Buildings Become ‘Sky Gardens’ With Designers Who Bring Humans And Nature Back Together
OK, sure, we may not want too much forest or savannah in our skyscrapers, but some is good for humans. - The Observer (UK)
The Joys Of The Baghdad Book Fair
"Patrons savor the chance to browse aisles of paperbacks and hardcovers stacked on tables in pavilions from different countries. ... To revel in what...
Building A Tutu That Can Stand Up To ‘Nutcracker’ Demands Takes A Long Time
Ask a wardrobe supervisor: "To build a singular tutu it’s 80-100 hours. ... There’s 15 yards of tulle, and 10-14 layers, depending on the...
The Dramatic Trust Fall Of Going To Theatre In 2021
"We have to trust that most people no longer venture out while sick, that they are not manufacturing fake proof of vaccination, that they...
Richard Rogers, Who Turned Architecture Inside Out And Altered The Skylines Of Paris And...
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect who designed the Pompidou (with Renzo Piano), the Millennium Dome, and Lloyd's of London, has died at 88. He had...
The Wildest Parties Of Art History
As our holiday parties go on yet another COVID-19 hiatus, might as well look at parties painted by the greats. - The Guardian (UK)
Inside The First Manhattan Bookstore Owned By An Asian American Woman
Owner Lucy Yu made the decision "to embark on this journey—now, in the midst of a pandemic, on the heels of so much anti-Asian...
YouTube TV Loses Disney, ESPN, ABC Content Over Dispute
It's about money, of course, but subscribers - especially sports fans - may not care about the reasons. "The outage came during an ESPN...
The Wide-Angle Vision And Broad Legacy Of bell hooks
Kimberlé Crenshaw explains how hooks's books and other writing worked: "Sometimes people say things, or write things, that so capture your experience that you...
Why Is Such A Great Actor Such A Not-Great Director?
"As a movie star, George Clooney is a happy warrior, always ready with a thoughtful quote or charming anecdote, and he’s the rare celebrity...
How A Sculpture Became A God Again
You can thank the FBI - and also the people of Nepal, who restored the temple and convinced others that the deity had not...
Chris Noth Accused By Third Woman Of Sexual Assault
A now-30-year-old tech executive has texts and other evidence from the alleged assault in 2010, by the then-35-year-old The Sex and the City star....
Los Angeles’s Iconic Cinerama Dome To Reopen Under New Ownership
"The Cinerama Dome first opened in 1963. The venue survived a demolition scare in 1998, when a proposal by Pacific Theatres would have stripped...
The Rockettes Are Canceled For The Season
The COVID-caused cancellation comes at an terrible time for the performers and staff. Many other shows are canceling for the weekend or week as...
Bridgerton Plus TikTok Stars Equals A Grammy Nomination
There is no Bridgerton musical, and yet ... the pandemic lack of Broadway "left room for voters to be more adventurous, opening the door...
How Twitter Distorts Intimacy (And Context)
The frequency of context-destruction is no accident. Twitter rewards high-context speech, and then gives us the perfect tool to decontextualize that speech. Twitter is...
Apple Streaming Has Been Crap For Classical Music. So It Bought An Expert
With a view to improving that experience, presumably, Apple acquired dedicated classical music streaming service Primephonic in August 2021. In a press release, the company...
The Further Adventures In Testing Whether Hybrid Performances Of Theatre Draw Audiences
"The show sold a bit below their historical average—which the company anticipated, not least because of the rising concern around yet another COVID variant—but...
The Problem With Grand Narrative Histories Of Humanity
By producing an overarching story of life, Big History is meant to fill the void that was left by the processes of secularisation that...
Is The Sackler Disgrace A Warning To Other Potential Museum Funders?
The resulting glare is sure to have a dampening effect on future donations from individuals or families whose wealth derives from practices today considered...
Movie Musicals Flopped This Year. Is The Genre Dead?
Studio executives and box-office pundits expected audiences to show up for In the Heights, Dear Evan Hansen and West Side Story, and not just...
Consider The Velvet Painting
"They are the ultimate kitsch, and in this era of hipster aesthetic, they lend themselves well to some ironic display. But does dark velvet...
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge Has Been Singing Since June. Now A Fix
“After studying this phenomenon extensively, we’ve determined that the sound comes from new and more aerodynamic railing that we installed on the west sidewalk....
Did You Know Charles Dickens Wrote A Successor To “A Christmas Carol”?
Mind, it's not a sequel. Dickens published a series of five Christmas novellas; A Christmas Carol was the first. London's Dickens Museum hopes to...
Health Care, Hospitals And Design Choices
The basic trajectory of hospital design has, so far, been toward buildings that are ever bigger, more complex and more sealed off from the...
