Tag: 05.02.21
The Improbable Survival Of Seattle’s Annex Theatre
“Our motto is ‘big, cheap theater.’ ” “I’d rather make a glorious failure than an apologetic win.” “We’re the cockroach of the arts —...
The Birth Of Newsletters, 600 Years Before Substack
"Newsletters began in mid-fifteenth-century Venice. Subscribers would receive handwritten letters twice a week rounding up interesting events. Sixteenth-century merchants used similar news sources to...
Steppenwolf Theater Artistic Director Anna D. Shapiro Resigns
"The decision, one of many such wholesale changes as the Chicago theater slowly emerges from the COVID-19 crisis of closures, is not unexpected by...
Lynda Hartigan, Peabody Essex Museum’s Passed-Over Deputy Director, Belatedly Gets the Top Spot
Two years ago, when the Salem, Mass. museum named Brian Kennedy, then director of the Toledo Museum, to succeed longtime director Dan Monroe, I...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association Vowed To Change
From there? Things have been falling apart. NBC's contingency plans if the group that runs the Golden Globes doesn't get it together by their...
Will LA MOCA Recover Its Footing?
Yes, LA MOCA is having trouble again. "MOCA’s current trials have come just as the museum was hoping to emerge from a tumultuous history...
The Great Mural Wall Of Los Angeles Gets An Extension
Judy Baca's 2,700-foot mural Great Wall shows the history of the city, from pre-historic California through the 1950s. But the 1950s were a long...
Fred Jordan, Who Defied Censorship And Published The Avant Garde, 95
At Grove Press, Jordan and Barney Rosset led the charge to publish as they wished. "Grove’s lawyers were instrumental in overturning anti-pornography court rulings against D.H....
Can This Modernist Gem Be Saved?
The planned demolition of the Derby Assembly Rooms, product of a 1970 architectural competition and former host to big acts from The Clash to...
How Genre Fiction Can Help Literary Fiction Deal With Assault
Crime fiction is, roughly speaking, concerned with plot - and literary fiction (again, roughly speaking) with the interior of characters' thoughts. Sometimes, that means...
Move Over, Thomas Edison And The Lumiere Brothers
Britain may no longer have an empire, but at least it could have this: the title of the "true" father of cinema. "Film director...
Asian American Choreographers And Dancers Demand Recognition
After the shootings in Atlanta, the already planned 10,000 Dreams Virtual Choreography Festival transformed into something that Asian American ballet dancers and choreographers have...