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Musician And MacArthur Genius Rhiannon Giddens On Failure – And Success
Giddens, a singer, taught herself banjo after graduating from Oberlin. She says, "To suck at something is actually painful and we don’t really like...
Shame On, And For, Both Liverpool And UNESCO
The citizens of Liverpool should be on the same side as UNESCO. "They have the same enemies: the shoddy and contemptuous treatment of the...
DC Has Re-Emerged As A Broadway Tryout Town
The post-pandemic (and possibly post-45) change: "As theater returns to robust live-ness, Washington has been cast in a significant role once again, as a...
Arturo Schwarz, Refugee Who Became A Surrealism Tycoon, 97
Schwarz was expelled from Egypt in 1949, arrived penniless in Italy, and went on to found a prominent gallery devoted to Dadaist and Surrealist...
Rebooting Old Series With A BIPOC Cast Might Actually Harm Diversity Initiatives
What about original stories developed by BIPOC creators? "Reboots take up so much bandwidth for the network, for the studio ... that they have...
Asian Composers Only Make Up Two Percent Of America’s Upcoming Concert Seasons
Asian and Asian America composers explain the ways they've had an impact on - and been affected by - the sometimes exoticizing world of...
How A Vacuum Cleaner Became An Icon
Henry wasn't planned, but his beloved status even survived this: "Charles and Diana received one of the first models as a wedding present in...
Little Free Library Tries To Break Free Of Its White, Wealthy Neighborhood Stereotype
LFLs are often criticized for their placement. A new program in Detroit aims to change that access, and the books behind the glass doors...
The Porch Concerts Of The Pandemic Are Here To Stay
They began as a safe way to unite (and maybe pay) artists - and now Brooklyn's Ditmas Park is a music hub. - The...
England’s New Monument To Shopping And Instagram
Yikes: "Rearing up at the western end of Oxford Street as a faceted green shell ... the 25-metre high Marble Arch Mound is one of the...
Marvel Has All The Money In The World, But Can Its Actors Do Accents?
A dialect coach weighs in on the Russian accents of Black Widow. "In the ideal world, I invite the actors first to get into...
Live Theatre Is Endangered Again, Still
On Friday, the Public Theater canceled its show for the third night in a row because of a positive COVID-19 test. Can we ever...
When A Revered Musician Makes Very Bad Choices
Eric Clapton's "dangerous stance on vaccines has forced yet another conversation about the importance of 'separating the music from the man.'" - Los Angeles Times
Overhauling ‘Traditional’ Monuments With An Indigenous Focus
In the wake of nationwide protests, Native artists are changing the way U.S. institutions see, and commission, public art. - FastCompany
The League Of Unfortunate Writers
When your book release happens the same week - or day - that most of your country locks down for a pandemic, well ......
The Emotional Return To Tanglewood
One young musician: "What you want to do is play with people—you don't want to record iPhone videos and upload them to a cloud!...
Adapting Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Into An Action Film Was Quite The...
As anyone who's read the poem in English Lit classes (or for fun?) can imagine, the challenges ran deep. - LitHub
Graham Vick, Opera Director Who Sought Out New Audiences And Formats, Dies Of Covid-19...
Vick, who founded the Birmingham Opera Company, "made exciting and experimental stagings at opera houses across the world." - The Guardian (UK)
Movie Theatre Owners Blame Drop In Black Widow Numbers On Disney Plus
The cinema owners' association claimed that profits from Black Widow were less than expected, even when Disney added in those buying the movie to...
Dance Choreography Can Make Humans More Comfortable With Robots
For instance, "areas of robotics research like social navigation, where robots update their paths to account for nearby humans’ movements, implicitly build upon dance improvisation."...
The Friendliest Artist In America
Pope.L is finally having a moment, "but he does not take it for granted. 'The institution is always about itself,' he says of museums."...
The Hidden History Of Women Heroes Of The Holocaust
Judy Batalion didn't mean to find all of this out, but she stumbled across a book in Yiddish - which she speaks and reads....
It’s A Weird Performance Summer
Do you need a mask? Does the venue require social distancing? What about proof of vaccination? It all depends. - The New York Times
Can We Ever Truly Know Van Gogh?
Thinking of all of the immersive Van Gogh shows, a critic wonders, "Can an artist’s work be reimagined to give an audience in modern...
India’s Beautiful Single-Screen Cinemas Are Dying Out
The multiplex and the pandemic are a powerful one-two punch to the heart of "the talkies," as they're called. - NPR
