Tag: 04.09.21
A Critic Considers Where Music And Writing About It Meet, And Where They Miss
Thomas Larson, former music critic for the Santa Fe New Mexican (1980-82), now a staff writer at the San Diego Reader: "Figuring out that...
Time To Take Bernard Henri Levy Seriously?
For nearly half a century, Lévy has been one of the most visible public intellectuals in France and a master at manipulating philosophical and...
How A Gentle Little Movie By One Of Pakistan’s Favorite Directors Got Banned For...
Novelist Mohammed Hanif (A Case of Exploding Mangoes) writes about the strange case of Sarmad Khoosat's film Zindagi Tamasha ("Circus of Life"), which has...
France Is Allowing Auction Houses To Keep Operating During Lockdown, But Not Galleries. Galleries...
"Late last month the president of the Conseil des Ventes, the regulatory authority for auction houses, gave notice that the government would in fact...
Singing By Hand: How To Translate Songs Into American Sign Language
"A good A.S.L. performance prioritizes dynamics, phrasing and flow. The parameters of sign language — hand shape, movement, location, palm orientation and facial expression...
Where Second City’s New Chief Means To Lead The Improv Institution
Says Jon Carr, who came to the company's Chicago headquarters from Dad's Garage in Atlanta four months ago, "It's a little strange, because there’s...
Is The CEO Who Saved Waterstones Turning Around Barnes & Noble, Too? Well, He...
To be fair, James Daunt was not at all as self-aggrandizing as that headline suggests when he spoke to the Independent Book Publishers Association...
Doubting Thomas: Greenville County Museum Sells “Alma’s Flower Garden” in a Non-Transparent Transaction
Taking a page from the problematic playbooks of the Berkshire, Everson and Baltimore museums, the Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, has become...
Steven Leigh Morris On What Did In LA Stage Alliance
"When members of the community say about LASA that they didn’t feel included or respected, my heart goes out to them. I ran the...
The Boston Symphony’s Lucia Lin Says Classical Music Is Not Eurocentric
And she has the duet series to prove it. Lin, who commissioned duets before adding interviews to her presentation of new work: "In the...
The New Ascendance Of The Nature Memoir
We're all looking for something - solitude, connection to nature, an escape from our houses and apartments - and so, publishing is providing us...
The Hollywood Bowl Is Back, With Celebration And Caution, For The Summer Of 2021
Though the bowl will be limited to 4,000 in a venue that seats 17,500, the excitement is real. "The organization is still ramping up...
Gianluigi Colalucci, Restorer Of Michelangelo’s Colors, Has Died At 91
In the 1980s, Colalucci led the team that restored the Sistine Chapel. "To paint the Sistine ceiling, Michelangelo labored atop a towering scaffolding, his...
Performers In South Africa Protest For More Government Help During The Pandemic
For the performing arts community, the closure of Cape Town's Fugard Theatre was something of a last straw. "In just a decade of existence...
Scott Rudin’s Abusive Behavior Was An Open Secret
Why did the media not come out and treat it as the truly awful (and unacceptable) fact that it was? "Unlike past stories, The Hollywood Reporter’s...
New Guidelines Suggest Actors Set Nudity Boundaries Before Filming
To keep actors safe - and, of course, to cover their own liability - some productions are now employing intimacy coordinators. But contracts can...
This One Key Trick Predicts Blockbuster Success
Despite what every podcast host says (is forced to say?) and what your author friends tell you, it's not five-star reviews. Those are literally...
Anne Beatts, Who Broke Into National Lampoon And Saturday Night Live Before Getting Her...
Beatts helped shape the early days of Saturday Night Live. "'It was pretty much any adjective you want to throw at it,' she told...
Frieze Los Angeles Writes Off 2021, Makes Plans For 2022
The art fest was planned for February, then July, and at locations all over the city (supposedly to promote social distancing). But as July...
We’re Living In A Golden Age For Documentaries, But They Have To Drop Their...
The rush of documentaries - they are cheaper to make, and especially if they're true crime, there's a willing and eager audience - has...
Taylor Swift, Reclaiming Her Music With A New, Re-Recorded Release Of An Early Album
The business side of music can be vicious for its musicians, and when a label owned by a man you loathe gets to profit...
A New Cache Of Money For Strapped Venues – If Only The Website Would...
The Small Business Association opened a grant portal for arts venues closed down by the pandemic - and, after a few hours of deep...
The Show Wynonna Earp Came At A Dark Time For Queer Women On TV,...
In 2016, 25 queer women characters on TV died on scripted TV and streaming shows. But Wynonna Earp promised to be different. With the...
The Inevitability Of Fake Art
It's every art dealer's nightmare, but if a fake is a beautiful painting, what's our problem with it? We care about authorship is why...
Ethel Gabriel, Who Ran Parts Of RCA Victor For 40 Years, Has Died At...
Gabriel began working at RCA when she was a student at Temple University, testing records for manufacturing imperfections. And she didn't leave. "Gabriel often...