Tag: 02.05.21
New National Museum Of African-American Music Open In Nashville
"The museum tells a chronological story of Black music starting in the 1600s through present day and framed around major cultural movements including the...
Paramount Battles Truman Capote Estate For Right To Remake ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’
"Paramount has a screenplay for a new movie, according to court papers. But Alan Schwartz, Trustee of the Truman Capote Literary Trust, has been...
Why The California Attorney General Is Investigating The San Francisco Art Institute
The attorney general does not comment on ongoing audits, but Hyperallergic has acquired documents raising questions about board member self-interest and misuse of tax-exempt...
Indie Bookstores Invested In Online Sales… And It Has Paid Off
Their embrace of internet sales appears to have paid off, allowing them to meet surging demand spurred by the Black Lives Matter movement and...
An ‘Intersectional Trainwreck’ — Alex Ross On ‘The Great Gay Jewish Poetry Brawl Of...
"In the shouty Valhalla of pointlessly destructive literary feuds, a place of honor must go to the verbal duel between the poets Heinrich Heine...
Pianist Lara Downes Is Reviving The Work Of Black Composers And Reframing The History...
Her project, called Rising Sun Music, "is a series of newly recorded works written by black composers — including many works that have never...
Broadway’s Shutdown Has A Long Economic Reach
"By one count, Broadway is directly responsible for nearly 100,000 jobs in New York City alone and, as a leading attraction for people who...
Can a New LACMA Rise from the Rubble? Quaffing Michael Govan’s Kool-Aid
The doubts engendered in me by the shifting ground (related to the proximity to the La Brea Tar Pits) under the cranes being used...
Minnesota Orchestra Posts A Record Deficit
On Thursday morning, the orchestra released its operating results for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31, 2020. The big news: a deficit of $11.7...
Young Poets Think Amanda Gorman Is Giving Them Cultural Cachet – And Access
One youth poet laureate: "She was given the platform to really pull people in and witness the magic of it, and I think that...
How The Novel Became Women’s Work
At least in the 18th century. "Wherever they were writing, these women had dared to move out of the conventional female role of service...
OK, Sure, Disease Is Not A Metaphor, But COVID-19’s Impact Sure Feels Fire-Like
Philip Kennicott: "Inflammation isn’t just an actual symptom of the disease. It seems to be part of its etiology, its moral and social origins...
Montclair University Cultural Official Accused Of Verbal Abuse
"Emily Johnson, an Indigenous self-described dancemaker and choreographer published a letter she sent to the National Endowment for the Arts on Thursday detailing what...
Who, Or What Collective, Should Create 45’s Official Portrait?
One suggestion: 43, aka painter George W. Bush. - Hyperallergic
There’s A ‘Museum Of Comfort’ In Spain
Well, on Instagram, actually. Yes, another InstaMuseum. Did Spanish people invent something to make life easier, better, more comfortable? Into the "museum" it goes....
The Last Agency Holdout Agrees To A Deal With Writers Guild In Hollywood
Nearly two years after screenwriters fired their agents in a fight against agency actions that were costing TV writers quite a bit of money,...
Sundance Went Virtual This Year, And That Worked OK
The last big film festival from 2020 had its virtual tryout this year. It wasn't terrible, but, says one critic: "I’m usually whiny and...
In Britain, Thousands Protest The Idea Of Closing To The Public A Library That...
The Wallace Collection "is in internal consultation" about closing the library and archive that was left to the country in 1897. Is that even...
Even The Met Is Considering Selling Some Art To Make Ends Meet
The Met's director, Max Hollein: "Every museum in the U.S. is having these conversations. ... For us not to discuss this now would be...
This Indian Comedian Was Thrown In Jail For Jokes He Hadn’t Told
This is not a democratic move: "The Muslim comic thrown in a Madhya Pradesh jail on January 1, 2021 with four others on suspicion that he might make...
Anne Feeney, Singer-Songwriter Whose Fiery ‘Have You Gone To Jail For Justice’ Inspired Peter...
Peter Yarrow said Feeney was "joyous and fiery in her determination to use her music to elevate those who are most marginalised and to...
Ballet Dancers, Getting Real (And Sometimes Really Funny) On TikTok
If Instagram is about selling your moves - and your clothing line, your toe shoe line, your skin care routine, etc. - then TikTok...
Canadian Actor Christopher Plummer, 91
The actor went through a particularly fertile creative period in his golden years, receiving his first Academy Award at the age 82 for his...
25 Years Ago A Luddite And A Techno-Utopian Bet On Whether Technology Would Destroy...
“History is full of civilizations that have collapsed, followed by people who have had other ways of living,” Kirkpatrick Sale said. “My optimism is...