Tag: 02.16.21
Claim: Once-Proud Glasgow School Of Art Now A Toxic Mess
First there was the fire. "Since then, tragedy has turned to travesty and toxicity as a wall of silence coupled with multiple sackings has...
Why Is The Turkish Government Trying To Sue This Cultural Organization Out Of Existence?
"While art philanthropist Osman Kavala has been jailed in Turkey for more than three years without conviction, the country has now filed an unprecedented...
ABT Alum Takes Reins At Uruguay’s National Ballet
In 2012, a different ABT alum, Julio Bocca, was named director of the Ballet Nacional del Sodre in Montevideo with the remit to raise...
(Un)Daunted: Crystal Pite On Choreographing For The Paris Opera Ballet
"You feel the weight of the famous Palais Garnier opera house itself, and the history and legacy of the legendary dancers who have performed...
U.S. Newspapers Are Starting To Accept The ‘Right To Be Forgotten’
Back in 2014, when the EU passed a law allowing people to petition Google to de-index old news stories about them (e.g., criminal convictions...
Research Paper Linking Violence To Video Games Is Retracted
"Zhang and his co-authors reported high levels of statistical significance for their finding, but the reported differences in the effects of violent games versus...
Did The Louvre Just Ruin Its Cy Twombly Mural?
"After a renovation of a storied gallery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Cy Twombly Foundation has claimed that a monumental ceiling painting...
YouTube Chief Talks About What’s Next, Misinformation, And New Features
YouTube is planning an official rollout for “Applause,” a feature—already in testing—that lets viewers make cash payments to their favorite creators by initiating an...
AI Researchers Are Increasingly Worried About The Ethical Implications Of Their Work
Just as some computer scientists seem oblivious to ethical concerns, others appear to be trigger-happy with their moral outrage. - The New Yorker
Can Historians Be Traumatized By What They Study?
"The phenomenon of the historian traumatized by history remains unstudied and is not widely known. Yet anyone who has documented depravity knows the symptoms....
Study: Are “Minor” Literatures More Nationalistic?
"Our data consists of digital editions of 200 works of prize-winning fiction, divided into four subcorpora of equal size: U.S.-American, French, German, and a...
Struggling With The Meaning Of Cultural Appropriation
"Your poem was meant to be a complex double portrait of both the Black caregiver and your white grandmother, and the racist logic and...
Now We Know What New Orleans Without Mardi Gras Music Is
His city—our cities—aren’t empty now. They’re just pretty much shut down. There’s a social media campaign attached to the Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s new...
Paul Ganson, Who Saved Detroit’s Orchestra Hall, Dead At 79
The Detroit Symphony's assistant principal bassoonist from 1969-2004, he had been with the orchestra one year when he launched the Save Orchestra Hall campaign,...
How Bang On A Can Changed Contemporary Music
These days, Bang is a sprawling artistic conglomerate, with an annual budget of $2 million to $2.5 million, a dedicated record label, a virtuoso...
Hollywood’s Hottest Young Director Is A Chinese Woman Who Makes Westerns
Chloé Zhao came to L.A. from Beijing to finish high school and go to college, got a poli-sci degree from Mount Holyoke, went to...
Indianapolis Museum Staff Demand CEO Resign Over Job Posting
A group of 85 Newfields employees and members of the Board of Governors released a public letter Tuesday that calls for president Charles Venable to...
What Better Use For An Empty IKEA Store Than As An Arts Center?
That's what could happen in the English city of Coventry: the Swedish furniture chain closed its store there last year, Coventry is the UK's...
Why Disney Really Fired Gina Carano From ‘The Mandalorian’
It wasn't just because she likened being a conservative in America today to being a Jew in 1930s Germany on Instagram. "Carano had become...
Opera Singers Help Long-Term COVID Patients Get Their Breath Back
"Called E.N.O. Breathe and developed by the English National Opera in collaboration with a London hospital, the six-week program offers patients customized vocal lessons:...
Second City Has A Buyer
Last summer, after the pandemic led to the layoff of two-thirds of the company's staff and accusations by alumni of color of serious race...
San Francisco Opera Is Returning To Live Performance With A Drive-In Show
The company's first staged presentation, set for April and May, will be a 90-minute English-language adaptation of Rossini's Barber of Seville on an outdoor...
The Cultural Significance Of Magazines
“The best way to think about magazines is as the analog Internet—they’d foster communities of people, just like on social networks,” Steven Lomazow, a...
Reimagine Yourself
The failure to lift our eyes and see that our core work can and should be connecting people with art is the principal source...
‘A Thunderclap”, Says Publisher: Unknown Work By Proust Coming This Spring
"The texts in The Seventy-Five Pages were written in 1908, around the time Proust began working on In Search of Lost Time, which...