Yearly Archives: 2021
Why The Dallas Symphony Is Making Significant Investments On Digital Content
“Audiences who were very reticent or uninterested in digital content became interested. I believe we cannot turn back from that whole process.” - Dallas...
The Mind-Boggling History That Shapes South Korea’s Popular Cultural Exports
Think about it: Parasite and Squid Game are pretty weird: intense drama, occasional shocking violence and dark satire jumbled with juvenile humor and an...
A Growing Chorus Demanding Safer Movie Production Rules
“It’s really clear from our survey, that it’s not just about the data; it’s the stories that people are telling about their experiences working...
Tom Lehrer, Remembered By Someone Who Was At His First And Last Public Concerts
Jeremy Bernstein: "When I was a graduate student Tom and I sometimes had lunch at the (Harvard) Graduate Center. On one occasion a student...
The Existential Dangers Of “Longtermism”
Longtermism might be one of the most influential ideologies that few people have ever heard about. I believe this needs to change because I...
Native American Radio In The Big City
There's a long history of radio serving indigenous Americans, but most of it involves dedicated stations serving individual tribes in rural areas. Here's a...
Facebook Gets Serious About Building The Metaverse
The company announced it plans to create 10,000 new jobs across the European Union in order to develop what it calls the metaverse. In...
Meet America’s Oldest Working Actor
In Chicago, Mike Nussbaum, 97, is "a part of theatrical history. And the people who run the theaters all know me. They know that...
The Wildly Popular Immersive Art Experiences Of The Late 1800s
"Never heard of cycloramas? Understandable, since they have all but vanished from memory. There are still a few around, though, reminders that, in their...
A Lifeline For Boys Who Get Tormented For Studying Ballet
"Through town halls and one-on-one virtual mentorships, which are open to dancers around the world," Boys Who Dance "aims to help students overcome bullying,...
First There Was Wall Street’s “Charging Bull”. Then Came “Fearless Girl”. Now There’s A...
Why? Because capitalism has gone bananas. So now there are 10,000 bananas (real ones) piled around Charging Bull, with a seven-foot statue of the...
WBEZ And The Chicago Sun-Times: Can Public Radio Really Rescue Print Journalism?
"Similar mergers and acquisitions have become a common way to bolster the struggling print industry, but if radio were to take on a major...
The Returning Broadway Audience Has A Whole New Set Of Pre-Show Rituals
"Coming back has entailed a few adjustments: the ability to deftly juggle proofs of vaccination and photo IDs and tickets to get inside; preshow...
Oslo’s Towering New Edvard Munch Museum
"Rebranded simply as MUNCH, it will open on 22 October following a decade of development drama, political U-turns and staggering logistical challenges. The result...
Motion Picture Academy Boss To Step Down After Ten Tumultuous Years
The news comes just weeks after the long-awaited opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a $480-million project that Hudson played a key...
Surprise: Graduate Enrollment At US Universities Increased In 2020
The CGS survey found that graduate applications increased by 7.3 percent and first-time graduate enrollment increased by 1.8 percent in fall 2020 compared to the year...
Why Music Is Not A Background Sport
Music — at least for some of us — is an engaged and engaging activity that involves your ear, your intellect, your memory, your imagination...
Culture Shift? America’s Workers Grab Control
In unionized industries, this takes the form of collective bargaining and, where necessary, voting for strikes. In non-unionized industries, which make up the vast...
How Environmental Art Brings Climate Change Awareness
In the past few decades, new practices of art, design and architecture in the public realm have helped raise awareness about ubiquitous waste, pollution...
Yes, Eun Sun Kim Has Made Opera History, But She’d Rather Just Be A...
She's music director at San Francisco Opera and principal guest conductor at Houston Grand Opera, and she's the first woman and first Asian in...
Glimmerglass Leader To Step Down
Francesca Zambello, 65, who is also the artistic director of Washington National Opera and an independent stage director, will have led Glimmerglass for 12...
Camille A. Brown Brings Black Social Dance To The Met Opera Stage
"When was the last time a dance stopped an opera in its tracks?" That's what happened after the fraternity scene (step choreography by Brown)...
How Truth Became Contested Ground In Our Schools
The pandemic accelerated a trend that already existed: teachers increasingly find themselves facing a potential career-ending explosion if they teach the wrong “truth.” -...
How Ancient Greek Tragedy Works (And It Does) As Group Therapy
Bryan Doerries, director of Theater of War, "Dozens of Marines of every rank had stood up and quoted lines from the ancient plays from...
An Alternative History About The Dawn Of Humans
Graeber and Wengrow offer a history of the past 30,000 years that is not only wildly different from anything we’re used to, but also...