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Artists Recreate New Regalia From The Designs Of The Past
As four Mi'kmaw artists painstakingly sew and bead an outfit that replicates 180-year-old regalia, they wish they knew more about the woman who made...
Salzburg Reckons With Its Past
Jewish artists brought the annual festival to life, before the Nazis swept them away. But even before the Nazis came to power in Austria,...
Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre To Require Proof Of Vaccination
A (very) recent negative test will also do. But it's not just audiences: "Additionally, all artists, staff, ushers and volunteers will be required to...
Janice Mirikitani, Poet Laureate Of San Francisco And Fighter For Justice, 80
Mirikitani was interned with her family during WWII, and later called poetry the language of liberation. She was the founding president of a social...
The Museum That Tries To Explore, And Value, Joy
And Black joy in particular. The museum's founder, poet and photographer Andrea Walls, "sees the Museum of Black Joy as a inheritor of the Black...
The Loneliness Of The Full-Time Writer
It's a luxury writers with other full-time jobs long for - but the lucky often discover the luxury of being a full-time writer is...
Beloved Singer Songwriter Nanci Griffith Dies At 68
The leader of the Blue Moon Orchestra and a generous promoter of others' work as well as her own, Griffith's "best-loved songs were closely...
Museums In The US Start To Reassess Their African Collections
European museums have been reevaluating for a while (and not just since Black Panther), but now "the question for U.S. institutions, which aren’t directly...
The Only Way The Mouse Could Win A Streaming War
Disney needs a good streaming app - and fast. But it's probably not ready. - FastCompany
The Concert Business Goes Through Whiplash As Delta Variant Spreads
"Concert promoters, like other arts executives, are hoping that velvet ropes of vaccination requirements around cultural events can serve as an incentive for fans...
Blockbuster Series Have Become Incredibly Complicated, But Why?
There's "an endless succession of sequels, prequels, reboots, spin-offs and connected crossovers. This is all great news for diehard fans, but civilian punters now...
The Arts Are Now Allowed – And Encouraged – To Help Drive Vaccinations
The CDC has released official guidelines, and some nonprofits are offering money, to get artists to create vaccination messages that bypass the traditional messages,...
Gallery Selling Hunter Biden’s Art Says It Will Follow Ethics Guidelines
Might those wishing to curry favor with the Biden White House buy the paintings? The administration has set guidelines, and prices and buyers are...
Instagram Pivots To Video, Leaving Photographers And Other Artists Out Of Sorts
Back in the day, "when it launched in 2010, Instagram courted the artistic community, inviting respected designers to be among its initial users and...
The Painful Cost Of The Writing Life
The financial cost, the personal cost, the emotional costs ... who chooses this? - LitHub
Voters Picked Mulholland Drive As The Best Art-House Movie Of Twenty Years Ago
Better than Monsoon Wedding? Better than Sexy Beast? Better than Amèlie?! Well: "The film remains [David Lynch's magnum opus, a perfect distillation of his...
Like Many Others, This Small Theatre Company Would Just Like The Old Normal Back,...
At the Broadway Rose Theatre in Tigard, Oregon, the founder and managing director is so very done with the pandemic. "We’re a live theater...
Nach Waxman, Who Founded Manhattan’s Bookstore Of Culinary Knowledge, 84
Waxman founded Kitchen Arts & Letters in a former butcher shop in 1983, and for decades, he provided what he called "professional tools" for...
What’s Up With The Not-Quite-There Dream Ballet In The Musical Spoof Schmigadoon?
Though they become a joke in the fifth episode of the show, dream ballets used to signal deeper emotions in musicals - but now...
Medieval Literature Scholars, Movie Critics, And Fans Of King Arthur Walk Into A Bar
And they all disagree about the most recent adaptation of the anonymously written poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - the movie starring...
We Need To Talk About The Ethics Of Digital Resurrection
The latest in questionable use of an artist's likeness or image, and/or voice, after death: "A hologram of Whitney Houston will perform a six-month...
Jacob Desvarieux, Musician Who Created Zouk Style, Dies Of Covid At 65
"Desvarieux and the founder of Kassav’, the bassist Pierre-Edouard Décimus, created a style called zouk by fusing Afro-Caribbean traditions of the French Antilles with sleek...
There’s No Joy For An Actor In Playing A Perfect Character
That is, the character might be perfect for the actor - perfectly broken. - The Observer (UK)
A Brief History Of Art At The Olympics
Leni Riefenstahl, Andy Warhol, the Black Power salute, and this year's floating heads - there's a long history of, and often a large budget...
Jane Withers, Child Star Of Depression-Era Hollywood, 95
Withers was "an antidote to the cloying sweetness of Shirley Temple," and later became moderately famous as Josephine the Plumber in Comet ads. -...
