Yearly Archives: 2021
As Insecure’s Fifth Season Ends, Its Legacy Could Be The Centering Of Black Women
Yvonne Orji, who played Molly: "I want to believe that there are now more Black creators and creatives in spaces of power to greenlight...
Biden Appearance Brings Kennedy Center Honors Back To What Seems Nearly Normal
The previous occupant had skipped the ceremony and held no reception while in office. President Biden, who did hold a White House reception, said...
What Would Possess Alec Baldwin To Give An Interview In The Middle Of Investigations...
One trial lawyer said, "There’s no reason you should ever give an interview like that. It can only backfire." - Los Angeles Times
The Sound Of Our Times Is Music Drenched In Myth
Myth is everywhere on Broadway and in opera right now, including a collaboration between 88-year-old composer Wayne Shorter and the younger composer/performer/lyricist Esmerelda Spalding....
At The British Independent Film Awards, One Film Runs Away With A Pile Of...
After Love won six awards, including actress, director, film, and screenplay. - The Guardian (UK)
Even Without The Cambodian Lion, Authorities Say They’ll Continue Hunting For Looted Artifacts
Toek Tik, the Cambodian man known as "The Lion," helped plunder ancient sites - then, recently, spent years telling police and cultural workers about...
The Cellist Who Wants To Provide Free Classical Music To Everyone
But the musicians have to earn a living wage too, he insists. - Baltimore Sun
The Best Dance Scenes From Non-Dance Movies
It's perhaps a cliché now to have the cast dance in some fashion, even when they're not in a dance movie like Black Swan...
BookTok Has Turned From Tearjerkers To Obscure 1930s Puzzle Books
Last month, a TikTok user picked up a copy of Cain's Jawbone and made a TikTok, wherein she said, "I’ve decided to take this nearly...
The Voices Of Cultural Workers Breaking Up With The Arts
"Artists are taught to see each other as competition ... and to believe that failure to achieve status in their chosen field is solely...
The Career Of America’s Most Prolific Artifact Thief May Have Ended
Thomas Gavin stashed stolen antique firearms "in his hideout — a cluttered, non-descript barn in rural Pennsylvania. Gavin's crime spree was so under the...
Do Little Free Libraries Contribute To Gentrification?
"By bringing this modern cultural artifact here from white neighborhoods, had I set myself up, set up the neighborhood? Was I contributing to gentrification...
An Intimacy Coordinator Says Actors Are Under Too Much Pressure
Being an intimacy director involves so much behind the scenes comes - helping actors resist producers who put "pressure on actors reluctant to shoot...
Covid Cases Among Cast Members Forces Moulin Rouge In London To Cancel Performances
"It makes Moulin Rouge! The Musical the first major show in months to have to cancel because of Covid among its cast." - The...
Returning To The (Art Studio) Flames
For fine arts students, the pandemic has been rough. Colleges including the Massachusetts College of Art and Design "sent home 'care packages' tailored to...
Joanne Shenandoah Looked Out Her Office Window, Then Transformed Indigenous Music
Shenandoah saw a tree being cut down and decided to leave office work. Good decision: The singer, who died at 64, recorded many albums...
A Black Artist Was Swarmed By Police During His Performance At Miami Art Fair
Not only artist Xxavier Carter but the curator and the fair were threatened with fines and long jail sentences. Ironically, perhaps, Carter's piece "reimagines...
The Canadian Man Behind So Many Christmas Movies
Ron Oliver's joke tweets get calls from Hallmark executives, and his philosophy is omnipresent across streamers' and networks' Christmas fare: "Make it beautiful, make...
Making Theatre That Reflects A Contemporary Obsession With Film
Ivo van Hove's passion for movies has affected everything about his direction, from the use of video on stage to the themes he pursues....
Was This Comedian Fired From His Set Or Not?
No, according to Jeff Garlin, he was definitely not fired from The Goldbergs. He called the reporter to explain, well, everything "Okay. There has...
The New York City Kids Who Wrote A History Of Black Composer Florence Price
A middle-school class at NY's Special School discovered there was no Price biography aimed at children - so "this beautiful book emerged that they...
Attempting To Turn Around A Troubled Theatre In Berlin
The Volksbühne kept an East German spirit alive in a reunified Germany, until its longtime director was fired in 2017. Since then, there have...
What Do We Want To Do With The Rest Of Our Lives?
Such are the questions that a global, murderous pandemic will make most of us ask. And we might wonder: "What work is actually valuable?...
Art Basel Miami Beach Has A Different, Much More Diverse, Line-Up
In the online iteration of 2020, no African American galleries were included. But "over the past year, Art Basel changed its admission requirements and...
Sondheim Also Revolutionized Crosswords
"Sondheim is particularly remembered among connoisseurs of word puzzles for his role in introducing Americans to British-style cryptic crosswords. ... The crosswords that he...