Tag: 03.22.21
A Wilting Critique Of Meritocracy
The story of the concept of ‘meritocracy’ has been well rehearsed in recent times, largely because of the way in which inequality and precarity...
With More Than 7000 Languages In The World, Google Translate Is Next To Useless
That is, for most of them, because Google Translate (and Bing) relies on written translations - which works well for French, Spanish, English, German,...
Tony-Award-Winning Lighting Designer Pat Collins Dies
"She was brilliant, funny, warm, and sometimes quite daunting. I have a memory of Mark Lamos and John Conklin hiding from her at one...
Britain’s Biggest Theatre Owner Buys Three Venues In San Francisco And Detroit
Ambassador Theatre Group is purchasing from the Nederlander Co. the Orpheum and Golden Gate Theatres in San Francisco and the Fisher Theatre in Detroit,...
Are We At A Creative Reckoning?(It’s All Good)
Deborah Cullinan: "When we finally arrive in this future, we, the people, will be brazen about the power of artists and of art and...
Dance Was An Integral Part of Christian Worship For Centuries
In the earliest period of Christianity, dance was frowned upon as pagan. (St. Augustine, in his typical way, was particularly scornful.) But when folks...
Jean Nouvel Wins Competition For Dramatic New Opera House In Shenzhen
The design of the Opera House takes on unconventional forms, opening up the space and integrating the opera house into the Greater Bay Area....
The Best Character Actors In The Business (Well, Most Of Them)
" the results of an industrywide survey we conducted to answer one simple question: who are the most memorable character actors working today? To...
How To Understand NFTs And What It Means For The Art World
"Imagine digital Beanie Babies, but with only one existing copy of each. For art works, the N.F.T. format functions a little like a museum...
Blurb-Off
Book blurbs are ridiculous. And competitive, as it turns out. - The New Yorker
How Did This Ballet Company Keep Its Dancers Working Throughout The Pandemic? Giving Them...
The St. Paul-based Ballet Co.Laboratory has " dual-contract structure provides its dancers with administrative employment, whether in management, communications, development or teaching —...
The Return Of Tower Records?
Inspired by the vinyl LP revival, new CEO Danny Zeijdel thinks he can make a go of the online business and, ultimately, brick-and-mortar....
World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture Is Far More Ancient Than We’d Thought — 12,500 Years
That's more than twice as old as Stonehenge and the Giza Pyramids and by far the oldest surviving piece of ritual art. The new...
Adam Zagajewski, ‘Poet Of 9/11’, Dead At 75
Already known and admired in his native Poland, he came to the English-speaking world's attention when The New Yorker published his "Try to Praise...
Rare Book Collecting: Connecting Brion Gysin and Paul-Armand Gette
To rate collectors by the use they make of their collections rather than simply by completeness or the rarity and excellence of individual items...
The Neglected Pyramids Of Sudan May Be Ready To Shine
After a long-invested dictator falls, the Sudanese people (and some of the rest of the world) may gain access to the archaeological sites that...