Tag: 04.20.21
Dysfunctional DC Arts Commission To Get A New Leader
If approved by the D.C. Council, Reginald Van Lee will lead an 18-member board that critics describe as dysfunctional, toxic and beset by cronyism...
How Data Science Is Analyzing The Arts
"Computer scientists are writing algorithms to identify the emotional arcs of novels. Sociologists are building statistical models to analyze why certain works of visual...
Why Modern Science Is Vulnerable To Science Deniers
Turns out this Science entity doesn’t have a single voice, and in many cases hearing what it has to say isn’t straightforward. As intellectual...
In Venice, Building A New System To Protect St. Mark’s From Ever-Increasing Floods
The repeated, record-setting acqua alta events of late 2019 caused an estimated €300 million in damage to the Byzantine-style landmark — and floods are...
Choreographer Cathy Marston, Making New Story Ballets Cool Again
The 46-year-old Briton, who has continued to work remotely even as her big U.S. premieres planned for last year (Of Mice and Men at...
How Do We Structurally Change Theatre Criticism?
“The answer is not more diverse critics because what the fuck does that mean? More diverse critics and then they go where? More diverse...
Canada’s Federal Budget Has More Than $800 Million In New Cultural Funding
"The budget earmarks $300-million over two years to Canadian Heritage to create a recovery fund to combat that drop in employment and support the...
Charlotte Plans To Overhaul Arts Funding, With 50% More Money — But Some Artists...
"Last week, City Manager Marcus Jones recommended that the city take over arts funding from the Arts & Science Council, which has managed the...
Daily Mail Newspaper Sues Google For “Manipulating Search Results”
It alleges Google "punishes" publishers in its rankings if they don't sell enough advertising space in its marketplace. Google called the claims "meritless". Associated...
How Public Ideas Evolved In The Cold War Era
What most comes across is the protean creativity of the period, the globe-spanning connections that promoted it, and Menand’s mastery of large slices of...
Consider The Environmental Cost Of Making Music
Musicians addressing the environment head-on only represents one side of the music industry’s engagement with the climate crisis. The way we listen to music...
Netflix Is Spending $17 Billion On New Content
That’s a notable uptick from the streamer’s 2020 spend of $11.8 billion, as the pandemic prompted production delays across the industry, and a 2019...
Infrastructure For Creative Workers?
That view is to see the rise of Substack and podcasting and Bandcamp for musicians who want to escape the tyranny of the record labels and...
Harriet Tubman’s Lost Family Home Discovered In Maryland
The site, on land recently added to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore, includes ten acres that Tubman's father, Ben Ross,...
Chicago Says It Will Spend $60 Million On Arts Throughout City
The initiative, called Arts 77 (referring to Chicago's 77 neighborhoods), takes in multiple programs spread over several departments of the municipal government. Along with...
Richard Wright, Who’s Been Dead For 60 Years, Has A New Novel Coming Out
"In July 1941, Richard Wright, then America's leading Black author, began writing the novel he felt was his masterpiece. Written 'at white heat,' …...
Chiefs Of ‘The Gold Standard Of Art Film Studios’ Retire After 21 Years
Steve Gilula and Nancy Utley have been at the helm of Searchlight Pictures since the turn of the millennium, and one could argue that...
With The Castros Gone, Will The Arts In Cuba Be Any Freer?
Since Raúl Castro's government had recently had another period of censoring art and arresting artists, there's some hope — off the island, at least...
Anthropology Museums Start Reckoning: What To Do With Bones Of Enslaved Africans In Their...
It started last summer with the Morton Cranial Collection at Penn, spread to Harvard's Peabody and Warren Museums, and, in recent weeks, has come...