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Celebrating LA’s Spoken Word And Poetry Culture
Summertime tells the stories of "a diverse community of young artists who turned to poetry as a way of coping with hardship." - Los...
Making Dance More Visible At The Venice Biennale – And Always
Royal Ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor is out to change how we all see, and feel, dance, especially after living through the pandemic. - The...
One Of The Last Members Of Auschwitz’s Women’s Orchestra Has Died
Esther Bejarano played the accordion in the orchestra and then "dedicated her life to music and to the fight against racism and anti-Semitism." -...
Taking Photographic Inspiration From Ovid
The Metamorphoses is the classic work on nature and change, in both of which we've all been immersed for months. - The New York...
Four Years After Deadly Rally, Lee Statue Is Gone
Charlottesville removes Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues four years after white supremacists marched, and murdered, to keep them up. - Slate
We Will Soon Be Able To Fix Our Own Phones
Drop your phone? At long last, we'll all be legally allowed to repair it. - The Verge
A Famous Guitar Joins The Museum Of London
The Clash's smashed guitar isn't trash - it's treasure. - The Guardian (UK)
Cannes Away From Cannes Is Safer, And No COVID Tests
But a critic sees a lot fewer movies that way. - Los Angeles Times
Man Arrested For Trying To Peddle Fake Basquiats And Harings
The FBI said, "Mr. Pereda conned art buyers, hoping his victims wouldn’t see the difference between real art and a forgery." - The New...
Emmy Nomination Voters Shouldn’t Miss These Shows
If the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences wants to avoid a Hollywood Foreign Press Association-style meltdown, it really has to prove itself with...
Jon Hassell, Trumpeter And Composer, 84
Hassell blended modern technology with ancient instruments and traditions to create what he called "Fourth World" music. "Hassell’s music floated outside the genre boundaries...
The Art Of The Biden White House
The Obamas borrowed 142 pieces from the Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art, the other recent occupants 12. The Bidens haven't started borrowing...
A Deal With The Artist Near San Francisco Allows The Flintstone Home To Remain
Not sure there's any way to explain this except to just ... well: "In a dispute that pitted property rights against government rules and...
Diverse Dance Companies Suddenly Have A Wealthy New Benefactor
MacKenzie Scott, ex-spouse of Jeff Bezos who was heavily involved in launching Amazon in the 1990s, gave generously to many pandemic (and perenially) cash-strapped...
You Might Not Have Heard Of A Big Hit Jesus Show
The show has just arrived on Peacock, but it was a hit before that, garnering about 750,000 viewers for its season 2 opener as...
Brussels Museum Backpedals A Bit From Plan Called Both Sexist And Nepotistic
The board of Kanal-Centre-Pompidou had decided to name a woman artistic director - and then added a male co-director. Nearly 800 European art dignitaries...
Frederic Rzewski, Pianist And Composer Known For His Political Views, 83
"Rzewski’s anti-establishment thinking stood at the center of his music-making throughout his life." - The New York Times
Liverpool Is About To Be Stripped Of Its UNESCO Status
And Boris Johnson doesn't care at all. In fact, he's putting another monument - that's right, unbelievably, Stonehenge!? - at risk as well. -...
The Wild Box Office For An Action Movie Says Movie Theatres Are Making A...
For Universal Pictures, which raked in an oddly normal (thus deeply robust) box office total over the weekend for F9, "the opening success is...
Visiting Artist Who Was Handcuffed By Columbia Police At His Apartment Gets An Apology
Artist John Sims, who was asleep when officers entered his apartment, says, "I could have easily been shot and killed that night. ... Now...
Every Piece Of Italian Music In The New Pixar Movie Luca, Explained
The plot calls for a lot of music: "Teenage Luca lives underwater with his fish-finned family, but when he steps out of the water...
The Path To Being An Audiobook Narrator
Training in theatre helps a lot, and so does stamina. - LitHub
Are You More A Movie Person Than A Sports Person?
Movies about the Olympics can scratch an every-few-years cultural itch without your having to watch the actual competition. - Today
Bruce Springsteen Reopens Broadway
It's a bit safer than most productions; there are "no mesmerizing choreographed musical numbers, no enchanted sets, no multi-page bios of cast members in...
Writer Brandon Taylor On His Summer Reading Goals
This year, it's all Freud. Why? The author of Real Life and Filthy Animals: "At the start of the year I read a lot...
