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Manzoor Ahtesham, Who Brought Bhopal To Life, Has Died Of COVID At 73
Ahtesham wrote of his native city with care and love. One of his translators said, "He had this almost magnifying glass of an eye....
The Pandemic Massively Accelerated A Digitization Trend
Today, we can see music, theatre, visual art, and new movies all from our chairs, couches, and beds. A year ago, not so much...
Charles Dickens Hid A Lifelong Grief In A Locket
Dickens' 17-year-old sister-in-law collapsed one night as she returned from the theatre, and died in the arms of the writer. "A failure of Hogarth’s...
Cirque De Soleil Is Back, Almost
The pandemic forced Cirque to shutter 44 shows all over the world. Now, performers are getting ready - as ready as they can, within...
Cryptoart Isn’t New, And It Isn’t All NFTs
Instead, it's a way for independent digital artists to make a living. "Beneath the glossy auction houses, breathless headlines and outrage, there is a...
Artists Following In Their Mothers’ Footsteps
Dance, publishing, painting, music, and the stage - having an example, an inspiration, and a mentor in the house can both block and encourage...
Former Dance School Comptroller Pleads Guilty In Million Dollar Fraud Case
Sophia Kim, former comptroller for the Kirov Academy in Washington, D.C., "gambled with funds she was overseeing as the academy’s comptroller. Over nine months...
NFTs Are The Newest Tulipmania
"Art NFTs put me in mind of film auteur Werner Herzog’s distinction between the 'truth of accountants' and 'ecstatic truth.' NFT mavens wax lyrical...
Getting At Reality Through Blurred Photos
When artist Tabitha Soren had her third child, a friend suggested she photograph the experience. "Time can turn photographs into metaphor or allow them...
As Glaciers Melt, Relics From WWI’s Alpine Front Emerge
On the 10K Mount Scorluzzo in Italy, "the Austro-Hungarian soldiers who occupied those barracks were fighting Italian troops in what became known as the...
New York Plans To Give Artists Work This Summer
Like the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, NY's City Artist Corps is a relief program that "will pay hundreds of local artists to...
Bandwagon Is Changing The NY Phil’s Relationship With The City
Instead of the whiff of noblesse oblige and platitudes about the uplifting nature of classical music, this is about working together. "The key phrases...
How Sesame Street Went From Radical Experiment To Mainstream Success
When the show premiered, it wasn't the beloved Big Bird and Elmo experience that people think of today. "In 1969, Sesame Street unveils and there is...
Where Tap Dance Came From, And Where It’s Going
It's a long history, and a new generation is reviving the art even during the pandemic. - CBS News
Doctor Who And Torchwood, And Men Behaving Badly
First there were reports that Noel Clarke, who played Mickey from 2005-2010 on the Doctor Who reboot, was a serial sexual harasser and bully....
Nashville Isn’t Coming Through For Women
But TikTok is, forcing country radio to pay attention, and give opportunities, to young singers in new ways. - The New York Times
Streaming Theatre Will Do For Now
But nothing can replace the live experience. "Call it immediacy or authenticity, unpredictability or uniqueness, but it’s part of the reason people pay more...
Is Drawing In Decline In Britain?
Some of the nation's top (male) artists are unhappy about the lack of drawing classes, bemoaning the lack of compulsory drawing classes at the...
Lloyd Price, Whose Smash Hits Prefigured Rock, Dies At 88
Price, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, had his first big rhythm and blues hit with "Lawdy Miss Clawdy"...
What Will Happen To Eli Broad’s Grand Dreams For Los Angeles?
Broad's vision was of a Champs-Elysées on Grand Avenue, but all with his stamp on it. "Broad’s ambitions ought to prod Angelenos to consider...
The End Of Net Neutrality Was Riddled With Fraud
Fraud - and 8.5 million (Eight. Point. Five. Million.) bot comments secretly created by ISPs to urge against net neutrality. To be fair,...
Writing, It Turns Out, Can Be Rather Difficult
Masterful essay writer Elissa Mashuta: "This is the dilemma at the heart of the process: writing would be easier if I had an assured...
Hollywood Publicists, Netflix, And Amazon Push Golden Globes Group To Reform
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's released list of "reforms" didn't impress anyone much. Instead, the list set off "a remarkable cascade of criticism toward...
Broadway Reopens In Four Months, But Theatre Workers Still Need Help
A survey released by the Actors Fund says that "40% of the arts and entertainment respondents reported being more food insecure during the pandemic,...
Lyn Macdonald, Who Preserved The Voices Of WWI Soldiers, 91
Macdonald was a producer for the BBC in 1973 when she "was given what she thought would be a one-off journalistic assignment: to accompany...
