Tag: 01.28.21
Attacks On The Merits
The idea that the world is corrupt and unfair was the subject of medieval morality plays and sermons. They taught a vast population to...
Is Art Created By AI Copywritable?
For an artwork to be copyrightable, it must possess some “minimal degree of creativity” and be original to the “author.” This leads us to...
Love Books But Need Your Social Distance Space?
Rent a bookstore for a date. Yes, an entire bookstore. "The experience is BYOB (and food), but the store provides candles—and, of course, exclusive...
A Photographer Who Captured 2020’s Protests, ‘Freedom’ Rallies, And Zip-Tie-Toting State House Assaulters
Rian Dundon: "I’m always trying to do portraits at these events as a way to cut through the visual noise of flags and sign boards etc....
What It Feels Like When The First Lady Is Touting Your Novel
It's pretty great, honestly. Ask Angie Thomas. "Had you told little Angie that 20-something years ago, she wouldn’t have believed she wrote something that...
A Lawsuit Over Schenkerian Music Theory And A Huge Debate Over How Music Theory...
At its best, music theory creates simplified models that help us understand how compositions are conceived and constructed while leaving space for the mystery...
A Trump Presidential Library? The Argument Against It
"The danger of Trump using a presidential library to burnish his image is far more serious, with the ex-president and his surrogates still promoting...
Why “Our Town” Still Resonates 80 Years Later
With the country splintered, its institutions shaken, a book documenting a classic American play affirming shared life experiences and bedrock values seems especially timely....
Mike Birbiglia On Doing Comedy Over Zoom
"I've done about 18 of these virtual shows, and I've learned things from them that I thought I had long understood after 20 years...
New Design For COVID-Safe Pop-Up Theatre
The Vertical Theatre, as it's called, will be modular, with a capacity of 1,200 to 2,400, seated in small groups separated (if necessary) by...
Hey, Joe And Kamala! You Know Who Can Help You Save America? Arts Researchers!
"In addition to being creative thinkers and makers, many artists, designers and architects are also researchers whose work reveals new insights and approaches to...
Did Stock-Trading Redditors Just Save Live Cinema?
Or, if not the entire movie-theater business, at least AMC. The pandemic had made the already-difficult financial situation of the world's largest cinema chain...
Museum Of The Bible Gives 5,000 Artifacts Back To Egypt
"The collection" — which, the museum says, has "insufficient reliable provenance" — "includes manuscripts and papyrus fragments with texts written in Coptic, hieratic and...
Botticelli Portrait Is Now Most Expensive Old Master Painting Ever Sold (Except For ‘Salvator...
"A sterling 550-year-old portrait by the Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli that was the star lot of Sotheby's Old Masters sale has sold for $92.2...
Cicely Tyson, 96
"Regal in bearing, with willowy beauty and delicately chiseled features, Ms. Tyson was known for embodying women of great poise striving under great pressure....
The Perils Of Our Time Demand An Artistic Response
Deborah Cullinan: "The events of the past year, and the shocking insurrection that took place at the Capitol on Jan. 6, have reinforced the...
This Was An Odd Year For Movies. The Oscars Should Reflect That
"The kinds of movies that traditionally contend for awards — mid-budget dramas with recognizable stars and respectable historical subjects or social themes — were...
Biden’s Inauguration Was Driven By Creativity. So Let’s Use That Creativity…
There can be no national recovery, no American Rescue, without the creative economy, and the 5.1 million creative workers who make it up. And...
Govan’s Folly? Stuck in the LACMA Quagmire
In decades of covering museum buildings, I’ve mostly refrained from “reviewing” a building that hasn’t gone up yet. That’s why I’ve hung back from...
COVID And Theatre: How Half A Dozen Different Countries Are Coping
Here are reports from Taiwan ("Shows go on – with precautions in place"), Italy ("A sharply divided theatre world"), the U.S. ("Struggling on despite...