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Where Did All Of Hollywood’s Women Go?

In 1917, Warner Bros. had eight films directed by women. In 2017, it had ... one. What the heck? Well, for one thing: "Female-focused...

That Podcast Exposing One Media Empire’s Bigotry And Workplace Bullying Came Under Fire For...

This is a twisty, turny saga that does not in any way make the original media empire - Bon Appetit, of course - look...

The Show’s Going On Down Under

This sounds wildly exotic and dangerous to most theatregoers in the U.S. right now: "A few days ago, Kylie Estreich went to a theater...

Is There A Way To Change, And Improve, Arts Nonprofits?

Issues: "Change will feel snail-like as long as white organizational leaders, tenured professors, board members, and funders control and dictate, the pace of inclusion...

The Music And Life Lessons Of Piano Teacher Cornelia Vertenstein

Vertenstein, a Holocaust survivor, was 93 when she died earlier this month. She "began giving lessons at age 14 in war-torn Romania. She did...

Scorsese Says Streaming Algorithms Are Ruining Film

True? Film has always had marketing, PR, and of course ratings: "It would be a mistake to present the old gatekeepers in romantic colours...

As The Tonys Remain Undetermined, Where Are Previous Nominees Now?

A Broadway stage manager who's now in graduate school for (logically) organizational leadership project management: "I initially thought, well, I'll get a class or...

We Worried About Children On The Internet And Completely Forgot About Adults

Honestly, will we never learn? "Americans have expressed their concerns about each new form of media through fears about children and youth. Younger Americans...

Rupert Neve, ‘The Man Who Made The Recording Console,’ 94

The Grammy-winning architect of modern music "is best known for designing and producing microphone preamplifiers, equalizers, compressors and mixing consoles that are sought after...

How Can ‘Our Town’ Still Feel Utterly Contemporary, 80 Years After Its Opening?

Howard Sherman, author of a new book about the play: "It's a play that people think they know. People want to paint it as...

In Britain, A Dig Reveals A Lot Of Detail About Home Life In The...

Archaeologists "were hopeful of unearthing something of interest because the area has been occupied for more than 3,000 years. But nothing prepared them for...

Playing The Man Who Betrayed Fred Hampton Sent Lakeith Stanfield Into Therapy

Stanfield says it's not only therapy that has made the last year bearable. "The one good thing about this pandemic is being able to...

So, No Spring Openings For Broadway, But You Can Find Some Gems, Safely, Online

All of this is true: "An effort to keep the industry alive has major stars taking to the virtual stage and much-lauded past productions...

The New Mexico Museum Of Art Is Planning To Destroy A Historic Chicano Mural

Not for nothing - for a new museum of contemporary art. But ... really? "'We invited the Department of Cultural Affairs,' Carrie Wood, a...

London’s Bridges Truly Are Falling Down

Or they might, soon. London needs "infrastructure week," but for real, and for much longer than a week. Take Hammersmith. "It’s obvious whom to...

Disneyland Artist And ‘Master Illustrator’ Charles Boyer, 86

Boyer signed on with Disney as a sketch artist in 1960 - and never left. "Boyer was made a Disney Legend in 2005, the...

One Idea For What To Do With Unused And Deconsecrated Churches

Artists need studios, and usually studios with light ... and churches often have that. "Places of worship are typically built to outlast their parishioners....

Why ‘Nadiya Bakes’ Is Such A Big Deal In Foodie Shows

The new show demonstrates just how drastically far food shows have come - but reminds us of how far that had to be, especially...

Teresa Burga, Groundbreaking Peruvian Conceptual Artist, 85

Burga's best-known work, 1981's Perfil de la mujer Peruana, confused many people in its day. She and a psychotherapist friend "interviewed 290 middle-class women...

What The New Movie ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’ Reveals About The United States’...

In short, and in no surprise to anyone who has studied the history of the U.S., or indeed lived that history: "Judas and the...

Outdoors Is The Way For The UK To Return To Theatre

Of course, "The British weather does not always help. A valiant 'drive-through' production of La Bohème staged in a car park by English National Opera last...

A Blow-Up Over Racism, Antisemitism, And Academic Politics In American Musicology

This story is convoluted, and needs careful reading to understand what's going on not only in musicology in the U.S. but also across the...

When Science Doesn’t Cut It

Director Iram Parveen Bilal (I'll Meet You There) explains: "I'm the daughter of a physicist mother and a chemistry professor father. ... We were...

The Hidden, All Too Contemporary, History Behind Middlemarch

No, it's not that many mediocre men are threatened by smart women (timeless!) or that mismatched marriages can destroy those in the marriage (also...

Moving The Louvre’s Collection Far From The Floods

In 2016, when the Seine flooded its banks, museum workers toiled 24 hours a day to haul thousands of artworks out of underground storage...
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