Tag: 04.06.21
Yes, There Really Was An Eleanor Rigby
Paul McCartney invented the details of her life as recounted in the famous Beatles song, but he found her name on a gravestone in...
Study Science, Fine. But Arts And Humanities Are The Future Of Work
With the rise of artificial intelligence, machine programming, and the ever more rapid automation of technical skills, many companies are seeking just the creative...
Canada’s New Opera Champion Bob McPhee, 65
As head of Calgary Opera he was one of the most innovative champions of the art form. “I think he truly changed opera in...
How American Theatre Marginalizes Asians
"Just as Asian shows are seen as exotic oddities rather than universal, Asian American theatres aren’t considered national theatres by funders, even though it...
George W. Bush, Painter (What Does His Art Say About Him? About Us?)
"Bush’s painting style is inelegant: his subjects’ eyes are often misaligned, his colors are sometimes muddied, and even though he attempts to create depth...
Science: Turns Out Musical Taste Corresponds To Personality
It turns out that there is more to the question than appears on the surface, and multiple psychological studies have supported the idea that...
Choreography With Water And Fire (This Is Not A Metaphor, This Is Actual Fluids...
Billy Bell, who is a visual spectacle designer and computer engineer as well as a dancer and choreographer, combines movement, architecture and computer code...
Prices For NFTs Swoon (Collapse?)
Perhaps, according to recent figures published by Nonfungible.com, which show that the average price of NFTs plummeted almost 70% from a peak of around...
Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Anounces A Fifty Percent Expansion
The expansion would add nearly 100,000 sq. ft to the museum's current 200,000 sq. ft pavilion complex, which features concrete walls, bands of red...
It’s 2021, And Italy Is Finally Abolishing Film Censorship
"It will now no longer be possible to block the release of a new film or demand edits for moral or religious reasons. Filmmakers...
Survey: How Students Attitudes About Arts Education Are Changing In The COVID Era
Student responses show that their biggest concerns are the high cost of tuition for remote classes and the changes to their social lives on...
Kennedy Center Turns 50 (And Unveils Celebrations)
The 50th anniversary celebration is part of 1,110 dance, theater, jazz, comedy and musical concerts and events in the 2021-2022 season. The total represents...
Behold The World’s Largest Collection Of Magazines
" Hyman's collection now stands at around 150,000 editions of roughly 5,000 titles. They form the bulk of HYMAG, a dedicated magazine library housed...
‘What If Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare, But Someone Else Wrote Him First?’
That's how one scholar summarizes the theory that the plays of William Shakespeare were written, yes, by the glover's son from Stratford-upon-Avon — but...
Right-Wing Populists In Europe Are Going After Public Broadcasters
"In some countries, such as Hungary and Poland, illiberal governments are turning them into mouthpieces for the ruling party. In others, such as Germany...
Bayeux Tapestry May Be Too Damaged To Travel To UK
There was quite some excitement in January of 2018 when President Emmanuel Macron announced that the 950-year-old, 2,300-foot-long needlework depicting the Norman Conquest would...
California’s Arts Institutions Will Reopen June 15 (Won’t They?)
"California officials shocked the performing arts community Tuesday when they announced plans to fully reopen the economy June 15 if certain vaccination and hospitalization...
Suspect Arrested For Theft Of Van Gogh And Hals Paintings In Netherlands
"The police announced on Tuesday morning that they had arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of stealing both Vincent Van Gogh's The Parsonage Garden...
“Godzilla” Is A Hit — And It Could Change How Movies Are Distributed
It’s the kind of hybrid release that would have seemed impossible to pull off prior to the pandemic. Today, it’s the clearest indication yet...
Venice Passes New Rules Restricting Biennale Business — Will They Help Or Hurt?
It may be a hasty measure in which practical consequences have not been thought through, or it may, as some suggest, be an indirect...