Tag: 01.14.21
First New Blue Pigment In Two Centuries Now Available To Public
"YInMn Blue, the brilliant pigment discovered in 2009 at an Oregon State University lab, … was finally approved by the EPA for use in...
Helga Weyhe, Germany’s Oldest Bookseller, 98
The store, which has endured through the creation of Germany, two world wars, Communism, and reunification, not to mention Amazon, was a family affair....
The Gatsby Glut
Hurrah for copyright expiration: There are many new editions, with introductions and critical essays by voices that haven't been heard enough in the American...
Mary Catherine Bateson, Author Of ‘Composing A Life’ And Daughter Of Margaret Mead, 81
Bateson, an anthropologist like her famous parents Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, had a busy and famously documented life. "Still, it wasn’t her babyhood, her...
Unlocking The Technology Of Relationships
What does it look like when a small-scale, long-term community effort in Detroit is connected to a small-scale, long-term community effort in Seattle or...
Brexit Deal Visa Requirements Stymie UK Musicians
As it stands, British musicians may be forced to pay for country-specific visas and equipment carnets when touring the continent – a situation that...
Lessons From 40 Years Performing Online
"Everything about the experience of using a computer is still flat, everything uses these windows, but then we also have high-speed processes that allow...
Ten Takeaways From Variety’s Entertainment Summit
"A common misconception is that niche shows geared toward specific audiences will not fare as well as more universal programs, but Lucinda Martinez, executive...
Learning How Not To Read Like A Critic
"One of the first lessons you learn in grad school is to hide your personal taste or risk being shamed for liking the wrong...
Will Self: How Should We Be Reading?
"There’s always this quality of endeavor about reading—and at the same time, in cognitive terms it’s hard work. When someone reading complex passages of...
How Paris Theatres Keep Putting On Plays While The Pandemic Has Stopped Public Performances
Shows were running in the French capital for a few months last year, before a big new wave of COVID infections led to a...
Guggenheim Museum Names Its First Black Deputy Director
Naomi Beckwith, 44, who since 2018 has served as senior curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, will oversee collections, exhibitions, publications, curatorial...
Do We Want Uplifting Entertainment In These Difficult Times? Not Me!
"The temptation to simplify morality when social injustice is rife is understandable, but reading Dostoevsky makes me impatient with the schematic bent of our...
With Michael Apted Gone, Can His ‘Up’ Documentaries Keep Going?
Beginning in 1964 with Seven Up!, Apted made a series of nine films, shot at seven-year-intervals, following the lives of a group of 14...
Amazon Sued For Colluding With Big Five Publishers In E-Book Price-Fixing
"The suit, filed in the Southern District of New York on January 14 by Seattle-based firm Hagens Berman, … currently names only Amazon as...
In Ontario, Even Livestreamed Performances Without Audience Are Now Banned
As the number of COVID cases continues to spike, "organizers behind a number of livestreaming concerts and theatre shows in Ontario say the province's...
This Year’s Kennedy Center Honorees
The Kennedy Center Honors announced today that the lifetime artistic achievement recipients for its 43rd ceremony will be choreographer and actress Debbie Allen; folk...
Capitol Offense: Metropolitan Museum Blasts “Domestic Terrorism” by “Treasonous Rioters”
Throwing caution to the winds, the Metropolitan Museum today went beyond the more measured words of a few other museums in its angry call...
Paris Opera Ballet Says It Will Get Rid Of Racial Stereotypes, And Conservatives Flip...
Talking to Le Monde about diversity, racial equity, and blackface/yellowface in the ballet company, the world's oldest, new Paris Opera chief Alexander Neef said,...