Tag: 02.26.21
A Critic Reviews 125 Years Of The NYT’s Book Reviews
To wander through 125 years of book reviews is to endure assault by adjective. All the fatuous books, the frequently brilliant, the disappointing, the...
UK Artists Have Been Hit With A Double Whammy
"There have been two great catastrophes.The first has been the abandonment of freelancers, many of whom work in the arts. A whole swathe of...
American Cynicism Has Reached Our Breaking Point
Cynicism, at scale, makes democracy’s most basic demand—seeing one another as we are—impossible. And America, at the moment, is saturated with it. - The...
James Darrah On The Future Of Opera
“I think the future of that looks like we embrace the cinematic, and digital media side of opera to an even greater degree. And...
Ireland, Britain Reach Agreement In Century-Long Dispute Over Art Collection
The background to the 10-year (at least) truce: "In 1915 the Irish art collector Sir Hugh Lane was among nearly 1,200 people who died...
Amazon Films Are Getting More Respect
The game-changers were the pandemic, and also awards-nominated movies One Night in Miami and Sound of Metal, not to mention Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Those...
The ‘Guernica’ Replica Tapestry Hanging In The UN Has Been Repossessed By Its Rockefeller...
A spokesman for the UN Secretary General said, "I feel sad and a sense of loss looking at that empty wall. ... The tapestry...
Studies: EMail Is Making You Miserable!
A study, published in 2019, looked at long-term trends in the health of a group of nearly five thousand Swedish workers. They found that...
Books: A Coronavirus Lifesaver
At least that's what a bookseller turned newly-minted Instagram book reviewer (that is, a Bookstagrammer) says. He hasn't seen his family for nearly two...
Julie Delpy, Sci-Fi Movie Director
You probably know the French actor Julie Delpy from the Richard Linklater movie trilogy that begins with Before Sunrise, but she's been writing and...
Back In The Dance Bubble
At the beginning of the pandemic and its ballet shutdown, choreographer Alexei Ratmansky had big plans. Then reality hit, and he's spent hours organizing...
Raymond Cauchetier, Whose Photos Captured The People Of French New Wave Cinema, 101
Cauchetier, whose death was caused by COVID-19, was a self-taught photographer who "documented the revolutionary early films of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other New Wave...
The Committed Artistic Life Of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
The artist wrote, "The magnitude of research and study of Afro-Amerikans is what I have dedicated my life. My works are the missing pages...
What It Was Like Being A Freelance Dancer During The First Year Of COVID-19
Maria Kochitkova left the San Francisco Ballet in 2018 to go freelance. Her career was going well; she had bookings out for many months....
Ruth Carter Gets Her Star, The First Costume Designer To Do So Since Edith...
The designer of Black Panther, Selma, Dolemite Is my Name, Malcolm X is the first Black costume designer (and second costume designer ever) to...
Why Having No Blockbusters Contending For The Oscars Is Actually Great For The Movies
The year of no movie theatres meant the year of no blockbusters; most have been pushed off for a year or more, and that's...
President Biden Reverses The Truly Terrible 45 ‘Classical Architecture’ Order
The executive order, which the former president signed "in December after losing his bid for re-election, was titled 'Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture,' and...
New Director Takes Control Over Pompeii Site
"He was among the first crop of foreigners picked to direct an Italian museum or cultural site as part of what was a contentious...
What Will Happen If Publishing Giants Merge?
"Perhaps the industry’s biggest concern about the merger, especially among agents and authors, is what it will mean for book deals. An agent representing...