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Musicians Flee Afghanistan And The Taliban
After trying for a month, "more than 100 young artists, teachers and their relatives affiliated with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, a celebrated school that...
Humans Can Train To Be Alone With Our Thoughts
And we can even find it pleasurable - once the cravings for instant responses from our phones wear off. - Psyche
Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jazz Master Of The Hammond B3 Organ, 79
Smith, who backed Gladys Knight and Dionne Warwick, formed his own quartet, and collaborated with hundreds of others, said the organ was "sunshine, rainbows,...
How Choreographer Bill T. Jones Keeps His Creative Fires Burning
"If you see 45 gestures, made independently, strung together with various musicality and rhythms, against a beautiful song, and then the same gestures juxtaposed...
Can Museums And NFTs Find Common Ground?
For this to work, "museums need to acknowledge NFTs as a natural step in the evolution of contemporary art in sync with our digitally...
Romania’s Enescu Festival Persists Despite The Pandemic
The Romanian "embodied an ideal of the complete musician in his roles as composer, virtuoso violinist and pianist, conductor, teacher and generous mentor to...
The Golden Globes Try Again
Can adding 21 members, six of whom are Black, solve the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's PR issues? "While some within the organization believe that...
Aladdin, Finally Back On Broadway, Halts For Two Weeks After Breakthrough Cases Emerge
"After only one show, Aladdin was paused again because COVID-19 cases were detected within the company." Testing allowed the show to resume for one more performance...
Liverpool, Home To Peaky Blinders And The New Batman, Gets Its Own Film Studios
In addition to hosting Doctor Who and other shows, "the city has previously doubled up as New York for productions including Harry Potter prequel...
The New York Phil Is Essentially On Tour For Its Entire Season
Moving all of the instruments - and all of the music - is no small task. - The New York Times
Wait, Why Does Seinfeld Look So Different On Netflix?
It's all about the ratios. - Slate
The Guardian Of The Art Of Black Lives Matter
In 2020, in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square, fencing to prevent protests was covered with artwork - and it all "became a symbol for the...
Hollywood’s Behind The Scenes Workers Are Ready To Bring It All To A Halt
"Hollywood couldn’t function without the set builders, costume designers, video engineers and other behind-the-scenes workers who keep the lights on and cameras rolling for...
Streaming Was Supposed To Put A Pause On Piracy
But now it seems to be more prevalent than ever - in part because paying for all of the streaming services you might want...
George Ferencz, Innovative And Experimental Theatre Director, 74
A founder of the Impossible Ragtime Theater, and a icon at La MaMa over decades, he infused theatre with music (especially jazz) and reimagined...
The Chopin Competition Finally Opens Again In Poland
Before COVID lockdowns hit, the last competition in the series to be delayed was thanks to WWII. - Seattle Times (AP)
The U.S. Suddenly Has Two Mermaid Museums
What? One museum's founder: "Mermaids must’ve been coming through the ether." - Hyperallergic
When Stanley Tucci Fell In Love With Food
Acting? Eh. Tucci: "You’re going through life, you have this trajectory and this vision, then suddenly this whole other good thing is like a...
Did Los Angeles Just Experience Its Best Hollywood Bowl Season Ever?
Mark Swed thinks so - and it wasn't just post-shutdown elation, either. - Los Angeles Times
Technology Isn’t As Neutral As We Want It To Be
No tech is without cost, but "the digital revolution, instead of just ambivalence, seems instead to promise utopia but deliver harm." - Toronto Star
A School Board Banned Hundreds Of Books And Documentaries Until Students Fought Back
York, Pennsylvania students, their parents, and authors around the country have won a temporary "freeze." But the school board's racism and homophobia seem entrenched...
A Subway TikTok Artist Realizes His Dream
That might sound like a word salad, but portrait artist Devon Rodriguez's 20 million followers on TikTok really did bring him fame, money, and...
Slave Play Was Shut Out Of The Tonys
Playwright Jeremy Harris tweeted that the play had a massive impact anyway. He added, "I told my mom this was gonna happen this morning bc...
Recreating Real Life – Including Homelessness – In Video Games
Games like The Sims can get boring, so content creators add virtual challenges to keep themselves, and others, engaged. - Wired
Two Of The Nepalese Works At New York’s Rubin Museum Identified As Looted
"Though Nepal banned the export of ancient statues of deities through the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act in 1956, these and other objects of cultural...
