Tag: 05.04.21
Disinfectant Theatre: CDC Says Super-cleaning Surfaces Isn’t Necessary. Theatres Are Doing It Anyway
This aspect of theater hygiene has turned out to be little more than — well — hygiene theater. Experts have been saying since last...
Trying Very Hard To Ask Bruce Dern Interview Questions
"'Wait a minute, let me tell you about this first,” says Bruce Dern, embarking on what I think is his fifth discursive anecdote in...
Did Kim Kardashian Traffic A Looted Antiquity?
According to a newly filed lawsuit, in 2016, U.S. Customs seized a fragment of an ancient Roman statue that it believed had been stolen...
Why Broadway Isn’t Restarting Until September
"With as many as eight shows a week to fill, and the tourists who make up an important part of their customer base yet...
Fifty Years Ago Photography Was Barely Considered Art. Now…
"There are now more galleries showing contemporary art than those devoted to the entire rest of art history, with sales at auction houses following...
Great Writers On Their Best- And Least-Loved Punctuation Marks
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe on exclamation points, Garielle Lutz and Toni Morrison on commas, Norman Mailer on hyphens, Cormac McCarthy on periods,...
What If The Idea Of “The Tragedy Of The Commons” Is All Wrong?
Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom believed so. "While conservation almost always carries at least some short-term costs, researchers have found that many community-based conservation projects...
The First Opera Written For And Produced In Virtual Reality
"What is most radical about Current, Rising is not the technology but how the creative process has been flipped. Rather than the composer setting...
A Mysterious Group Of Ancient Monuments In Saudi Arabia Older Than The Pyramids
Scattered across 77,000 square miles of desert in northwest Arabia, the mustatils (the name comes from the Arabic word for “rectangle”) were built between 8,500...
New York Times Dance Critic On Writing About People’s Bodies
Gia Kourlas: "Generally, it doesn't feel fraught, but at the same time I am aware of the sensitivity it takes to write about the...
W. Royal Stokes, Washington Post Jazz Critic, Dead At 90
"A onetime professor of classics who became a major presence in jazz as a Washington-based radio disc jockey, journalist and author known for his...
Britain’s Reopening, But A Quarter Of Its Summer Rock Festivals Are Cancelled. Why? Insurance.
"According to the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF), which has been tracking festivals taking place in Britain this year, 26% of all festivals with...
How France Is Managing Reopening Of Arts Venues
Roselyne Bachelot, the culture minister, has outlined the planned stages of reopening and rules that will be in place beginning May 19: for instance,...
UK’s Cinema Chains Are Reopening, Despite Shortage Of New Films To Show
"The UK's biggest cinema chain, which is sweetening its £9.99 monthly all-you-watch subscription scheme to get punters back indoors as summer nears, will...
Plexiglass, Screens, Headphones — A Return to Theatre Spaces?
In these uncertain, transitional days, theater companies remain perplexed about how and when to open their doors, and so many potential ticket-buyers fret over...
Carey Perloff Remembers Olympia Dukakis
She was an astonishing teacher, spending hours and hours in the classroom every time she came to ACT, and back home in New York,...
Alastair Macaulay Remembers Jacques d’Amboise
His charm was colossal and effortless, his love for many people effusive and happy. I keep coming across poems and messages he sent me....
How To Spend COVID Relief Money? Japanese Town Buys A Giant Squid Statue
It reportedly used 25m yen ($228,500; £164,700) of the emergency funding to build the statue. Noto officials have told local media it is part...