Tag: 02.21.21
Australia’s Restless Dance Company Faces A Funding Crisis
When the Australia Council announced its latest four-year funding winners in 2020, Restless was a shock omission, as were La Mama Theatre in Melbourne...
Philip Guston’s Daughter Speaks Out On Postponement Of Her Father’s Show
To Musa Mayer’s dismay, her father, an antiracist and the son of immigrants who had fled antisemitic persecution, was now having his complex images...
New Possibilities As Classical Music Explores Music By Black Composers
Somewhere, in an attic or a music library or maybe hiding in plain sight, are pieces by non-white-male composers that, with the right kind...
Jazz Is Dying During The Pandemic
The pandemic has wrecked an already vulnerable jazz industry by forcing live music shows to halt. Musicians and club owners have turned to online...
Certain ‘Muppet Show’ Episodes Get A Disclaimer At Disney Plus
The disclaimer, which runs on 18 episodes of the show (re-relased on Disney+ last week): "This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people...
Bringing The Joy Back To New York, Through Pop Up Music
As the leader of "NYPopsUp" explains, "This is what I like to call 'social music.' ... You can use music to minister to so...
Dali Was A Surrealist With Absolute Discipline And Scientific, Renaissance Style Perspective
DalÃ, art historians say, was "very deliberate" in his art - and sketches of unfinished works also show how he combined complex mathematical calculations...
Arturo Di Modica, Sculptor Of New York’s Charging Bull Sculpture, Has Died At 80
Di Modica was a "Sicilian-born sculptor best known for Charging Bull, 3.5 tons of bronze belligerence that he illegally deposited in Lower Manhattan one...
Monopoly Place Names Are Just As Redlined As Real Life Cities
To wit: Cyril and Ruth Harvey, "who played a key role in popularizing the game, lived on Pennsylvania Avenue (a pricey $320 green property...
Who Wrote A Mysterious Inscription On Munch’s The Scream?
Looks like the mystery's been solved - and the writer was (drumroll) ... the artist himself. "The text, 'Could only have been painted by...
Did The Post-Earthquake Rebuild Of Central Christchurch Fail?
Pretty much, yes. "Downtown Christchurch isn’t empty because of COVID. It’s empty because of twin catastrophes: Ten years ago an earthquake leveled much of...
Black Ballerinas In Utah Are Helping Change Ballet Culture
In the wake of George Floyd's killing and the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the country, Ballet West's Black dancers were asked by...
The Golden Globes’ Parent Organization Is A Mess, Including Accusations Of Corruption And Tax...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has some issues, with members describing monthly meetings as battle zones. The HFPA includes zero Black members. It's "an...
Shifts In How Kids Play Mean Playground Design Needs To Follow
A new emphasis has also changed how design firms feel about commissions. "For the new guard of playground design, the boundary between play equipment...