Yearly Archives: 2021
The Musicians, Dancers Killed In The Wisconsin Holiday Parade
Three of those killed were members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies, a group of women whose pompom routines have been a staple of local...
NYT’s 100 Notable Books For 2021
They made a list. Checked it twice... - The New York Times
After George Floyd And Breanna Taylor, Do We Need TV Cop Shows To Change?
"The ways in which Brooklyn Nine-Nine and NCIS: New Orleans reacted to a changing cultural and political environment were rudimentary: some timely references inserted...
Why Artists Should Have Resale Rights
Auction houses or other market intermediaries wishing to incorporate such activities into their equity practice could pledge a portion of the seller’s commission or...
How A Lifetime Of Cross-Dressing Helped Aurore Dupin Dudevant Become George Sand
When she was a child, her officer father dressed her up as a mini-me in full uniform. As a young woman, she moved freely...
How An Ancient Roman Mosaic Spent Fifty Years As A Coffee Table In A...
A priceless Roman mosaic that once decorated a ship used by the emperor Caligula was used for almost 50 years as a coffee table...
The Biblioburro, A Four-Hooved Bookmobile For Rural Colombia
When Luís Soriano began teaching, he saw that his students made little progress — and ultimately realized that, in their isolated homes, they had...
Grandmaster Sues Netflix Over “Queen’s Gambit” Portrayal
The complaint accuses Netflix of disparaging Nona Gaprindashvili's achievements to make for a more dramatic story and dismissing her earlier allegation of defamation without...
Africa’s Cultural Institutions Can Teach Us A Few Things About Audience Development
A museum in Benin offers free bus rides to students and recruits popular musicians to help with publicity. MACAAL in Marrakech invited taxi drivers...
Remembering Dave Hickey, The Renegade Critic
Like so many Texan artists before and after him, he had a tortured relationship with his home state and its mythology. He kept trying...
Is The Problem With Culture That There’s Too Damn Much Of It? Actually, No.
"Wading through the streaming menus felt akin to babysitting hundreds of small children, all of them clawing at me, desperate for my attention. …...
Ballet Dancers Get Injured All The Time. This Company Has Figured Out How To...
Drawing on its sports-mad nation's expertise in sports medicine, the Australian Ballet has developed physical therapy techniques to help dancers heal without surgery. In...
Roger Norrington, Period Practice Pioneer, Has Conducted His Last Concert
"The 87-year-old's farewell took place in Sage Gateshead, directing the Royal Northern Sinfonia in an all-Haydn concert that effortlessly rolled back the years. It...
Zaha Hadid’s Final Buildings Are Opening Across The Arab World
More than five years after her fatal heart attack at age 65, she has a theater in Rabat, a petroleum research center and a...
Kevin Spacey Ordered To Pay ‘House Of Cards’ Producers $31 Million
At the end of a confidential two-year process, an arbitrator ruled, and an appeals panel confirmed, that Spacey is liable for breach of contract...
Broadway’s Open Again. Even So, This Production Will Be Streaming Performances
The nonprofit company producing Lynn Nottage's new Clyde's, which opens this week and closes in January, will offer viewers the opportunity to watch a...
This French Town Has An Art Library That Lends To Residents. Turns Out It...
For decades now, the town of Saint-Priest (in metro Lyon) has been acquiring works for its residents and businesses to borrow from the artothèque....
Brit Awards Scrap Male/Female Categories
Artists like Sam Smith and Will Young had previously called for the change, saying the current system excludes non-binary artists. - BBC
NYC To Give Brooklyn Museum $50 Million
“I’ve been dreaming of this since I joined the museum a little over five years ago,” Pasternak said. “Our exhibitions and public programs have...
New Facility Signals San Francisco Conservatory Community Attitude
Bowes Center signals a major expansion of the Conservatory of Music, which has most of its academic and performance spaces a few blocks away...
Eddie Redmayne: Playing “Danish Girl” Trans Character Was A Mistake
“No, I wouldn’t take it on now. I made that film with the best intentions, but I think it was a mistake,” Redmayne told...
Writer Robert Bly, 94
He "galvanized protests against the Vietnam War and started a controversial men’s movement with a best seller that called for a restoration of primal...
Opera As Mountains To Be Summited
Matthew Aucoin finds impossibility to be a constant in the history of opera. “The art form’s first practitioners, in seventeenth-century Italy strove to re-create...
We’ve Made Progress. But The Thing About Progress Is It Has To Progress…
Those without the vision to produce art as means toward an end, rather than the end itself, have placated the wealthy donors who are...
What If We Stripped Humanities Education Back To First Principles?
The Catherine Project’s commitment, borne out beautifully by our seminars thus far, is that great books are supremely egalitarian: They move and challenge us...