Tag: 05.12.21
How TV/Movie Costumes Shape Our Perceptions Of Royalty
In film and TV dramatisations of familiar royal tales, the audience is presented with a romanticised and glamorised vision of royal history. Sumptuous silks...
How The Met Opera’s Telemarketing Strategy Backfires On Itself
"Dialing for dollars may be a skill that some sellers of products and services profitably employ. But when it comes to deepening a level...
Revisiting TikTok Before It Was TikTok, A Long, Long Time Ago
"From 2014 to 2018, the Chinese app Musical.ly was where kids — as in, literal children and very young teenagers — would lip-sync to...
Research: Livestreaming Has Become A Vital Connection
“Our research has highlighted how important it is for audience members to be able to communicate with, and feel connected to, each other and...
What Our Comparisons Of Humans To Animals Say About Us
Calling a person an animal is usually a comment on their unrestrained appetites, especially for food (‘like a hungry animal’), for sex (‘they went...
Interpol Debuts A New App To Track Stolen Art
Last week, the global crime-fighting group debuted a new app that aims to make the process of identifying and reporting stolen works as simple...
Tech Versus Big Journalism
A war is on between the tech titans and a relentless generation of largely digital-native reporters looking to speak truth to power while racking...
SAG/AFTRA Sign First Agreement On Social Media Influencers (What Does That Mean?)
The Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists' national board voted to adopt its first-ever agreement for influencers—personalities and performers paid to...
Inside The Art NFT Boom
No one quite agrees on what this gold rush means. If you ask hard-core champions of Bitcoin — the often-libertarian “crypto natives,” as they...
How A Dallas Choir Made $375,000 With An NFT “Crypto Music”
“2020 had all been about crypto art. We believe that Betty’s Notebook is the birth of crypto music. It makes music truly ‘crypto native’,”...
Dancer StuartHodes @96 – How To Dance Through Life
"I think anything that you do with every particle of yourself can be wonderful, and it can make you forget the world. It’s magic....
Chicago’s Goodman Theatre Prepares To Live-Stream From Its Stage
"'The whole process here is to recreate the experience for the audience,' said Falls. 'The audience chooses which performance they want to see,...
Can Los Angeles Re-Establish Itself As A Cultural Capital Post-Pandemic?
"In many ways the challenges here are more intense and complex, in no small part because the virus hit at a time when so...
Metropolitan Opera Returns To Stage (But Not Its Own) For First Time Since COVID...
"Members of the company's orchestra and chorus, joined by prominent soloists and led by its music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will give two concerts at...
Phylicia Rashad Named Dean Of Howard University’s New College Of Fine Arts
The award-winning actor, herself a Howard alumna, will be the first dean of the re-established college. The nation's leading historically Black university folded its...
Ex-English National Ballet Principal Convicted Of Sexually Assaulting Students
"Yat-Sen Chang attacked girls and women at the English National Ballet and Young Dancers Academy in London between December 2009 and March 2016. The...
Disney+ Isn’t Using Show-runners For Its Shows. A New TV Model?
Effectively, the studio is making its TV shows as if they were roughly six-hour movies, applying the same production methodology it’s used for the...
The Long Checkered Career Of The Golden Globes
Hollywood viewed the awards as meaningless at best and corrupt at worst — most notable for their open bar and the industry perks enjoyed...
YouTube Will Spend $100 Million On Creators In New “Shorts” Program
YouTube, the world’s biggest video platform, announced the YouTube Shorts Fund, a $100 million pool of money it’s promising to distribute to creators of...
West End Theatre Folk Look Eagerly, Nervously Toward Reopening
"What's it actually like for the theatermakers who are starting work again after 15 months? Has the pandemic shaped the way they think about...