Tag: 05.18.21
What’s The Thinking Between The UK’s Proposed Cuts In Arts Education?
The government’s recent proposal to cut funding for arts higher education by 50%, covering music, dance, drama and performing arts, art and design, media...
A Theory Of Our Identities As Our Networked Selves
Some philosophers have pushed against such reductive approaches and argued for a framework that recognises the complexity and multidimensionality of persons. The network self...
Six Stolen Roman Frescoes Returned To Pompeii
"Six fragments of wall frescoes stolen from the ruins of ancient Roman villas have been returned to Pompeii's archaeological park after an investigation by...
Amazon Makes Deal To Lend Books Through The Digital Public Library of America
The deal represents a major step forward for the digital library market. Not only is Amazon Publishing finally making its digital content available to...
Why People Hate The Sound Of Their Own Voices
The discomfort we have over hearing our voices in audio recordings is probably due to a mix of physiology and psychology. For one, the...
Veiled Threats: A New Sitcom About An All-Female Muslim Punk Band (?)
In We Are Lady Parts, "the stakes are high: can an extra guitarist give Lady Parts the edge they need to get out of...
Critic And Comic: Sarah Silverman And AO Scott Talk About A Provocative Review
"This sounds corny, but that’s what I love about art, especially comedy. It’s not evergreen. It changes so much every time you return to...
If You’re Incorporating ASL In Your Play, Please, Please Don’t Do These Things
Brian Cheslik, theatre teacher at the Texas School for the Deaf: "Please know that I am writing this from a place of love and...
Garth Drabinsky — Back On Broadway
"The show is produced by Garth H. Drabinsky, the Tony-winning producer behind Kiss of the Spider Woman, who was sentenced to seven years in...
Seeing How Musical Instruments Actually Get Made
"The process of making musical instrument is generally out of the public eye, and there's often a mystique about how those particular tools-of-the-trade are...
Art Gensler, Who Founded World’s Largest Architectural Firm, Dead At 85
"Over the decades, Gensler's firm has designed universities, hotels, sports stadia and universities, touching almost every part of the built environment. It has created...
Asking The Museums That Have Benin Bronzes About Repatriation
"The contentious objects, known to have been looted from the Benin Royal Palace in 1897, are scattered across some of the most prominent museums...
Actor Charles Grodin, 86
" made his mark in both comedy and drama, onstage and on screen and as a writer and director. He often adopted a quirky...
Newark’s Old Works Offloaded: NJ’s Most Prominent Art Museum Sells “Outdated” Outcasts Tomorrow
As part of her reinvention and rebranding of the Newark Museum (which, in 2019, added “of Art” to its name, even though it also...
Words to live by: Don’t shoehorn grand opera
The return to the stage (though not their own) of the Met and of Opera Philadelphia, along with a streamed Aïda from the Paris...
London’s West End Reopens Yet Again, Hoping This Time Will Stick
There were two attempts in the second half of 2020 to start British theatres up after the pandemic lockdown, and both were quickly ended...
On The Rediscovery Of Black Composers Of The Past
"Black composers have been emerging over the past year at a dramatically accelerated pace that's particularly rare amid the normally glacial progression of the...