Tag: 06.07.21
New York City Mayoral Race: What The Candidates Have To Say About The Arts
"As the June 22 primary draws near, we rounded up the top six contenders" — in alphabetical order, Eric Adams, Kathryn Garcia, Dianne Morales,...
Kirill Serebrennikov Barred From Leaving Russia To Attend Cannes Festival
The award-winning, beleaguered dissident — famous recently for his dance and opera productions — is also a filmmaker, and he has a new title,...
Kate Winslet: A Huge Increase In Roles For Women My Age
"I do feel proud that as a woman in the film industry in her mid-40s, having been doing this job since I was 17,...
Are Board Members Of UK Cultural Institutions Being Punished For Disagreeing With The Government?
The science author and historian Sarah Dry withdrew as a trustee of the Science Museum Group in March after she was asked to support...
Should You Become An Art Critic? Take This Test!
"Your ability to express what you see in an artwork, to explain why it is good, and to examine the ways in which it...
AI Is All Around Us Now. But Is It?
"In the past, statistical analysis at this scale was limited by the complexity of the task and the lack of mathematical and computational tools....
The Scholar Who Proved Homer Didn’t Exist
The Iliad and the Odyssey weren’t written by Homer, because they weren’t written at all. They were products of an oral tradition, performed by...
How Podcasts Became Substitutes For Friends During The Lockdown
"The number of podcasts … ballooned, filling voids in the professional lives of the hosts and the social lives of the listeners, and in...
Tickets Or NFTs? Do You “Own” The Experience?
"Tickets are keys to experiences. These keys have a finite life and finite utility. That’s because the majority of rights issuers want to maintain...
What Ails The Classical Music Industry
"The problems have built up over at least the last half century and they cannot be solved overnight. But there are a host of...
Garth Drabinsky’s Comeback Will Be Broadway’s First Fully New Musical Since COVID Arrived
The first production on Broadway that hadn't been previously scheduled and postponed will be Paradise Square, a show about the origins of tap dance,...
Art Theft Is Way Down In Italy, Thanks To The Carabinieri’s Drones
"Fewer art and cultural heritage works were stolen in Italy in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to the annual report of the...
How Our Technology Can Change Our Character
There is the possibility that technology can come to influence or reflect our values in ways that are beyond our control. For example, wearable...
Experiments In Opera: Philip Glass At The Circus
The revelation of “Circus Days and Nights” is existentially simple and direct. Cut through a thin layer of tawdriness and cheap tinsel that may...
Princeton Drops Latin And Greek Requirements For Classics Study
"The policy change at Princeton presumes the existence of various potential contributions that classics students knowing no Latin or Greek could have been making...
Music Stars Demand Streaming Music Regulation
It argues that streaming via services such as Spotify and Apple Music be legislated more like radio. “The law has not kept up with...
New York To Stage A Mega-Concert In August To Signal End Of The Pandemic
Seeking a grand symbol of New York’s revitalization after a brutal pandemic year, Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning a large-scale performance by multiple...
Evidence
My introduction of Emanuel Ax in May in Boston, as he received an honorary doctorate from New England Conservatory. - Bruce Brubaker
What America’s Best-Selling Books Say About Americans
In the U.S., people like nonfiction, especially self-help - and cookbooks, and sex advice. The books in the best-seller canon "are not books so...