The British Family Providing Lockdown Relief With Musical Parodies
The Marsh family of Faversham are dealing with Britain's lockdowns by performing parodies. "This six-voice choir, with its sweet harmonies and the occasional wobbly...
A Reckoning With Racism In Canada’s Country Music Industry
There's no Indigenous Artist of the Year award in Saskatchewan this year, and when a committee was discussing why not, well: "Somebody made a...
Getting In The Archive Sub-Basements To Discover How Librarians In Paris Resisted The Nazis
A researcher comes up against French bureaucracy: "To learn more about the day-to-day life of Parisians during the war, I turned to the Bibliothèque Nationale...
The Remarkable, And Continuing, Artistic Career Of Lorraine O’Grady
Before she burst onto the art scene with performance art with an edge, O'Grady "had worked for the Labor and State Departments, including as...
Bust Of Black Member Of Lewis And Clark Expedition Appears In A Park In...
York was enslaved by William Clark and remained enslaved after the expedition returned. The memorial bust, which is on a pedestal where a statue...
Black Ballerinas In Utah Are Helping Change Ballet Culture
In the wake of George Floyd's killing and the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the country, Ballet West's Black dancers were asked by...
Director Lee Daniels Says His Movies Are Independent Because Hollywood Studios Don’t Fund Black...
You'd think the director of Precious, The Butler, and more could get funding. But ... "'Studios will give you about $10 to make a...
Phoebe Waller-Bridge Of ‘Fleabag’ Fame Is Now The President Of Edinburgh Fringe Society
It's an honorary, spokesperson role during a year when Fringe Fest may be online or may be in-person, or both, depending. Fleabag got its...
Art House Pulls 19th Century Romanian Jewish Community’s Burial Register From Auction
The register of Jewish burials in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca between 1836 and 1899, is one of very few documents left after more...
The Golden Globes’ Parent Organization Is A Mess, Including Accusations Of Corruption And Tax...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has some issues, with members describing monthly meetings as battle zones. The HFPA includes zero Black members. It's "an...
Shifts In How Kids Play Mean Playground Design Needs To Follow
A new emphasis has also changed how design firms feel about commissions. "For the new guard of playground design, the boundary between play equipment...
The Latest Front In A Music Copyright Battle: Superhero Cartoons
Members of De La Soul were, suddenly, characters on Teen Titans Go!, where in one episode, "the plot revolves around a fraught real-life issue:...
Peter G. Davis, Classical Music Critic For The New York Times And New York...
Davis "presided over the field during boon years in New York in the 1960s and ’70s, when performances were plentiful and tickets relatively cheap,...
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...
Why Are So Many Writers Having Difficulty Writing During COVID?
“The problem with writing is it’s just another screen, and that’s all there is … I can’t connect with my imagination. I can’t connect...
Cancellation Of New London Concert Hall Adds To UK Musicians’ Woes
“It’s a further confirmation of the parochialization of British music and the arts,” said Jasper Parrott, a co-founder of HarrisonParrott, a classical music agency,...
American Shakespeare Center Loses Director, Will Be Actor-led
Ethan McSweeny has served as artistic director of the American Shakespeare Center since 2018. He announced his resignation effective Feb. 11, 2021. - Washington Post
When Anthony Haden-Guest Met The Christos
It was during the Running Fence project that Christo and Jeanne-Claude took me to meet the Charles Schulz, the late creator of Peanuts, who had a home in the...
Consider The Ushers…
Usher is a variant of the French huisier, from the Latin ostiarius, a custodian of the doors. The role comes from early modern theater,...
