Tag: 05.27.21
Is The Nation-State Still The Best Way To Organize The Globe?
The nation-state is not so old as we are often told, nor has it come to be quite so naturally. Getting this history right...
Rethinking The Orchestra Business
The Symphony’s shift to a customer-centric approach is also reflected in their departure from sending the industry standard “killer offer” coupons to first-time audiences...
Why Sarah Lane Quietly Slipped Away From ABT
" Lane and ABT parted ways last summer, although no announcement was made; rather, in September, her name was quietly taken off the roster....
Why ‘The Great British Baking Show’, ‘Project Runway’, And Other Reality TV Competitions Have...
"Rather than offering an escapist vision of a world unravaged by pandemic, I've taken reassurance from the way these shows offer an escapist vision...
When ISIS Made Off With A Magritte Nude (Which Made It Back Intact!)
In 2009, a pair of thieves got into the René Magritte Museum in the Brussels suburb of Jette, located in the artist's former home,...
A New Disney Movie Gives Punk’s Overlooked Women Designers Their Due
Yes, that's a weird confluence, but Cruella still makes it happen. "Cruella signposts something essential about punk: the power of reinvention. For the original...
French Quarantine Rules May Prevent Britons From Attending Cannes
The problem is a new variant: "After delays caused by Covid, the festival confirmed it would take place in early July, but France has announced...
There’s A New Black Superhero In Town – And That Town Is Milan
It's not common for Italian shows to have mostly Black casts, but the new show Zero does - and makes the invisibility of Black...
Restarting The New York Phil, In A Cemetery
Justin Davidson, on the NY Phil's Green-Wood Cemetery "Death of Classical" concert: "That might not seem like the obvious location to stage the revival...
It’s Time To Abolish Museums
Does that sound hyperbolic? It is, a bit. It's time to abolish what musuems have been in order to see what they can be,...
Prizewinning Composer Sara Glojnaric Talks About How Music And Identity Intersect
Sara Glojnarić, who won Berlin’s “Neue Szenen” competition last year, explains that being a woman, being queer, and working against racism all intersect in...
John Steinbeck Really Did Write A Werewolf Novel. No Way His Estate Is Letting...
"The manuscript, Murder at Full Moon, was completed in 1930 but was never published. A single copy has been sitting, mostly forgotten, in an...
Blindsiding Movie Talent With Streaming Is Probably The New Normal
Gotta keep those subscriber numbers up with direct to streaming movies! But ... how do agents, producers, directors, and actors feel about this? It's...
Musicians Don’t Make Good Money From Streaming, But Is That Spotify’s Fault?
The amount of money people are spending on music hasn't changed from when we bought albums at the record store or CDs by Sony...
Inside TikTok’s New Incubator For Black Creators
The app - long derided both for squelching LGBTQIA voices and exploiting Black creators - reacted to the George Floyd protests by starting an...
Shakespeare’s Globe’s Bumpy Return To Work
Not only are audience members (at a quarter of pre-COVID capacity) required to stay six feet from each other, so are all the actors...
After Investigation, Embattled Head Of Americans For The Arts Departs Permanently
"Robert L. Lynch, the longtime president and chief executive of the Washington-based advocacy organization Americans for the Arts who had been on paid leave...
Sexual Abuse In El Sistema, Long Rumored, Is Now Being Brought To Light
A Facebook post in late April from an alumna of Venezuela's famous system of free musical education "has since sparked a collective portrait of...
Hermitage Museum Satellite In Barcelona Gets Go-Ahead
"The long-awaited Barcelona branch has finally been given the green light for development. The port of Barcelona's board of directors announced on Thursday...
It’s The First New Ancient Greek-English Dictionary In 178 Years, And Victorian Euphemisms Are...
Having decided that the old reference works, still in use in English schools and universities, were too "antiquated" to work from, the editors of...
BBC Proms Will Have Live Audiences (And “Rule, Britannia!”) This Summer
"While a normal season features about 90 concerts over eight weeks, last year just 14 concerts played to an empty Royal Albert Hall. The...
Carla Fracci, One of 20th Century’s Greatest Ballerinas, Dead At 84
Milan's Teatro alla Scala, where she was trained and first became famous, "recalled the 'fairytale rise' of the daughter of a tram driver who,...
In France, Some Theaters Can’t Reopen Because Demonstrators Demanding Reopening Won’t Leave
"For the last two months, culture workers in France have been protesting on-site at scores of theaters around the country, demanding they reopen and...
The Guardian Newspaper Was Founded The Year Napoleon Died. It’s Been A Singular Enterprise...
Its history is peppered with financial crises and near-death experiences. Perhaps it was placed on earth to make “righteousness readable” (in the centenary words...