Tag: 01.27.21
We Live In A Dystopian Time. Is That Why Dystopian Novels Have Gone Away?
"We inhabit a dystopian reality, which may account for the dearth of dystopian fiction. Yet the novels of Zamyatin, Huxley and Orwell continue to...
Why Write Books That No One Will Read?
"Books are now published in numbers so vast that the writing of one can no longer be presumed to be an act of communication...
The Pandemic Has Killed Whole Classes Of Friendships
Understandably, much of the energy directed toward the problems of pandemic social life has been spent on keeping people tied to their families and...
Madrid’s Far-Right City Councilors Want To Destroy A Mural With Rosa Parks And Other...
The mural, which also depicts women including Nina Simone, was the result of a popular vote four years ago. But "the far-right party Vox had called...
Playwright: We Need To Stop Cancel Culture
“I do not consent to being part of an arts community that engages in witch hunts of people who don’t think like me,” Carmen...
Apple’s Tim Cook: We Have To Say All Engagement Isn’t Good Engagement
"At a moment of rampant disinformation and conspiracy theories juiced by algorithms, we can no longer turn a blind eye to a theory of...
The Improbable Story Of A Disney Movie That Almost Didn’t Get Made
"So, uh, how — and why — did all of this happen? Here is the oral history of The Emperor’s New Groove, an irreverent,...
Eva Coutaz, Longtime Director Of Classical Label Harmonia Mundi, Dead At 77
"Having started her career with Harmonia Mundi in 1972 as a press officer, she went on to produce more than 800 recordings with artists...
Cheech Marin’s New Museum Gets A Green Light
After years of planning, the long-awaited Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, California, has finally received the green...
A Rethink In Investing In Smaller Arts Organizations
"It is time to make significant investments in these smaller organizations to increase their capacities and develop a practice that does not make becoming...
Improvised Comedy: How New York’s Standups And Clubs Are (Barely) Making It Through Lockdown
"Despite a state ban on live comedy performances, the pandemic hasn't destroyed the New York comedy scene — it just pushed it underground. …...
The Cure For Disinformation
"The internet contains, for better or worse, a significant amount of humanity’s intellectual and creative outputs. It’s also a cesspool of outrageous falsehoods. Having...
We’re Seeing More Deaf People On TV. Now Let’s Hear Some Of Them.
"Many deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals have welcomed the increase in visibility that deafness and hearing loss have enjoyed on TV lately. … But for...
Study: Can Machines Make Good Therapists?
A recent study invited college students to talk about their emotions via an online chat with either a person or a “chatbot” (in reality,...
The Inauthenticity Of Working In A Digital Medium
"With digital, there is no such thing as authenticity. You are trusting that it is what it is. I feel eventually no matter how...
$100 Million Holocaust Memorial And Museum Planned For Site Of Babyn Yar Massacre
"The complex will include a dozen buildings, including two separate museums — one for Ukrainians and Eastern European Jews killed in the Holocaust, and...
Actress Cloris Leachman, 94
" began her astonishingly prolific eight-decade career performing radio plays as a child in Iowa. She appeared in Shakespearean comedy and Eugene O'Neill melodrama...
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Isn’t Cancelled (Yet), But It Is Postponed
With ongoing uncertainty about the future course of the pandemic, Cannes organizers decided they had no choice but to change this year's dates from...
The Culture Wars Come To Slovenia
Perhaps it's better to say the culture wars have been brought to the tiny ex-Yugoslav republic in the Alps, courtesy of prime minister Janez...
The Plight Of The Artist… As Expressed In A Cartoon
There is ample absurdity to wring from the fine-art ecosystem, where hierarchies and quid pro quos rule. Players ruthlessly engage in an unspoken competition...
Longtime Folger Theatre Director Janet Griffin To Step Down
The announcement means the departure of one of Washington’s longest-serving theater chiefs and an opening in a company with a prestigious literary pedigree: It...
These Classical Music Organizations Have Always Been Focused On Racial Equity
The long-overdue work that larger institutions have started on in the wake of last summer's Black Lives Matter protests has been the day-in-day-out project...
Matter
An arts organization must come to matter to the community. When it matters, the community will support it. But how do arts organizations come...