Tag: 04.23.21
Authors And Publishers Are In No Rush To Restart Book Tours
"Most publishers contacted by PW said they are deferring making any concrete plans about tours until authors feel comfortable going back on the road...
New California Bill Could Save LA’s 99-Seat Theatres
Enter SB 805, which is up for a hearing by the California Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee on April 26. If passed,...
Profusion of Confusion: Unraveling the Tangled Tale of “Salvator Mundi” (& my theory on...
The only thing that’s certain about the fate of this elusive painting is that the story about why it hasn’t publicly surfaced since it...
Opera Super-Fan Leaves Behind 200,000 Autographs
Lois Kirschenbaum was a switchboard operator from Flatbush, Brooklyn, who became perhaps New York’s biggest and longest-standing opera buff — and an obsessive autograph...
American TV Watchers Flee Cable
Five years ago, 63% of Americans mostly watched television through cable and satellite. Today, that percentage has dropped to fewer than half of all...
Al Young, Former Poet Laureate Of California, 81
Young was an acclaimed poet, but he also wrote novels - and always, always, worked jazz into his readings and his life. And along...
Kathie Coblentz, Master New York Librarian, 73
She spoke or could read 13 languages, ran the New York Marathon, and was the third-longest serving employee of the NYPL, where she catalogued...
When Lesbian Writers Made Paris The Center Of Modernist Thought
A biographer says of Natalie Barney and her wealthy, artistic circle: "They were destined, if you like, to break away. I think of modernism...
Electronic Music’s Suppressed Innovators
Laurie Anderson: "It’s very interesting ... that a lot of that early work in electronics was done by women. Some of them wanted to...
Behind The Scenes Of The Best Picture Nominees
What the directors say, including clips about how to make a dramatic scene more dramatic with whispers - and how to cast a "good...
The Two Types Of Post-Pandemic People
Who dominates in the (hoped-for, perhaps arriving) after-COVID era will affect theatre, music, dance, and other performing arts. Psychology professor Laurie Santos: "The pandemic...
Maine’s Attorney General Says Arts Robert Indiana’s Estate Overpaid Lawyers By Millions
The litigation after the artist's death in 2018 has been extensive, but perhaps the fees were quite a bit more extensive than they should...
The Detroit Symphony Gets A Letter From A Non-Fan Of Black Composers’ Music
And then DSO vice-president Erik Rönmark posted the letter to social media (with the patron's, or former patron's, name redacted). Response on social media...
Eight Smithsonian Museums Are Getting Ready To Reopen
All of the eight reopened briefly in 2020, between July and October. Coronavirus surges in November closed them again. But many others in the...
Art Peaked 30,000 Years Ago
Or so some believe. "The more you look at images from the walls of Lascaux and Chauvet, the more you realise art really has...
Which Actors Benefit From Oscar Nominations?
Well, what a surprise: "For white actors, Academy recognition quickly leads to starring roles, both in big-budget blockbusters and prestige dramas. For actors of...
‘Damn! This Is A Caravaggio! Where The Hell Did You Find It?’ (The Inside...
"It took all of six minutes for Massimo Pulini to realise that the small oil painting due to go under the hammer in Madrid...
The World’s Bravest Opera Boss Talks About The Challenges At His Latest House
Stéphane Lissner has been the superintendent/general director at the two most notoriously contentious companies in the world: La Scala and the Paris Opera. Now...