Tag: 02.12.21
How The Bay Area’s Hip-Hop Dance Crews Have Kept On Through COVID
"When the first COVID-19 lockdown rippled across the Bay Area last March, the dance community reeled. … But as the pandemic unfolded, the crews...
Why We Have Difficulty Trusting Science
Precisely the same methods, and precisely the same leaps of brilliance and faith that led in some cases to science that has withstood the...
Santa Fe Opera Hires New Boss With New Title
With the previous artistic director, Alexander Neef (who was shared with the Canadian Opera Co.), having left for the Paris Opera, Santa Fe decided...
Here’s What A British Musician Now Has To Go Through To Work In Europe
While the UK was in the EU, a British musician could pretty much just accept a gig and go. Now she has to apply...
Italy’s Art Museums Emerge From Lockdown, And They Have Lessons For The Rest Of...
"'We are now where you will be in a few days,' wrote novelist Francesca Melandri in a piece for the Guardian newspaper in late...
Playing The Man Who Betrayed Fred Hampton Sent Lakeith Stanfield Into Therapy
Stanfield says it's not only therapy that has made the last year bearable. "The one good thing about this pandemic is being able to...
Why ‘Nadiya Bakes’ Is Such A Big Deal In Foodie Shows
The new show demonstrates just how drastically far food shows have come - but reminds us of how far that had to be, especially...
Teresa Burga, Groundbreaking Peruvian Conceptual Artist, 85
Burga's best-known work, 1981's Perfil de la mujer Peruana, confused many people in its day. She and a psychotherapist friend "interviewed 290 middle-class women...
The Hidden, All Too Contemporary, History Behind Middlemarch
No, it's not that many mediocre men are threatened by smart women (timeless!) or that mismatched marriages can destroy those in the marriage (also...
Moving The Louvre’s Collection Far From The Floods
In 2016, when the Seine flooded its banks, museum workers toiled 24 hours a day to haul thousands of artworks out of underground storage...
Cole Porter Created A Pro-Immigration Protest Ballet In The 1920s
Of course he did. "Like modern immigration laws, the Emergency Quota Act inspired a wave of pro-immigration activism, and Porter, who was born...
What The ‘To All The Boys’ Trilogy Has Meant For Its Star
Lana Condor on the To All the Boys I've Loved Before trilogy author Jenny Han: "When we first were talking years ago, she said,...
Brenda Ballin, Longtime And Well Loved Guide At The Met, 91
Ballin started volunteering as a docent in the 1970s. "Whatever lucky group she had in tow was pretty much guaranteed a good show. Along...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Amy Tan
Maybe Asian American writers should stop dissing Tan. "I understand the resistance to being lumped in with her; I feel it, too. But when...
Can Theatre Help Heal The United States’ Political Divides?
Well, that sounds hokey. But it's powerful, a program from Georgetown that, a co-founder says, shows "there is a particular power that performance has,...
What’s The Best Place To Work (And Work Only) From Home?
Turns out it might not be sitting on the couch behind your daughter in the TV room. (Who could have known, pre-pandemic?) - Fast...
A Right-Wing Mayor Opens Museums In France Despite National Restrictions
Not that left-wing art-lovers can't sympathize (and a socialist mayor in another town is planning to defy the national orders as well), but ......
Malls And Nail Salons Are Open, But Not Museums?
Dear Gavin Newsom, this makes no sense at all. Signed, a lot of LACMA and other art-lovers in California. Weirdly: "LACMA can open its...
Why Some Are Inclined To Be Seduced By Conspiracy Theories
In the face of complicated events, bewildering new technologies, and sometimes contradictory information, the explanatory power of some occult yet totalizing narrative easily overmasters...
Dramatic Stone Henge Discovery In Wales Suggests Irish History
Its diameter of 110m is identical to the ditch that encloses Stonehenge, and it is aligned on the midsummer solstice sunrise, just like the Wiltshire...
Do We Have The Will To Stop Invention Of A Doomsday Device?
What we haven’t pulled out yet is a black ball: a technology that invariably destroys the civilisation that invents it. That’s not because we’ve...
Zoom – It’s A Song Lyric, It’s A Facilitator Of Romance…
As a nonsense word perfect for a doo-wop song. It's a video app that connects people and (sometimes) facilitates romance. - WBUR
Historic Weyerhaeuser Corporate Campus, Under Threat Of Development
The site, which the City of Federal Way annexed in 1994, has been lauded over the years for the pioneering way it intertwines building...
Did The BBC Censor This Play About Buckingham Palace?
"Peter Barnes had 14 soliloquies on BBC Radio 3 under the umbrella titles Barnes' People and More Barnes' People. They attracted remarkable actors,...
Orchestras Must Overthrow The Tyranny Of Subscription Programming, Says NY Times
Anthony Tommasini: " locks them into standard-issue, week-after-week programs loaded with the classics and sprinkled, at best, with unusual or new choices. … Why...