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Tag: 02.11.21

Champs Elysee To Be Converted To Long Park As Paris Turns Away From Cars

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo hopes to bring the road back to its people by removing its outer lanes, widening pedestrian areas, planting more trees...

Pigs Have Learned To Play Video Games

In a research lab at Penn State, "four pigs — Hamlet, Omelette, Ebony and Ivory — were trained to use an arcade-style joystick ...

The Agents Behind Hollywood’s Book-To-Movie Boom

“The entire structure of the traditional book-to-film deal has changed. Our authors are now at the cutting edge of those deals, in the selling...

The New Mexico Museum Of Art Is Planning To Destroy A Historic Chicano Mural

Not for nothing - for a new museum of contemporary art. But ... really? "'We invited the Department of Cultural Affairs,' Carrie Wood, a...

One Idea For What To Do With Unused And Deconsecrated Churches

Artists need studios, and usually studios with light ... and churches often have that. "Places of worship are typically built to outlast their parishioners....

Will Covid-19 Kill The Pandemic Movie?

Maybe, but then again, the form has a way of shifting with new information to meet the times. However, it will have to be...

A Norwegian Book Festival Becomes 12 Global Festivals

"One of the things I wasn’t thinking about, but which is very obvious to me now, is the great value of having each festival...

Pennsylvania Governor Proposes Zeroing Out Funds For Public TV

The state has issued $750,000 to seven stations annually since 2019. The funding, which is divided evenly among the stations, supports technology needs and...

Empty Movie Theaters Are Being Rented Out To Video Gamers

The cinema chain Malco has been doing this in six Southern states since November, and the South Korean chain CGV started it in January....

At Last Minute, Trump Made The Arts Commission Overseeing Capitol All-Male, All-White

"After Donald Trump made a flurry of hasty, last-minute appointments to the board that oversees the design of much of what is built in...

Whatever Became Of Shelley Duvall? This.

A sting of Robert Altman films in the 1970s made her into a major movie star with a Best Actress win at Cannes. Then...

L.A. MoCA Is Restructuring, Will Hire New Executive Director

"Museum of Contemporary Art Director Klaus Biesenbach will take on a new role as artistic director … will focus on programming, collections and...

Jazz Pianist Chick Corea, 79

"Since the 1960s, Mr. Corea had been a prolific and dynamic force in music, building on his early training in classical music, Latin jazz...

Southern Hemisphere’s Largest Arts Festival Watches And Waits As COVID Restrictions Come And Go

"Adelaide Fringe festival is scrambling to determine how the sudden closure of South Australia's borders to Melbourne residents may affect dozens of its shows....
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