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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...
Frieze Los Angeles Writes Off 2021, Makes Plans For 2022
The art fest was planned for February, then July, and at locations all over the city (supposedly to promote social distancing). But as July...
Where The World Of Comedy Throws Obstacles, These Women Have Forged Their Own Paths
It's not easy for a woman in comedy, and that's doubly true for a Black woman. Ask Ziwe (who now has a series on...
We’re Living In A Golden Age For Documentaries, But They Have To Drop Their...
The rush of documentaries - they are cheaper to make, and especially if they're true crime, there's a willing and eager audience - has...
Taylor Swift, Reclaiming Her Music With A New, Re-Recorded Release Of An Early Album
The business side of music can be vicious for its musicians, and when a label owned by a man you loathe gets to profit...
A New Cache Of Money For Strapped Venues – If Only The Website Would...
The Small Business Association opened a grant portal for arts venues closed down by the pandemic - and, after a few hours of deep...
The Show Wynonna Earp Came At A Dark Time For Queer Women On TV,...
In 2016, 25 queer women characters on TV died on scripted TV and streaming shows. But Wynonna Earp promised to be different. With the...
The Inevitability Of Fake Art
It's every art dealer's nightmare, but if a fake is a beautiful painting, what's our problem with it? We care about authorship is why...
Actor Riz Ahmed Says He’s At His Best When He’s Overwhelmed
Ahmed, whose performance in The Sound of Metal has been nominated for countless awards this season, doesn't prefer the easy life. When he was...
Ethel Gabriel, Who Ran Parts Of RCA Victor For 40 Years, Has Died At...
Gabriel began working at RCA when she was a student at Temple University, testing records for manufacturing imperfections. And she didn't leave. "Gabriel often...
The Big Winners From Night One Of The BAFTAs
Ma Rainey, Mank, and others win on the first night of the British Academy Film and Television Arts awards, when mostly the crafts are...
The Archaeologists Of New York
Urban archaeologists can unearth 300-year-old trash, and turn it into narrative (and historical) treasure. "The biggest thing for me is saving something that would...
Is Hollywood Trapping Women Directors In The Franchise Machine?
Or are Chloé Zhao, Emerald Fennell, and others just getting their due like their young male counterparts? Hm. "Marvel, DC and co have awoken...
People Love Their Physical Music
Or at least, a Hollywood record store shuttered for many months by the pandemic: "'We’ve been waiting for a year,' said Silver Lake resident...
Slow Art Is More Than Just Taking Time With A Painting Or Sculpture
Slow Art Day, April 10, is about a lot more than getting lost in a Lee Krasner or a Betye Saar. Though that might...
The Hospitality Industry, Hard Hit By The Pandemic, Wonders If It Can Change Again
What's going to happen as more and more people are vaccinated to the industries that supported thousands of aspiring actors, musicians, and others in...
Keeping Ancient Music Alive, No Matter What
The Ashti Peace Choir, at the Yazidi refugee camp in northern Iraq, is trying to keep music alive despite the desperate history and circumstances...
While We Wait For The Oscars, Ranking The Best Picture Nominees From The Past...
With 43 to choose from, which movie will win? And which one can best be described as "self-conscious Scorsese imitation"? - Los Angeles Times
Winfred Rembert, Artist Who Survived A Lynching And Southern Prisons, Has Died At 75
Rembert's art "told the story of the Jim Crow South. It was exhibited in galleries and museums and helped support his family, though they...
Game Of Thrones: The Musical?
OK, we'll be honest, not a musical. A play. Or two? Seven? Hm. However, why Game of Thrones? "It was an epic, at times...
The SAG Awards, As They Happened
Kinda live, except pre-recorded, with a lot on the cutting room floor. In any case: All of the winners! Right here. - Variety
We Can’t Travel Much Now, But Here Are Some Literary Destinations For The Future
To paraphrase Shakespeare, "Work, work your thoughts, and therein see" ... anything from Paris to London, Lyme Regis to George Orwell's final destination. -...
Hey Literature, Women Can Stutter Too
There's truly, in the American literary canon, only one - Merry Levov, of Philip Roth's American Pastoral. What gives? And what do literary writers...
Arthur Kopit, Playwright Who Shook Up The Theatre, 83
Kopit "thrust Off Broadway into a new era with the absurdist satirical farce Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and...
