Tag: 05.09.21
UK Government Slashes Funding For “Creative Subjects” In Universities
The government has said subjects like music, dance, drama and performing arts, art and design, media studies and archaeology are "not among its strategic...
Director Barry Jenkins Says Maybe America Never Has Been Great
The director of Moonlight took on a 10-part adaptation of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad partly because it was such a wellspring of fear....
Charles Dickens Hid A Lifelong Grief In A Locket
Dickens' 17-year-old sister-in-law collapsed one night as she returned from the theatre, and died in the arms of the writer. "A failure of Hogarth’s...
Cirque De Soleil Is Back, Almost
The pandemic forced Cirque to shutter 44 shows all over the world. Now, performers are getting ready - as ready as they can, within...
Artists Following In Their Mothers’ Footsteps
Dance, publishing, painting, music, and the stage - having an example, an inspiration, and a mentor in the house can both block and encourage...
NFTs Are The Newest Tulipmania
"Art NFTs put me in mind of film auteur Werner Herzog’s distinction between the 'truth of accountants' and 'ecstatic truth.' NFT mavens wax lyrical...
Getting At Reality Through Blurred Photos
When artist Tabitha Soren had her third child, a friend suggested she photograph the experience. "Time can turn photographs into metaphor or allow them...
New York Plans To Give Artists Work This Summer
Like the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, NY's City Artist Corps is a relief program that "will pay hundreds of local artists to...
Bandwagon Is Changing The NY Phil’s Relationship With The City
Instead of the whiff of noblesse oblige and platitudes about the uplifting nature of classical music, this is about working together. "The key phrases...
Where Tap Dance Came From, And Where It’s Going
It's a long history, and a new generation is reviving the art even during the pandemic. - CBS News
Nashville Isn’t Coming Through For Women
But TikTok is, forcing country radio to pay attention, and give opportunities, to young singers in new ways. - The New York Times
Is Drawing In Decline In Britain?
Some of the nation's top (male) artists are unhappy about the lack of drawing classes, bemoaning the lack of compulsory drawing classes at the...
What Will Happen To Eli Broad’s Grand Dreams For Los Angeles?
Broad's vision was of a Champs-Elysées on Grand Avenue, but all with his stamp on it. "Broad’s ambitions ought to prod Angelenos to consider...