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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...
Carol Johnson, Whose Landscape Architecture Transformed The Country, 91
Johnson, who was also known for her public housing project designs, became famous for her "large-scale public projects, which often involved environmental remediation. For...
The Depopulated Paris Of Young Edward Hopper Feels Like A Mirror Of Our Pandemic...
It's desolate, empty streets; bridges with no tourists; the sidewalks near the Seine silent. What wouldn't we give now for the American diners of...
Remember The Art Of Multiples? They’re Back
Art isn't only for the One Percenters, even if that one percent can afford to buy a ton of multiples to go along with...
Reckoning With Author Patricia Highsmith At 100
Highsmith - author of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, not to mention The Price of Salt (renamed Carol to go...
The Artists Secretly Creating Miniature Buildings For Street Mice Across England And Europe
The collective that makes the buildings - they call themselves AnonyMouse - are, they said through an interlocutor, "a loosely connected network of mice...
One Of The Coolest Trends That Should Stay Post-Pandemic
Renting your own movie theatre isn't cheap, but (once we can gather in greater numbers than two or three), it's not exactly unaffordable. And...
Why Has Post-War Britain Been Obsessed With Portraiture?
Seriously, Britain, what's up? "The best-known artists are the ones who wedded their style to 'human clay.'Â America, on the other, hand has seen...
Operas Have Tried Everything During The Pandemic, Including Opera-By-Mail
And that's actually been great. For instance, once an opera in L.A. might have reached a thousand people in a sold-out night; during the...
Dr. Fauci Says That Theatres May Reopen In The Fall If Vaccination Program Is...
He said that "the timeline hinged on the country reaching an effective level of herd immunity, which he defined as vaccinating from 70 percent...
Quibi Sells Its Library To Roku
That's right, even the streaming device is getting into content now. (Actually, it already was; this is just the newest content it has acquired.)...
Michael Apted, Director Of Coal Miner’s Daughter And The 7-Up Series, 79
Apted's series - the latest, 63-Up, came out in 2019 - was only one project from the director of many movies, including Gorillas in...
Quibi Didn’t Last, But Its Shows May Move To Roku
The short-form site crashed and burned mere months after rolling out millions of dollars worth of shows, but Roku is already offering ad-supported free...
The Return Of The (High School) Radio Play
The teen actors couldn't perform outside because it was too cold, and they couldn't film because their school went virtual partway through the term....
John Outterbridge, Sculptor Of Cast-Offs And Inspirational Arts Mentor, 87
Outterbridge, also an influential (and "magical") arts administrator and educator, was a master of the assemblage, using the sculptures to tell stories about history...
How A 65-Year-Old Actor Became An Instagram Maven
Leslie Jordan wasn't planning any of this, not the 5.5 million followers or the media attention. But, hey, lockdown. "Out of boredom, he began...
For Independent Bookstores, The Long 2020 Nightmare Is Not Nearly Over
The legendary Powell's still sits empty of customers, no matter how many people may be buying online or via curbside pickup. The hope for...
Uncovering – Literally – The Forgotten And Hidden Work Of Italy’s Women Artists
In Italy, for centuries, women weren't allowed to work as artists, but many did anyway. The group Advancing Women Artists has been working its...
In Many Countries, Losing Restaurants Means Losing Community
Diego Salazar, former chair of the World's 50 Best Restaurants, has had a longer quarantine than many people. Sure, he and his wife order...
Painting In Apocalyptic Times
The Canadian artist painting 2020 for a spot across from Salvador DalÃ's Santiago El Grande, which includes a nuclear bomb going off: "I wanted...
The Acts Of Art And Creativity Censored In 2020
The year was terrible for global pandemic reasons, but also for brutality against artists, journalists, writers, playwrights, cinematographers, and more. How bad was it?...