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Graeme Ferguson, Co-Inventor Of IMAX, Dead At 91
After he and his brother-in-law, Roman Kroitor, created documentaries for Expo 67 in Montreal that used multiple screens and projectors, they decided to invent...
TV’s Tricky Question: To Include COVID In Storylines Or Not?
"It was an issue, if not the big issue, that writers across Hollywood had to face: how to plan a season amid an evolving...
‘Come To The Theatre And Arrest Us’: Andrew Lloyd Webber Says He’ll Reopen His...
In response to news that Boris Johnson's government is considering postponing the full reopening of performance venues scheduled for June 21, the musical theatre...
Staffers At ‘The New Yorker’ Threaten Strike, Picket Anna Wintour’s House
The magazine's salaried employees formed a union three years ago and have been negotiating for higher pay (at a publication known for low wages)...
New York City Mayoral Race: What The Candidates Have To Say About The Arts
"As the June 22 primary draws near, we rounded up the top six contenders" — in alphabetical order, Eric Adams, Kathryn Garcia, Dianne Morales,...
New York’s $25 Million City Artist Corps: Here, At Last, Are The Details
"Just over a month ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that as part of NYC's post-pandemic recovery, the city will be investing $25 million...
Kirill Serebrennikov Barred From Leaving Russia To Attend Cannes Festival
The award-winning, beleaguered dissident — famous recently for his dance and opera productions — is also a filmmaker, and he has a new title,...
Where That Hudson River School Painting Sold By The Newark Museum Will End Up
Thomas Cole's Arch of Nero wound up being one of the symbols of the ongoing argument about US museums' deaccessioning of artworks in order...
Uncertain But Hopeful, Carnegie Hall Announces Reopening Plans
"The upcoming season will be more modest than usual: about 90 concerts, compared with a typical slate of 150, though more may be added...
Mehretu’s To-Do, “Day’s End” & Diller-Dally: Inside & Outside the Reopened Whitney
As CultureGrrl readers will remember, my first post-pandemic visit to a museum — the Metropolitan — did not end well. Happily, things went more...
Queering ‘Giselle’
Katy Pyle and her company, Ballez, have a new work called Giselle of Loneliness (click here if you don't get the reference) "that grapples...
How Podcasts Became Substitutes For Friends During The Lockdown
"The number of podcasts … ballooned, filling voids in the professional lives of the hosts and the social lives of the listeners, and in...
The Behind-The-Scenes Disasters That An Arts Festival’s Public (Hopefully) Never Sees
"From natural disasters to cast mishaps, from visa snafus to failing voices, the team at Spoleto Festival USA has been there, done that and...
Folks Have Been Looking For A Gender-Neutral English Pronoun For A Long Time Now
"Even though people did not … personally identify as nonbinary in the way we understand it today (though some identified as 'neuter'), neutral pronouns...
Does Los Angeles Need A New Arts Mega-Donor To Replace Eli Broad? Naaah
Carolina A. Miranda: "Let's retire the outmoded idea that the most important factor in a city's cultural landscape is the presence of some white...
How Big Was The Hit Public Radio And TV Stations Took Last Year?
"Revenues of public television and radio stations declined by $147 million, or 5%, in fiscal year 2020, which included the first months of the...
Richard Robinson, Who Made Scholastic Into A Children’s Publishing Powerhouse, Dead At 84
" nearly five decades at the head of the company shaped it into one of the world's most prominent and recognizable publishers of children's...
Garth Drabinsky’s Comeback Will Be Broadway’s First Fully New Musical Since COVID Arrived
The first production on Broadway that hadn't been previously scheduled and postponed will be Paradise Square, a show about the origins of tap dance,...
Art Theft Is Way Down In Italy, Thanks To The Carabinieri’s Drones
"Fewer art and cultural heritage works were stolen in Italy in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to the annual report of the...
As Italy Was Locked Down, Looting Of Ancient Roman Artifacts Went Up
"The looting of ancient art in Italy is … at least as old as the Roman empire, which not only contended with its own...
Evidence
My introduction of Emanuel Ax in May in Boston, as he received an honorary doctorate from New England Conservatory. - Bruce Brubaker
Howard Herring talks digital in the arts
The President and CEO of the New World Symphony discusses the impact of digital environments on our art and audiences. - Aaron Dworkin
Saudi Arabia Aims Its Cultural Diplomacy Blitz At Greece
"The major partnership," announced in May, "will include funding for archaeological preservation of the historic Al Fao region in the southern part of Saudi...
The Nexus Of Dance And Drag Is Growing
And it's not — not just — the Trocks and RuPaul's Drag Race. The latter, however, by its popularity and creativity, does seem to...
How Alamo Drafthouse Pulled Itself Out Of Chapter 11 In 12 Weeks
"After furloughing around 80 percent of the chain's workers at once, and having survived the financial crucible of bankruptcy by selling itself to deep-pocketed...