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Scorsese Says Streaming Algorithms Are Ruining Film
True? Film has always had marketing, PR, and of course ratings: "It would be a mistake to present the old gatekeepers in romantic colours...
As The Tonys Remain Undetermined, Where Are Previous Nominees Now?
A Broadway stage manager who's now in graduate school for (logically) organizational leadership project management: "I initially thought, well, I'll get a class or...
We Worried About Children On The Internet And Completely Forgot About Adults
Honestly, will we never learn? "Americans have expressed their concerns about each new form of media through fears about children and youth. Younger Americans...
Rupert Neve, ‘The Man Who Made The Recording Console,’ 94
The Grammy-winning architect of modern music "is best known for designing and producing microphone preamplifiers, equalizers, compressors and mixing consoles that are sought after...
How Can ‘Our Town’ Still Feel Utterly Contemporary, 80 Years After Its Opening?
Howard Sherman, author of a new book about the play: "It's a play that people think they know. People want to paint it as...
In Britain, A Dig Reveals A Lot Of Detail About Home Life In The...
Archaeologists "were hopeful of unearthing something of interest because the area has been occupied for more than 3,000 years. But nothing prepared them for...
Playing The Man Who Betrayed Fred Hampton Sent Lakeith Stanfield Into Therapy
Stanfield says it's not only therapy that has made the last year bearable. "The one good thing about this pandemic is being able to...
So, No Spring Openings For Broadway, But You Can Find Some Gems, Safely, Online
All of this is true: "An effort to keep the industry alive has major stars taking to the virtual stage and much-lauded past productions...
The New Mexico Museum Of Art Is Planning To Destroy A Historic Chicano Mural
Not for nothing - for a new museum of contemporary art. But ... really? "'We invited the Department of Cultural Affairs,' Carrie Wood, a...
London’s Bridges Truly Are Falling Down
Or they might, soon. London needs "infrastructure week," but for real, and for much longer than a week. Take Hammersmith. "It’s obvious whom to...
Disneyland Artist And ‘Master Illustrator’ Charles Boyer, 86
Boyer signed on with Disney as a sketch artist in 1960 - and never left. "Boyer was made a Disney Legend in 2005, the...
One Idea For What To Do With Unused And Deconsecrated Churches
Artists need studios, and usually studios with light ... and churches often have that. "Places of worship are typically built to outlast their parishioners....
Why ‘Nadiya Bakes’ Is Such A Big Deal In Foodie Shows
The new show demonstrates just how drastically far food shows have come - but reminds us of how far that had to be, especially...
Teresa Burga, Groundbreaking Peruvian Conceptual Artist, 85
Burga's best-known work, 1981's Perfil de la mujer Peruana, confused many people in its day. She and a psychotherapist friend "interviewed 290 middle-class women...
What The New Movie ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’ Reveals About The United States’...
In short, and in no surprise to anyone who has studied the history of the U.S., or indeed lived that history: "Judas and the...
Outdoors Is The Way For The UK To Return To Theatre
Of course, "The British weather does not always help. A valiant 'drive-through' production of La Bohème staged in a car park by English National Opera last...
A Blow-Up Over Racism, Antisemitism, And Academic Politics In American Musicology
This story is convoluted, and needs careful reading to understand what's going on not only in musicology in the U.S. but also across the...
When Science Doesn’t Cut It
Director Iram Parveen Bilal (I'll Meet You There) explains: "I'm the daughter of a physicist mother and a chemistry professor father. ... We were...
The Hidden, All Too Contemporary, History Behind Middlemarch
No, it's not that many mediocre men are threatened by smart women (timeless!) or that mismatched marriages can destroy those in the marriage (also...
Moving The Louvre’s Collection Far From The Floods
In 2016, when the Seine flooded its banks, museum workers toiled 24 hours a day to haul thousands of artworks out of underground storage...
Why Are The Met’s Trustees Sitting Idle While The Museum Contemplates Selling Its Treasures?
The problem isn't earned income lost to tourism (that is, no tourism). The problem is the trustees. "Met trustees established a special fund to...
Missing ‘Bridgerton’? Turn To TikTok
First there was Ratatouille: The Musical or Ratatousical, which raised more than a million dollars for actors, with the no doubt bemused blessing of...
Cole Porter Created A Pro-Immigration Protest Ballet In The 1920s
Of course he did. "Like modern immigration laws, the Emergency Quota Act inspired a wave of pro-immigration activism, and Porter, who was born...
Legendary Casting Director Lynn Stalmaster Has Died At 93
You know his work even if you don't know of the man. "Stalmaster’s accomplishments are too numerous to list exhaustively, but among them: He...
The Modernist Poet Who Understood The Precarity Of Civilization
Aime Césaire, whose Discourse on Colonialism remains (all too) relevant - and who protested to some effect in 2005after French President Jacques Chirac instructed...
