Tag: 03.16.21
Wrecking The V&A Museum?
"The conceptual restructure, if it goes ahead as planned, will make the museum itself look curiously out of time, out of touch with the...
How (And When) Audiobooks Were Born
Fans have been predicting the audiobook’s ascendance ever since it became possible to record books. But when exactly was that? The audiobook’s origins can...
Scavenging For A Library From The Ruins Amidst Syria’s Civil War
"In a town under siege from Assad's regime, a small group of revolutionaries found a new mission: to build a library from books rescued...
Oh Great, Now They’re Turning Dance Into NFTs, Too
With Non-Fungible Tokens taking the visual art world hostage by storm, it was only a matter of time before other art forms turned to...
India’s New Internet Regulations Will Change How Indians See The Internet
Among other things, the IT Rules 2021 require social media platforms to deploy AI-based technology to identify sexually explicit content, trace the originator of...
Has COVID Changed Standup Comedy For Good?
If so, it's got nothing to do with illness or quarantine as subject matter; it's that the lockdown pushed everyone — audiences, colleagues, and...
Dog Dance Competitions (Yes, They’re A Thing)
The sport is called canine musical freestyle. "At a typical competition, you might see dogs weaving through their handlers' legs, rolling over, spinning on...
Italy’s Highest Court Saves 800-Year-Old Monastery From Steve Bannon
"The Council of State ruled that the Culture Ministry was correct in cancelling the concession it had given to the Dignitatis Humanae Institute," a...
DesertX Cancels Judy Chicago Smoke Piece Over Environmental Concerns
The two-month-long Coachella Valley biennial known as Desert X will not include a relocated Judy Chicago piece, the artist has told The Times, and...
LA Movie Theatres Reopen And Sell Out Of Tickets
The No. 1 circuit’s Burbank location sold out 22 of its 32 showtimes, while Century City sold out 18 of its 30 showtimes yesterday....
How To Trust Art “Experts”?
We seem to have an insatiable appetite for finding "masterpieces" and consequently may readily believe in "expert" judgment. But what is the value of...
UK’s Telegraph News Site Plans To Pay Reporters By How Popular Their Stories Are
“I’d call the mood mutinous. If you’re writing royal stories or big political news or coronavirus stuff or you’re famous then you’re going to...
Report On The State Of The Art Market
For all the talk of robust online viewing rooms and hybrid auctions, with sales reportedly doubling in 2020, all market segments “experienced declines last...
How Freelance Musicians Have Been Coping This Past Year
“It took 25 years for me to reach a point in my career where I was constantly preparing for the next orchestra concert, opera...
Should Museums Tell The Public About Missing Art?
"Museums have at times withheld information about thefts, fearing that revealing security weaknesses could make other institutions less likely to loan them art or...
California Museums And Theatres Are Reopening; I’m Going To Wait
"I’m taking my cues from the health experts, who are preaching a different message from state, city and municipal officials. While COVID-19 new infections,...
America Will Get Performing Arts Back This Summer — In Open-Air Spaces
"All around the country, companies that normally produce outdoors but were unable to do so last year are making plans to reopen, while those...
Protests By Arts Workers Demanding Reopening Spread All Over France
"Some 30 theatres and concert halls are occupied in Strasbourg, Lille, Nantes, Châteauroux, Toulouse, Besançon, Marseille, and Saint-Etienne. All of the culture workers inside...
Afghanistan Bans Girls From Singing
In a letter to school boards last week, which was leaked to the media, Kabul’s Education Department said girls aged 12 and above would...
Is MoviePass About To Return From The Dead?
The "Icarus of subscription services" seemed too good to be true when it started selling $9.99-a-month memberships that would let you see a movie...
More Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Found, The First In 60 Years
"The Israel Antiquities Authority, which carried out the excavations, believes the new scroll, written in Greek, is actually a missing part of the “Book...
AAMD (Barely) Rejects Extending Lenient Rules On Deaccessioning Art
"In an informal poll, members of the Association of Art Museum have voted 91-88 against asking its trustees to explore a controversial change in...
Yet Another Director Forced To Resign From Berlin’s Volksbühne
Three years after Chris Dercon ended his brief, dissension-plagued tenure at the theatre, his successor as artistic director, Klaus Dörr, quit after it became...
Pritzker Prize Goes To Architects Whose Motto Is ‘Never Demolish’
More fully stated, the professional creed of Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal is "Never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform, and reuse!"...
‘Poetry Out Of Pragmatism’: An Assessment Of Pritzker Prize Winners Anne Lacaton And Jean-Philippe...
Oliver Wainwright: "It is a fitting moment for a prize once reserved for flamboyant sculptors of icons to be awarded to a practice that...