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The Movie Soul Is About A Black Man, But In Some Countries, He’s Voiced...
Europe, excuse us, but what are you doing? "Asta Selloane Sekamane, one of the activists who criticized the casting ... said in an interview...
The Stagehands Union Says It’s Time To Let Them Run Mass Vaccine Sites In...
This seems almost too obvious when one considers it. The people who know how to set up almost any kind of venue, run crowd...
Sign Of The Times: Choir Rehearsals And Concerts Via Car
The founder and conductor of Canada's Luminous Voices, which now uses the cars' FM transmitters, a mixer, and wireless mics for rehearsal and, crucially,...
On Hearing The Music While You Read
Writers have to listen as well as read. "As I read The Waves, I started to 'hear' language as if for the first time....
Writer Jenny Offill On What Can Be Done During The Pandemic
If you have elderly parents and kids to care for, not much. "The pandemic has been through all these different stages and you’re constantly...
Kansas City Ballet Took A Long Time, But Finally Canceled The Rest Of The...
The ballet joins Kansas City's other major performing arts organizations, which will certainly have an economic impact on KC's central performing arts center. -...
Author Jacqueline Woodson Gets A Lot Done, But How?
The MacArthur Fellow, who has also won the National Book Award and lives with her partner and two children in Brooklyn, is building Baldwin...
With A New Book Called ‘I Hate Men,’ A French Author Has Truly Hit...
That's not the only work making a claim that France has an extremely long way to go in reckoning with gender inequality in every...
The Double Whammy Of Brexit And Covid On Britain’s Touring Musicians
This isn't great, since each musician needs rather a lot of paperwork - and it's possible, though unclear, that their instruments may need a...
Thieves Made Off With Most Of San Jose Dance Theater’s Handmade Costumes
The carefully designed and handmade costumes are priceless for the ballet company, but not useful for almost anyone else, says costume director Renee Forbes....
Freelancers, The Lifeblood Of British Theatre, Are In For Another Terribly Rough Year
The situation under the third lockdown is, if anything, worse than in March because the freelancers don't have anything to fall back on. "In...
The Book That Predicted, And Probably Was The Blueprint For, Last Wednesday’s Coup
In a way, The Turner Diaries shows how white supremacists carried out the insurrection - and it provides a pretty clear idea of what's...
The Day Tacoma’s Movie Theatre Burned Down
During The Birds, even. The loss of the venue deeply affected Seattle's southern neighbor. "Before it was the Music Box the building was originally...
The Pandemic Saw A Return Of Space To Listen To And Really Appreciate The...
The lack of touring, time to sit with songs instead of performing them every night, and a ton of time in or near recording...
Check Out The Massive Investments In An Immersive Art Future
Can the arts return after more vaccinations and herd immunity? The investors certainly think so. "While traditional museums are discussing closures and mergers, the for-profit...
How Romance Writers Funded, And Spread Interest In, The Georgia Races With One Of...
Writer Alyssa Cole explains why it makes sense that romance writers came together to raise money for Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock in...
Instagram Has Turned Into A Source Of Funding, And Patronage, For Indigenous Beadwork Artists
When artists drop collections on Instagram, they often sell out in a matter of minutes. Beadwork takes time; there's no way to mass-produce, and...
How Do Recent And New Films Handle Elder Decline?
There's a mix, from viewer disorientation - meant to mimic that of a person experiencing dementia - to body horror. - The Hollywood Reporter
The Royal Shakespeare Company Attempts A Return Of A Midsummer Night’s Sax Comedy
Swinging the Dream, a 1939 musical that flopped after 13 performances despite (or because of?) having a cast of 150 and three bands. It's...
Homage To A Mentor And A Muse
Kambui Olojimi, an artist from the Brooklyn neighborhood Bedford-Stuyvesant, addresses his childhood and his block, and the idea of collective memory, in his work...
The Number Of Indie Bookstores In The UK And Ireland Soared In 2020
What the actual heck? Well, a lot of people opened bookshops in 2020, during the pandemic, because why not? Their jobs had evaporated, and...
Los Angeles Loses Its Great Blue Whale Jazz Club
Thanks so flipping much, pandemic and a government that refused to get its COVID response together in time to save the arts. Owner Joon...
The National Society Of Film Critics Picks Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland As Best Pic
But not just best pic: "The film won best picture and best cinematography, while Zhao was awarded best director and star Frances McDormand was...
The Black Photographers Who Changed The World’s Understanding Of Black Life
The Kamoinge Workshop was "a collective of black photographers who formed in 1963 to document black culture in Harlem, and beyond, from live jazz...
How Joan Micklin Silver Beat A Path Toward A New Kind Of Romantic Film
It's a path that others could follow, if they had the courage (and the funding). "Crossing Delancey is a culturally distinctive romcom, not one...