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The Ballet That Almost Didn’t Happen
Music rights were the issue for Christopher Bruce's Rooster, a ballet set to the music of the Rolling Stones. They were cool with the...
Production Companies Have Paused Some Will Smith Projects, But What About His Family?
This seems transparently foolish. After all, it wasn't Jada Pinkett Smith or their adult children up there smacking Chris Rock. Yet: "Public relations specialists...
The Shocking Costs, And Deep Censorship, Of Trying To Read Books While In Prison
First, physical books get banned for transparently hysterical "reasons." Then e-readers might be provided for free - with content that is outrageously expensive. But...
The Past Can Sometimes Be The Past
That is, if you do enough digging - and enough reckoning, as Maud Newton, author of the memoir Ancestor Trouble, well knows. - The...
A Producer Whose Broadway Empire Imploded Seeks A Successful Return
Producer Garth Drabinsky not only lost his company but was jailed in Canada for fraud. He's not involved in the new show financially, but...
Letting Public Art Degrade Is A Mental Health Issue
Seriously, communities need to maintain public art - at least public art that's not intended to fall apart. - Hyperallergic
What’s The Deal With The Mid-Century Modern Obsession?
"In a noisy, high-tech society, it’s no wonder they’re all the craze, but it appears mid-century modernism’s cultish popularity has all but blinded us...
The Oral History Of Blue Man Group
"That this undeniably unusual show found an audience when it launched ... made a certain kind of sense for the era. But its lasting...
Let The Streamer Floodgates Open
And yet: "After years of Netflix and Amazon trying to produce and acquire their way to the top—despite the Hollywood old-schoolers who looked down...
How CODA Came From Way Behind To Win The Oscars
Timing (and a relentless campaign): "After the bombast of awards season, it seemed fresh and fulfilling: a movie that told its story with a...
What It Took To Produce The Oscars This Year, By The Numbers
Fourteen miles of fiber optic cable, 1500 lighting instruments, 14,000 PCR tests ... and a longer broadcast despite having fewer awards presented in full....
That Familiar Video Game Jump Sound Dates To The 1970s
Truly, the first video games were silent. Can you imagine? But: "The hup, as it’s sometimes known, is the onomatopoetic vocalization of effort given by...
Sadly, Halle Barry’s Win Changed Nothing For Black Women At The Oscars
"If Monster’s Ball is still the only movie in which a performance from a Black actress is recognized as superlative, does that mean that Leticia Musgrove...
You Know Which Russian Composer Isn’t Suffering In The West?
Tchaikovsky. Just look at the Met's revival of Eugene Onegin. - The New York Times
William Morris’s Farmhouse Is Restored And Reopening, After Millions Of Pounds And Many Years
Kelmscott Manor "was a place of huge inspiration for an artist who dramatically influenced fashions and ideologies with fabrics and furniture, stained glass and...
The British Museum Removes The Sackler Name From Its Walls
Mostly. "The Sackler name would remain on a list of donors to the museum’s Great Court, because the museum 'has always recognized the important...
How Propaganda Became Entertaining
Blame (or praise) WWII. - The Atlantic
Journalists Supposedly Run Toward Wars, And So Did This Illustrator
Two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, artist George Butler took flights, busses, and other paths "to Odesa in southern Ukraine, where he stayed for...
The Artist Studios Of The World Trade Center
They're part of a nonprofit that helps provide NY artists "with places where they can work, a signature need for artists in a real...
Samuel L. Jackson’s Honorary Oscar Award Speech Was Pretty Great
The 73-year-old actor was nominated, but didn't win, for his role in Pulp Fiction. "In an emotional acceptance speech, Jackson looked back on his...
Historic Wins At The Oscars Overshadowed In The Moment By Ableist Joke, On-Stage Slap
Ariana DeBose was the first out queer actor of color to win a major acting award. CODA? First Best Picture win for a streamer....
Oscars Live Updates, The Vanity Fair Edition
This one will be heavy on the red carpet and after-party updates; we'll add other live update news sites here (here's NPR; here's Washington...
It’s Hard To Make A Living As A Theatre Artist
The group Artists Who Code is trying to help artists (and not just theatre artists) make a transition to the world of actual remuneration...
The Charles Dickens Museum Got Shadowbanned On TikTok
It took a full-blown Twitter campaign to get the author's name, and the museum's name, and all of the museum's content, unbanned. You probably...
Is Streaming Going To Win Best Picture At Last?
"Three years ago, Hollywood was engaged in a knock-down, drag-out fight over the future of cinema — what, exactly, constitutes a film — with...
