Yearly Archives: 2021
Opera Australia Sued Over COVID-Related Job Cuts, Alleged ‘Intimidation’
"Opera Australia has paid out tens of thousands of dollars in confidential settlements to musicians it sacked at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic....
What I Learned About Myself When I Got Amnesia
"We all forget things, of course – who your 6th-grade social studies teacher was or what you had for lunch a month ago are...
How Our Media Diet Has Changed
While Covid-19 quarantines have made television one of the more dominant mediums around, they’ve also altered the diet of what we watch within that medium. Pre-pandemic,...
The Fictional America And How It Powers Fictions No Longer True
"In the extraordinary drama of America, fiction is paramount to preserving systemic structures of imbalance. That’s how it has been for centuries, and that's...
For-Profit Immersive Museums Are Investing Big For After The Pandemic
While traditional museums are discussing closures and mergers, the for-profit industry around experiential or immersive art is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into...
Miami Museum Planned Exhibition As Investigation. That Proved Problematic
By the time the exhibition closed in March, because of the pandemic, the college had scaled back a plan to host programming that directly...
After 43 Years, Chicago Tribune Arts Critic Howard Reich Retires
He reflects on his career and (in typical fashion) leaves readers with a basketful of music, book and video recommendations. - Chicago Tribune
The Architect of the Capitol Assesses the Damage: Our Nation’s Art & Architecture (if...
This was a week when blogging-as-usual struck me as irredeemably frivolous. Trying to promulgate commentary about art and the artworld seemed fatuous, at a...
Aaron Copland: “One Red to Another”
“If they were a strange sight to me, I was no less of a one to them. It was the first time that many...
For The Third Year In A Row, Last Year UK Opened More Independent Book...
Released as part of the BA's annual membership survey, the number of independent bookshops holding membership at the end of 2020 rose to 967...
The Center Of Hollywood’s COVID Outbreaks
Eleven more cases came from The Kominsky Method, a Michael Douglas-starring Netflix series where aging actors confront mortality. Around the same time, according to...
Louvre Reports 72 Percent Drop In Admissions For 2020
The museum has reported one of its worst attendance figures ever, with around 2.7 million visitors—a 72% drop compared to 9.6 million in 2019....
Simon Rattle To Leave The London Symphony For Munich
Rattle said his reasons for accepting the Munich job were “entirely personal, enabling me to better manage the balance of my work and be...
Images From An Insurrection
Whether or not these fever-dream images show the actual point of insurrection or are, more likely, the inevitable byproduct of twenty-first century-rioters armed with...
Sign Of The Times: Choir Rehearsals And Concerts Via Car
The founder and conductor of Canada's Luminous Voices, which now uses the cars' FM transmitters, a mixer, and wireless mics for rehearsal and, crucially,...
On Hearing The Music While You Read
Writers have to listen as well as read. "As I read The Waves, I started to 'hear' language as if for the first time....
Writer Jenny Offill On What Can Be Done During The Pandemic
If you have elderly parents and kids to care for, not much. "The pandemic has been through all these different stages and you’re constantly...
Kansas City Ballet Took A Long Time, But Finally Canceled The Rest Of The...
The ballet joins Kansas City's other major performing arts organizations, which will certainly have an economic impact on KC's central performing arts center. -...
Author Jacqueline Woodson Gets A Lot Done, But How?
The MacArthur Fellow, who has also won the National Book Award and lives with her partner and two children in Brooklyn, is building Baldwin...
With A New Book Called ‘I Hate Men,’ A French Author Has Truly Hit...
That's not the only work making a claim that France has an extremely long way to go in reckoning with gender inequality in every...
The Double Whammy Of Brexit And Covid On Britain’s Touring Musicians
This isn't great, since each musician needs rather a lot of paperwork - and it's possible, though unclear, that their instruments may need a...
Thieves Made Off With Most Of San Jose Dance Theater’s Handmade Costumes
The carefully designed and handmade costumes are priceless for the ballet company, but not useful for almost anyone else, says costume director Renee Forbes....
Freelancers, The Lifeblood Of British Theatre, Are In For Another Terribly Rough Year
The situation under the third lockdown is, if anything, worse than in March because the freelancers don't have anything to fall back on. "In...
The Book That Predicted, And Probably Was The Blueprint For, Last Wednesday’s Coup
In a way, The Turner Diaries shows how white supremacists carried out the insurrection - and it provides a pretty clear idea of what's...
The Day Tacoma’s Movie Theatre Burned Down
During The Birds, even. The loss of the venue deeply affected Seattle's southern neighbor. "Before it was the Music Box the building was originally...