Tag: 01.15.21
A Critic Ponders A Critical Interruption
Nate Chinen: "A disaster of this magnitude turns every critic into an advocate. For many of us, of course, that function was already part...
Philip J. Smith, Chairman Of Shubert Organization, Dead Of COVID At 89
"A low-key businessman who started as a movie usher, presided for more than a decade over the nation's oldest and largest theatrical company,...
UK Arts Venues Sigh With Relief As Supreme Court Rules Insurers Must Pay COVID...
"The case has been rumbling on for a while, triggered when a variety of insurance companies stated that their business interruption schemes did not...
The Quiet Tragedy Of The Man Who Oversaw New York’s New Train Station
It is impossible to know what drives a person to suicide. But in his final months, his mental state took a turn for the...
Researcher Sets Out To Disprove “Music Makes You Smarter” Idea. But…
"My intention was to show that the relationships are probably spurious, meaning that background influences are the main drivers of the relationships, and once...
Trump Wanted To End Arts Funding. Instead It Grew
“The years and years of work that we had done to create a pro-arts Congress, whether Republican or Democrat, really came through,” said Nina...
What New York Could Do To Help The Arts
"So what can the city and/or state do? From grants and loans to small theaters to negotiating with and supporting landlords with non-profit tenants...
A Bold Proposal For Galleries
Cancel them. No reform. Abolition. "Why are horror stories of racism, sexism, and abuse in art galleries open secrets that remain unaddressed? The dominant...
Oh, Netflix, Why Couldn’t You Make A Better Ballet Show?
The plot has issues. The characters have issues. The filming of dance itself has issues. "Then there are the voice-overs, each more overwrought than...
We Have So Many Conspiracy Theories Because They’re Stories, And Stories Are How We...
This is not great. "We are condemned to navigate the Space Age world with Stone Age minds; because of this inherent biological anachronism, man...
Canada Gets A 24/7 Inuit-Language TV Channel
The new network's executive director sounds hopeful. "As our elders pass away, we are fighting against time to keep Inuit culture and language alive...
Motion Picture Academy Changes, And Expands, The International Shortlist
The Academy concluded that there was no way to keep the larger executive committee's deliberation process secure on Zoom or other platforms - so...
The Essential Octavia Butler
Of course, if you've already read Parable of the Sower, much of the last four years might have felt a little too eerily familiar....
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Is Getting Some Covid Relief Funds
Along with other arts groups in the city, the BSO is seeing some funding for its workers. The BSO's CEO "said the money will...
Why Do Some Mock Romance So Very Hard When It Sells Better Than Hotcakes...
In the UK, for instance, publishing company Mills & Boon (the company that just landed Fergie as an author) publishes 700 books a year...
Hollywood, Like Many Americans, Has Been Looking For Villains In All The Wrong Places
And casting villains, that is to say law enforcement and others deeply committed to white supremacy, as heroes. But the new documentary MLK/FBI isn't...
Artist Kim Tschang-Yuel, 91, Painter Of Water – And The Trauma Of War
"Kim’s drops can seem to sit miraculously atop his raw canvases or be in the midst of gliding down them, leaving a trail of...
A Black Dance Company In Los Angeles Gets Serious Funding
Black arts groups are "historically passed over for foundation funding of this magnitude," but the Lula Washington Dance Theatre won over its grantors. The...
The Inaugural Poet, 22 Years Old, Is Probably The Youngest In US History
Amanda Gorman will read a poem called "The Hill We Climb" at the inaugural ceremony on Wednesday (assuming it goes according to plan). "Unlike...
The Biggest Mystery Of Bridgerton Is About That News Pamphlet
What's Lady Whistledown's business model? Seriously: To produce and print enough scandal sheets to feed the appetite of the ton, surely Lady Whistledown owns...
The Musical Fantasy World Created By Teens That Has Spawned Three Concept Albums For...
Yes, it's partly because of TikTok and the world of duets, collaborations, and free-flowing (but in this case, very directed) creativity. But it's so...
Hey America, Our To-Do Lists Will Never Get Shorter
Well, not in the foreseeable future, anyway, unless we can accept some "okayist" awards instead of trying to be number one all of the...
Coventry Rebuilt Itself After WWII, But Now Town Planners Want To Knock Those Buildings...
Coventry is the UK 2021 city of culture. But ... yikes. "Much of the city’s pioneering postwar urban fabric is under threat. A gargantuan...
Can TV Writers Help Curb The Pandemic?
TV writers have helped changed public opinion on drunk driving, cigarette smoking, and - in the opposite direction - marriage equality. Why not mask-wearing,...