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Actor Hal Holbrook, 95
In a long career spanning stage, film, and television, he was known for roles ranging from John Adams to Abraham Lincoln to Deep Throat...
Spain Will Pay $7.8 Million A Year To Keep Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection In Madrid
The Spanish government has concluded what is, in effect, a 15-year rental agreement with Baroness Carmen Cervera, the widow of Baron Hans Heinrich von...
World’s Largest Movie Industry Finally Has Its Theatres Back To (Almost) Normal
"India began allowing 100 percent occupancy in cinemas on Monday, lifting a 50 percent cap on seating capacity that had been in place since...
Matthew VanBesien Talks Presenting
Matthew VanBesien, President of the University Musical Society of the University of Michigan, as he talks about the role of presenters in the arts....
Australian Dance Theatre’s Artistic Director Stepping Down After 22 Years
Garry Stewart took the helm at Adelaide-based ADT — which is the country's oldest contemporary dance company — in 1999 and choreographed 20 original...
78s Were More Than Just Caruso, Ma Rainey, And Dixieland — They Were Used...
In fact, outside North America and Europe, 78s were the standard record format well into the 1960s, and they hold an enormous variety of...
Mike Birbiglia On Doing Comedy Over Zoom
"I've done about 18 of these virtual shows, and I've learned things from them that I thought I had long understood after 20 years...
After 30 Years, Co-Founder/Editor Of London Review Of Books Retires
"Mary-Kay Wilmers … was one of the founders of the literary magazine in 1979, along with Karl Miller and Susannah Clapp, became co-editor in...
New Design For COVID-Safe Pop-Up Theatre
The Vertical Theatre, as it's called, will be modular, with a capacity of 1,200 to 2,400, seated in small groups separated (if necessary) by...
Public Radio And TV Face Looming Shortage Of Broadcast Engineers
"The workforce of broadcast engineers — those who know to fix broadcast transmitters, tubes and wires — is reaching retirement age. … Far fewer...
Hey, Joe And Kamala! You Know Who Can Help You Save America? Arts Researchers!
"In addition to being creative thinkers and makers, many artists, designers and architects are also researchers whose work reveals new insights and approaches to...
Did Stock-Trading Redditors Just Save Live Cinema?
Or, if not the entire movie-theater business, at least AMC. The pandemic had made the already-difficult financial situation of the world's largest cinema chain...
Museum Of The Bible Gives 5,000 Artifacts Back To Egypt
"The collection" — which, the museum says, has "insufficient reliable provenance" — "includes manuscripts and papyrus fragments with texts written in Coptic, hieratic and...
Botticelli Portrait Is Now Most Expensive Old Master Painting Ever Sold (Except For ‘Salvator...
"A sterling 550-year-old portrait by the Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli that was the star lot of Sotheby's Old Masters sale has sold for $92.2...
Eva Coutaz, Longtime Director Of Classical Label Harmonia Mundi, Dead At 77
"Having started her career with Harmonia Mundi in 1972 as a press officer, she went on to produce more than 800 recordings with artists...
Cicely Tyson, 96
"Regal in bearing, with willowy beauty and delicately chiseled features, Ms. Tyson was known for embodying women of great poise striving under great pressure....
Improvised Comedy: How New York’s Standups And Clubs Are (Barely) Making It Through Lockdown
"Despite a state ban on live comedy performances, the pandemic hasn't destroyed the New York comedy scene — it just pushed it underground. …...
Govan’s Folly? Stuck in the LACMA Quagmire
In decades of covering museum buildings, I’ve mostly refrained from “reviewing” a building that hasn’t gone up yet. That’s why I’ve hung back from...
We’re Seeing More Deaf People On TV. Now Let’s Hear Some Of Them.
"Many deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals have welcomed the increase in visibility that deafness and hearing loss have enjoyed on TV lately. … But for...
Is Choreography Is Protected By U.S. Copyright? Yes And No
It's a messy enough business that the first commercial choreography for a pop music video (an industry where you'd think there's enough money involved...
Wigmore Hall’s Free Streamed Lockdown Concerts Have Been Quite A Success. They’re Also Expensive.
The performances — by such well-known artists as Mitsuko Uchida, Steven Isserlis, and the choir Stile Antico — cost about £3,000 each for personnel...
$100 Million Holocaust Memorial And Museum Planned For Site Of Babyn Yar Massacre
"The complex will include a dozen buildings, including two separate museums — one for Ukrainians and Eastern European Jews killed in the Holocaust, and...
New Online Dictionary Tracks History Of Science Fiction Vocabulary
"The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction includes some 1,800 separate entries, from actifan and aerocar to zero-gravity and zine. … A historical dictionary devoted...
COVID And Theatre: How Half A Dozen Different Countries Are Coping
Here are reports from Taiwan ("Shows go on – with precautions in place"), Italy ("A sharply divided theatre world"), the U.S. ("Struggling on despite...
Museums Around Europe Face Yet More Weeks Of Lockdown
Except in the countries where they aren't: the Uffizi in Florence welcomed all of 800 visitors when it reopened last week, and Belgium declared...