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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...
The Succession Drama At The Publishing House Of Harry Potter And Clifford
Its CEO's sudden death left control of Scholastic to his ex-girlfriend. "The executive suites had already been gladiatorial, people said, with shifting alliances and...
The Digital Attempts To Save Ukrainian Heritage
There's a group at work even during heavy Russian bombardments - “a group of cultural heritage professionals – librarians, archivists, researchers, programmers – working...
For One Five-Year-Old, Lockdown Meant Teaching Herself Piano, Composition, And Violin
Some of us took walks and read books in early to mid-2020. But this now-7-year-old was so determined to learn music that, her dad...
Choreographer Yuriko, The Keeper Of The Martha Graham Flame, Has Died At 102
Yuriko Kikuchi "was a leading dancer in Martha Graham’s company from the 1940s to 1967 and then a keeper of Graham’s flame through her...
Disney’s Not Alone In Dealing With Employee Revolt
As recent Netflix and Spotify (and now Disney) employee backlash shows, "Higher-ups are increasingly contending with a socially conscious and internet savvy generation of...
Pixar Employees Say Disney Censors The Studio’s LGBTQ Stories
A group of LGTBQIA Pixar employees and allies released a statement holding the corporation accountable. "Even as employees have attempted to make inclusion a...
At The Kennedy Center, Mapping The Future Of Classical Music
The idea: "The Cartography Project, a multiyear initiative, will generate new works from dozens of composers and artists of color, each representing American communities...
Encanto Is Kinda Colombian, Mas O Menos
Colombia's culture minister: “What, for me, would be the greatest win or success for Encanto — aside from the three award nominations in the Oscars —...
Is Beloved Literary Journal Conjunctions Going To Survive?
Public pressure and a backlash might be convincing Bard College to pony back up: "The ever vibe-conscious Bard is now trying to figure out...
How To Form A Band Inside A Pixar Movie
"The stakes of the movie, the goal of the movie, is not to save the world. It’s not to save the princess. It’s to...
Artists Band Together To Bring The ERA Back Into The Spotlight
The Equal Rights Amendment, again? Yep. A new campaign "brings together a who’s who of creatives. ... The ultimate hope? To use the power...
The Director Of Kyiv’s Art Museum Takes Steps To Preserve Art And Artifacts
Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta is the director of the Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex in Kyiv. "It doesn't feel very safe, as you...
New State Education Laws May Mean Movies Like Selma Can’t Be Shown In Classrooms
Of course, one might imagine that's the point of those "anti-critical race theory" laws. And "even when teachers decide to use clips, they must...
A Man Forced His Way Into MoMA And Stabbed Two Employees
The suspect had had his membership revoked because of recent unruly incidents. He jumped over the counter and stabbed the employees, who at press...
This Artist Lost A Decade Of Work To Fire Just Before The Pandemic Caused...
But the artist says the aftermath has made him calmer, and more focused on different goals. "I’ve been attempting to make paintings which speak...
More Expensive Tickets For ‘The Batman’ May Mean More Expensive Tickets Forever
Sure, AMC raised prices over The Batman's opening weekend, but Regal and Cinemark had already started raising prices with another blockbuster - Spider-Man: No...
