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April Gornik and Eric Fischl want to make the Sag Harbor Methodist Church into a community arts center … whenever people can gather again. Fischl: "We have to stop thinking about art as ar…
Yay women doing TV! Also, having to "yay" this means it's not going that well with the whole ending of inequality thing. "The good news: The number of women working behind the scenes in tele…
The virus has devastated the jazz community in New York. But "there's a funny thing about jazz: It keeps roaring back to life. Live music returns to Smalls on June 1, in a socially distant w…
At that time, says Hilary Mantel, we would have been quarantining more seriously. "Speaking at the Hay literary festival, which is entirely online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, …
Five artists finished the mural in 12 hours last week after the officers involved in George Floyd's death weren't all four arrested and charged with a crime. "The mural has quickly become a …
There's DJing with the dance glitterati on Instagram Live, there's the brewing of kombucha, and, of course, there's learning how to make pancake tutus. " Dance Magazine
In Prague, the opening is going in fits and starts, but theatre companies like the Czech National Theatre are more than ready. "The drive-in theater at Prague's vegetable market was an ambit…
The pianist Igor Levit played a livestream of Erik Satie's famous, mysterious work, consisting of four lines repeated 840 times, on Sunday. And, well: "The fascinating livestream occasionall…
In a sudden shift, Asolo Theatre in Florida had to figure out whether to keep going with its education programs even as students and parents were competing for limited Wi-Fi and screen time,…
Sarah Maldoror was "a Euro-Caribbean filmmaker trained in the Soviet Union" " and the director, who died of the coronavirus in April of this year, never stopped; "she kept fighting in a worl…
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation (called "Binc") is a nonprofit created to help booksellers. "Since the pandemic started, Binc has seen requests for assistance increase by 321%. And […
In other words, it doesn't work very well for writers. The Writers Guild of Great Britain: "'Things are stacked up, not necessarily in favour of the writer.' It added that funding, which is …
OK, that's nice and optimistic, but "Telluride organizers promised that safety would be paramount. 'We are not ignorant of the devastation facing the world,' festival organizers wrote. 'We f…
Racists would love to co-opt the term "for their ethno-historical myths," but that doesn't mean historians and archaeologists have to abandon it altogether, argues one. "When researchers and…
Christo, who with his wife Jeanne-Claude created massive art projects requiring dozens of years to pull off, including wrapping the Reichstag and creating The Gates in Central Park, has died…
Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, whose The Exonerated and Coal Country are powerful documentary theatre, talk about how it all works " and why it works. " Slate
The power of one man's divine vision … and the internet. " The Guardian (UK)
Hey, parents, when your kids are using video games to deal with the pandemic, you may think they're not doing schoolwork. True, but games like Assassin's Creed, Minecraft, and Roblox have a …
Amos's "careerlong belief in art as a form of ethical resistance carries new weight when the promises of the civil rights era seem again under threat." " The New York Times
Note to authors: Don't go on GoodReads. Just don't. But when a dog-themed book group reads your book on Instagram, well, things might be different. " The Guardian (UK)
The awards, announced in a socially distant livestream, contains "A final work that continues on like a river" and poems that "bloom with the beauty the world has to offer as well as those w…
When directors, cast, and crew make decisions about a movie like High Note, they're aimed at the big screen. So this weekend's on-demand streaming release is a bit of a technical let-down, e…
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced more than a week ago that counties could set reopening plans for the entertainment industry. That hasn't happened because Hollywood's various union…
Morris on creating during the pandemic: "The idea that our lives are on hold irks him, he said. Or 'the idea that you're waiting to come back to your life, and I'm sorry everybody: This is y…
Some have become a combination book exchange and pantry. One is cat-focused; another (at a church) has mostly Christian texts. Says one LFL caretaker, "People have been adopting and donating…
