Tag: 01.22.21
Pakistan’s Submission For This Year’s Oscars Is Banned In Pakistan
The director, Sarmad Khoosat, is (or was) a popular member of one of the country's most beloved entertainment families; the film itself, Zindagi Tamasha...
Will The Big U.S. Publishing Houses Be Backing Away From Conservative Political Books?
"There are some in the industry who believe houses have a responsibility to publish a wide range of viewpoints, seeing it as a First...
Proposed: Why The Art World Needs Populism
"On closer inspection, there is an asymmetric battle between a grassroots struggle to redistribute power, and those who place institutional preservation at the center....
How Social Media Has Rewired Our Cultural/Political Discourse
This expanding cornucopia of tech and entertainment has served as a compensatory narrative of progress and advancement for an empire in decline. The future...
The Theatre Of Dreams
We are neurochemically predisposed to find our dreams meaningful, which may suggest that they do have a pedagogical function. Even the common advice to...
Could Amsterdam’s Radical Effort To Transform Itself Leave Capitalism Behind?
In April 2020, during the first wave of COVID-19, Amsterdam’s city government announced it would recover from the crisis, and avoid future ones, by...
Looking for a Fugitive Rainbow — A Very Transient “Gift” to the Bidens
Laura Baptiste, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s always-helpful chief of communications, found herself dealing with misinformation disseminated in a number of news reports after...
Students At The Glasgow School Of Art Protest School’s Pandemic Paralysis
"The pandemic will have caused frustration to students everywhere and it must have been difficult for university authorities to react to the ever-shifting situation....
Baltimore Museum Bought Art By Women in 2020. So…
"I would like to officially state that I’m thrilled that the museum has collected art by women, in 2020 and in any other year,...
Judi Dench Is A Bit Bored In Lockdown
Someone hire her, quickly. "Lockdown, I fear, is not the life Dench was born to. She used to practically eat and drink on the...
Bob Avian, Broadway Choreographer, 83
Avian co-choreographed A Chorus Line with Michael Bennett, and choreographed Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard. He "directed a 2006 revival of A Chorus Line...
The Indie Bookstore That Categorizes Books By Emotion
There are shelves about "On the Troubles of Growing Up and Moving On" and "For Escaping Your Life," among many others. "Oh Hello Again...
Why The Art World Needs Populism
Because we can't trust the art world to the elites. For instance, in recent years, "Major art collectors (mostly white) were benefitting from the...
Defining Southern Literature Is A Troubled, Troubling Task
For white Southern writers, especially, "the deconstruction and demolition of so many of the myths about Southern culture and identity has been ongoing in...
What We Expect From Revenge Fantasies
And what Emerald Fennell delivers - which is something different - in Promising Young Woman. "How do you write a revenge movie that feels...
The San Francisco Art Institute Is Facing Budget Issues Again, And Its Chairwoman Has...
The chair, Pam Rorke Levy, says that despite controversy over the attempted sale of a Diego Rivera mural, among other things, "she has acted...
AMC’s CEO Thinks He Can Save Movie Theatres
Or at least AMC, despite its debt load and the damage from the coronavirus shutdowns. Adam Aron: "Some of my competitors, the ones caught...
The Captain Of Sea Shanty TikTok Gets A Record Deal
You've heard "The Wellerman" by now, no doubt, since the Scottish postman who sang it a TikTok rendition of it went completely - ridiculously...
Ticket Brokers Are Starting To Pay Fines For Scalping
The Better Online Ticket Sales Act was enacted in 2016, but this is the first time it's seen enforcement. Aside from using bots, "the...
Why Storm The Capitol? “I Came To See The Art!”
“Faced with the photo evidence, Pham then allegedly admitted to climbing over torn-down fences to get inside. But still, he insisted his reasons were...
Philadelphia Opera Leading The Streaming Pack
Compared with other American companies, Opera Philadelphia is laying claim to the mantle of making new material during the pandemic. Still, what’s most...
Why I Make Undergrads Read Unfinished Novels
Matthew Redmond teaches this class at Stanford in part "to disrupt what seems an obvious distinction between development and result, closure and continuity. On...
Mirga Will Leave City Of Birmingham Symphony After Next Season
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, the young Lithuanian woman whose considerable reputation began developing while she was an assistant conductor at the L.A. Philharmonic, became music director...