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Artist Rachel Whiteread Has Changed Her Art, And Her Life
Whiteread won the Turner Prize when she was 30, the first woman, and youngest artist, ever to win - and she id it for...
After More Than A Year Apart, Singers Miss Collaborating
Afro-Brazilian musician Luedji Luna: "It’s been a sad year for artists and for the three of us: What we love doing most is performing...
Poets Lost A Lot Of Readings, Series, And Opportunities During The Pandemic, So What...
"For readers still thawing from a year in isolation, two questions in poem are especially prescient: 'How to start again? How to wake...
The Boston Symphony’s Lucia Lin Says Classical Music Is Not Eurocentric
And she has the duet series to prove it. Lin, who commissioned duets before adding interviews to her presentation of new work: "In the...
The British TV-Watching Public Complained A Lot About An Excess In Coverage Of Prince...
As a matter of fact, there were so many complaints about the bump in programming for special coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh's death...
The MTV Show ‘The Real World’ Jump-Started Reality TV As We Know It, But...
In 1992, television wasn't all about the latest competition or race or humiliation reported to the camera. So when The Real World started, it...
The New Ascendance Of The Nature Memoir
We're all looking for something - solitude, connection to nature, an escape from our houses and apartments - and so, publishing is providing us...
We Know Theo, But What About Vincent Van Gogh’s Sisters?
He (and Theo) had three. From reading a book that includes some newly translated letters, we can learn that "Lies was frustrated that...
Benita Raphan, Maker Of Lyrical Short Films That Hover Between Documentary And Experiment, Has...
Raphan's "genius" films - about people with unusual minds and talents - weren't quite documentary; they were that, but more. "Up From Astonishment (2020), her...
The Great Depression’s Dance Marathons Were An Exploitative Craze
They might sound like yet another fun thing for young people to have done back in the day, but no. They were even deadly,...
The Hollywood Bowl Is Back, With Celebration And Caution, For The Summer Of 2021
Though the bowl will be limited to 4,000 in a venue that seats 17,500, the excitement is real. "The organization is still ramping up...
Gianluigi Colalucci, Restorer Of Michelangelo’s Colors, Has Died At 91
In the 1980s, Colalucci led the team that restored the Sistine Chapel. "To paint the Sistine ceiling, Michelangelo labored atop a towering scaffolding, his...
The Messy, Low-Budget, Rediscovered Late Soviet Era Lord Of The Rings
The 1991 project was believed to be lost. "But after Tolkien fan clubs urged the broadcaster to scour the archives of its Soviet...
Performers In South Africa Protest For More Government Help During The Pandemic
For the performing arts community, the closure of Cape Town's Fugard Theatre was something of a last straw. "In just a decade of existence...
BAFTA Wins Include A Fair Number Of Surprises
Chloé Zhao won another directing award for Nomadland, which also won best film on the second night of the mostly online awards. Anthony Hopkins...
Dancers Are Still Trying Everything To Make It Through The Pandemic
Real talk: "Kathleen Tiernan, a trainee at Ballet Austin, fears that the pandemic will financially stunt the ballet industry for years to come. 'I...
Scott Rudin’s Abusive Behavior Was An Open Secret
Why did the media not come out and treat it as the truly awful (and unacceptable) fact that it was? "Unlike past stories, The Hollywood Reporter’s...
Chloe Zhao Wins Director’s Guild Honor, Cementing Her Status As Presumptive Oscar Favorite
Zhao, director of Nomadland, is the first woman of color and only the second woman ever to win the DGA award. Though director David...
New Guidelines Suggest Actors Set Nudity Boundaries Before Filming
To keep actors safe - and, of course, to cover their own liability - some productions are now employing intimacy coordinators. But contracts can...
Statues Are Living The High Life In Boris Johnson’s Britain
Lucky statues! "Without themselves needing to organise, these historically neglected members of the inanimate community have within the last few months secured privileges, protections...
So You Want To Be In The Movies
The easiest part of being an extra, ahem, a background artist, is that you just have to be there. "Being an extra requires no...
A Monument To Jefferson Davis In The Hands Of Anti-Racist Activists Becomes A Toilet
The monument, stolen (or "liberated," if you prefer) from a cemetery in Alabama, will now be returned to its former owners, United Daughters of...
This One Key Trick Predicts Blockbuster Success
Despite what every podcast host says (is forced to say?) and what your author friends tell you, it's not five-star reviews. Those are literally...
A New Path Forward For Museums
Art museums sometimes have difficulties responding to the current moment, by design. A new show in Louisville might change some of that. "Conventional encyclopedic...
Anne Beatts, Who Broke Into National Lampoon And Saturday Night Live Before Getting Her...
Beatts helped shape the early days of Saturday Night Live. "'It was pretty much any adjective you want to throw at it,' she told...
