Tag: 05.28.21
The Behind-The-Scenes Disasters That An Arts Festival’s Public (Hopefully) Never Sees
"From natural disasters to cast mishaps, from visa snafus to failing voices, the team at Spoleto Festival USA has been there, done that and...
Arturo Luz, Neo-Realist And Key Figure In Art Spaces In The Philippines, 94
As an artist, "Luz was best known as an artist who liked to use spare lines and dramatic compositions in his practice that included...
The Hollywood Bowl Is On Plan C, Full Reopen
As vaccines spread and COVID-19 numbers drop, "concert and theater venues are scrambling to keep up and figure out when and how to welcome...
An Opera By The Dean Of Black American Composers Finally Retakes The Stage
William Grant Still's one-act Highway 1, U.S.A. has barely been seen since its 1963 premiere, but it's being brought back to life this summer...
Getting New York’s Comedy Clubs Reopened Is No Laughing Matter
With capacity restrictions, social distancing rules, other safety measures, and eager-but-nervous audiences and performers, venues from mighty Caroline's to tiny Stand Up NY have...
Liam Scarlett’s Death Did Not Happen The Way Everyone Presumed It Did
The British choreographer, aged 35, died in April, one day after the Royal Danish Ballet announced it was cancelling its staging of his Frankenstein...
Arts Groups To UK: Thanks For Offering Us Relief Funding — Now Could You...
"Hundreds of arts organisations that received grants in the Culture Recovery Fund's second round are still waiting for money to be paid out, causing...
The Two Women Who Preserved The Stories Of The Tulsa Race Massacre
The first, Mary E. Jones Parrish, was a relative newcomer to Tulsa when the events of May 31, 1921, went down. She was an...
Newark’s Quirks: Examining the Museum’s (& Sotheby’s) Art Sale Shenanigans
In my previous post on the Newark Museum of Art’s dicey deaccessions, I didn’t analyze the overall sale totals, my customary practice when covering...
How Italy’s Art Police Turned The Tide On Tomb Raiders
It takes extraordinary measures to deal with the thieves. "Looters have been plundering Italy’s cultural sites for decades, but since 2012 their trade has...
The Fonts Of The NYT Book Review
The history of the New York Times Book Review is pretty interesting for word nerds. "Although photos already appeared in other parts of the...
Misconduct Allegations Rock LA’s Largest LGBTQ Theatre Company
Celebration Theatre's longtime AD Michael Shepperd was accused of sexual misconduct over more than a decade - and the accusers say that the theatre...
Faye Schulman, Who Fought The Nazis With A Rifle And A Camera, 101
Her rifle was important during the war; her camera became more important after: "As one of the only known Jewish partisan photographers, Mrs. Schulman,...
The ‘Paddington 2’ Stranglehold On Rotten Tomatoes Is Over
There's a bad review of Paddington 2? Yes" "The new Paddington 2 review slammed the warm-hearted adventure film for having deviated from the spirit of Michael...
Under Biden’s Plan, NEA Funding Would Rise
On the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, President Biden proposed a 20 percent increase in funding for an agency the previous president always threatened...
Alix Dobkin, Who Wrote Songs Of Liberation, 80
Dobkin was an early idol in the women-loving-women movement. "Long before K.D. Lang transformed herself from a country artist into an androgyne pop idol...
There’s No Actual Mayor Of Easttown, But Residents Have Some Thoughts On Mare
The chair of the Board of Supervisors of Easttown says the real town isn't much like the show. "'I can’t remember when the last...
Gearing Up For Summer Reading
You ready for 75 nonfiction books in 90 days? (Oddly, LitHub also has recommendations for a mere 38 fiction works in the summer, but...
Millions Lost: Australian Ballet Hit Harder By Pandemic Than Most Of Country’s Large Arts...
"The Australian Ballet forfeited $32 million in ticket revenue for 2020, a pandemic blow that it has only survived thanks to an...