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Disney Apologizes Again, This Time For Hosting A Racist Dance Set
The dance performance "from a Texas high school’s drill team was laden with Native American stereotypes, including repeated chants of 'scalp them!'" - The...
Arrests Made In France After Equipment Thefts From ‘Lupin’ Set
Yes, it's ironic because Lupin is about a "gentleman thief" - but this group of about 20 youths who swarmed the set, setting off...
The World Of Stand-Up Comedy – In France
"There are only four clubs in France that follow the English-speaking stand-up tradition, with a lineup of several comedians each night. Generally, solo shows...
The Really Boring, Fairly Bad Art Of The Coronavirus
Our aesthetics just can't keep up. "The visual monotony of the crisis has put art departments at news organizations in a pinch. How do...
The Underground Art Museum In Los Angeles Has Closed
"Nearly ten years after the beloved cultural organization began, developing into one of the country’s leading venues for Black art, its two directors have...
Disney, Slightly Chastened, Has Restored A Queer Kiss To An Upcoming Movie
"In Pixar’s next film, Lightyear, a queer character named Hawthorne, voiced by Uzo Aduba, was originally depicted kissing a woman, according to a source close...
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
