Tag: 03.15.21
Is It Finally Time To Get Rid Of Your CD’s?
"Here millennials sit, following begrudgingly in the boomers’ wake, at the centre of a generational Venn diagram: in the unique position of having CDs,...
What Made Graham Greene So Peripatetic? Misery
Constant bullying at school (he was the headmaster's son, and he paid for it); repeated adolescent suicide attempts; Benzedrine and Nembutal and lots (and...
As Ballet Companies Move Toward Reopening Without Knowing What The Rules Will Be, How...
"'What would you do if you had no idea when a season would begin, what venue capacity you could perform in and what the...
NFT’s Are Making Artworld Problems Worse
It turns out the NFT craze has many parallels to the art world. After even a few short days in the aftermath of the...
Will Russians Have To Run All Cultural Programming Past Censors Again?
"Over 1,000 cultural figures, including artists and curators, have addressed a letter to President Vladimir Putin and parliamentarians expressing fears that law is...
How The Arts In Australia Have Been Slowly Undermined
The last thirty years have seen management displace the creators to become the powerful figures of the arts world … Increasingly, even the section...
Wayne Shorter And Esperanza Spalding Turn To Crowdfunding For Their Opera
"Iphigenia is not an adaptation of the Greek myth as much as it is an intervention into myth-making itself," reads an explanation on the...
What Should A COVID Memorial Look Like?
Justin Davidson: "No memorial, no matter how grand or artful, can encompass the infinite varieties of pain, or comfort everyone who experienced a global...
Comparing Different Countries’ Pandemic Relief Funding For The Arts
"We added up the total emergency cultural aid packages from nine countries around the globe to show you how they compare. We looked at...
Why Did It Take Four Years For Spain’s National Library To Report The Theft...
"The technical department had known that the original had been replaced by a copy since May 2014, when book restorers discovered it by accident...
This Year, The Salzburg Easter Festival Will Be The Salzburg All Saints Festival
The state of the pandemic being what it is just now, management didn't want to cancel the event entirely as they did last year,...
The BBC Has Dominated Audio Content In The UK. Now Podcasters Are Taking Root
While Britain hasn’t seen the cash influx — about $2 billion — that streaming and traditional media companies have spent snapping up the American...
How The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Has Been Dismantled Over The Past Year
The Metropolitan Opera House has been dark for a year, and its musicians have gone unpaid for almost as long. The players in one...
How Independent Bookstores In The US Survived Over The Past Year (Or Didn’t)
The Washington Post talked to the owners of six indies about how they weathered the year. What follows is an oral history of these...
The Lessons Of Generation X Seem Even More True Today
When Generation X was published, Douglas Coupland observed: “information overload meant 50 TV stations instead of ten.” In the current era where internet connections...
AAMD’s Deaccession Dilemma (& the Met’s Equivocations)
Is the “slippery slope” on the verge of becoming even more treacherous? In conversations with its members this week, the Association of Art Museum...
The Problem When Everyone Is Right
We are aware, of course, that we might be wrong, because we know that on certain issues we have changed our minds, and therefore...
Want To See The Complete List Of Oscars Nominations?
Of course you do! (And there are articles about the highest profile snubs everywhere as well.) - Variety