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COVID Killed Two-Thirds Of All Arts And Recreation Jobs In NYC
"Employment in New York City's arts, entertainment and recreation sector plummeted by 66 percent from December 2019 to December 2020, according to a report...
Brexit Is Far More Damaging Than COVID, Say British Theatre And Dance Companies
Says the executive producer at one major troupe, "Brexit will have the bigger impact because it's a long-term restriction. We're a flexible, dynamic sector...
Van Gogh Painting Unseen For More Than 130 Years Now On View
"A Street Scene In Montmartre has been owned by a French family for most of the time since it was painted in 1887. Sotheby's...
How To Increase Equity For Blacks In Dance? ‘Ask Different Questions’
Choreographer Robert Moses: "The notion of change is sophomoric. The idea is to give people honest opportunity to be part of whatever they're intending...
The Relativity Switch
This story may sound like a metaphor. But it’s actually a case-in-point. - Andrew Taylor
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dies at 101; His Pictures of a Gone World Remain
A literary era passes. It was already past, yet it still has influence. My account is minimal in the scheme of things but here...
Jazz beats the virus online
Chicago presenters of jazz and new music, and journalists from Madrid to the Bay Area, vocalist Kurt Elling, trumpeter Orbert Davis and pianist Lafayette...
Turkish Government Harasses Kurdish Theater, Accusing It Of ‘Terrorist Propaganda’
"In a country where Turkish is the only official language, speaking Kurdish is sometimes seen as an act of rebellion." (It is the mother...
Critics Say The Prado Broke The Law When It Acquired A 20th-Century Painting
"The Prado paid €70,000 (around $85,000) for La Boulonnaise, a 1929 work by the Spanish painter María Blanchard. … But the move has riled...
Gérard Depardieu Formally Charged With Rape And Sexual Assault
"An actor in her 20s … accuses Depardieu of having raped and assaulted her at his Parisian home on two separate occasions in August...
Slate Suspends Podcast Host Mike Pesca After Internal Slack Chat About N-Word
Pesca, a public radio veteran who has been hosting Slate's daily news podcast, The Gist, since 2012, was suspended indefinitely without pay this week...
Pandemic Has Knocked Out Oscar Campaign Season, So Awards May Get Weird
"The process helps winnow the field of competing films for upcoming awards shows, a kind of hive mind forming around the season's leading...
UK Museum Workers’ Unions Fear Boris Johnson’s Government Wants To ‘Airbrush’ British History
"Prospect, the FDA union and PCS union wrote that their members were 'deeply worried' that the government was challenging the independence of museums and...
Spotify Is About To Open In 85 More Countries
The move adds a billion more potential customers to the market for the audio streaming giant, which will now be available in 178 countries...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Backbone Of San Francisco’s Literary Scene, Dead At 101
A poet in his own right as well as proprietor of the bookstore and publishing house City Lights, Ferlinghetti became famous in 1957 when...
After Six Years, Google News May Be Returning To Spain
"Google is negotiating individual licensing deals with a divided Spanish news industry that could allow the U.S. tech giant's news service to resume in...
Commercial Art Galleries In UK Can Reopen Before Museums Do, And Museum Folks Are...
"Museum and gallery leaders in England have expressed anger, disappointment and bafflement at why commercial art galleries – which count as non-essential shops –...
He Invented New Instruments To Express The Soul Of His Troubled Homeland
Joaquín Orellana, one of Guatemala's leading composers, calls his creations útiles sonoros ("sound tools"), and many of them are de-and-reconstructed versions of his country's...
“Black Art’s” Blackout: Who’s Absent from HBO’s Survey of “Today’s Top African American Artists”?
Although it gives us fascinating inside-the-studio glimpses of several important artists at work, Black Art: In the Absence of Light insufficiently illuminates the depth...
Charles Hill, Heroic Undercover Art Detective, Dead At 73
"Hill's willingness to take major risks in order to find some of the world's greatest stolen artworks" — most famously, Vermeer's Lady Writing a...
Why Is The Turkish Government Trying To Sue This Cultural Organization Out Of Existence?
"While art philanthropist Osman Kavala has been jailed in Turkey for more than three years without conviction, the country has now filed an unprecedented...
Using Social Media To Preserve The Uyghur Language — And Keep It Up To...
Uyghur, a Turkic language that uses the Arabic alphabet, has about 10 million native speakers, most of them in the Xinjiang province of northwestern...
How To Design A Memorial For The COVID Pandemic?
Several places in Italy and Great Britain are considering the question, and a few memorials have already gone up. " are not intended as...
Why Joffrey Ballet Is Only Now Making Work To Stream
Staging a full-length performance digitally "would break the bank," says artistic director Ashley Wheater, who doesn't really like streamed dance much. "I'm embracing it...
Will Upright Citizens Brigade Ever Reopen? ‘I Don’t Know’, Says Amy Poehler
In a feature interview for The New York Times Magazine, the co-founder of the famed, and now troubled, improv company and school said, "It’s...