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Product Placement, AKA Advertising, Is Coming To Classic Films
This doesn't seem like a great idea, but then again, who asked the audience? "Items can be digitally added to almost any movie or...
Asian American Artists Say The Times Require They Must Also Now Be Activists
Artist Kenneth Tam started to keep a spreadsheet as microaggressions arose at the beginning of the pandemic. Then the micro became far too macro....
The Redesign Of The Hirshorn Sculpture Garden Has Hit A Wall
A rock wall, and a water feature as well, to be precise. "This is a debate in which everyone is a little right, and...
Scott Rudin’s Apology Is Not Enough
Not great: "Broadway producers I spoke to told me that Rudin seems to be sincere about stepping away from the day-to-day running of his...
One Week Until We Find Out If The Oscars Ratings Will Hit An All-Time...
Just as Chloé Zhao seems a near-lock for Best Director, the predictions are ... that no one watches this year's Oscars ceremony. "At a...
The Pandemic Is Changing City Centers, And Britain’s Fabled Department Store Buildings Are At...
Of course, online shopping has done the most damage to physical stores. But do they need to be demolished? "Gems facing the wrecking ball...
Budweiser Paints Lionel Messi Ads Over Iconic Murals In India
The outrage was so strong, including in statements by St+art India, that the beer company is backing down. Of course they can't fix what...
Please, Someone, Everyone, Save The ArcLight Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome
The flagship theatre was special for multiple reasons, but one is that Hollywood often doesn't seem very, well, Hollywood. "The ArcLight Hollywood, by contrast,...
What Do The Vaccines Mean For Ballet?
Let an infectious-disease doctor explain why dancers need to get vaccinated. It's not just for themselves: "A significant part of the patronage of many...
Joye Hummel, The First Woman To Write ‘Wonder Woman,’ 97
Hummel was 19 when she began working as an assistant for William Moulton Marston, the psychologist who had created the character and the comic...
Game Of Thrones Is Ten Years Old, And It Feels Utterly Irrelevant
Not just irrelevant, but worse. HBO is celebrating, of course, but "whatever about HBO, how do the rest of us feel about Game of...
Vartan Gregorian, Savior Of The New York Public Library, Has Died At 87
Gregorian, an immigrant from Armenia who became a scholar and leader of Brown University and the Carnegie Corporation, "was best known for resurrecting the...
What Artists Are Missing Most About Live Arts Experiences
One artist: "I miss the openings ! The free wine! And friends who you don’t get to see often, making rare appearances. Seeing art...
A French Novelist Wins The LA Times’ Book Prize For Fiction
But the prizes are numerous, and many American writers won prizes in many other categories and genres, including poetry, history, current interest (where Isabel...
When John Adams’ Most Playful Piece Was Booed
Adams came up with the vision for Grand Pianola Music when he was tripping - literally - and audiences weren't sure what to do...
In New Jersey, A Closed Theatre Results In An Arts Incubator And Virtual Shows
There's no audience; there's no one in the building, but Newark Symphony Hall is busy. There's a new "career accelerator and business incubator" in...
Oscars Producers Say It’s A Good Thing The Pandemic Has Upended The Evening
Well: "Changing the Academy Awards, a 93-year-old American institution, has typically proven an exercise in futility. Tweaks have been tried along the way, yet...
Helen McCrory, Star Of Peaky Blinders And Harry Potter, Has Died At 52
McCrory's husband, actor Damian Lewis, announced the news of her death on Twitter. "I’m heartbroken to announce that after an heroic battle with cancer,...
The Brooklyn Art Library Wants Your Filled Sketchbook
But first, it needs to sell you a blank book. "The Sketchbook Project works like this: people interested in submitting a sketchbook order a...
There’s So Much Black Pain Onscreen, Including, Some Say, Way Too Much Painful Fiction
Right now, though not only right now, there's an issue with Black horror. "Black horror faces a distinct paradox: The genre has long been...
The Teams That Save Spain And Portugal’s Shop Signs, From Neon To Giant Calligraphy...
Across the Iberian peninsula, more than 50 groups are working to save what they can of the cityscapes that are under what they feel...
The Accent That Most Actors Won’t Even Half-Try
Yes, it's Philly. Despite how much those of us outside the area might think we know it, "the characters in Rocky don’t talk like they’re...
What Does Dudamel’s Paris Opera Appointment Mean For Los Angeles?
For star conductors, of course, it's not unusual to have appointments both with an orchestra and an opera company. And Dudamel's contract with the...
A Scammer Is Targeting British Literary Prizes Via Paypal
The emails appear to come from the winning authors, and to connect to Paypal accounts that could conceivably be associated with them. "Over the...
After Reports Of Abuse, Scott Rudin Claims He’ll ‘Step Back’ From Broadway
Rudin emailed the Washington Post on Saturday to issue an apology for years of causing pain to colleagues (and employees). He also wrote that...
