Better than Monsoon Wedding? Better than Sexy Beast? Better than Amèlie?! Well: "The film remains [David Lynch's magnum opus, a perfect distillation of his most lasting fascinations." - The Atlantic
At the Broadway Rose Theatre in Tigard, Oregon, the founder and managing director is so very done with the pandemic. "We’re a live theater company. I don’t want to do any more streaming. I want live people experiencing a live performance that will different the next night and the night after that." - Oregon ArtsWatch
Waxman founded Kitchen Arts & Letters in a former butcher shop in 1983, and for decades, he provided what he called "professional tools" for chefs, food writers, food and wine historians, and thousands of other culinary workers. - The New York Times
Though they become a joke in the fifth episode of the show, dream ballets used to signal deeper emotions in musicals - but now they're seen as slow-moving narrative stumbling blocks. - Entertainment Weekly
And they all disagree about the most recent adaptation of the anonymously written poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - the movie starring Dev Patel. - Los Angeles Times
The latest in questionable use of an artist's likeness or image, and/or voice, after death: "A hologram of Whitney Houston will perform a six-month Las Vegas residency beginning in October 2021." - CBC
"Desvarieux and the founder of Kassav’, the bassist Pierre-Edouard Décimus, created a style called zouk by fusing Afro-Caribbean traditions of the French Antilles with sleek electronic dance music." Even French president Emmanuel Macron paid the musician tribute after his death. - The New York Times
Leni Riefenstahl, Andy Warhol, the Black Power salute, and this year's floating heads - there's a long history of, and often a large budget for, art at the Olympics, whether an audience cares or not. - FastCompany
Withers was "an antidote to the cloying sweetness of Shirley Temple," and later became moderately famous as Josephine the Plumber in Comet ads. - Washington Post
Live music, of course: "By activating these spaces in ways that shed the Met’s stuffiness, the museum is broadening what performance can be." - Hyperallergic
The road through the park has been closed since the start of the pandemic - and so have the museums. But now, as museums reopen? The closure to cars "has become a flash point." - The New York Times
"Just after the sun came up on installation day, with video cameras rolling from various vantage points, Ankrom put on a hardhat and safety vest, hoisted a ladder up to the larger freeway sign apparatus, and climbed up to the plank with his work." - The LAnd Magazine
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has been law since 1990, but "tribes currently undergo an expensive process overseen by the museums and universities they are petitioning. Repatriation requests are processed through guidelines created by the institutions." - The New York Times
While the music promoter Live Nation said that artists or bands themselves could set masking and vaccination requirements, some venues in places like L.A. are requiring proof of vaccination along with the county's mask mandate. - Los Angeles Times
