Tag: 01.04.21
Author Jacqueline Woodson Gets A Lot Done, But How?
The MacArthur Fellow, who has also won the National Book Award and lives with her partner and two children in Brooklyn, is building Baldwin...
Is America Turning Out Too Many PhD’s?
The overproduction of Ph.D.s has been an issue for years in the U.S., which has a higher rate of doctorate holders than almost any...
The Art World’s 12 Biggest 2020 Controversies
Museums and galleries faced financial challenges that threatened their very existence, as Black Lives Matter uprisings forced a reckoning with the art world’s structural...
LA Movie And TV Production Shuts Down
Production shutdowns are expensive, and a delay of a few weeks would disrupt series’ delivery dates and air pattern. This is especially crucial for...
An Enormous Expansion Of Melbourne Contemporary Museum
The proposed new building, the NGV Contemporary in Melbourne, will be Australia’s largest gallery of contemporary art and design, says Tony Ellwood, the director...
Has The Gagosian Gallery Left San Francisco?
As of Thursday, Dec. 31, the gallery phone was disconnected and the exterior banner as well as signage in the window had been removed....
The Biggest Archaeological Finds Of 2020
As always, Egypt was fruitful ground for archaeologists, with the discovery of the first ancient Egyptian funeral parlor, the world’s oldest Illustrated book, and a mummy buried...
When Theatre Comes Back To Stages It Will Be Different. But That’s OK
"While there have been times during the past year when theatre and all who work in it have felt helpless, unloved and ignored, there...
More Museums Are Presenting “Sponsored Content.” Is This A Problem?
"On either side of the Atlantic, museums have teamed up with corporations in an effort to utilize their spaces—and collections—in order to reach new...
Reverse-Engineering Zoom To Make Online Theater
"Jared Mezzocchi has been systematically exploring what Zoom and the editing program Isadora can offer theatre practitioners during the pandemic. He has been working...
What Recent Research Reveals About Narcissists
"There’s a difference between everyday selfishness and real narcissism – and there’s a distinction between a normal personality trait and the harmful, rare personality...
Angela Hewitt Gets Custom-Made Replacement For Her Smashed Piano
Her horrible 2020 began in January when movers dropped her four-pedal Fazioli, the instrument on which she made every recording she'd done since 2003....
Inside The Largest Trove Of Nazi Propaganda
Today, one of the world’s largest collections of Nazi propaganda sits in a climate-controlled warehouse at Fort Belvoir, in northern Virginia. Much of it...
Progress Report: BIPOC Representation In American Theatre
"Time will tell if theater grantmakers adopt the coalition’s demands en masse, and some of the demands have yet to make it into grantmakers’...
In China, Foreign Films Have Lost Half Their Market Share In One Year
"Imported films accounted for only about a sixth of China's total box office in 2020, a nearly 55% decrease year-on-year, industry data tracker Maoyan...
Author Of ‘War Horse’ Insists He Wasn’t Trying To Censor Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’
" described '21st-century sensibilities' as having prevented the inclusion of the play in Tales from Shakespeare, his retelling of 10 Shakespeare plays for...
Unknown El Greco Painting Discovered In Spain
The small canvas depicting Christ carrying the cross and wearing the crown of thorns, owned by a private individual, was authenticated after two years...
Lee Breuer, Experimental Stage Director, Dead At 83
"A tenacious outsider who refused his sole Tony Award nomination — for his biggest hit and only Broadway show, the Sophocles adaptation The Gospel...
The Institutions That Used To Support Creative Work
"Artists in the middle of the twentieth century flourished not because the economy was inherently favorable to them, but as a result of powerful...
Quibi Didn’t Last, But Its Shows May Move To Roku
The short-form site crashed and burned mere months after rolling out millions of dollars worth of shows, but Roku is already offering ad-supported free...