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Kansas City Ballet Took A Long Time, But Finally Canceled The Rest Of The...

The ballet joins Kansas City's other major performing arts organizations, which will certainly have an economic impact on KC's central performing arts center. -...

Author Jacqueline Woodson Gets A Lot Done, But How?

The MacArthur Fellow, who has also won the National Book Award and lives with her partner and two children in Brooklyn, is building Baldwin...

With A New Book Called ‘I Hate Men,’ A French Author Has Truly Hit...

That's not the only work making a claim that France has an extremely long way to go in reckoning with gender inequality in every...

The Double Whammy Of Brexit And Covid On Britain’s Touring Musicians

This isn't great, since each musician needs rather a lot of paperwork - and it's possible, though unclear, that their instruments may need a...

Thieves Made Off With Most Of San Jose Dance Theater’s Handmade Costumes

The carefully designed and handmade costumes are priceless for the ballet company, but not useful for almost anyone else, says costume director Renee Forbes....

Freelancers, The Lifeblood Of British Theatre, Are In For Another Terribly Rough Year

The situation under the third lockdown is, if anything, worse than in March because the freelancers don't have anything to fall back on. "In...

The Book That Predicted, And Probably Was The Blueprint For, Last Wednesday’s Coup

In a way, The Turner Diaries shows how white supremacists carried out the insurrection - and it provides a pretty clear idea of what's...

The Day Tacoma’s Movie Theatre Burned Down

During The Birds, even. The loss of the venue deeply affected Seattle's southern neighbor. "Before it was the Music Box the building was originally...

The Pandemic Saw A Return Of Space To Listen To And Really Appreciate The...

The lack of touring, time to sit with songs instead of performing them every night, and a ton of time in or near recording...

Check Out The Massive Investments In An Immersive Art Future

Can the arts return after more vaccinations and herd immunity? The investors certainly think so. "While traditional museums are discussing closures and mergers, the for-profit...

How Romance Writers Funded, And Spread Interest In, The Georgia Races With One Of...

Writer Alyssa Cole explains why it makes sense that romance writers came together to raise money for Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock in...

Instagram Has Turned Into A Source Of Funding, And Patronage, For Indigenous Beadwork Artists

When artists drop collections on Instagram, they often sell out in a matter of minutes. Beadwork takes time; there's no way to mass-produce, and...

How Do Recent And New Films Handle Elder Decline?

There's a mix, from viewer disorientation - meant to mimic that of a person experiencing dementia - to body horror. - The Hollywood Reporter

The Royal Shakespeare Company Attempts A Return Of A Midsummer Night’s Sax Comedy

Swinging the Dream, a 1939 musical that flopped after 13 performances despite (or because of?) having a cast of 150 and three bands. It's...

Homage To A Mentor And A Muse

Kambui Olojimi, an artist from the Brooklyn neighborhood Bedford-Stuyvesant, addresses his childhood and his block, and the idea of collective memory, in his work...

The Number Of Indie Bookstores In The UK And Ireland Soared In 2020

What the actual heck? Well, a lot of people opened bookshops in 2020, during the pandemic, because why not? Their jobs had evaporated, and...

Los Angeles Loses Its Great Blue Whale Jazz Club

Thanks so flipping much, pandemic and a government that refused to get its COVID response together in time to save the arts. Owner Joon...

The National Society Of Film Critics Picks Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland As Best Pic

But not just best pic: "The film won best picture and best cinematography, while Zhao was awarded best director and star Frances McDormand was...

The Black Photographers Who Changed The World’s Understanding Of Black Life

The Kamoinge Workshop was "a collective of black photographers who formed in 1963 to document black culture in Harlem, and beyond, from live jazz...

How Joan Micklin Silver Beat A Path Toward A New Kind Of Romantic Film

It's a path that others could follow, if they had the courage (and the funding). "Crossing Delancey is a culturally distinctive romcom, not one...

Carol Johnson, Whose Landscape Architecture Transformed The Country, 91

Johnson, who was also known for her public housing project designs, became famous for her "large-scale public projects, which often involved environmental remediation. For...

The Depopulated Paris Of Young Edward Hopper Feels Like A Mirror Of Our Pandemic...

It's desolate, empty streets; bridges with no tourists; the sidewalks near the Seine silent. What wouldn't we give now for the American diners of...

Remember The Art Of Multiples? They’re Back

Art isn't only for the One Percenters, even if that one percent can afford to buy a ton of multiples to go along with...

Reckoning With Author Patricia Highsmith At 100

Highsmith - author of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, not to mention The Price of Salt (renamed Carol to go...

The Artists Secretly Creating Miniature Buildings For Street Mice Across England And Europe

The collective that makes the buildings - they call themselves AnonyMouse - are, they said through an interlocutor, "a loosely connected network of mice...
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