Tag: 05.20.21
Indie Producers Form First New Hollywood Union In Decades
More than 100 indie feature filmmakers have unanimously ratified its constitution, and more than 300 have signed letters of intent to join. - Deadline
Instagram Is Full Of Perfect Ballet Bodies, But TikTok Offers More Fun And A...
Dancer Jennifer McCloskey first realized her medium was TikTok in 2020, during the shutdown. "On her feed, McCloskey seamlessly blends comedy, criticism of ballet...
An Israeli Airstrike Has Destroyed Gaza’s Largest Bookstore
"The beloved Samir Mansour Bookshop was destroyed on Tuesday by an Israeli airstrike. The shop, which was established in 2008, had thousands of books, including the largest...
How A Book Gets Adapted For A Movie
It's not always obvious or a direct line. Start with a good story. Characters that lift off the page. And then it gets complicated....
Do Away With Classics Because They’re Imperialist?
"As the field’s most famous practitioner, and a dedicated anti-racist and feminist, Mary Beard takes a middle position: she believes neither that classics deserves...
The Pitfalls Of Public Philosophers
"We urbanites, who dwell in the medium of public political discussion, also live in the element of opinion. Leo Strauss loved to intimate that...
Meet The Grand Old Man Of Kathakali
Kalamandalam Gopi, who's about to turn 84, has been studying and performing the dance-drama form from the Indian state of Kerala for 70 years,...
Gavin Larsen: The Everyday Ballerina
"I danced some fabulous ballets and fabulous roles. And yet there’s hundreds more like me — thousands maybe. We might be exceptional in one...
Sex Scenes On Screen Aren’t Disappearing. In Fact, They’re Getting Better.
"Today's sex scenes are first and foremost fun — as ideally sex itself should be — and emphasize the truthful over the tasteful. In...
Eight Ways The Protests After George Floyd’s Death Changed American Culture
"From Judas and the Black Messiah to H.E.R.'s 'I Can't Breathe,' from the canceling of podcasts to the toppling of monuments to oppression, from...
The Enduring Influence Of Midori
What might sound like general pep-talk fodder for the averagely scheduled person is actually just pragmatic paraphrase for Midori, whose prodigious musical talent was...
Manhattan Gets A Cool New Little Island
Mega-mogul Barry Diller’s $260 million, 2.4-acre pet project and civic mitzvah, near 13th Street in Hudson River Park, is the architectural equivalent of a...
New TRG Report: Arts Activity Increased In April
Currently the sales revival is uneven across venue types, with aggregate sales for symphonies and concert halls the lowest compared to the equivalent month...
A Strong Art Auction Season, Featuring Controversial Museum Sales
One work, Thomas Cole’s “The Arch of Nero” (1846) from the Newark Museum of Art, was a highlight, going for $988,000 with fees to...