Tag: 04.28.21
Backstage Union Warns That Met Opera Will Not Reopen In 2021
In a statement issued by its president, IATSE Local One stressed that the current situation is a lockout rather than a strike and that...
NewsNation Is Supposed To Be An ‘Unbiased’ Alternative To Fox, MSNBC, And CNN. Almost...
Execs at Nexstar, the country's largest owner of local TV stations, had research saying that consumers wanted a source of nonpartisan news. So the...
Disney Apparently Decided Not To Pay Some Authors Their Royalties
And now there's a task force trying to get the authors of novels in the Indiana Jones, Buffy, and Star Wars universes the royalties...
Theatre Festivals Are Reopening In The UK. But What Should Their Role Be?
Many will grapple with an uncertain theatre landscape and uncertainty over how audiences might behave as society opens up. And this is at a...
Poetry Foundation Picks A New President
Michelle Boone’s appointment "may mark a turning point for the foundation, which has been criticized as insular and slow to respond to changing times....
Bard Center Explores Connections Between Arts And Human Rights
The two-year, interdisciplinary MA plans to host in-person classes at Bard’s Annandale-on-Hudson campus and welcomes “current and aspiring activists, artists, and researchers” who are...
Is Music Universal Or Not? Depends On What You Mean
Kevin Berger: "In the past two years, the debate over whether music is universal, or even whether that debate has merit, has raged like...
How Imagination Drives Answers
The sense of wonder we get when looking at a star-studded sky is a powerful one, even today an intense and even emotional experience,...
The Young Pipsqueak Professor Who Changed The Way Everyone Thought About Homer’s Epics
"Milman Parry was arguably the most important American classical scholar of the 20th century, by one reckoning 'the Darwin of Homeric Studies.' At age...
Because Of COVID, TV Production Had To Change The Way It Works. Some Of...
"It has been a year of struggle and experimentation for the television industry, which has had to learn on the fly while trying to...
Play Something, Netflix’s New Weapon Against Viewers’ Decision Fatigue
"Today, the company is launching Play Something, a new viewing mode designed to make it easier for the indecisive among us to quickly find...
Microsoft Is Changing Its Default WORD Font… And A Billion People Will Read Differently
“A lot of customers, they really don’t even think about fonts or look at fonts. It’s only when they zoom in, that they see...
‘Live Shows Are About To Come Roaring Back To Full Houses’, Says One Critic
Chris Jones: "There's real evidence now of pent-up demand. Consider what is happening in Las Vegas. Cirque du Soleil, which has emerged from bankruptcy...
Florida Boosts Arts Funding by 24%
"The 2021-22 budget plan agreed to by the Florida House and Senate and sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis includes $26.7 million in two of...
Medieval Treasures Stolen In 1989 Recovered In Sicily
"After being stolen more than 30 years ago from a village in Italy's Tuscany region, a group of stolen medieval artifacts has been located...
Paul Kellogg, Director Of Glimmerglass Opera And New York City Opera, Dead At 84
Over 27 years at the helm of the summer opera festival in Cooperstown, NY, Kellogg raised standards, doubled the productions per season, built a...
The Rise Of Group Curation — A New Model?
‘We believe in a polyphonic time. Essentially the problem has been about dominant narratives and to get a much wider perspective. It is appropriate...
A Philip Roth Bio Is Canceled — A Sea Change In Whether Books Are...
"I think this week marks a sea change in publishers’ interest in their authors’ behavior. The cancellation of Bailey’s books came just a day...
Engagement Readiness Quiz
The verdict in the George Floyd murder trial provides your arts organization with an opportunity to take a very simple quiz to determine its...
CultureGrrl, the Metropolitan Museum & the Bomb Scare
At this writing, the Metropolitan Museum is safe and so am I. That said, for a brief time during my visit there Monday afternoon,...
The Forgotten Female Playwrights (150 Of Them!) Of 17th- and 18th-Century France
"Now a growing movement within French theater is reclaiming the work of forgotten female artists, and reviving a lost concept along the way: le...
Archaeologists Alarmed By Proposed Renovation At Acropolis
"Plans for a major renovation project to the western entrance of the Acropolis have met with strong opposition from archaeologists in Greece and across...
Samsung Founder’s Heirs To Donate Thousands Of Art Works In Inheritance Tax
The Lee family, including his widow and three children, expects to pay more than 12 trillion won ($10.8 billion) in inheritance taxes, which is...