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Orbán Gov’t In Hungary Fans Rightist Backlash Against Black Lives Matter Artwork
"Commentators on pro-government television chatshows threatened to pull the statue down if it was erected, and compared it to putting up a monument to...
Why Doesn’t The Entertainment Biz Give Proper Credit To Its Choreographers?
The Emmys and Tonys give their Best Choreography trophies without the TV cameras running; the Oscars don't even have a category for dancemakers, and...
Getting the Question(s) Right
As a blogger, I think I’m supposed to begin the New Year with reflections and projections. But the traumas of 2020 are still too...
Analyzing The Fallout From The New York Times’s ‘Caliphate’ Podcast
The Peabody- and Pulitzer-winning audio series lost much of its luster (and gave up its awards) when its primary subject was revealed to be...
Who Exactly Invented The Alphabet, And When?
The Sumerians had cuneiform and the Egyptians hieroglyphics, both complex and difficult to master, but who developed the system where each character represents a...
A New Print Magazine (!) About Theatre Is Here
"The folks behind Encore Monthly, a brand new magazine about theatre that just published its first issue …, think the time is ripe to...
How ‘American Dirt’ Went From Hot Title To PR Fiasco And Still Became A...
Despite the disastrous rollout of a book that had been advance-hyped by some as a Grapes of Wrath-level work of literature, Jeanine Cummins's thriller...
Squatters Invade Site Of Oldest City In Americas And Threaten To Kill Archaeologists
The place is Caral, estimated to be 5,000 years old and now a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Peruvian coastal desert about 125...
Novelist Eric Jerome Dickey Dead At 59
" was an aspiring actor and stand-up comic who began writing fiction in his mid-30s and shaped a witty, conversational and sometimes graphic prose...
Film Version Of ‘Hamilton’ Is Eligible For Golden Globes And SAG Awards But Not...
Disney bought the rights to the specially shot and edited footage of the Broadway production and planned to release it in movie theaters —...
To Save Itself, San Francisco Art Institute Might Sell Its Diego Rivera Mural To...
The long-financially-strapped school — which shut itself down last March, only to reverse that decision a month later after raising $3 million — has...
The Current State Of Lockdowns Around Europe
Rules vary quite a bit between the eight countries covered here. The Netherlands, which has seen a huge surge in cases, is quite strict;...
Britain’s Gone Into Another Lockdown. How Are The Arts Affected?
It's not as bad as it was last spring, and, in London, not too different from the last couple of weeks. "As per Gov.uk...
Grammy Awards Postponed For Six Weeks Due To Pandemic
The ceremony, hosted by Trevor Noah, had been scheduled for January 31. It will now take place on March 14, due to, as a...
He’s The King, The Grandfather And The Godfather Of Roller Disco
At the height of the disco craze in the late 1970s, Empire Rollerdrome, a rink in Brooklyn across the street from where the Brooklyn...
Reverse-Engineering Zoom To Make Online Theater
"Jared Mezzocchi has been systematically exploring what Zoom and the editing program Isadora can offer theatre practitioners during the pandemic. He has been working...
Angela Hewitt Gets Custom-Made Replacement For Her Smashed Piano
Her horrible 2020 began in January when movers dropped her four-pedal Fazioli, the instrument on which she made every recording she'd done since 2003....
Figures Are In: North American Movie Box Office Income Was Down 80% In 2020
"As predicted, domestic movie tickets sold between Jan. 1 through Dec. 31 came generated an estimated $2.3 billion (or $2.28 billion) compared to $11.4...
In China, Foreign Films Have Lost Half Their Market Share In One Year
"Imported films accounted for only about a sixth of China's total box office in 2020, a nearly 55% decrease year-on-year, industry data tracker Maoyan...
Author Of ‘War Horse’ Insists He Wasn’t Trying To Censor Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’
" described '21st-century sensibilities' as having prevented the inclusion of the play in Tales from Shakespeare, his retelling of 10 Shakespeare plays for...
Unknown El Greco Painting Discovered In Spain
The small canvas depicting Christ carrying the cross and wearing the crown of thorns, owned by a private individual, was authenticated after two years...
Dorms Designed By Louis Kahn In India Saved From Wrecking Ball
The board of governors of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad admitted that an international outcry prompted their decision to call off plans...
Lee Breuer, Experimental Stage Director, Dead At 83
"A tenacious outsider who refused his sole Tony Award nomination — for his biggest hit and only Broadway show, the Sophocles adaptation The Gospel...
As Australia’s Arts Festival Season Begins Amid The Pandemic, All Eyes Are On Sydney
"The Festival is poised to open on Wednesday and its administrators are on high alert. Though Covid-19 case reports remain low, the...
Sydney’s Reopening Theatres Say They’re ‘COVID-Safe.’ Are They?
The Opera House finally became the last of the city's major venues to require masks, but enforcing the policy is not easy, and most...