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Tag: 04.15.21

Why Is Contemporary Architecture So Awful?

Perhaps it is that architects speak in a special language, and what looks to me like an arbitrary and ugly assortment of random stark...

Germany Takes Care Of Its Opera Houses, Even Through COVID — But There’s A...

"'What we learned in the crisis was that the public purse was very much willing to keep alive in Germany,' says Dieter Haselbach,...

Entire Board Of New Zealand’s National Organization For Museums Resigns

"The entire board of Museums Aotearoa has abruptly quit after concerns about its governance and management. The organisation’s remaining executive director, Phillipa Tocker, is...

Carol Prisant, Elegant Writer About Design For The World Of Interiors, 82

Prisant was a 51-year-old antiques dealer with no professional experience writing when she wrote to the autocratic editor of the British magazine The World...

What Do The Vaccines Mean For Ballet?

Let an infectious-disease doctor explain why dancers need to get vaccinated. It's not just for themselves: "A significant part of the patronage of many...

Game Of Thrones Is Ten Years Old, And It Feels Utterly Irrelevant

Not just irrelevant, but worse. HBO is celebrating, of course, but "whatever about HBO, how do the rest of us feel about Game of...

The Brooklyn Art Library Wants Your Filled Sketchbook

But first, it needs to sell you a blank book. "The Sketchbook Project works like this: people interested in submitting a sketchbook order a...

The Exploding Market For NFT Art

Most people still do not really understand it, but with the influx of cryptocapital into the NFT art market, all eyes are now glued...

Fake News As A Virus

What’s different today is the speed, scope and scale of misinformation, enabled by technology. Online media has given voice to previously marginalised groups, including...

‘Navy Twerking’: Why All Australia Is Arguing About A Dance Clip

"A video of dancers twerking in hotpants at … went viral when it emerged on Wednesday. But the music video-style choreography — featuring...

Now We Know This Wax Bust Is Definitely Not A Leonardo. How Do We...

Back in 1909, a couple of very prominent German art historians decided, for various reasons, that a wax figurine of the goddess Flora that...

Calculation: San Francisco Says Arts Venues Can Reopen. But Are Audiences Ready To Return?

How rigorously will patrons expect to be protected from the dangers of the COVID-19 virus? Have entertainment habits atrophied during a hiatus of more...

A Dance Critic On How The Pandemic Has Changed Her Work

Deborah Jowitt: "Inevitable distractions occur when filming (or viewing) dances in this climate. Dog walkers may intrude. A pet cat may decide on a...

Venice’s Gondola Tradition Is Endangered

The anthropologist Elisa Bellato has called this an ‘identity crisis’ for the artistic manufacture of the gondola. While the boat made with cheaper materials...

Wouldn’t It Have Made More Sense For Netflix To Just Buy Sony Pictures Outright?

Last week the video-rental-service-turned-streaming-giant paid an estimated $1 billion for five-year exclusive U.S. rights to Sony's theatrical releases and right of first refusal for...

Key Missing Link In History Of Alphabet Identified

"Archaeologists digging in the ancient Canaanite settlement of Lachish have unearthed a 3,500-year-old pottery shard inscribed with what they believe is the oldest text...

French Court Rules Art Galleries Must Remain Closed (Never Mind The Auction Houses)

Gallerists, angry that their competitors at auction houses were allowed to continue operating during France's ongoing pandemic lockdown, and arguing that online sales don't...

New Stats: HipHop, Rap Now Account For 22 Percent Of Listening In UK

When BPI started recording data like this in the 1990s, rap music only counted for 3.6% of the singles market. In 2020, it was...

Louis Menand On The Pragmatism Of Lionel Trilling

As Menand puts it in his new book, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, “Trilling thought that people’s literary preferences...

We Live In The Age Of The Ghostwriter

"In the age of texting and emailing, the world is full of Cyranos: Getting quick, surreptitious help writing high-stakes messages has never been easier,...

Political Theatre Is Useless If It’s Just Preaching To The Choir – So What...

"When political theatre preaches to the choir, it removes its potential to disrupt. Indeed, by having such a laser focus on bringing “awareness” to...

Marketing Opera On TikTok (Maybe It Works!)

The Royal Opera House in London launched a TikTok channel last summer and has since picked up more than 400,000 followers, with some of...
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