Tag: 02.04.21
Louvre’s New Conservation Facility Will Hold One-Third Of The Museum’s Entire Collection
The Louvre Conservation Center, located in Liévin (20 miles or so southwest of Lille), "has six storage areas, including dry, low-humidity areas for metalworks,...
Germany Earmarks Another €1 Billion In COVID Relief To Its Arts Sector
"This marks the second chapter of the so-called 'Neustart Kultur' program (New Start Culture), which was first launched last July with a bailout of...
The Man Who Realized Attention Was A Precious Commodity
His epiphany was this: One of the most finite resources in the world is human attention. To describe its scarcity, he latched onto what...
The Purpose Of Playing
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once described play as ‘ecoming and dissolution, building and destruction without moral implication, in eternal innocence’ – as an act...
Theatres Are Closed, Staff Are Furloughed, Colleagues Have Died, So How To Move Forward...
With joy. No, truly: "We must now work urgently, with purpose, centered in joy. ... This is not joyful expression solely for the purpose...
Waterstones Doesn’t Want To Pay Its Furloughed Workers Minimum Wage
Some furloughed workers says they can't make rent, can't buy food, can't make it in general, at 80 percent of their pay - and...
The Coronavirus Is Devastating Film And TV Careers
Yes, it's devastating all kinds of careers in the arts. One TV director: "The big question is ‘will I ever work again?’ And if...
Turns Out Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman Was Inspired By Composers
Gorman: "I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that’s Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia...
New Feature Film On Twyla Tharp
The documentary will feature interviews alongside select footage of Tharp’s more than 160 choreographed works, “including 129 dances, 12 television specials, six major Hollywood...
Why Sherlock Holmes Has Become One Of Our Most Enduring Literary Characters
There are the endless literary takes. There are Anthony Horowitz’s sequels, or Andrew Lane’s tales of a teenage Holmes. Star basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...
The Guy Who Moves Orchestras For A Living
Guido Frackers is the guy. "So I’ve seen the environment at least one year before. And we have a “bulldozer” who goes in 24...
While Bela Lugosi Slept, They Made A Whole Other ‘Dracula’ On The Set —...
"Shot in half the time the Lugosi vehicle was allotted, and on a much smaller budget, Drácula" — yes, it's the Spanish version —...
All The Work Went Away: TV People Talk About Careers During COVID
“At the start of the pandemic, no one had any work, so it wasn’t so much of a problem. At times it was even...
Video Opera And ‘Relevance’: Where They Meet And Where They Miss
"Recent case histories are alternately breakthroughs and models of artistic self-defeat. Which was which?" asks David Patrick Stearns. "The reverse of what I expected."...
How Do Great Cities Die? So Slowly That Most People There Barely Notice
It's not usually after a disaster: in those cases, great cities tend to rebuild and often become grander. (Think of London and Chicago after...
With Their Theatres Closed, The French Turn To Puppet Shows
Performances for kids in schools are the only ones allowed under current COVID restrictions, so puppet shows are the only live theatre happening in...
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Has A New Director (And She’s An Alum)
Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell dropped out of Juilliard at age 19 to join the company, where she danced for three years before moving on to 13...
Furloughed Staff To Waterstones: Please, At Least Pay Us Minimum Wage! Waterstones: That ‘Would...
Britain's relief package for businesses closed by COVID provides 80% of a furloughed employee's salary, even if that salary is only minimum wage. Workers...
When Dancers Form COVID Bubbles
A look at how small groups of (properly tested and quarantined) dancers and choreographers got together (at long last!) to make work this past...
Should Prime-Time TV Series Work In COVID Storylines? Or Is That The Last Thing...
"In rooms all over the internet, hospital dramas, first-responder shows, situation comedies and courtroom procedurals were having similar debates. To ignore the events...
Archaeologists Discover Stone And Bronze Age Burials At Site Of Stonehenge Tunnel
"Bronze age graves, Neolithic pottery and the vestiges of a mysterious C-shaped enclosure that might have been a prehistoric industrial area are among the...
Despite Pandemic, UK TV And Film Production Only Down 21 Percent In 2020
As per fresh stats from the British Film Institute, film and TV spend on Brit shores was £2.84B for the year, down a surprisingly...