Grammy Awards Postponed For Six Weeks Due To Pandemic
The ceremony, hosted by Trevor Noah, had been scheduled for January 31. It will now take place on March 14, due to, as a...
LA Movie And TV Production Shuts Down
Production shutdowns are expensive, and a delay of a few weeks would disrupt series’ delivery dates and air pattern. This is especially crucial for...
An Enormous Expansion Of Melbourne Contemporary Museum
The proposed new building, the NGV Contemporary in Melbourne, will be Australia’s largest gallery of contemporary art and design, says Tony Ellwood, the director...
Ray Bradbury’s Outsized Influence On American Culture
There were other fine sci-fi writers, but Ray was the one who first engaged the mainstream audience. He had a huge impact on both...
Has The Gagosian Gallery Left San Francisco?
As of Thursday, Dec. 31, the gallery phone was disconnected and the exterior banner as well as signage in the window had been removed....
The Biggest Archaeological Finds Of 2020
As always, Egypt was fruitful ground for archaeologists, with the discovery of the first ancient Egyptian funeral parlor, the world’s oldest Illustrated book, and a mummy buried...
When Theatre Comes Back To Stages It Will Be Different. But That’s OK
"While there have been times during the past year when theatre and all who work in it have felt helpless, unloved and ignored, there...
He’s The King, The Grandfather And The Godfather Of Roller Disco
At the height of the disco craze in the late 1970s, Empire Rollerdrome, a rink in Brooklyn across the street from where the Brooklyn...
More Museums Are Presenting “Sponsored Content.” Is This A Problem?
"On either side of the Atlantic, museums have teamed up with corporations in an effort to utilize their spaces—and collections—in order to reach new...
Reverse-Engineering Zoom To Make Online Theater
"Jared Mezzocchi has been systematically exploring what Zoom and the editing program Isadora can offer theatre practitioners during the pandemic. He has been working...
What Recent Research Reveals About Narcissists
"There’s a difference between everyday selfishness and real narcissism – and there’s a distinction between a normal personality trait and the harmful, rare personality...
Angela Hewitt Gets Custom-Made Replacement For Her Smashed Piano
Her horrible 2020 began in January when movers dropped her four-pedal Fazioli, the instrument on which she made every recording she'd done since 2003....
Inside The Largest Trove Of Nazi Propaganda
Today, one of the world’s largest collections of Nazi propaganda sits in a climate-controlled warehouse at Fort Belvoir, in northern Virginia. Much of it...
Figures Are In: North American Movie Box Office Income Was Down 80% In 2020
"As predicted, domestic movie tickets sold between Jan. 1 through Dec. 31 came generated an estimated $2.3 billion (or $2.28 billion) compared to $11.4...
Progress Report: BIPOC Representation In American Theatre
"Time will tell if theater grantmakers adopt the coalition’s demands en masse, and some of the demands have yet to make it into grantmakers’...
In China, Foreign Films Have Lost Half Their Market Share In One Year
"Imported films accounted for only about a sixth of China's total box office in 2020, a nearly 55% decrease year-on-year, industry data tracker Maoyan...
Author Of ‘War Horse’ Insists He Wasn’t Trying To Censor Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’
" described '21st-century sensibilities' as having prevented the inclusion of the play in Tales from Shakespeare, his retelling of 10 Shakespeare plays for...
Unknown El Greco Painting Discovered In Spain
The small canvas depicting Christ carrying the cross and wearing the crown of thorns, owned by a private individual, was authenticated after two years...
Dorms Designed By Louis Kahn In India Saved From Wrecking Ball
The board of governors of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad admitted that an international outcry prompted their decision to call off plans...
Lee Breuer, Experimental Stage Director, Dead At 83
"A tenacious outsider who refused his sole Tony Award nomination — for his biggest hit and only Broadway show, the Sophocles adaptation The Gospel...
As Australia’s Arts Festival Season Begins Amid The Pandemic, All Eyes Are On Sydney
"The Festival is poised to open on Wednesday and its administrators are on high alert. Though Covid-19 case reports remain low, the...
Sydney’s Reopening Theatres Say They’re ‘COVID-Safe.’ Are They?
The Opera House finally became the last of the city's major venues to require masks, but enforcing the policy is not easy, and most...
IRS: Executors Undervalued Prince’s Estate By $80 Million
The IRS determined that Prince’s estate is worth $163.2m, overshadowing the $82.3m valuation submitted by Comerica Bank & Trust, the estate’s administrator. The discrepancy...
The TikTok Musical That’s Already Earned $1 Million
At a running time of 51 minutes, and with perhaps only half the numbers required for a full adaptation of the 2007 animated Oscar-winner,...
The Institutions That Used To Support Creative Work
"Artists in the middle of the twentieth century flourished not because the economy was inherently favorable to them, but as a result of powerful...
