Tag: 01.21.21
Twenty-One Young Composers For 2021
Michael Andor Brodeur: "There is really no playlist to match this unstable, uncertain moment. And, honestly, right now I'm less interested in rummaging through...
The Playwright We Need To Snap Us Out Of The Past Four Years Is...
"Telling a lie over and over can make it seem true. It can also remove agency from the viewer, ceding the individual's judgement over...
André Gregory: What I Learned From Brecht (And His Wife)
"As I was at the beginning of my education as a young director, as well as a nervous, nerdy intellectual, I asked Helene Weigel...
The Biden Administration Gives Hope, And Attention, To The Arts
Despite the fact that the previous president was, himself, the product of show business, the arts seemed to mean nothing to him. "If artists...
Before Coming Back To Live Interior Performances, Theatre Audiences Want Vaccines And Masks
A survey of frequent theatregoers says that widespread vaccines are the only way most people will feel comfortable in the theatre - and, even...
Italy’s Anarchist Architects Warned Of Endless Building Expansion
And, ironically, they might also have inspired Saudi Arabia to try to make a 100-mile-long building. - The Guardian (UK)
What Novelists Can Learn From Playwrights
Brontez Purnell: "All good theater and literature should run the zodiac of feelings: Some of it should be sad, some of it profound; some...
What It Took To Program Robots To Dance The Twist And The Mashed Potato
A video which became a viral hit last month "shows two of Boston Dynamics' humanoid Atlas research robots doing the twist, the mashed potato...
The Lonely, Mysterious Death Of A Science Fiction Pioneer
"This past Saturday, about a dozen people from across the United States and Canada held a Zoom memorial for a man whose remains have...
Pandemic Lockdowns Were Supposed To Be A Chance To Rethink The Ways Theatre Operates....
To an extent, yes, it has. Reporter Natasha Tripney talks with theatremakers around Britain about the positive developments — the success of streaming, increased...
Audiences Won’t Come Back Until Folks Are Vaccinated (But They Still Want Masks): Study
The survey of 3,300 frequent attenders (most over 60 and almost all over 40) found that, now that COVID-19 vaccines are being given to...
Manet Painting Unseen For 140 Years Headed To Auction
"The oil on canvas painting, named after the dog, a griffon called Minnay, is one of a series of eight dog paintings Manet produced...
Salonen And San Francisco Symphony Open Streaming Platform
"The new on-demand streaming service, dubbed SFSymphony+, is scheduled to launch on Feb. 4 with a chamber program curated by Salonen as part of...
Biden Axes Trump’s ‘1776 Commission’ On History Curriculum
"President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued an executive order to dissolve the 1776 Commission, a panel stood up by President Donald Trump … as...
Art Basel Postponed To September 2021
"In another blow to Art Basel and its owner, MCH Group, the art fair's organizers have postponed its flagship edition in Switzerland for the...
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Will Happen, But May Be Postponed To July
"With the Cannes Lions still on track to run June 21-25, it’s feasible that the Cannes Film Festival could be assembled in time...
‘Moulin Rouge!’ — An Oral History Of A Broadway Smash Snuffed Out By Disease
"Set in fin de siècle Paris but supercharged by 75 pop songs, it opened to a rave from The New York Times ('This one's...
Google And France Make Deal To Pay News Outlets For Content
"Google and a French publishers' lobby said on Thursday they had agreed a copyright framework under which the U.S. tech giant will pay news...
Glastonbury, UK’s Largest Rock Festival, Cancelled For Second Year In A Row (Thanks, COVID)
"In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth," the organizers said in a statement, "it has become clear that we simply will...
The Prado Will Re-Hang Its Collection To Feature More Work By Women And Non-Spaniards
" has announced plans to make a 'far more inclusive' place by reordering its permanent collection to ensure greater representation of works by...
Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto Reveals Second Cancer Diagnosis
The Oscar-winning electronic music legend was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, though he was back to making records by 2017 and the disease...
Reasoning Behind Tories’ Protect-Monuments-From-Mobs Law Is Rubbish
Charlotte Higgins: "What is happening in reality – and to a greater or lesser extent has been happening for years – is a reappraisal...