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Tag: 01.08.21

Remembering The Other Nijinsky — And How She Changed Dance

"The Nijinsky name, however, does not belong to alone. In an era where static positions were the marrow of classical dance, Nijinska...

Why Conspiracy Theories Are So Attractive To So Many

Experts say that the majority of people do not easily fall for falsehoods. But when misinformation offers simple, casual explanations for otherwise random events,...

Derelict East German Amusement Park Will Become (Another) Berlin Arts District

"Some €45 million has been raised for the project, which was first proposed in 2014 after the city, through the government-owned company Grün Berlin,...

Opera Australia Sued Over COVID-Related Job Cuts, Alleged ‘Intimidation’

"Opera Australia has paid out tens of thousands of dollars in confidential settlements to musicians it sacked at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic....

The Architect of the Capitol Assesses the Damage: Our Nation’s Art & Architecture (if...

This was a week when blogging-as-usual struck me as irredeemably frivolous. Trying to promulgate commentary about art and the artworld seemed fatuous, at a...

Aaron Copland: “One Red to Another”

“If they were a strange sight to me, I was no less of a one to them. It was the first time that many...

For The Third Year In A Row, Last Year UK Opened More Independent Book...

Released as part of the BA's annual membership survey, the number of independent bookshops holding membership at the end of 2020 rose to 967...

Images From An Insurrection

Whether or not these fever-dream images show the actual point of insurrection or are, more likely, the inevitable byproduct of twenty-first century-rioters armed with...

Freelancers, The Lifeblood Of British Theatre, Are In For Another Terribly Rough Year

The situation under the third lockdown is, if anything, worse than in March because the freelancers don't have anything to fall back on. "In...

The Book That Predicted, And Probably Was The Blueprint For, Last Wednesday’s Coup

In a way, The Turner Diaries shows how white supremacists carried out the insurrection - and it provides a pretty clear idea of what's...

The Day Tacoma’s Movie Theatre Burned Down

During The Birds, even. The loss of the venue deeply affected Seattle's southern neighbor. "Before it was the Music Box the building was originally...

The Pandemic Saw A Return Of Space To Listen To And Really Appreciate The...

The lack of touring, time to sit with songs instead of performing them every night, and a ton of time in or near recording...

Homage To A Mentor And A Muse

Kambui Olojimi, an artist from the Brooklyn neighborhood Bedford-Stuyvesant, addresses his childhood and his block, and the idea of collective memory, in his work...

The Number Of Indie Bookstores In The UK And Ireland Soared In 2020

What the actual heck? Well, a lot of people opened bookshops in 2020, during the pandemic, because why not? Their jobs had evaporated, and...

Los Angeles Loses Its Great Blue Whale Jazz Club

Thanks so flipping much, pandemic and a government that refused to get its COVID response together in time to save the arts. Owner Joon...

How Joan Micklin Silver Beat A Path Toward A New Kind Of Romantic Film

It's a path that others could follow, if they had the courage (and the funding). "Crossing Delancey is a culturally distinctive romcom, not one...

Carol Johnson, Whose Landscape Architecture Transformed The Country, 91

Johnson, who was also known for her public housing project designs, became famous for her "large-scale public projects, which often involved environmental remediation. For...

Remember The Art Of Multiples? They’re Back

Art isn't only for the One Percenters, even if that one percent can afford to buy a ton of multiples to go along with...

Michael Apted, Director Of Coal Miner’s Daughter And The 7-Up Series, 79

Apted's series - the latest, 63-Up, came out in 2019 - was only one project from the director of many movies, including Gorillas in...
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