Yearly Archives: 2021
Oliva Colman Says It’s Easier To Portray A Murderer Than The Queen
That two-year stint on The Crown wasn't the easiest for the multiple award-winning Colman, but "it wasn’t the actual Queen she found the hardest...
How Slipcovering A Minimalist Cube Changed Art History
"Slipcovers are what you put over a tired sofa or tatty armchair to refresh and resuscitate the worn-out object’s useful life. After the quarter-ton...
The Prime Minister Of Greece Tries To Broker A Return Of The Parthenon’s Marbles...
Ahead of talks with Boris Johnson, Kyriakos Mitsotakis said, "Our position is very clear. The marbles were stolen in the 19th century; they belong...
A Changing Climate Changes The Oxford English Dictionary
For instance, global heating "conveys 'more emphatically the seriousness of climate change caused by human activity and the urgent need to address it.' After...
In Paris, Black Theatre Directors Forge Their Own Paths
French theatre is massively lacking in diversity, so "Le Mois Kréyol, which was created in 2017 by the Caribbean-born choreographer Chantal Loïal, also celebrates...
Apparently, It’s Time For Australian Film To Have A Mumblecore Revival
Pandemics and lockdowns lead to little money and depressed humans in reality - and on screen. - The Guardian (UK)
Dostoevsky Totally Did NaNoWriMo
Just not on a computer, in November, with thousands of other people. - LitHub
Black Women’s Major Contributions To Jazz Come Back Into Focus
Musician Melanie Charles wants to revitalize knowledge of, for instance, Betty Carter - whose "improvisational approach to singing that influenced generations." She was one...
Music Festivals With No Assigned Seating Aren’t Very Safe At All
Deaths are rare, but they're hardly unknown; however, music promoters like Live Nation, for instance, say that the rarity "proves that most shows are...
Finally, We Understand What The Marvel Cinematic Universe Is All About
And that is ... an indictment of toxic masculinity? Sure, yes, absolutely. "Messing up, it must be said, is very much part of the...
The Delicate Task Of Restoring A Castle’s Medieval Knight Mural
Sometimes, fame is not great, and no, you shouldn't hot-wax a mural from the 1400s: "Since their discovery in 1844, the murals have been...
A Judge Rules Britney Spears Can Be Free Of Conservatorship
Fans celebrate - and some wonder about the many non-famous, non-white, disabled folks who are also in conservatorships: "Spears’ case is expected to be...
Foley Artists Have To Recreate The Sounds Of Everything
Foley is what makes things sound real onscreen - "incidental sounds such as the squeak of a chair, the chink of bottles in a...
New York’s New Motto Is Be Nice To Tourists
Especially in the performing and visual arts, NY isn't going to survive long without those Euros (and many other forms of currency) pouring in....
The Director Of ‘Passing’ Says There Are No Easy Answers Here
The movie, based on Nella Larsen's 1929 novel also called Passing, isn't just about Black women supposedly passing as white. Director Rebecca Hall: "The...
Petra Mayer, NPR’s Beloved, Passionate Books Editor Has Died Suddenly
"Mayer was a proud nerd ... shared those passions with readers and listeners through her reviews of sci-fi, fantasy, romance, thrillers and comics,...
How Shakespeare Drove Publishing And Publishing Drove Shakespeare In The 1700s
In the mid-1730s, Robert Walker waged a price war with the London publishing establishment, driving the cost of individual play editions down to just...
Hong Kong’s M+ makes A Play For Global Attention
A decade ago, the international art world derided Hong Kong as a “cultural desert.” The opening of the multibillion-dollar M+ museum epitomizes the city’s...
Now Venice Is Drowning In Billboards
The giant billboards now or until recently plastered across the churches for products ranging from OPPO smartphones to Recarlo jewellery – signal that these...
Weapon Of Mass Distraction: Why Facebook’s “Metaverse” Is An Illusion
In actuality, Facebook is basically spending $10 billion on a prayer that, in the short run, it might change the conversation. It gives them...
Christopher Walken Paints Over A Banksy On Camera
The spokesperson said in a statement: "We can confirm that the artwork at the end of 'The Outlaws' was an original Banksy, and that...
Cryptopunks: How A Market For NFT’s Was Born
If spending this kind of money on something as flimsy as a JPEG seems absurd, recall that collectors have bought empty space, a closed...
Sylvère Lotringer, Who Founded Semiotext(e) And Brought French Theory To America’s Art World, Dead...
We leave it to you to speculate on which direction St. Peter will send him for that, but his work did spark enormous changes...
Is Science Fiction An “Inadequate Response” To Existential Threat?
As projections of nuclear fear themselves recede into memory, new fears (of global warming, environmental collapse) have come to replace them, locating such films...
In A Time Of Crisis And Pestilence, Vaudeville As Social Critique
Not, in this case, the early-20th-century American genre of variety show. This is 19th-century Parisian vaudeville: popular boulevard comedies depicting simply drawn characters from...