The Agony Of Waiting For Relief To Come
Arts venues are dying while waiting for their entertainment venue relief. Not great: "A far longer than expected build-out of the application process by...
Behind The Scenes, Artists Confronted MoMA Leadership About Board Chair’s Iraq War Ties
And the confrontations - and revelations about who on MoMA's board and who on MoMA PS1's board are implicated in "security firms" in Iraq,...
Selling Books With Some Tears On TikTok
TikTok might not be the place we think of immediately for book reviews - but a lot of bookbuyers - that is, young women...
The Gender-Based Lawsuit Against Disney Expands To Include Pay Secrecy
California labor law doesn't allow for pay secrecy. Disney denies the claims by the plaintiffs that "Disney prohibits employees from disclosing their own wages,...
Indoor Dance In New York Goes On Delay Once Again
The plan: Audacious, but careful. The space: The Park Avenue Armory, with an extremely limited audience. The issue: "The eagerly anticipated performances, which were...
Reading Books By Black Authors Isn’t Some Kind Of Magical Medicine White People Can...
And many Black authors resent the implication. Yaa Gyasi on her time touring the United States after her book Homegoing came out: "I was...
The Outsize Impact Of Celebrity Documentaries
The intense responses to the R. Kelly, Britney Spears (who, unlike the others on the list, is not portrayed a predator but rather a...
How Libraries Are Dealing With, And Helping Solve, Digital Inequity
Pandemic-related shutdowns mean that the people who need help printing, filling out, and scanning documents - "There are lots of forms, which demand lots...
Van Gogh Died Penniless, But His Paintings Paid For His Sister’s Mental Health Care...
Van Gogh died in 1890. By 1909, Anna, the oldest Van Gogh sister, "wrote of selling a picture that he had given Willemien, enabling...
Cepillin, Clown Beloved Across Latin America, Has Died At 75
Cepillín, whose non-performing name was Ricardo González Gutiérrez, was a Mexican clown with a half-century-long career. He "hosted TV shows broadcast from Mexico, sold...
Producers, Actors, And Publicists Are Keeping Pressure On The HFPA
Even weeks after the Golden Globes, Hollywood isn't relenting; this reckoning has been a long time coming. "Now, with the very survival of the...
We Know Amazon Is A Danger To Workers And Retail, But Do We Care?
Well, that's ... a good question. "We know how Amazon treats its workers, how it squeezes its sellers, how it devastates small businesses, and...
A Return To Episodic TV
Is the binge better? Or is it OK to let episodes marinate for a week before returning to a story? When Netflix first dropped...
The Guy Who Possibly Found The Author Of Shakespeare’s Source Material For Hamlet
And other plays too. This isn't a "Shakespeare didn't write his own plays" theory; it's a theory about an Elizabethan playwright named Thomas North...
Beloved New York Bookstore The Strand Has Become A Union Busting Stereotype
This is not great. "The past year ... has laid bare just how perilous a job you like, or even love, can be when...
The New Rules Of Moviegoing
Start with an "electrostatic disinfectant sprayer," add in a seat buffering system, and don't forget prepackaged condiments for your popcorn. (But ... what about...
A Paris Ballet Star Dances With Memories, And Anselm Kiefer Paintings
Hugo Marchand's new memoir speaks of feelings that seem to beset nearly every dancer - of not belonging, of self-doubt, and of stage fright....
Composer Hannah Peel Goes Deep Into The Trees, And Neuroscience
Peel's star has been ascending, with work for TV and movies, and hosting a new, controversial BBC music show - and she managed, with...
Marianne Carus, Founder Of Cricket Magazine, 92
Carus believed that children should read - and see - high-quality short stories, poetry, and art. In 1982, she said in an interview, "So...
Palm Springs Art Museum’s Executive Director Resigns Just Before Museum Reopens
Louis Grachos had a two-year stint, including a year of pandemic shutdown marred by controversy surrounding the museum's response to George Floyd's killing and...
Maryland’s State Song Has Been Booted By Lawmakers
The state legislature voted to scrap the state's official song. Why? "The pro-Confederate Civil War-era tune features lyrics that denigrate Abraham Lincoln as a 'tyrant' and...
Computers V. Humans – What’s Possible?
The greatest imaginative challenge seems to be foreseeing which changes will arrive sooner than expected (computers outplaying chess grandmasters), and which will be surprisingly...
Warner Studios Cancels Plans To Build Tram To The Hollywood Sign
The effort, dubbed the Hollywood Skyway, would have cost the studio an estimated $100 million. The tramway would have taken visitors on a six-minute...
Small Independent Opera Companies Are Saving Opera
Across Canada, indie opera companies are making the art form cool again; daring and provocative again. Pre-pandemic, the collective mass of these companies was on...
Museums Battle Over The Ethics Of Selling Art To Survive
The debate has grown heated in recent weeks, pitting museum against museum, and forcing the association — which serves as the industry’s referee and...
