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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...
Actress Cloris Leachman, 94
" began her astonishingly prolific eight-decade career performing radio plays as a child in Iowa. She appeared in Shakespearean comedy and Eugene O'Neill melodrama...
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Isn’t Cancelled (Yet), But It Is Postponed
With ongoing uncertainty about the future course of the pandemic, Cannes organizers decided they had no choice but to change this year's dates from...
The Culture Wars Come To Slovenia
Perhaps it's better to say the culture wars have been brought to the tiny ex-Yugoslav republic in the Alps, courtesy of prime minister Janez...
‘It’s Muybridge on Steroids’: Herman Cornejo And A ‘Photo-Scientist’ Make A Totally Different Dance...
In DANCELIVE by Herman Cornejo, shot by Steven Sebring using his specially developed in-the-round camera system, viewers can "watch from up close and...
The Pop-Up Newspaper Covering ‘The World’s Largest Protest’
For two months, many thousands of farmers have been staging a massive sit-in with their tractors on the highways around New Delhi, demanding that...
Season Three Of ‘Serial’ Is Headed To HBO
"The third season of the award-winning podcast, which arguably set in motion the current boom for non-fiction audio series, was set in the Cleveland...
Running The Prix De Lausanne Ballet Competition Despite The Pandemic
Since this year's 78 contestants from 20 countries can't travel to Switzerland, they're submitting pre-recorded videos. The jury members (masked and socially distanced, of...
These Classical Music Organizations Have Always Been Focused On Racial Equity
The long-overdue work that larger institutions have started on in the wake of last summer's Black Lives Matter protests has been the day-in-day-out project...
Pakistan’s Submission For This Year’s Oscars Is Banned In Pakistan
The director, Sarmad Khoosat, is (or was) a popular member of one of the country's most beloved entertainment families; the film itself, Zindagi Tamasha...
Stand-Up Comedian Jailed For Jokes He Hadn’t Told Yet
On New Year's Day, Munawar Faruqui, a rising talent in India's relatively new comedy circuit, was starting off a two-week tour with a gig...
Will The Big U.S. Publishing Houses Be Backing Away From Conservative Political Books?
"There are some in the industry who believe houses have a responsibility to publish a wide range of viewpoints, seeing it as a First...
‘A $75 Million Bet That The Future Of Photography Won’t Always Involve Cameras’
"Leading stock photography company Shutterstock announced today that it has acquired TurboSquid, a digital media company that sells 3D assets, for $75 million. The...
In Rape Case, Filmmaker Luc Besson Is — Well, Not Exonerated, Exactly …
The charge by actress Sand Van Roy was first made in May 2018; it was dismissed for lack of evidence nine months later, and...
Pompeii’s Museum Is Completely Open For First Time In Decades
"The Antiquarium, a museum located on the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii, fully reopened this week for the first time in more...
