China Censors News Of Chloé Zhao’s Best Director Oscar Win
The Chinese government imposed a virtual news blackout, and censors moved to tamp down or scrub out discussion of the award on social media....
How Your Movie Theatre Experience Will Likely Change
To survive beyond the pandemic, theaters must persuade moviegoers not just to come back, but to come back more frequently than they did—to start...
New California Bill Could Save LA’s 99-Seat Theatres
Enter SB 805, which is up for a hearing by the California Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee on April 26. If passed,...
Profusion of Confusion: Unraveling the Tangled Tale of “Salvator Mundi” (& my theory on...
The only thing that’s certain about the fate of this elusive painting is that the story about why it hasn’t publicly surfaced since it...
Weston Sprott Speaks About Transforming Young Peoples’ Lives
The dean of Juilliard's Preparatory Division and trombonist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra speaks about transforming young artists' lives and incorporating diversity across the...
Choreographer Creates Company To Copyright Dance Moves
The JaQuel Knight's company Knight Choreography & Music Publishing will see to the rights to Knights dance moves while operating as a music publisher...
How TikTok Has Made “Vibe” A Multimedia Haiku
What a haiku is to language, a vibe is to sensory perception: a concise assemblage of image, sound, and movement. (#Aesthetic is sometimes used...
Opera Super-Fan Leaves Behind 200,000 Autographs
Lois Kirschenbaum was a switchboard operator from Flatbush, Brooklyn, who became perhaps New York’s biggest and longest-standing opera buff — and an obsessive autograph...
American TV Watchers Flee Cable
Five years ago, 63% of Americans mostly watched television through cable and satellite. Today, that percentage has dropped to fewer than half of all...
Streamers Ruled The Oscars This Year
Yes, 2020 was a weird year, and the rules for movies to debut in movie theatres were waived, but still: Netflix had seven statues,...
Anthony Hopkins Sure Didn’t Expect To Win, Either
The actor didn't appear on video for his Best Actor win, leaving the Oscars production with a big letdown of an ending. A Los...
Before The Pandemic, Jenny Odell Wrote A Book About Being Stuck In The Doomscroll
So how did the author of How to Do Nothing survive the various self-isolations, lockdowns, and other stay-at-home initiatives before vaccines got their start?...
The Oscars Disrupted Union Station And More
How wild to have a show with Crip Camp nominated for best documentary, a show that prevented disabled people in L.A. from getting to...
Al Young, Former Poet Laureate Of California, 81
Young was an acclaimed poet, but he also wrote novels - and always, always, worked jazz into his readings and his life. And along...
London’s West End Galleries Reopen
And visitors who have been in lockdown number ... infinity? ... and have been absolutely starved for art are more than happy to be...
How Oscar-Winning Director Chloe Zhao Gets Great Performances From Non-Actors
Basically, her subjects tell their stories; she works with those stories and fictionalizes them, and then the subjects act out their fictionalized lives. "The...
Kathie Coblentz, Master New York Librarian, 73
She spoke or could read 13 languages, ran the New York Marathon, and was the third-longest serving employee of the NYPL, where she catalogued...
The Best Way To Predict Our Futures
It's a kind of internal averaging of disparate opinions: "Each of us has an inner crowd, too, with a wisdom of its own." -...
Most People Are Missing The Most Revolutionary Thing About Nomadland’s Win
Yes, Nomadland is only the second movie directed by a woman to win a Best Picture Oscar, and the first Best Picture Oscar to...
The Guy Who’s Crashing Every Library’s Summer Reading Program
By 20-year-old Aaron Yang's estimate, "he's now contacted around a thousand libraries and acquired untold numbers of pencils, stickers and awards." Is ......
Activists Say They’ll Move Protests Inside MoMA
Protests have been going on outside the museum for the last three weeks. "These protests, called 'pop-up deoccupations' in the activists’ parlance — have so far...
Christa Ludwig, Mezzo-Soprano, 93
Ludwig was most prominently associated with the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival, but she also sang at the Met. She "rose from...
Hollywood’s Anti-Black Bias Is Costing It Billions Of Dollars A Year
For a supposedly capitalist industry, what the heck? A study found that "America’s film industry is the country’s least diverse business sector and that...
The Oscars, Intimate And Sometimes Surprising
Here are the live updates and the winners list as it happens. - Los Angeles Times
What Math Says About Who Will Win The Oscars Tonight
A dubious proposition, but a possible one: "If numbers or data or statistics can provide any ounce of entertainment, there’s no better time than...
