By this point Dear Evan Hansen and In the Heights feel much farther away than West Side Story, Encanto, and Tick,Tick ... Boom!, but they all came out in 2021. And, writes Jackson McHenry, most of them came out better than had seemed the case a few months ago. - Vulture
Dancer and planetary science PhD student C. Adeene Denton: "Getting to set the first site-specific work on the International Space Station (was) a big pipe dream of mine … before I studied enough astronauts to realize that most of them beat me to it." - Dance Magazine
He has two more projects to finish for Steven Spielberg, and he says those will be his last movie scores. Not that he's retiring: he'll be doing more conducting in Europe and composing more concert works for the stars who love to perform them. - The New York Times
Anna Leporskaya's Three Figures (1932-34) was on loan from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow to the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in Ekaterinburg when a new guard decided that two of those three figures should have eyes. - The Guardian
The "TikTok tickets" scheme will offer £10 seats, along with subsidized travel to Stratford-upon-Avon, to people aged 14 to 25 for this summer's productions of Richard III and All's Well That Ends Well. - BBC
“Dune,” the sprawling first installment of Denis Villeneuve’s ambitious adaptation of the 1965 science fiction novel, was the only nominated film that could claim to be a classic box office success, having earned more than $100 million in bricks-and-mortar theaters. - Washington Post
Christopher Bedford, director of the Baltimore Museum of Art since 2016, has been named the new director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. - San Francisco Chronicle
These recent acts of illiberal language policing––coinciding with a racial reckoning on the left and a backlash against its excesses on the right––threatens to degrade the education of all young people. - The Atlantic
"The benchmark in the minds of the audience is content that they have watched from across the globe. That has pushed Indian filmmakers, writers and actors to pull up their socks and upgrade the quality of entertainment." - DW
“We live in an era where the best way to make a dent on the world… may be simply to stand up and say something.” And yet, TED’s archive is a graveyard of ideas. - The Drift
As the loose, famously immersive adaptation of Macbeth restarts after two years of COVID, Alexis Soloski considers the influence the show has had on Punchdrunk (the British troupe that produced it) and other companies — and the script alterations that audience behavior has forced on it. - The New York Times
The bad news is that digital isn’t covering the costs associated with it — not yet, at any rate. The larger problem is that audiences aren’t returning to live concerts in pre-pandemic numbers either, leaving orchestras in a tenuous position. - Ludwig Van
Both works were written in 1970, and both gained acclaim well beyond the tiny circles of new classical music at the time. One of them led to the birth of the Kronos Quartet, perhaps the first group to start making contemporary art music cool again. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
At its best, Spotify is an elegant tool—a conduit between artist and art and listener. But at its worst, it’s a bad actor in a worse industry that historically treats artists miserably. - The Atlantic
In a 1983 interview that has resurfaced, the then-92-year-old Effie Wisdom remembers how the dirt-poor, parentless London child (his father ran away with a chorus girl, his mother had a breakdown) used to steal eggs and wear rags until her aunt took him in. - The Guardian
