Megalopolis is "an ensemble piece involving an architect rebuilding New York City after a financial crisis cripples the metropolitan hub. … And he seems prepared to entirely self-finance the movie's $100 to $120m budget with the money made from his winery." - The Guardian
“Behind every antiquities trafficking ring preying upon cultural heritage for profit, there is someone reassembling and restoring these looted pieces to lend the criminal enterprise a veneer of legitimacy.” - The Art Newspaper
Colleen Werner is continuing to dance as she works toward a degree in mental health counseling, and she's collected thousands of Instagram followers and become a brand ambassador for a prominent maker of pointe shoes. - Dance Magazine
Over 50 years as the director of the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne (which he founded) and the Gulbenkian Choir in Lisbon, he built up an impressive body of concerts and recordings of vocal classics, from Monteverdi through Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Verdi, and Fauré, to Frank Martin. - SWI swissinfo
Formed in 2014, it became a global symbol of the freedom many Afghans began to enjoy in the 20 years since the Taliban last ruled, despite the hostility and threats it continued to face from some in the deeply conservative Muslim country. - Reuters
Fear of COVID, to be more precise. "Even before you realise what you have done, anxious sideways looks will have been exchanged, the seeds of doubt sown. Coughing has become the equivalent of randomly shouting 'fire' in a theatre – a gesture guaranteed to provoke fear." - The Guardian
So argues Joshua Barone about Jessie Montgomery, whose works are set to get a total of 400 performances this calendar year and who's just starting a term as the Chicago Symphony's composer-in-residence. - The New York Times
"It would be absurd to call for them to be abandoned entirely. But if they're going to be embedded in the fabric of musical theater forever, then we shouldn't shy from putting the ugly parts of them on display" the way that Daniel Fish's revisionist Oklahoma! did. - Slate
"Is there perhaps a clandestine pact to encourage audiences back out with some concerted cheerleading? If so, then the critics are doing us a disservice." - The Observer (UK)
Every One, a glass mosaic that's the first of three to be installed in the pedestrian tunnel for the 42nd Street Shuttle, depicts vividly colored anthropomorphic shapes inspired by the horse-costumed dancers Cave used in HEARD•NY at Grand Central Terminal in 2013. - The New York Times
"(He) was celebrated for delivering nuanced performances as swaggering street toughs, charming family men and smooth-talking gangsters," most famously as Omar Little, the stickup man with an ethical code, in The Wire, the HBO series about crime and corruption in Baltimore. - The Washington Post
"Belmondo, who embodied … a new type of male star characterized by pure virility rather than classic good looks," had his breakout role in Godard's Breathless and "went on to appear in more than 80 films with a variety of … directors, from Truffaut to Claude Lelouch." - AP
Poet Ghulam Mohammad Bhat: "In the last 30 years I have never seen this kind of suppression. ... There is silence everywhere, as if the silence is the best cure for our present crisis." - The New York Times
We were lucky to have access to livestreams from across the world in 2020. But: "Although the streamed productions I later saw live had flashes of revelation, those moments were few and far between in what was, on balance, limited by the medium: the subjective and inevitably narrow perspective of the camera, the engineered flattening of sound." - The...
