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The Push For Ever More Content For Shondaland
At Netflix, Bridgerton (at least the first season) succeeded beyond executives' wildest dreams. But the Shondaland production team wants a lot more than just...
Equity Actors Would Very Much Like To Go Back To Work
And they're not shy about asking the union to move up the timeline - please. "We feel unheard, we feel left out, and we...
England’s Man On A Mission To Bring Museums Into The 21st Century
Gus Casely-Hayford has a vision for the new V&A East. "The space itself will be accessible in every possible way. We’ll build around it...
Henry Darrow, Who Fought For Roles For Latinos And Was The First Latino Zorro...
Darrow was "best known as Manolito Montoya in the hit Western The High Chaparral," but he was also "an activist who worked to expand...
Making The Argument For 1925 As A Literary Watershed
Don't just salivate over Ulysses, The Wasteland, and the soon-to-come centennial of 1922. Where would modernist English literature be without Great Gatsby? Mrs. Dalloway?...
Trying To Scout Locations During A Pandemic
It's not easy for film and TV production location scouts at the moment. There's a lot of digital photography, and a lot of after-the-big-Zoom-meetings...
Children’s Book Illustration Is Art, And James Ransome Also Wants More
James Ransome just won the Gold Award. He's "well-known and loved for his illustrations, especially for his many children's books. But at age 60...
Looking Back At The Oscars Of Two Decades Ago
The final pre-9/11 Oscars (can that be real?), the Oscars where Gladiator beat Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and where Marcia Gay Harden won (deservedly!...
Making Change Sometimes Means Becoming A Member Of The Establishment
Julie Mehretu, who has a solo show opening at the Whitney: "There is a deep consideration of who you show and who comes to...
What It’s Like Filming ‘The World’s Greatest Love Scene’ When You And Romeo Can’t...
Jessie Buckley is playing Juliet, and Josh O'Connor is playing Romeo, but there's no audience - and there's a huge audience. "When news first...
The Agony Of Waiting For Relief To Come
Arts venues are dying while waiting for their entertainment venue relief. Not great: "A far longer than expected build-out of the application process by...
Behind The Scenes, Artists Confronted MoMA Leadership About Board Chair’s Iraq War Ties
And the confrontations - and revelations about who on MoMA's board and who on MoMA PS1's board are implicated in "security firms" in Iraq,...
Selling Books With Some Tears On TikTok
TikTok might not be the place we think of immediately for book reviews - but a lot of bookbuyers - that is, young women...
The Gender-Based Lawsuit Against Disney Expands To Include Pay Secrecy
California labor law doesn't allow for pay secrecy. Disney denies the claims by the plaintiffs that "Disney prohibits employees from disclosing their own wages,...
Indoor Dance In New York Goes On Delay Once Again
The plan: Audacious, but careful. The space: The Park Avenue Armory, with an extremely limited audience. The issue: "The eagerly anticipated performances, which were...
Reading Books By Black Authors Isn’t Some Kind Of Magical Medicine White People Can...
And many Black authors resent the implication. Yaa Gyasi on her time touring the United States after her book Homegoing came out: "I was...
The Outsize Impact Of Celebrity Documentaries
The intense responses to the R. Kelly, Britney Spears (who, unlike the others on the list, is not portrayed a predator but rather a...
How Libraries Are Dealing With, And Helping Solve, Digital Inequity
Pandemic-related shutdowns mean that the people who need help printing, filling out, and scanning documents - "There are lots of forms, which demand lots...
Van Gogh Died Penniless, But His Paintings Paid For His Sister’s Mental Health Care...
Van Gogh died in 1890. By 1909, Anna, the oldest Van Gogh sister, "wrote of selling a picture that he had given Willemien, enabling...
Cepillin, Clown Beloved Across Latin America, Has Died At 75
CepillÃn, whose non-performing name was Ricardo González Gutiérrez, was a Mexican clown with a half-century-long career. He "hosted TV shows broadcast from Mexico, sold...
Producers, Actors, And Publicists Are Keeping Pressure On The HFPA
Even weeks after the Golden Globes, Hollywood isn't relenting; this reckoning has been a long time coming. "Now, with the very survival of the...
We Know Amazon Is A Danger To Workers And Retail, But Do We Care?
Well, that's ... a good question. "We know how Amazon treats its workers, how it squeezes its sellers, how it devastates small businesses, and...
A Return To Episodic TV
Is the binge better? Or is it OK to let episodes marinate for a week before returning to a story? When Netflix first dropped...
The Guy Who Possibly Found The Author Of Shakespeare’s Source Material For Hamlet
And other plays too. This isn't a "Shakespeare didn't write his own plays" theory; it's a theory about an Elizabethan playwright named Thomas North...
Beloved New York Bookstore The Strand Has Become A Union Busting Stereotype
This is not great. "The past year ... has laid bare just how perilous a job you like, or even love, can be when...
