Tag: 03.23.21
She Took Over A Ballet Company In The Middle Of The Pandemic
Susan Jaffe was announced as the new artistic director of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre last April, near COVID's first peak in the U.S., and she...
3,000-Year-Old Bronze Bull Unearthed By Rainstorms At Site Of Ancient Olympic Games
An archaeologist working at Olympia noticed what turned out to be one of the horns of the bull figurine sticking up out of the...
Under Pressure, Chair Promises That Hong Kong’s Big New Contemporary Art Museum Will Obey...
The chairman of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, the Lincoln Center-like complex under construction on the harbor, publicly pledged that curators at the...
UK Vinyl Record Sales Hit Highest Level Since 1980s
UK record labels enjoyed a 30% boost in income from the sale of vinyl records last year to £86.5m, the highest total since 1989,...
Warner To Start Theatrical Release Of Its Movies Again
But the window between theatre debut and release to streaming will be shortened. The shortened theatrical window matches recent changes from other studios instigated...
COVID Shutdown Has Wiped Out Entry-Level Hollywood
"While the pandemic overturned the lives of workers industrywide, those just beginning to establish their careers in an industry that is notoriously difficult to...
Advertisers: If We Can’t Put Commercials On Netflix And Amazon Prime, We’ll Just Have...
"With more people home and glued to their streaming services, many of which don't allow advertising, companies are finding they need to be creative...
How Our Stories Frame Our Issues
"Why should storytelling matter so much? Because it conditions us to respond to society. Artists teach us what to take notice of and what...
Actors’ Equity Faces Rebellion Of Its Own Members Over COVID Restrictions
"Quietly simmering frustrations erupted publicly last week, when more than 2,500 union members signed a letter, circulated by a Broadway performer and signed by...
Paris Review Names New Editor (The Second Emily In A Row)
The magazine, co-founded and long run by the late George Plimpton, "has a new editor, only the sixth since being founded in 1953, but...
Mills College Will Shut Itself Down
The 169-year-old liberal arts college in Oakland, which has left an extraordinary legacy in American arts (especially contemporary classical music), is one of the...
Soprano Christine Goerke Named Associate Artistic Director Of Michigan Opera Theatre
"The move brings a singer at the peak of her international career to Detroit. She will perform locally at least once a season, take...
Actor George Segal, 87
" long career began in serious drama but who became one of America's most reliable and familiar comic actors, first in the movies and...
After National Backlash, Australian Festival Cancels Artwork That Was A Very Bad Idea
"On Tuesday afternoon organisers of the festival, which is run by the Museum of Old and New Art , announced that the work...
Imagination Is A Superpower
Aristotle called this imaginative power phantasia. We might mistakenly think that phantasia is just for artists and entertainers, a rare and special talent, but...
Germany In Talks To Return Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
As the issue of repatriating art and artifacts looted by European colonizers came to the fore over the past few years, Berlin came under...