Tag: 01.19.21
City Of Austin Announced Major Overhaul Of Its Arts Funding Program, And Local Arts...
"Staff with the city's Cultural Arts Division unveiled an entirely new funding system in mid-December that, among other changes, lowers the funding cap for...
A Checklist For Happiness? It Doesn’t Work That Way
"Every cultural message we get is that happiness can be read off a scorecard of money, education, experiences, relationships, and prestige. Want the happiest...
Here’s What The New American Elite Looks Like
"From the American Revolution until the late 20th century, the American elite was divided among regional oligarchies. It is only in the last generation...
Why Conspiracy Theories Are So Attractive
Are conspiracy theories truly more prevalent and influential today, or does it just seem that way? - NiemanLab
The Man Saving Cities One Historic Building At A Time
“These once-dead buildings are now living spaces where people work, eat and carry out their lives,” says Luis Martín Bogdanovich, the general manager of...
Roger Mandle, Who Ran RISD And Co-Founded Qatar’s Museums, Dead At 79
As director of the Toldeo Museum of Art, he organized a pathbreaking (and record-breaking) El Greco exhibition. As president of the Rhode Island School...
Hungary Orders Warning Labels Put On Books With LGBTQ Content
After the small queer women's publisher Labrisz released a book of fairytales, titled Wonderland Is For Everyone, that includes LGBTQ characters, the right-wing government...
Beethoven Through The Oppression Of An Anniversary Year
Alex Ross: "The most valuable recordings of the Beethoven Year—Igor Levit’s survey of the sonatas and the Quatuor Ébène’s cycle of the quartets—bring out...
We Need To Rethink The Music Ecosystem
"With the collapse of live revenues, the issues in how streaming pays (or doesn’t) is being discussed. Ingham calculates that 1% of all artists...
What Critics Are About
Reviewing is not just about giving a thumbs-up or down and handing out generalised star ratings. It’s using experience of the art form to...
The Culture Of Nothing?
For years, an aesthetic mode of nothingness has been ascendant — a literally nihilistic attitude visible in all realms of culture, one intent on...
Tokenism Versus Representation
"The complexity of the question "What qualifies as tokenism and what as representation?" rivals that of Blackness itself. There is often a conflation perhaps...
The Limitations Of Adding Video To Classical Music
"With more conventional classical music video where we watch musicians playing, I would argue that the visual experience actually constrains our mind’s eye and...
Border Wall SeeSaws Win Design Award
They were installed by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello at the Anapra zone in Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. Even though they were only...
Late-Night TV Writers Dish On The Hard Work Of Writing Jokes About Trump
"Ahead of Biden's inauguration, Vulture spoke with multiple late-night writers who either still work or previously worked for Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Trevor Noah,...
Take It From A Times Theater Critic: The Trump-To-Shakespeare Analogies Really Don’t Work
Jesse Green: "I admit that I do it too. … But even these comparisons are reductive — in both directions. Shakespeare's characters are much...
Egyptian Queen’s 4,200-Year-Old Tomb, 13-Foot Papyrus, And Even More Painted Coffins: The Latest Treasures...
"Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities has revealed details of the latest landmark discoveries to emerge from the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo. The vast burial...
With New Contract, SoCal’s Pacific Symphony Can Start Playing Again
Last week the Orange County orchestra's musicians and management agreed on a four-year contract, running through the 2023-24 season. "Crucially, the agreement lays out...
Trump’s NEA Chair Departs As Biden Administration Arrives
"National Endowment for the Arts chairwoman Mary Anne Carter has resigned as head of the federal agency, telling her staff in a letter sent...
Dropped By Simon And Schuster, Josh Hawley Finds A New Publisher For His Book
Regnery will publish Hawley's book, titled "The Tyranny of Big Tech," in the spring, according to a news release from the publisher. - CNN
Paris Loses One Of Its Favorite Bookstores
"Gibert Jeune, a popular chain, has announced it will be closing its flagship shop in the Latin Quarter in March – the latest in...
Fire At Brussels’s Major Art Museum
Flames broke out on the roof of Bozar (the Musée des Beaux-Arts) in the Belgian capital on Monday afternoon (Jan. 18). No civilians were...