Tag: 06.29.21
‘He’s A Friend Of Dorothy’: A Brief History Of Yesteryear’s Favorite Gay Euphemism
For you young'uns, back before Stonewall, this was an expression gay men used to identify each other. (If a guy replied "Dorothy who?", one...
A Tale Of Two Booksellers, Just Off The Kabul Bazaar
"One is a former communist, the other a former mujahid. Both have witnessed and participated in Afghanistan's turbulent history over the past half century....
Yeah, Well — We’re A Sucker For Those Dancing Robot Videos – This Time...
"While Spot’s smooth dance moves might bring a frisson of worry to any K-pop fans thinking that K-pop boy-bands might be the next industry...
How Do You Prove Opera Singers Can Act? Put Them In ‘King Lear’
Director Keith Warner assembled a cast made up entirely of opera singers, headed by such major names as John Tomlinson, Thomas Allen, Kim Begley,...
Artworks Leaving UK As Museums Deal With Cash Shortage
UK museums can hardly try to buy multi-million-pound works of art when they are making large numbers of staff redundant as a result of...
James Cuno Steps Down As Head Of Getty
In 2011, Cuno was appointed to lead the Getty Trust, which manages four Los Angeles–based organizations: the Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, the...
How People Come To Deny Science
People live in information filter bubbles created by powerful algorithms. When those in your social circle share misinformation, you are more likely to believe...
The Internet Is Rotting. What To Do?
Links work seamlessly until they don’t. And as tangible counterparts to online work fade, these gaps represent actual holes in humanity’s knowledge. - The...
Donald Barthelme, Maybe The Least Likely New Yorker Writer Ever
"By most standards, many of his stories aren't stories at all. They don't have plots, or even realistic, believable characters. … In the manner...
The Shed Wants You To Play Pokémon Go On The High Line, But With...
The two New York institutions have collaborated on The Looking Glass, an exhibition in which all the artworks are in augmented reality, and you...
Children’s Author Patricia Reilly Giff, Who Wrote The Kids Of The Polk Street School...
"Over nearly half a century, more than 100 books for young readers. She delighted younger ones with the adventures, misadventures and high jinks...
How Artists Are Using Tech/How Tech Is Art
The NEA research examines the creative infrastructure supporting tech-focused artistic practices and provides insight into the existing challenges and opportunities faced by artists and...
Why The Minister Who Slashed Britain’s Funding Of Museums Is Now Chairman Of Its...
George Osbourne, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in David Cameron's Conservative government from 2010 to 2016, instituted savage cuts to the budgets of...
Fox News To Pay $1 Million Fine To New York City
The settlement with the city's Commission on Human Rights is for "a pattern of violating of the NYC Human Rights Law" — that is,...
‘Hamilton’ Has Grossed $650 Million. Why Did It Get At Least $30 Million In...
The Broadway production and each of the show's touring companies are incorporated separately, and each corporation can qualify for a $10 million Shuttered Venue...
Storm Blows Roof Off Stuttgart’s Opera House
On Monday night, pieces of the building flew onto the ground; water flowed down the lighting rigs and flooded parts of the stage —...
Houston Grand Opera Names New General Director, Opera San Jose’s Khori Dastoor
The former soprano only became general director of the company in 2019, though she worked in administration starting in 2013 and started her career...
Choreographer Jan Fabre To Stand Trial For Abuse Of Power, Sexual Harassment
Serious allegations made by current and former dancers in his Antwerp company, Troubleyn, became public in 2018. After a lengthy investigation, that city's labor...
Dutch Government Makes Big Change In Restitution Of Nazi-Looted Art
"Particularly significant is the Dutch Government's new approach to 'heirless art.' … Now, in cases where no heirs can be identified, any artwork deemed...
Book Sales Soar Year-Over-Year (Duh!)
It comes as little surprise that statistics newly released by the Association of American Publishers found that total sales for the 1,358 publishers that...
Scientists Use Scans To Determine Whether National Gallery Vermeers Are Authentic
The two paintings are not obvious fakes. Indeed, one is considered a masterpiece, but they are unusual in the oeuvre of Vermeer: smaller than...
Juilliard Pulls Video Of Zukerman’s Racist Masterclass
At one point, Zukerman told a pair of students of Asian descent that their playing was too perfect and that they needed to add...
Judge Strikes Down Feds’ Monopoly Case Against Facebook
The judge eviscerated one of the federal government’s core arguments, that Facebook holds a monopoly over social networking, saying prosecutors had failed to provide...
Stolen Picasso And Mondrian Works Recovered In Greece
Picasso's Head of a Woman and Mondrian's Stammer Windmill, taken from the National Gallery of Greece in 2012 in a seven-minute robbery, were seized...