Tag: 02.03.21
The Professional Dancer Who Also Runs A Dairy Farm
Jean-Daniel Bouchard said although his twin passions may seem like something of a contradiction — farming can be gruelling physical labour and involves plenty of financial mathematics, versus...
How Did Arts And Culture Respond To Trump?
The internet is healing, I would say now, but we should all know better: a garbage vortex of such scale doesn’t just disappear, but...
Upending A ‘Typical Immigrant Story’ With Steven Yeun
Yeun, who got the job as Glenn on The Walking Dead five months after he moved to Los Angeles, is starring in Minari right...
EU Green New Deal Includes Building A New Bauhaus
In September the EU launched "an ambitious and historic initiative to fund innovative scientific and artistic endeavours to abate climate change and allow Europe...
The Book Pirates Loved Voltaire
Booksellers often distrusted Voltaire, because by modifying his texts and multiplying the editions, he alienated their customers. No one wanted to pay good money...
Want To Understand People Better? Scientists Look To Dogs
In a recent study of 217 Border collies that ranged in age from 6 months to 15, the team, together with the Clever Dog...
Remember That Fake Gauguin The Getty Bought? They Were Warned
"The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles was privately warned in 2002 that a Gauguin sculpture it had just bought for around $4m...
How Much Do Composers Get Paid For Commissions?
The reality is that many questions surround composer pay. Some people wonder why they’re not being paid more. Some people are surprised by the...
LA Theatre Raises $700K In A Single Online Fundraiser. Here’s How
It was with no small amount of happiness that Center Theatre Group this week said it had generated more than $700,000 through a single...
How Do We Mitigate The Chaos Of Social Media?
"I think we’re witnessing, in real time, society grappling with the emergence of social media as a very powerful force. Experts who have been...
Build Back Better
At this point I would implore arts organizations not to return to pre-pandemic practices with nothing more than modest tweaks. This is a time...
Record Amount Of Buried Treasure Found In UK (By Amateurs With Metal Detectors)
The vast majority, 96%, were discovered by metal detecting. Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Essex and Hampshire were identified as hotspots for treasure with more than 80...
Theatre Of Screens (But Is It, Though?)
Whether or not onscreen theater feels like theater may depend on whether it offers a feeling of liveness, with all the potential for error...
How Did A Book Of New Poetry Get Passed Off As The Work Of...
Matty Weingast's The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns was marketed by America's leading Buddhist publisher — and hailed by many...
Could We Really Revive The Federal Theatre Project? How Would That Work In 2021?
The short answer is that it couldn't work the way it did in the 1930s: the legal and theatrical landscape then was too different....
Libel Lawsuit In Poland Could Derail Holocaust Research, Observers Fear
"Two Polish historians are facing a libel trial over a book examining Poles' behaviour during the Second World War, a case whose outcome is...
U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Suit Over Guelph Treasure
The collection of ornate medieval reliquaries is now held by Berlin's state museums; the American heirs of German Jewish art dealers, claiming that the...
Poetry Magazine Faces Down Furor Over Printing Work By Sex Offender
" has doubled down on its decision to publish a poem by a convicted sex offender as part of a special edition dedicated to...
Kirill Serebrennikov, Russia’s Most Famous Dissident Director, Fired From His Moscow Theatre
On Tuesday, Serebrennikov hosted an event at the Gogol Center — which he has directed since its opening in 2012 and which has become...
Amazon’s New Washington DC Tower Will Have A Hiking Trail Up The Side
Named The Helix, the glass spiral tower will be part of a complex of three office buildings that will make up Amazon HQ2. - Dezeen
Snubs And Surprises From This Year’s Golden Globes Nominations
The absence of the Shonda Rhymes-produced Regency-era blockbuster proves the Golden Globes isn’t just a popularity contest. Otherwise, the Netflix drama would have cleaned...
The Times’s ‘Five Minutes That Will Make You Love {Piano/Sopranos/String Quartets}’ Series? It’s...
Says classical music editor Zachary Woolfe (who came up with the idea in the shower), "It has doubled our audience for classical music. It's...
Golden Globe Nominations 2021: ‘Mank’, ‘The Crown’, ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’, ‘Nomadland’
Streaming services thoroughly dominate the roster: Hulu took 9 nominations, Amazon Studios 10, and Netflix a whopping 42. Among notable details: Tom Hanks and...