Yearly Archives: 2021
Co-opting Woke
Charles Blow: "Perhaps no other word of the moment is so under attack as “woke,” a word born as a simple yet powerful way...
Writers Ought To Be Trained The Way Actors Are
"Actors in training get to try out different techniques and approaches, learning to develop a character through movement, script analysis, or emotional connection; they...
A New University To “Fix” Education? It Needs A Rethink About What’s Broken
UATX’s founders for years have used their various platforms to bemoan the state of higher education and propose how to fix it. They’re about to...
Are Some People’s Brains Simply Wired Better For Dance?
Well, there's no point in trying to deny that some people have more natural aptitude. However, writes neuroscientist Gayle Doherty, everyone has the ability...
Why Are Some Classical Music Institutions Resisting Broadening Their View of Music?
Joshua Kosman: How long can an artistic culture survive and thrive on the work of the same circumscribed set of a dozen or so...
Why Arts And Humanities Are Crucial To STEM Education And The Tech Industry
In the latest university rankings from Times Higher Education, the top two schools for arts and humanities in the world are, perhaps surprisingly, Stanford...
Design Fiction? What Exactly Is That?
According to this manifesto, it's "a tool for reimagining the past, present, and future. It makes scenarios real enough to feel possible, inspiring dialogue,...
Hollywood Has Joined The NFT Gold Rush
Is this a potential long-term income source or an big old asset bubble? Opinions differ, but the studios aren't letting even a short-term chance...
Zadie Smith’s First Play Hits The Stage, Retelling A Canterbury Tale
The Wife of Willesden is an update to Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale," transferring the setting from a carriage carrying pilgrims to Canterbury...
Strathmore, Baltimore Symphony’s DC-Area Home, Finally Settles With IATSE
"After a two-year stalemate that sparked a feud with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra," — which cancelled several concerts this fall because of the standoff...
The Louvre Said That ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is A Real Leonardo. Now The Prado Says...
The catalogue for this fall's Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Madrid museum has reclassified The World's Most Expensive Artwork into the "attributed works,...
‘Discovery Of A Lifetime’: Well-Preserved Tudor-Era Murals Uncovered At Yorkshire Manor
During restoration work at Calverley Old Hall, between Bradford and Leeds, workers discovered what turned out to be floor-to-ceiling paintings ("basically Tudor wallpaper") in...
Quebec Court Upholds Fines On Theatres That Portray Smoking Onstage (Even With Prop Cigarettes)
The theatres challenged the fines, claiming it violated their freedom of expression. They argued Quebec’s ban on indoor smoking goes too far, because it...
NFT’s Explained
NFTs have fundamentally changed the market for digital assets. Historically there was no way to separate the “owner” of a digital artwork from someone...
Disney+ Loses Momentum
Disney+ growth slowed for the fiscal fourth quarter, adding 2.1 million subscribers to hit 118.1 million. That’s 10M less than it added in the...
How Beeple Is Changing The Relationship Between Artist And Collector
The dynamic nature of Beeple’s art speaks to an emerging paradigm in both art and crypto, where the artist and the buyer are in...
Local Journalism Is Disappearing. Might We Revitalize It With Existing Institutions?
One starting point is to re-imagine and use already-existing public infrastructures that produce and disseminate vital information, such as libraries, public broadcasting stations, and post...
Music Is What It Is – You Have To Meet It There
David Finckel: "People have a hard time sitting still. Attention spans are getting shorter. The only thing this doesn’t change is the length of...
At The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers’ Annual New York Powwow
"Dance Magazine joined Saturday night's sunset bonfire to capture some of the competitions, and asked Thunderbird director Louis Mofsie and company dancer Michael Taylor...
Man And Daughter Killed Over Four Stradivarius Violins
“Our principal hypothesis is that the motive for the double crime was to find the international certification of authenticity of the violins so they...
Ocean Vuong Bombarded By Complaints From Australian 12th Graders Who Got His Writing On...
Student: "ur text was good but so confusing". Vuong: "mission accomplished". Student: "So u da one that got us all fucked up". Vuong: "Don't...
Xi Jinping Is Rewriting China’s History – A New Cultural Revolution
Xi’s use of history projects the message that the struggles of the first century of Communist Party rule have been buried by the need...
The Original True-Crime Dramas Were In Elizabethan Theatres
"More than four centuries ago a series of plays closely based on real murder cases appeared on the London stage. Their literary quality is...
David Graeber Was A Startlingly Smart Anthropologist. He Died Just After Completing His Magnum...
"Since one cannot know a radically better world is not possible, are we not betraying everyone by insisting on continuing to justify and reproduce...
Oxford’s Bodleian Library Was A Wreck Before The Eponymous Bodley Fixed It Up
"In 1598, … Sir Thomas Bodley, a retired diplomat and Oxford alumnus, offered to restore the dilapidated university library, entirely at his own cost....