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Broadway Ticket Sales, Including For Hamilton And Wicked, Are Slow
Broadway isn't back, baby. Thanks, Delta. - CNBC
Why Reservation Dogs Is So Important For TV
Yes, it's because of all of the Indigenous rep. - NPR
The Recovery Of The Mouse
In case you were worried, Disney's doing much better now, which is possibly a good sign for the economy. - Los Angeles Times
Readers Do Love Books About Sisters
And if you're one of the legion who adore Lizzy and Jane, or Meg and Jo, or ... etc., here's a list for you....
The Coming Conservative Publishing Backlash To Racial Reckoning Books
Yeah, no thank you, a lot of Americans don't want to reckon. Better, some imprints think, to make a lot of money off of...
The Damage The ‘Nation Of Immigrants’ Rhetoric Does To The United States
"Multiculturalism was the response to civil rights demands, which required a revised narrative of U.S. history. For this scheme to work—and affirm U.S. historical...
If You See Goddesses On Bus Shelter Walls, This Is Why
Artist Martine Gutierrez plays all the parts of goddesses, queens, and other icons on bus shelters in NY, Boston, and Chicago. "I think confusion...
Leon Litwack, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Scholar Of Race In America, 91
Historian Litwack "illuminated dark corners of the American past by exploring the bitter legacy of slavery and segregation and by confronting the lingering presence...
A New Movie Centered Deaf Actors During Its Creation
Though some in the Deaf community are criticizing the new movie CODA for centering the concerns of a hearing character, the movie is (perhaps...
After Oregon Ballet Theatre Fired Its Artistic Director, The Resident Choreographer Also Left
And that's because the resident choreographer - with three upcoming ballets in the 2021-22 season - was the AD's partner." - Oregon ArtsWatch
Banksy’s Art Spree Included A Miniature Stable Left At A Model Village
The owner "said he was in a state of shock after the famed artist confirmed the model stable was one of 10 artworks left...
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...
