Tag: 02.22.21
The Internet Archive Digitizes A Lot Of Books
How does that work? With a lot of human effort, and at a mind-blowing pace of 3500 books per day. "Clean, dry human hands...
Remember The Concert Companion? (It’s Worth Remembering Why It Didn’t Catch On)
Roland Valliere described the Concert Companion as similar to audio guides in art museums. “I was trying to do for symphony orchestras what audio...
How To Increase Equity For Blacks In Dance? ‘Ask Different Questions’
Choreographer Robert Moses: "The notion of change is sophomoric. The idea is to give people honest opportunity to be part of whatever they're intending...
Why Librarians Have Been Unsuccessful At Fighting Misinformation
"This failure has many roots: The low social status of teachers and librarians relative to those in other professions, the lack of consistent instruction...
Roberto Bedoya Talks About Place-Making
I was so surprised how “place-keeping” became such a sticky word across the country. I was offering a strong artist’s point of view about...
Critics Say The Prado Broke The Law When It Acquired A 20th-Century Painting
"The Prado paid €70,000 (around $85,000) for La Boulonnaise, a 1929 work by the Spanish painter María Blanchard. … But the move has riled...
Slate Suspends Podcast Host Mike Pesca After Internal Slack Chat About N-Word
Pesca, a public radio veteran who has been hosting Slate's daily news podcast, The Gist, since 2012, was suspended indefinitely without pay this week...
Spotify Is About To Open In 85 More Countries
The move adds a billion more potential customers to the market for the audio streaming giant, which will now be available in 178 countries...
After Six Years, Google News May Be Returning To Spain
"Google is negotiating individual licensing deals with a divided Spanish news industry that could allow the U.S. tech giant's news service to resume in...
San Diego Cultural Advocate Larry T. Baza, 76, Of COVID
"For more than four decades, Baza used his voice advocating for San Diego’s artistic and cultural community at the local, state and national levels....
How The Smithsonian Is Celebrating Its 150 Years
“The Smithsonian was always about how it could help the country reimagine itself, understand itself,” said Bunch, a historian and founding director of the...
Governor: NYC Movie Theatres Can Reopen
Governor Andrew Cuomo said "cinemas in the city will be permitted to operate at 25% capacity, with no more than 50 people. Moreover, other...
Charles Hill, Heroic Undercover Art Detective, Dead At 73
"Hill's willingness to take major risks in order to find some of the world's greatest stolen artworks" — most famously, Vermeer's Lady Writing a...
Cuban Artists Demand Removal Of Culture Minister
The Cuban activist group 27N submitted a legal request for Alonso’s removal to the National Assembly of People’s Power on February 3 on behalf...
Getting At What Truth Really Is (Not That Simple)
"True seems to be that which is in accordance with the facts or reality, the way things simply are. But it is not as...
Star Soccer Star Touts Ballet Training For Performance
The images shared by the ballet company had soccer fans’ heads turning when they emerged. Such a sports star dabbling in ballet may have...
How To Design A Memorial For The COVID Pandemic?
Several places in Italy and Great Britain are considering the question, and a few memorials have already gone up. " are not intended as...
Why Joffrey Ballet Is Only Now Making Work To Stream
Staging a full-length performance digitally "would break the bank," says artistic director Ashley Wheater, who doesn't really like streamed dance much. "I'm embracing it...
Will Upright Citizens Brigade Ever Reopen? ‘I Don’t Know’, Says Amy Poehler
In a feature interview for The New York Times Magazine, the co-founder of the famed, and now troubled, improv company and school said, "It’s...
Douglas Turner Ward, Pioneering Black Theater Artist, Dead At 90
A writer and director as well as an actor, he wrote a 1966 New York Times Op-Ed titled "American Theater: For Whites Only?" that...
France Is Trying To Raise Millions To Buy De Sade’s Filthiest Manuscript
"The French government is appealing for corporate help to acquire the manuscript of the Marquis de Sade's notorious The 120 Days of Sodom, valued...
It’s A 17,300-Year-Old Kangaroo: Australia’s Oldest Rock Art Identified
"A nearly-life-size depiction of a kangaroo — realistic genitalia included — is the oldest known rock painting in Australia. Scientists recently pinpointed its age...
Long Beach Opera Hires James Darrah As New AD
During the pandemic, Darrah’s affinity for film allowed him to pivot to digital content with ease. Over the last six months, the director has...
Inside What Makes Tom Stoppard Tick
Anthony Lane: "Many folk, less deserving than Stoppard, and with scarcely a whit of his charm, are greeted with godsends. What marks him out...
The Phillips Turns 100
The museum in Washington, DC, founded by Duncan and Marjorie Phillips, was a sensation when it opened as a museum of modern art, and...