Tag: 06.08.21
Theatre Workers With Long Covid Worry About A Return To Work
Theatre working conditions often aren't ideal for anyone, much less people whose bodies and minds have been harmed by the virus. "Theatre artists and...
How Toronto’s Royal Conservatory Of Music Survived The Shutdown
With now over 60,000 students having taken online practical and theoretical exams, it became a sink-or-swim moment testing RCM’s ability to keep anxious students...
Abu Dhabi, Hoping To Become Cultural Tourism Destination, Pumps More Billions Into Arts
The capital of the United Arab Emirates, whose government wants to diversify its economy away from oil and catch up with Dubai as the...
The New King Of The Hollywood Musicals
Making Crazy Rich Asians and In the Heights helped Chu figure out what he’s trying to say with his films. Through them, he’s arguing...
Film Festivals Crank Up As The Movie Business Hangs In Balance
With Cannes on the verge of reigniting international festival activity and Telluride keen on reclaiming the Oscar influencer throne, festivals are mobilizing to become...
King Philip II’s Raphael Tapestries Are In Danger — From Pigeons
"The exquisite set of Raphael tapestries currently on display in the grand gallery of Madrid's royal palace has survived five tumultuous centuries of wars,...
How Social Media Is Changing Lit
Complaining about other, more successful writers is one of the most popular activities on Twitter, as is devising elaborately exacting standards of correct speech...
A First Look At Stratford’s New $70 Million Theatre
Its physical beauty is a far cry from the rough-and-ready look of the previous Tom Patterson Theatre: a converted curling rink. - Toronto Star
NFTs Of Artists Vandalizing Their Art — What Could Go Wrong?
When the artist is the instigator of damage (to their own work, or that of another, such as Robert Rauschenberg erasing a Willem de...
Museum Endowments Soar During Pandemic — But…
Disappointingly, however, that silver lining has been tarnished by an unconscionable rush to the auction house by numerous museums eager to take advantage of...
Chicago’s City-wide Debate On Its Monuments
No other American city has opened up this sort of wide-ranging dialogue about how cities make monuments. Swept up in this inquiry are five...
Latest Hot Music Market: Meditation Apps
With no dance floors or concert halls to fill, many listeners turned toward gentler, unobtrusive music to help quiet their restless minds. In response,...
A New Era In Our Relationship With “Non-Human” Things
For the first time, Timothy Morton wrote, we had become aware that “nonhuman beings” were “responsible for the next moment of human history and...
How Did We Finally Get To A Consensus On Repatriating The Benin Bronzes? (A...
"To better understand this critical turning point, Artnet News brought together three key figures for a conversation about the restitution of the Benin bronzes:...
Santa Fe’s Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Announces Big Expansion
The museum owns the former Safeway building, where its Education Center is located; the 1870s Bergere House, where museum administrative offices as well as...
Alvin Ailey ADT In The Age Of BLM: Artistic Director Robert Battle
"The foundation is the experiences of African Americans in this country — and knowing that is not monolithic. Within the diversity in African American...
TV’s Tricky Question: To Include COVID In Storylines Or Not?
"It was an issue, if not the big issue, that writers across Hollywood had to face: how to plan a season amid an evolving...
Staffers At ‘The New Yorker’ Threaten Strike, Picket Anna Wintour’s House
The magazine's salaried employees formed a union three years ago and have been negotiating for higher pay (at a publication known for low wages)...
New York’s $25 Million City Artist Corps: Here, At Last, Are The Details
"Just over a month ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that as part of NYC's post-pandemic recovery, the city will be investing $25 million...
Where That Hudson River School Painting Sold By The Newark Museum Will End Up
Thomas Cole's Arch of Nero wound up being one of the symbols of the ongoing argument about US museums' deaccessioning of artworks in order...
Uncertain But Hopeful, Carnegie Hall Announces Reopening Plans
"The upcoming season will be more modest than usual: about 90 concerts, compared with a typical slate of 150, though more may be added...
Mehretu’s To-Do, “Day’s End” & Diller-Dally: Inside & Outside the Reopened Whitney
As CultureGrrl readers will remember, my first post-pandemic visit to a museum — the Metropolitan — did not end well. Happily, things went more...