Yearly Archives: 2021
A Planned Virginia Woolf Statue Is Getting Pushback Because It’s By The Thames
The inventive author, who ended her life by walking into the River Ouse, absolutely deserves a statue. But, the local council asks, does it...
Facebook, Via Instagram, Experiments On Teen Girls
And it harms their mental health - a lot. But "families are trapped. ... Many parents say that they don’t want their children on...
US Publishing Discovers That It Skews Rather White
Following up on pledges made during protests in 2020, Penguin Random House did a self-audit for diversity. What it found: "The demographics of its...
Come On, Britain: Give The Marbles Back
This is important to Greece: "The missing Parthenon frieze in its original state is a reminder of the country’s humiliation by the Turks, and...
Why Elementary Schoolkids Need This Adaptation Of The 1619 Project
"Stories about slavery for children must do more than transmit information about the past. These stories have a reparative function—they must also humanize and liberate. These stories must...
The Synergy Between Cinematographer And Camera Operator Can Be The Lifeblood Of A Film
When it works, anyway. One cinematographer: "What I look for in an operator is basically a clone of myself. An idealized clone. Somebody who...
Lubaina Himid Won The Turner When She Was 63
She wants her audience to understand difficulty - and the value of the grind. She says, "It’s not easy to make a painting, it’s...
The Woman Who Was Half Of The Mystery-Writing Duo ‘Charles Todd’ Has Died
Caroline Todd (a pen name for Caroline Watjen) and her son Charles (er, David) wrote more than 40 mysteries set in rural England after...
The Influential Librarian Who Was Not A Goodnight Moon Fan
The book's "widespread fame is relatively recent. Though Goodnight Moon was published in 1947, sales dropped low enough in 1951 that the book nearly went out...
Is The Australia Ballet Letting Go Of Tutus – And Classic Ballets?
Not forever, but the 2022 season is tutu-less thanks, new AD David Hallberg says, to the realities of pandemic programming - and "Kunstkamer, a...
Do We Really Need Netflix Viewing Numbers?
Netflix has released its Top 10 lists. But "the obsession with the numbers generated by films in the first few days of their release...
TR (And The Horse He’s Riding On) Heading To North Dakota
The Teddy Roosevelt statue that's been in front of the American Museum of Natural History for decades will soon be bound for Minot, ND,...
The Cultures Of Science And Art Aren’t So Different After All
Did cultural movements in art fertilize scientific breakthroughs? It’s an intriguing correlation, perhaps not much more. But it underscores the point that one culture,...
What Are You Buying When You Buy An NFT?
Critics of NFTs assert that it’s ridiculous to try to claim ownership of something that can be infinitely reproduced on the internet, and pranksters...
Spain Says UK Musicians Will No Longer Need Visas To Perform There
Spain’s announcement means UK musicians and their crew will no longer need visas for engagements of less than 90 days, a change in policy...
Book Business Is Booming. Except It’s Difficult To Get Books To Sell
In 2020, both the United States and the United Kingdom saw their largest annual increases in over a decade — a worldwide paper shortage and a global shipping...
The Software That Changed How Music Is Produced
“It created a completely new type of producer. It gave access to a versatile tool that would do what people want without spending thousands...
A Worldwide Vinyl Shortage
Around the world, vinyl pressing facilities are stretched to the limit with 24-hour, nearly seven-days-a-week production still not meeting demand. - CBC
Will This Movie Be The Last Of Its Kind, The Big-Budget World War II...
"Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, a $100 million historical drama about … the creation of the atomic bomb, could be considered one of an endangered species....
They’re Restoring The 1920s-Era Hollywood Sign
Crews uncovered in the foundation the names and handprints of some of the workers on the 1978 rebuild’s crew. The remnants of a “lean-to...
Cary Grant, Aldous Huxley, And Clare Boothe Luce Dropping Acid Together: The Musical (We’re...
Yes, the actor, the writer, and the playwright/politician/doyenne all experimented with LSD in the 1950s, when it was legal. They never did it together,...
Abu Dhabi Says It Will Build Two More Major Museums
“In Abu Dhabi there has been a very clear and conscious decision to invest in culture, and investing in culture does not just mean...
Patrick Reyntiens, Who Worked Miracles With Stained Glass In Britain’s Bombed-Out Cathedrals, Dead At...
While he did a great deal of high-quality work, his most admired projects were in two modern monuments which replaced medieval landmarks destroyed in...
What Does An Investment In Mental Health For Dancers Look Like?
Encouraging dancers to pay attention to their mental health is one thing, but actually providing access to services sends an entirely different message. -...
New York Times Declares, “Yannick Nézet-Séguin Is Now New York’s Conductor”
Zachary Woolfe, classical music editor: "Omnipresent and energetic, he has been one of the central figures in New York's cultural re-emergence, and certainly the...