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Jose SolÃs: "As an insider who still holds a little bit of hope about the possibility of change happening within these overly white spaces, I would like to propose some things the Drama D…
Yay for all of the many, many, many, many, MANY ways bookstores have figured out ways to stay afloat and, in some cases, paying all of their staff (shout-out to you, The Ripped Bodice in Cul…
And can brainwaves explain it? There's a place at "the frontiers of biotechnology and experimental music" trying to figure it all out. " Aeon
Glaser, a co-founder of New York Magazine and designer of iconic images and styles, "changed the vocabulary of American visual culture in the 1960s and '70s with his brightly colored, extrov…
The actors explain how being part of major TV series set in science fictional universes doesn't relieve the pressure of being Black men in a racist society. Mackie: "We have the power and th…
Since the very first Butoh performance, in 1959, "queer themes and imagery have been reoccurring, if not instrumental, in Butoh. The concepts of otherness and ambiguity, particularly with re…
Cannes is online, and so are movie sales, in two digital marketplaces. "Both digital markets were initially conceived as being mainly initiatives to reconnect industry players. Three months …
Is Spotify the new Disney? While film production is paused or barely resumed, the music subscription service has made a deal to be the new home of audio tales of DC superheroes. Perhaps this…
Working on a socially distant set hasn't made her exactly content. "How are you going to get hair and makeup done when you can't get near each other?" " The Observer (UK)
No matter what a mother says, Spike Lee's movies might just have more impact. "As I watched the police take the life from Radio Raheem, everything my mother had been trying to tell me was su…
One suspects it might otherwise have been targeted for a less gentle removal. The museum says it's the statue, not the man, that it objects to, but critics see TR "as an imperialist whose ro…
Bakari Sellers' new book is about race in the United States. Sellers: "When I wrote the book, I thought: This can be the spark to conversations about race. I didn't know I was going to be st…
The museum is facing a deficit of $45 million over the next year with the massive loss of ticket revenue " and that's a big problem: "Earned revenue, mainly museum admissions, covers more th…
Before the virus hit, there was Rainbow Litfest in December. "Drawn by the promise of themes long pushed under the rug " non-normative sexualities in religion and mythology, history and poli…
The judge noted that without the pandemic, their sentences would be significantly more severe. "The stolen items included a 1787 first-edition book signed by Thomas Jefferson, a rare copy of…
The open letter says, in part, "A direct line can be drawn from the stories and voices that are silenced and ignored, to the discrimination and biases that are pervasive in the entertainment…
Playwright and director Edward Einhorn on adapting his in-person creation for the virtual world: "I have never witnessed the audience member witnessing the performance. Which, I must say, is…
Dancer Sara Komatsu says it's time for massive change in ballet. "If we believe in this art and want it to succeed, we must be willing to open our minds, have honest conversations, and put i…
So here's how choirs are reinventing themselves. " CBC
Look to Black Bookstagram for recommendations on everything from history to science fiction to romance. " BuzzFeed
In New York, the epicenter of Black drag ball culture, dance and performance has always been a protest and a claim, say founders and members. Jack Mizrahi Gucci of the House of Gucci: "Doing…
At least, until we get a vaccine? " The Atlantic
Comedy culture before Pryor, that is, white comedy culture, depicted copys "as clownish bullies, and their violence, divorced from any racial context, played as a kind of shtick. When they s…
But the smaller museums may not be interested in risking everything. The Underground Museum, "in L.A.'s Arlington Heights neighborhood, sounded a voice of caution about a pandemic that…
Music that unites protestors is not new, and it wasn't new in the 1960s either. "Music at protests reminds dissenters of their humanity, even when the powers-that-be attempt to strip away th…
