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What Happens To LA’s Black Culture When The Black Population Shrinks?
For many decades, Los Angeles had been known as a Black migrant "magnet." Folks came for the promise and the sunshine. The Black population...
What Galleries Learned About Selling Art Online This Year
Online Viewing Rooms have certain advantages: collectors like the price transparency many fairs have demanded, and gallerists enjoy saving money on costly flights, hotels,...
Italy Has Too Much Tourism. How To Fix? The Uffizi Has A Plan
Enter the Uffizi Diffusi project. Meaning "scattered Uffizi," it's a reimagining of Italy's "scattered hotel" concept, in which individual "rooms" are located in different...
A Critic Reviews 125 Years Of The NYT’s Book Reviews
To wander through 125 years of book reviews is to endure assault by adjective. All the fatuous books, the frequently brilliant, the disappointing, the...
Lessons On How To Have An “Exquisitely Managed Career” By Philip Roth
"Its lessons include: never marry; have no children; lawyer up early; keep tight control of your cover designs; listen to the critics while scorning...
Why Working Digitally Will Be Here To Stay In The Theatre
“There are so many benefits to all this stuff, It’s going to make theatre more accessible. It’s going to help tackle the issue of...
The Toronto Star Bets The Future On A Casino
Torstar's new owners say they are branching into online gambling to help pay for those continuing efforts. "Doing this as part of Torstar will...
The Virtue Of Ethics
"Until quite recently there was a concern that ethical relativism had become the dominant cultural assumption, which meant that ethics was all just a...
The Unkindness Of Booing
"In nearly 50 years of musical life, I can count on the fingers of two hands the occasions on which I’ve heard boos erupt...
Dance Through The Mailbox
Audience members sit on stools in separated cubicles surrounding the stage, each with its own door and letter-drop slots through which they can watch...
What Have Theatre Artists Been Doing This Past Year? Eight Tell Their Stories
“This notion that we have to do something, that we have to find other ways to work. I was like, ‘Hello, this is an...
Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti
One contradiction stands above the rest. The man who cofounded City Lights bookstore and press and wrote the million-selling poetry collection Coney Island of...
Boy Scouts To Sell Off Norman Rockwell Collection To Pay For Abuse Claims
In a reorganization plan filed in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware this week, the Boy Scouts listed nearly 60 pieces of art by Rockwell...
Bookshop.com Generates £1 Million For Indie UK Bookstores
Bookshop.org was launched in the US a year ago and in the UK in November. Pitching itself as a socially conscious way to buy...
Survey: When Theatre-Goers Will Be Ready To Return To Theatres
With the disclaimer that this wave of the research reflects current expectations about the pandemic, based on anxieties about vaccine distribution and the spread...
Moving Berlinale Film Festival Is An Economic Blow To Berlin
“Our entire industry is in the worst crisis since World War II,” says Thomas Lengfelder, chief executive of the Berlin Hotel and Restaurant Assn....
UK Artists Have Been Hit With A Double Whammy
"There have been two great catastrophes.The first has been the abandonment of freelancers, many of whom work in the arts. A whole swathe of...
Social Scientist: We Need To Treat Disinformation With A Vaccine
"Our information crisis can and should be treated like a virus. Responding to fake stories or conspiracy theories after the fact is woefully insufficient,...
Artificial Intelligence Has A Grammar Problem
Sometimes Grammarly doesn’t do what it should, and sometimes it even does what it shouldn’t. These strengths and failings hint at the essence of...
Has COVID Shutdown Made Dancers More Adaptable?
"I am hopeful that we will see a generation that has built a confidence and competence of cognitive flexibility. That is the ability to...
A Little Island Grows Off Manhattan
Little Island completes the transformation of the Meatpacking District, where for decades freight cars delivered animals to slaughterhouses that lined and bloodied the nearby...
How To Reopen Theatres Safely? Artists Turn To Global Network
The protocols these countries have developed the past year to permit some live performances depend greatly on the magnitude of the pandemic and the...
Sorry, But The Golden Globes Are Just Problematic.
Who votes for these things? The members, currently totaling a scant 87 compared to the nearly 10,000 eligible Oscar voters, of the LA-based group...
The Pronouns Problem
For now, pronoun declarations are both novel and blatant — which can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on whether you’re...
American Cynicism Has Reached Our Breaking Point
Cynicism, at scale, makes democracy’s most basic demand—seeing one another as we are—impossible. And America, at the moment, is saturated with it. - The...