Tag: 06.21.21
Why Composer John Tavener Is Getting A Premiere Eight Years After He Died
Oboist Nicholas Daniel: "This week, singer Andrew Watts and I will make our fourth attempt to give the world premiere of Sir John Tavener's...
NPR Cancels ‘Ask Me Another’
"More than 300 stations air the show, hosted by comedian and writer Ophira Eisenberg and featuring Jonathan Coulton as in-house musician. … However, 'despite...
A History Of America As Told Through Its Self-Help Books
These “secular bibles” (the Bible is not one of them) are “books for daily life that ostensibly taught readers one subject, all while subtly...
Battle Of The Book Blurbs
The hyperbole on book jackets—both the plot summaries and the lists of adulatory adjectives that go with them—have long frustrated authors, but no one...
What’s So Difficult About The Color Violet?
"Over the past 20 years, I visited 193 museums in 42 different countries. Equipped with 1,500 Munsell colour chips – the world-standard samples for...
Robert Quackenbush, Who Wrote Stories Of Detectives With Feathers Or Fur, Dead At 91
"His stories about Miss Mallard, an inquisitive duck who solves crimes around the world in plots that resemble Agatha Christie capers, were adapted into...
Reconciling With Cezanne
You don’t look at a Cézanne, some ravishing late works excepted. You study it, registering how it’s done—in the drawings, with tangles of line...
How Did This Pair Of 17th-Century Paintings End Up In The Dumpster At A...
A 64-year-old man spotted the artworks — a 1665 self-portrait by Pietro Bellotti and a painting of a youth by the 17th-century Dutch artist...
How To Repurpose Those Office Skyscrapers?
Instead of designing buildings for specific purposes that may fade or disappear, architects and developers should create buildings that can accommodate a variety of...
How Ancient Jungle Cities Kept Reinventing
Not only did societies such as the Classic Maya and the Khmer empire of Cambodia flourish, but pre-colonial tropical cities were actually some of...
Kazuo Ishiguro On Whether Literature Really Deserves To Have A Nobel Prize
"I want to say, of course literature is just as important , but this is something in the dead of night I kind of...
Lessons About Learning From Failure
Many workplaces now lionise (whether sincerely or not is another matter) the importance of learning through failure, and of creating environments that encourage this....
What If You Were Unable To Form Any Mental Images?
Aphantasia is a recently-identified variation of human experience affecting 2-5% of the population, in which a person is unable to generate mental imagery. Can...
Leaked Letter: Artists And Former Directors Lobbied To Close Kneehigh Theatre This Year
“Without its creative leadership in place, we believe that Kneehigh’s chapter in history has come to an end. - The Stage
Made Up Places For Real Interactions
What if cultural endeavors, particularly the public and the performative, are themselves a form of political action? - 3 Quarks Daily
Is It Okay To Resell An NFT Artwork If You’re The Artist?
Part of the problem with NFTs is that there is not yet any shared culture around reproductions or derivative works of short video, animations,...
Why John Newbery Is Considered The Father Of Children’s Books
Beginning in 1744, he published about 100 storybooks for children, plus magazines and “ABC” books, becoming the leading children’s publisher of his time. -...
Motion Picture Academy Elects Most Diverse, Gender-Balanced Board In Its History
The elections increase the number of women on the organization’s 54-member board from 26 to 31, marking the first time in the group’s 94-year...
If The U.S. Won’t Do Another Federal Theatre Project, The States Should
"With state-based funding for the regional theatre system, we could return to a repertory model with full-time employment for actors and serve our local...
Documentaries That Compete For An Oscar May No Longer Compete For An Emmy, Period
The decision by the Television Academy settles the questions over "double-dipping," where a documentary that entered Oscar competition but did not get a nomination...
Outgoing Boston Symphony CEO Mark Volpe Admits In So Many Words That He Fired...
"I sat with him and explained we couldn't go forward. And I said, 'You know, you're a phenomenal teacher.' And he looks at me....
The Industry, Yuval Sharon’s Opera Company In L.A., Adds Two Artistic Directors
Sharon, the MacArthur fellow who founded the company in 2012 and who became artistic director of Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit last September, isn't...
Banksy Loses More Trademarks In Europe
"The European Union's intellectual property office just reinforced last month's invalidation of a trademark owned by the British street artist Banksy. The latest rulings...
Venice Will Go On UNESCO’s Endangered List If It Doesn’t Ban Cruise Ships
In March, the Italian central government issued a long-awaited decree barring cruise ships from the historic city, citing the damage that the enormous vessels...
How To Make Audiobook Narrators More Diverse?
Most novels feature characters with an assortment of different backgrounds, and this can require narrators to voice characters with identities very different from their...