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Tag: 01.05.21

Neil Sheehan, 84, NYT Vietnam Reporter Who Got The Pentagon Papers

"Mr. Sheehan, the son of impoverished Irish-immigrant dairy farmers, graduated from Harvard University and served in the Army before joining the United Press International...

Record Number Of Women Directors For Big Hollywood Movies In 2020

The yearly Celluloid Ceiling report by San Diego State University found that women accounted for 16 per cent of directors working on the 100...

What If We Put Everyone Into A Giant Multi-Billion City?

The entire population of the earth could live in a giant sustainable city occupying a fraction of the earth's surface, freeing the rest of...

What Editors Do

Lish’s job on Carver is perhaps too extreme to serve as an example of the role of the editor, but what any kind of...

Ellen Burstyn On Her Fame (She’s Been *Very* Fortunate)

"It was never really my intention to be a movie star," says the actress, who's probably about to get her seventh Oscar nomination at...

How Equitable Pay Leads To Better Theatre

"Since pay equity leads to higher quality work, any company interested in having the best product to share with their community will center pay...

How The UK Art World Will Change Post-Brexit

The symbolic implications of the UK leaving the European Union has hit the art world hard. But the deal will also have a concrete...

Could Percussion Ensembles Become The String Quartets Of The 21st Century?

After all, "in 2009, critic Allan Kozinn declared in The New York Times, 'If you think about it, drums are the new violins,' pointing...

MD High Court Rules Rap Lyrics Can Be Used As Evidence Against Defendant

"Three weeks before trial, Montague used a jailhouse telephone to record a rap verse, which was then uploaded to Instagram. , the State...

Parisian Billionaire’s Museum Is, At Last, Ready To Open

"At 84, the billionaire François Pinault will finally realise a 20-year plan to build a private museum for his contemporary art collection in Paris....

Orbán Gov’t In Hungary Fans Rightist Backlash Against Black Lives Matter Artwork

"Commentators on pro-government television chatshows threatened to pull the statue down if it was erected, and compared it to putting up a monument to...

The Organization Working To Reimagine Public Monuments

The goal is to assess the country’s landscape of public memory in a time when our shared identity as Americans feels strained, if not...

Ex-Employees Of The California Arts Council Speak Out

"When it comes to the arts program specialists, I and several of my former colleagues found it to be a space that causes fear...

The Fifteen-Minute City? Sweden Considers The “One-Minute City”

A plan piloted by Swedish national innovation body Vinnova and design think tank ArkDes focuses attention on what Dan Hill, Vinnova’s director of strategic design, calls...

Australian Artists: Why Did The National Government Forget Us?

"For some, state governments stepped up and provided support. But the message to artists from the federal government was: you are not important to...

Why Doesn’t The Entertainment Biz Give Proper Credit To Its Choreographers?

The Emmys and Tonys give their Best Choreography trophies without the TV cameras running; the Oscars don't even have a category for dancemakers, and...

Arts Organizations Turn To Stars For Fundraising

The pandemic has forced arts institutions on both sides of the Atlantic to swiftly up their online game. The New York City Ballet and...

Analyzing The Fallout From The New York Times’s ‘Caliphate’ Podcast

The Peabody- and Pulitzer-winning audio series lost much of its luster (and gave up its awards) when its primary subject was revealed to be...

What The Reality Of Cows Has To Inform Humans

A cow sporting VR goggles is comedic as much as it is tragic. There’s horror, too, in that it may foretell our own alienated...

A New Print Magazine (!) About Theatre Is Here

"The folks behind Encore Monthly, a brand new magazine about theatre that just published its first issue …, think the time is ripe to...

Michael Bobbitt Is Tired Of Boards. What To Do?

Ugh. In our current structure, boards of directors for nonprofits don’t work. I’m sure there are outliers with highly functioning boards, but this is...

How ‘American Dirt’ Went From Hot Title To PR Fiasco And Still Became A...

Despite the disastrous rollout of a book that had been advance-hyped by some as a Grapes of Wrath-level work of literature, Jeanine Cummins's thriller...

Novelist Eric Jerome Dickey Dead At 59

" was an aspiring actor and stand-up comic who began writing fiction in his mid-30s and shaped a witty, conversational and sometimes graphic prose...

Film Version Of ‘Hamilton’ Is Eligible For Golden Globes And SAG Awards But Not...

Disney bought the rights to the specially shot and edited footage of the Broadway production and planned to release it in movie theaters —...

To Save Itself, San Francisco Art Institute Might Sell Its Diego Rivera Mural To...

The long-financially-strapped school — which shut itself down last March, only to reverse that decision a month later after raising $3 million — has...
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