Tag: 05.17.21
Record Numbers Have Moved Out Of Canada’s Big Cities. Will Artists Return?
"The pandemic has changed the way people think about geography. I think that you can connect with community anywhere, but there's something to be...
Claim: Virtual Reality Is Where The Internet Was 20 Years Ago
With VR evolving at its current rate, movie nights or game nights could eventually turn into cyber nights, a new norm for those under...
A Poetry Slam, Moved From The Apollo Theatre To A Clothing Boutique
"By noon, a dozen poets had arrived. Several paced the sneaker section, frantically whispering their metaphors, anaphoras, and onomatopoeias to themselves; others scrolled TikTok....
How Glyndebourne Didn’t Miss A Step
Throughout the pandemic Glyndebourne has been notably agile, putting on outdoor performances last summer and leading the brief UK return to theatres in the...
Study: BIPOC Arts Workers In LA Earn 35 Percent Less
On average, entry-level arts administrators in Los Angeles County earn $36,847 annually—a figure that’s higher than the $31,200 minimum wage in the area, but...
Still Burning: The Condition of Burnout
To be burned out is to be used up, like a battery so depleted that it can’t be recharged. In people, unlike batteries, it...
Inside One Texas Museum’s Controversial COVID Response
Early on, positive press rolled in for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, focusing on the MFAH’s safety precautions for guests, who would be...
A Sci-Fi ‘Rite Of Spring’ Set In The Arctic
Choreographer Andrea Schermoly, who created this wintry take on Stravinsky's modernist classic for Louisville Ballet's online "Season of Illumination": "I'd seen a short film...
The Amenities This Developer Is Adding To Apartment Buildings Are Theaters And Gallery Spaces
Mind you, this isn't just any old real estate mogul: it's Dasha Zhukova, the collector who founded the popular Garage Museum Of Contemporary Art...
At Last, Bourse de Commerce—Pinault Collection Opens In Paris
"The reopening of Paris museums this week finally gives billionaire tycoon François Pinault the chance to showcase his vast contemporary art collection in the...
V&A Museum Union Warns Job Cuts Would Cost “1,000 Years Of Expertise”
The museum, which plans to reopen only five days a week at first, is looking to save £10 million a year after its visitor...
Using Public Domain Songs As Fodder For Something New
With support from a wide cast of collaborators, Angry and Katherine McMahon are taking songs from the public domain — a class of creative...
Regulators Eye Warner/Discovery Merger With Skepticism
“That deal was sold to the Department of Justice and to the public on the basis of an efficiencies claim, which apparently has not...
The Year Of Singing Dangerously
The wildfire-like spread of the coronavirus over a couple of hours of choral singing inside a Washington church was enough to send shockwaves throughout...
Britain’s Stages Are Not Reopening With Theatrical Comfort Food
"There has been a fear that the large-scale redundancies during the pandemic – an estimated 40% of theatre workers lost their jobs – could...
Diversity Means Teaching How To Think Rather Than What To Think
"Teaching kids what to think instead of how to think is dangerous. Advocacy-based teaching deprives them of the skills to reach their own...
Blake Bailey’s Philip Roth Biography, Withdrawn By W.W. Norton, Picked Up By New Publisher
The acclaimed but controversial bio was dropped by its original publisher after several women came forward with serious allegations of sexual misconduct on Bailey's...
Co-Host Bob Garfield Fired From Public Radio’s ‘On The Media’
The longtime co-anchor was dismissed by New York Public Radio "after two separate investigations found he had violated an anti-bullying policy. … Mr. Garfield...
Amazon In Talks To Buy MGM For $9 Billion: Report
"Chatter that Amazon (and other tech giants) have been sniffing around MGM has circulated for some time. But sources indicated that Amazon's interest in...
It’s Official: AT&T Is Spinning Off WarnerMedia To Merge With Discovery
"Under the terms of the deal, AT&T will spin off entertainment arm WarnerMedia and combine it with Discovery, creating a TV, film and streaming...
Radio City Music Hall Set To Reopen At 100% Capacity, No Masks Required
The first scheduled event is the finale of this year's Tribeca Film Festival on June 19. Only vaccinated people will be admitted. And how...
A Design Challenge To Densify Los Angeles
"The challenge is a conversation starter and design exercise. It’s also a needed counter to commercial real estate developers, whose ideas of density tend...
Despite Best Efforts, We’re Still Terrible At Predicting The Future
"When you aggregate hundreds of predictions, the result is a special, concentrated kind of wrong. Everyone was trying their best, and everyone missed. And...
Lois Lew, The Woman Who Mastered IBM’s 5400-Character Typewriter
"Spinning continuously at a speed of 60 revolutions per minute, or once per second, the drum measured 7 inches in diameter, and 11 inches...
Inside The Museum Of Disgusting Food
As with the Museum of Sex, in New York City, and the Museum of Ice Cream, in San Francisco, the Disgusting Food Museum is...