Tag: 05.19.21
Comparing The Careers Of Mike Nichols And Tom Stoppard
The paths they each followed are telling. If you are even marginally involved in the theater, it is impossible not to envy the state...
Colleges Aren’t Turning Out The Kinds Of Students America Needs
"The U.S. education system is not held accountable for ensuring that students are properly equipped with the skills and capabilities to prepare for a...
How The AI That’s Supposed To Revolutionize Dubbing Foreign Films Actually Works
"The technology is related to deepfaking, which uses AI to paste one person's face onto someone else. … It involves capturing the facial expressions...
Why Are Telecom Companies So Bad At Media?
"Joseph Epstein once wrote that “Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.” He must have been talking about the...
‘This American Wife’: When Yale Drama Grads Take On The ‘Real Housewives’ Franchise
"This project takes formal cues from lensed images. It's styled as an episode of Real Housewives run amok, and the team cites French surrealist...
Sometimes The Best Way To Preserve Ancient Mosaics Is To Rebury Them
" an art form that is usually in good condition when first discovered because floors are the first area to be naturally buried over...
‘The French Author Is No Longer Just The White Man Over 50’; The Gallic...
"Major publishers have created special collections to promote first-time authors and ethnic minorities while new publishing houses are opening the field to a larger...
Honey, I Found A Guarneri In The Attic
"A violin found in an attic in Italy has been confirmed as a priceless instrument made by Giuseppe Guarneri 'filius Andreae' in c.1705. The...
This Is What Banksy Gets For Saying ‘Copyright Is For Losers’
"In a new decision issued by the IPO Cancellation Division, a trademark owned by street artist Banksy has been declared invalid. … The...
New York’s Drama Book Shop, Saved By ‘Hamilton’, Set To Reopen
" quirky 104-year-old Manhattan specialty store that has long been a haven for aspiring artists as well as a purveyor of scripts, will reopen...
Will Audiences Return To Movie Theatres?
Like so many businesses, the movie theater industry has been ravaged by the economic effects of the pandemic. Theaters were starved of audiences when...
The Literature Professor Who Foresaw Neuroscience 100 Years Ago
It was a Cambridge professor of literature, almost a century ago in the aftermath of World War I, who pioneered a view of cognition...
The Arts’ Digital Era Has Just Begun
“I see this as a whole new game. Call me a Pollyanna, call me an early Christian, call me a Mormon going to Utah,...
Debora Chase-Hicks, Pioneering Dancer With Ailey And Philadanco, Dead At 63
" was a part of the generation of Black dancers, many trained in classical ballet as children, who were instrumental in bringing top-flight modern...
All Arts Are Local? Not Anymore
What does it mean to talk about a cultural community when Theatre Rhinoceros Executive Director John Fisher can claim, “My audience now extends from...
After 66 Years, There’s A Professional Orchestra In Yorkshire Again
"Seventy-four years after it first formed," and 66 years after it closed, "the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra has been revived to support musicians in northern...
Study: Aboriginal Memory Technique Improves Recall
The students who used the Aboriginal memory technique were three times more likely to remember the entire list than they were before they were...
Meet The Mother Of LA’s Inner City Shakespeare
"For Andrews, Shakespeare represents a foundation for success, particularly for students of color attending under-resourced schools. If they can master Shakespearean wordplay, 'they...
Dr. Aaron Stern, Psychiatrist Who Headed Hollywood’s Ratings Board, Dead At 96
From 1971 to 1974, he led the Motion Picture Association of America's Classification and Rating Administration, which gave films G, PG, R, and X...
Chloé Lopes Gomes, Fired From And Reinstated At Berlin State Ballet, Talks About The...
"I've realized that my case isn't just about calling out racism; it's about confronting all forms of injustice in the dance world. … It's...
Opera Philadelphia Gives Up This Year’s O Festival
For the second year in a row, the company's critically praised September week of mostly new opera is called off; even as other groups...
Final Suspect In Dresden Jewel Robbery Arrested
Police in Berlin have captured Abdul Majed Remmo, the fifth and final suspect connected to the shocking 2019 jewel heist at Dresden's Green Vault...
The Case For Banning The Unvaccinated From Theatres
If universities, such as Yale, Stanford and UCLA, are planning to require returning students to be fully vaccinated, why can’t performing arts venues do...
How Tourism Is Killing Our Favorite Cities
While the number of visitors remains below the threshold, tourists use services and provisions designed for residents. Once this threshold is crossed, however, residents...
Record man Koester’s blues and jazz legacy
Chicagoan Bob Koester, proprietor of the Jazz Record Mart and Delmark Records for nearly 70 years, is a model of music activism and entrepreneurship...