Yearly Archives: 2021
Meeting (Potential) Audiences Where They Are… With A Mobile Barbershop
That's what Keenan Scott II did to attract new people to his recently opened Broadway play, Thoughts of a Colored Man, one of eight...
Surprise — You’re In Charge! How A Family Publishing Empire Changed Hands
Being handed control of the company, which is valued at $1.2 billion, has made Iole Lucchese, 55, one of the most powerful women in...
Why George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Has Remained Relevant For 150 Years
One reason, it must be said, is that a certain type of person wants to be seen as loving the book. (Yep, virtue-signaling.) Yet...
Why It’s Good That UCLA Is Selling Its Picasso But Bad That The Met...
What it all comes down to, writes Christopher Knight, is what the money from the sale will be used for. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles...
On Producing PBS Pledge Drive Specials
"In the case of fundraising programming, there are no awards for style points. Does it pledge? Is it constructed for that purpose? It may...
Paul McCartney Writes About The Genesis Of “Eleanor Rigby”
"Initially, the priest was 'Father McCartney,' because it had the right number of syllables. I took the song to John at around that point,...
Rolling Stone Wants To Be A Hard-Hitting Newsmagazine Again
Hoping to shake off the last lingering shame from the disastrous UVA rape-case article, new editor Noah Shachtman and CEO Gus Wenner (Jann's son)...
Vienna’s Museums Now Have An Onlyfans Site To Promote The Nudes In Their Collections
Why? Because Facebook, Instagram and TikTok keep taking down their nude artworks — Peter Paul Rubens, Egon Schiele, even the Venus of Willendorf —...
Coloratura Soprano Legend Edita Gruberová Dead At 74
She set new standards, both vocally and dramatically (especially as a comedienne), in some of the most technically difficult roles in the repertory: Zerbinetta...
Why This Jazz Drummer Finally Left New York
I lived there 19 years. As we were coming out of lockdown, it seemed incredible to me that New York was becoming an even...
Deepfakes — The End Of Truth?
Like most digital technologies, the quality of deepfakes is increasing at an alarming rate, and it is clear that even the most complex deepfake...
Say Goodbye To Giant Skyscrapers
Planning applications for tall buildings in London plummeted by a third last year. Has the age of piling people into great glass shafts, of...
The Virtual Gallery Revolution
With technology that creates fantastical game worlds readily available, its creators could’ve set it on Tatooine if they wanted to, or at least the...
A Long-Missing Stone Masterpiece, Discovered In A Front Yard
“It was like finding the Holy Grail. William Edmondson worked in Nashville, so who would ever dream that a piece would be in St....
Diagnosing A Post-Liberal Culture
Postliberals, as Matthew Rose argues in his new book A World After Liberalism, agree on little. They know something has gone wrong, and they suspect...
Of Authenticity, Experience And The Right To Standing
In my experience, when people say they need to “listen to the most affected”, it isn’t because they intend to set up Skype calls...
The New Activism: Art Attacking The Institutions — Any Institution, Including Those Who Show...
One irony of contemporary art that critiques or transcends the institution is just how central the institution remains to it. Indeed, the complexity of the...
John McWhorter On Campus Culture And The Bright Sheng Case: Radicalism Or Progressivism?
It's not "the students’ fragility, it’s that their approach illustrates the difference between radicalism and progressivism. It’s an example of a strain of thought...
Bright Sheng And Campus Culture Run Amok? Or…
To some observers, it’s a case of campus “cancel culture” run amok. To others, the incident is symbolic of an arrogant academic and artistic...
Is Hunter Biden’s Art Career A Problem?
Experts have raised alarms that individuals might buy the artworks – expected to fetch between $75,000 and $500,000 – to try to curry favor and gain...
The Poem That Provoked An FBI Investigation
"Dial-a-Poem received more than a million calls before it lost funding and ended in 1971. There were complaints of indecency, claims that the poems...
The New York City Council May Remove The Thomas Jefferson Statue In Its Chambers
Black, Latinx, and Asian councillors have been asking for its removal for two decades. - The New York Times
But Wait: IATSE Members May Not Vote To Ratify Contract
Says one IATSE member who's a dolly grip about the supposed changes, "The 10-hour turnarounds — that’s the same shit that’s already in my...
How The IATSE Strike Was Probably Averted
"The companies — Walt Disney Co., Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Sony Pictures Entertainment, NBCUniversal, ViacomCBS and WarnerMedia — were forced to abandon their take-it-or-leave-it approach...
Penelope Lively On Her Writing Career And The Difference Between Novels And Short Stories
Lively, who's 88: "When I started, publishers didn’t expect a breakthrough with a first or second book. They were prepared to stay with an...