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Who Won The National Book Critics Circle Awards?
A book of short stories by a young Cambodian American who died before his book came out, a first novel about coming of age...
What Happened To Franck’s Smash Hit Symphony?
OK, smash hit in that it was an absolute standard of the repertory for many orchestras - until it disappeared. "The variety of conductors...
Vimeo Walks Back Its Policy Shift That Suddenly Charged Indie Creators Thousands Of Dollars
Good apology, but "it’s worth noting that these changes won’t necessarily make Vimeo a better option for the creators that were hit with high...
There’s Never Just One
William Hurt's former partner Donna Kaz adds her voice to the discussion about surviving abuse from a famous partner. "You have to understand something...
Publishing Is Experiencing A Quiet Crisis
"Many are leaving publishing entirely, going to places they can be better compensated and work normal hours. The pandemic has put extra stress on...
How Others See Us, How We See Ourselves
Historical photos from San Francisco's Chinatown show the differences between the way Chinese Americans were portrayed in the media during the era of the...
Film Canisters, 3000 Of Them, With Hidden Secrets And Portraits Of Musicians
The images "are the stuff of history: a rare window into the late 1960s, when one of the country’s first rock ballrooms, the legendary...
The Met Museum Chooses A Mexico City Architect To Design The New Modern And...
Frida Escobedo "is a surprising choice for such a major assignment, given that she is relatively young, has mostly designed temporary structures and is...
Theatre Had A Racial Reckoning And A Pandemic Reckoning, And Yet
"The 'We See You, White American Theatre' movement demanded an end to unpaid internships ... and more recently, employers across the Bay Area started saying that...
Composer Unsuk Chin On Her New Violin Concerto
That is, the one she was determined not to write. Chin says that between her first and second violin concertos, she moved beyond abstractions...
What If We Gave Specific Oscars For Portraying Real People?
Adding an Oscar for best adapted performance would acknowledge that "impersonating a famous person employs a completely different skill set than fleshing out a...
Music Copyright Laws In Britain Must Change With The Times
The issue in lawsuits: "Determining whether an artist has copied another songwriter is based on two tests. Firstly, whether they are likely to have...
A Close Reading Of That SNL Amazon Sketch And What It Reveals About Our...
"The show’s fake commercial for Amazon Go illustrated the disparity that white and Black consumers might experience in a store promoting freedom but mired...
The Ukrainian Bass-Baritone Singing At The Met For More Than Just The Opera
Vladyslav Buialskyi has become a symbol at the Met, but for the 24-year-old in the young artists program, daily life has become "a huge nightmare....
Two Years Into The Coronavirus, We Can’t Stop Thinking Or Reading About The Black...
"Contemporary Americans are relatively inexperienced with infectious disease compared with our ancestors; in search of explanations, many have reached for what seems closest at...
A Russian-Owned Art Auction House In London Faces A Boycott
Phillips donated £5.8m to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, and its CEO condemned the Russian invasion. But "those calling for the company to be...
Trinity Church Conductor Put On Leave During Sexual Misconduct Investigation
Julian Wachner, the high-profile director of music at Trinity Wall Street, "one of New York’s wealthiest and most powerful churches," has been placed on...
The Idea Of A Museum Is At A Crisis Point
Museums may say they're change agents, "but in doubling down on sheer acquisition at the same time, they risk committing themselves to a future...
William Hurt, Oscar Winner For Kiss Of The Spider Woman,71
The actor was also famous for Body Heat and The Big Chill. - Variety
Mark Rylance And His Path To Screen Stardom
Stage success was steady and gradual - and then, "somewhere around his 50th birthday, this eccentric, perennial amiable performer became a unlikely favourite of Steven Spielberg."...
Artistic Partnerships Can Be Great – And Very, Very Wrong
Sure, some claim mutual devotion, but "power dynamics undermine so many artists’ domestic worlds, particularly when the junior partner, or protege, begins to catch...
Will The Critics Choice Awards Clear Up Some Oscars Categories?
The big ceremony is two weeks away, and questions linger: "Will Jessica Chastain or Penélope Cruz rise to the top of the best actress pool?...
The Discovery And WarnerMedia Merger Is One Step Closer To Giant Corporate Reality
The shareholders approved the merger, so perhaps DiscoverWarner will actually get off the ground. That means AT&T gets out of the entertainment biz, and...
Emilio Delgado Blazed A Path For Latino Actors On Sesame Street, And In Theatre
The actor, who died last week at 81, spent 44 years starring as Luis, with his character marrying Sonia Manzano's Maria in a massively...
Keeping Baltimore’s Art Studio Hub Together
After Area 405's building was put on the market in a time of rapidly rising property values or what some might call gentrification (a...
