The Problem With Today’s Book Reviews
The main problem is that the contemporary American book review is first and foremost an audition — for another job, another opportunity, another day in the...
Why/How We Die Badly
Death catches too many of us unawares and unprepared these days, because we prefer to look away, to deny the approach of the one...
Blow To New Zealand’s Identity: Amazon Pulls Filming Of “Lord Of The Rings”
The move came as a blow to many in New Zealand. The production is one of the most expensive in history, with Amazon spending...
Resignation Over £6M Artificial Hill In London Park Meant To Lure Tourists
“With regret, I have accepted the resignation of my deputy leader, Melvyn Caplan, who led the mound project. We have also instigated a thorough...
Olympic TV Viewing Might Have Been Down, But Streaming Ratings Exploded
YouTube said, Olympics content was viewed more than 190 million times per day during Tokyo, five times more than the average daily views during...
Breakdancing In The Olympics: What Does It Mean, For Art And For Sport?
"In theory, ballet, or any performance art could be an Olympic event so long as it can be judged and scored. … But does...
The Extraordinarily Improbable Path To Publication For This Booker Nominee
After many rejections, An Island was published by tiny indie press Holland House in a print run of a mere 500 copies owing to the pandemic....
Australian Ballet Cancels Rest Of Season In Melbourne
We'd hoped that stories like this were in the past, but, with the Delta variant spreading and vaccinations lagging in Australia, the company felt...
Twitter Changed Its Font. Users Aren’t Happy
The font that they’re calling Chirp is extremely similar to GT America, which is itself based on Franklin Gothic. They changed the spacing ever so...
A Boom In Murals Brightens Buffalo
"In today's Buffalo, … many locals are now filled with a kind of confidence and optimism that defies population trends and poverty rates. That...
Yayoi Kusama Sculpture Swept Out To Sea In Storm
The sculpture, a giant black and yellow polka-dotted pumpkin by the celebrated artist Yayoi Kusama, has stood at the end of a pier on the...
Exploring The Door-Closing Chimes Of The World’s Subway Systems
"Ted Green has been collecting … the telltale chimes — beeps, ding-dongs, jingles and arpeggios that warn riders around the world to stand clear."...
Critic Michael Phillips: Go Inside A Movie Theatre Right Now? Maybe Not!
With the delta variant in our lives now, studios and film distributors who have the nerve to require in-person screenings for review are being...
What Should Theatres Do When Actors Aren’t Vaccinated? And How Will They Know?
Last month in the Bay Area, rumors that the actors in a two-hander were performing unvaccinated in a 99-seat house led to the cancellation...
Trove Of Intact Late-19th-Century Opera Sets Discovered In Old Colorado Mining Town
The collection of flats and drops had been languishing in the attic of the Tabor Opera House in Leadville. The theater was built by...
