Tag: 01.25.21
Tough Questions For Cultural Industries Post-COVID
Applied to the cultural and creative industries, this involves asking tough questions on the current working conditions, financial stability and social recognition of artists,...
When Writers Of Color Have To Save Themselves
Brian Lin: "At the start of the pandemic, I emailed friends, colleagues, and mentors, all POC, to ask two questions about their literary lives....
The Amazing Japanese Rice Field Murals
There’s a village meeting each year to decide the theme. Village officials make a simple computer mockup and then ask art teachers to make...
Museums Around Europe Face Yet More Weeks Of Lockdown
Except in the countries where they aren't: the Uffizi in Florence welcomed all of 800 visitors when it reopened last week, and Belgium declared...
Building Preservation Run Amok? LA Grapples With What To Save
If the owner is explicitly saying the business itself won’t survive, keeping the building around as a cultural monument raises additional questions about what...
Highlights Of 125 Years Of The NYT Book Review
"In many ways, the Book Review’s history is that of American letters, and we’ll be using our 125th anniversary this year to celebrate and...
The Pop-Up Newspaper Covering ‘The World’s Largest Protest’
For two months, many thousands of farmers have been staging a massive sit-in with their tractors on the highways around New Delhi, demanding that...
Why Cities Won’t Be Done In By COVID
Despite the long tradition of anti-urbanism in the U.S. that always seems to see the demise of cities just around the corner, they will...
Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museums Ponders A Name Change
After reporting in the Kansas City Star turned up evidence that William Rockhill Nelson, the Nelson in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art was a segregationist, the...
Sculptor Barry Le Va Dead At 79
" became part of the New York art scene during the late 1960s and went on to be associated with the Process art and...
Hollywood Waits With Its Blockbusters. Streaming Is Still A Risky Path
Even as the studio insists that its streaming strategy is a one-off response to the pandemic, it might not be able to rebuild those...
Metropolitan Opera Hires Harvard Law Dean As Chief Diversity Officer
"Marcia Sells — a former dancer who became an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn and the dean of students at Harvard Law School —...
Milwaukee Ballet Plans Return To Mainstage Performance In June
As it did with its abbreviated Nutcracker in December, the company will do its first two productions of 2021 before an in-person audience of...
Paris’s Pompidou Centre Will Close For Three-To-Four-Year Renovation
"'We no longer have a choice, the building is in distress,' Centre Pompidou president Serge Lasvignes told Le Figaro of the extensive upkeep needed...
Rare Violin Tests Germany’s Nazi Looting Restitution System
More than 80 years later, his 300-year-old violin — valued at around $185,000 — is at the center of a dispute that is threatening...
Bipartisan? Biden Should Think Arts
"It’s worth recalling that federal support for the arts throughout modern American history has been bipartisan. The Federal Art Project (1935–43) commissioned artworks by...
Leslie Odom Jr Almost Passed On Playing Sam Cooke
Those who have seen One Night in Miami will appreciate that the actor, singer, and star of Hamilton made a different choice, especially with...