The Curtain

A weekly newsletter on art, theater, media, culture, and the internet.

  1. Curtain #114: Welcome to Vaguetown
  2. The Curtain #113: All Connected Now
  3. The Curtain #112: What Web3 Gets Wrong About What's Wrong With Art
  4. The Curtain #111: Getting metaphysical
  5. The Curtain rises again
  6. The Curtain 109: Interactivity, Texture, and Performance in Web Space
  7. The Curtain 108: Deep Time, the Restart, and the End
  8. The Curtain 107: The Pleasures of a Crowded Room
  9. The Curtain 106: digital blandness
  10. The Curtain 105: What Will Change, What Won't
  11. The Curtain 104: The tension of digital vs physical prime
  12. The Curtain 103: Listen, Look, Touch
  13. The Curtain 102: Discord, Exclusivity, and Internet Spatiality
  14. The Curtain 101: an underground wasteland
  15. The Curtain 100: Blaseball and Narrative Potential
  16. The Curtain 099: Gen Z Performance Culture and Pizza Toast
  17. The Curtain 098: Remaking Culture
  18. The Curtain 097: The Digital Media Ecology
  19. The Curtain 096: One Year Later
  20. The Curtain 095: The Perils of Mixing Venture Capital with Art
  21. The Curtain 094: NFTs, Crypto, and the Future of Art?
  22. The Curtain 093: Is Clubhouse Eating Liveness?
  23. The Curtain 092: A Post-Friday World
  24. The Curtain 091: Digitization Begets Chaos-ization
  25. The Curtain 090: The Year of Texture
  26. The Curtain 89: Cultivating Web Space
  27. The Curtain: 2020 Year-in-Review
  28. The Curtain 87: What happened in 2020?
  29. The Curtain 86: A thick fog at sea
  30. The Curtain 85: Funding the Future
  31. The Curtain 84: Substack, Decentralization, and the Future of Arts Funding
  32. The Curtain 83: What the TikTok is Going On Around Here? 🎞
  33. The Curtain 82: The Multiverse of Reality
  34. The Curtain 81: Investing in Artists, Platforms vs Publishers
  35. The Curtain 80: Checking in on Online Theatre πŸ”Ž
  36. The Curtain 79: Nominations, Fall, Connection
  37. The Curtain 78: Prestige and Plurality
  38. The Curtain 77: Simple Contracts
  39. βͺ‘βͺ’ Curtain 76: Interactive Presentations and the Web
  40. The Curtain 75: Dancing with Oblivion πŸ’€
  41. The Curtain 74: Solastalgia, silence, and some critic stepped down πŸŒ₯
  42. The Curtain 73: How do we respond? β—Ž
  43. The Curtain 72: Triple Consciousness πŸ€
  44. The Curtain 71: The end of cities? πŸ™
  45. The Curtain 70: the USPS, Algorithms, Profit, and the Arts πŸ“«
  46. The Curtain 69: Interactive Digital Media πŸ•Ή
  47. The Curtain 68: pause, resume, volume down πŸ”‡
  48. The Curtain 67: Types of Intimacy πŸ‘“
  49. The Curtain 66: The Arts' Desperate Need to Organize, GPT-3, and more
  50. The Curtain 65: Demands, Performativity, Bailouts, Decentering, and more πŸͺ
  51. The Curtain 64: The Disneyfication of Hamilton πŸ’°
  52. The Curtain 63: The reckoning
  53. The Curtain 62: What is emerging? ꩜
  54. The Curtain 61: Tearing Up The Root 🌳
  55. The Curtain 60: Whiteness and Anti-Blackness
  56. Black Lives Matter
  57. The Curtain 59: Why Open Podcasting Matters πŸŽ™
  58. The Curtain 58: Could film and theatre converge? πŸŽ₯
  59. The Curtain 57: The Long and the Short of It πŸ“
  60. The Curtain 56: Pulitzer Prizes & Otherwises πŸͺ
  61. The Curtain 55: A collective breath 🎐
  62. The Curtain 54: How to Build the Future πŸ‘·πŸ½β€β™€οΈ
  63. The Curtain 53: Acts of creation 🐣
  64. The Curtain 52: Bottom Up, Not Top Down 🐚
  65. The Curtain 51: Trapped in Time βŒ›οΈ
  66. The Curtain 50: Tips for Trying Times πŸƒ
  67. The Curtain 48: Arts in the Age of COVID-19 🦠
  68. The Curtain 47: Vulnerability in Art in 2020 😢
  69. The Curtain #46: How to Tell the Truth ⚑️
  70. The Curtain 45: The Hidden Conservatism in Minimalism ⬛️
  71. The Curtain #44: The Durability of the Immersive πŸ₯½
  72. European Theatre vs American Theatre
  73. The Sound, the Silence, the Invisible
  74. The Rise of the Influencer Playwright and Director
  75. The Cult of Minimalism, and the Untapped Potential of Maximalism
  76. The Curtain #40: The Entanglement
  77. The Curtain #39: Decade in Theater, Baldessari, and Assorted Esoterica
  78. The Curtain #38: 2019 Year in Review πŸ“†
  79. πŸŽ„ The Curtain #37: Inputs & Outputs, The Best Theatre Critics of 2019, & more πŸ“š
  80. The Curtain #36: The year we wore masks to hide our trauma.
  81. The Curtain #35: Criticism and Making are not opposites. They’re the same thing. ✏️
  82. The Curtain #34: The Decade in Review πŸ€”
  83. The Curtain #33: Hopeful Art, Thanksgiving, and the Aesthetics of Immersion
  84. The Curtain #32: The Age of the Remix βœ‚οΈ
  85. The Curtain #31: Nostalgia is Toxic ☠️
  86. The Unprofitability is the Point
  87. Curtain #29: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Unconscious 🌫
  88. The Curtain #28: Ghost Stories πŸ‘»
  89. The Curtain #27: How to Make Unforgettable Art 🀯
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