Yearly Archives: 2021
The Pandemic Saw A Return Of Space To Listen To And Really Appreciate The...
The lack of touring, time to sit with songs instead of performing them every night, and a ton of time in or near recording...
Check Out The Massive Investments In An Immersive Art Future
Can the arts return after more vaccinations and herd immunity? The investors certainly think so. "While traditional museums are discussing closures and mergers, the for-profit...
How Romance Writers Funded, And Spread Interest In, The Georgia Races With One Of...
Writer Alyssa Cole explains why it makes sense that romance writers came together to raise money for Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock in...
Instagram Has Turned Into A Source Of Funding, And Patronage, For Indigenous Beadwork Artists
When artists drop collections on Instagram, they often sell out in a matter of minutes. Beadwork takes time; there's no way to mass-produce, and...
How Do Recent And New Films Handle Elder Decline?
There's a mix, from viewer disorientation - meant to mimic that of a person experiencing dementia - to body horror. - The Hollywood Reporter
The Royal Shakespeare Company Attempts A Return Of A Midsummer Night’s Sax Comedy
Swinging the Dream, a 1939 musical that flopped after 13 performances despite (or because of?) having a cast of 150 and three bands. It's...
Homage To A Mentor And A Muse
Kambui Olojimi, an artist from the Brooklyn neighborhood Bedford-Stuyvesant, addresses his childhood and his block, and the idea of collective memory, in his work...
The Number Of Indie Bookstores In The UK And Ireland Soared In 2020
What the actual heck? Well, a lot of people opened bookshops in 2020, during the pandemic, because why not? Their jobs had evaporated, and...
Los Angeles Loses Its Great Blue Whale Jazz Club
Thanks so flipping much, pandemic and a government that refused to get its COVID response together in time to save the arts. Owner Joon...
The National Society Of Film Critics Picks Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland As Best Pic
But not just best pic: "The film won best picture and best cinematography, while Zhao was awarded best director and star Frances McDormand was...
The Black Photographers Who Changed The World’s Understanding Of Black Life
The Kamoinge Workshop was "a collective of black photographers who formed in 1963 to document black culture in Harlem, and beyond, from live jazz...
How Joan Micklin Silver Beat A Path Toward A New Kind Of Romantic Film
It's a path that others could follow, if they had the courage (and the funding). "Crossing Delancey is a culturally distinctive romcom, not one...
Carol Johnson, Whose Landscape Architecture Transformed The Country, 91
Johnson, who was also known for her public housing project designs, became famous for her "large-scale public projects, which often involved environmental remediation. For...
The Depopulated Paris Of Young Edward Hopper Feels Like A Mirror Of Our Pandemic...
It's desolate, empty streets; bridges with no tourists; the sidewalks near the Seine silent. What wouldn't we give now for the American diners of...
Remember The Art Of Multiples? They’re Back
Art isn't only for the One Percenters, even if that one percent can afford to buy a ton of multiples to go along with...
Reckoning With Author Patricia Highsmith At 100
Highsmith - author of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, not to mention The Price of Salt (renamed Carol to go...
The Artists Secretly Creating Miniature Buildings For Street Mice Across England And Europe
The collective that makes the buildings - they call themselves AnonyMouse - are, they said through an interlocutor, "a loosely connected network of mice...
One Of The Coolest Trends That Should Stay Post-Pandemic
Renting your own movie theatre isn't cheap, but (once we can gather in greater numbers than two or three), it's not exactly unaffordable. And...
Why Has Post-War Britain Been Obsessed With Portraiture?
Seriously, Britain, what's up? "The best-known artists are the ones who wedded their style to 'human clay.' America, on the other, hand has seen...
Operas Have Tried Everything During The Pandemic, Including Opera-By-Mail
And that's actually been great. For instance, once an opera in L.A. might have reached a thousand people in a sold-out night; during the...
Dr. Fauci Says That Theatres May Reopen In The Fall If Vaccination Program Is...
He said that "the timeline hinged on the country reaching an effective level of herd immunity, which he defined as vaccinating from 70 percent...
Quibi Sells Its Library To Roku
That's right, even the streaming device is getting into content now. (Actually, it already was; this is just the newest content it has acquired.)...
Michael Apted, Director Of Coal Miner’s Daughter And The 7-Up Series, 79
Apted's series - the latest, 63-Up, came out in 2019 - was only one project from the director of many movies, including Gorillas in...
The Damages To Art In The Capitol Building
Insurrectionists' "time in the building is now represented by the damage they left behind. A 19th-century marble bust of former President Zachary Taylor was...
Yes, Things Might Look Up, But It Will Be A Long Slow Recovery For...
For a broad chunk of the population, turning off that switch might not be as simple as being told it is okay to do...