Kazik Staszewski is a rock legend in Poland, and his song, "Your Pain Is Better than Mine," hit a chord last week " or perhaps too many chords when it hit number 1 on a popular show. "Within…
Of course, it all begins in Texas, where (as in other areas), Houston's Fine Arts Museum has coordinated with other museums to create shared ideas of just how to do this. "The Fine Arts muse…
Tyler Perry wants to start filming in early July, and Georgia seems amenable " as long as the actors follow guidelines including dealing with clear barriers between them until just before a …
Take Daughters of the Dust, for instance. "Â Julie Dash's astonishing debut is a portrait of a multigenerational South Carolina Gullah family as they prepare to migrate north in 1902." (Bu…
You might (or might not) consider wolf erotica a niche market. It's a bigger niche that is now walking through a minefield of copyright questions, with larger implications for genre writing.…
The Strip may be closed, but Las Vegas is so much more than gambling " or at least that's what its chroniclers show. "In the absence of take-my-hand influencers, creative control of Instagra…
The grants, which are also available for live performance spaces, "will take arts fees paid by developers in support of now-canceled or planned cultural events and instead make the money ava…
It's not "strictly legal" to be out during lockdown (though it's not strictly illegal either), so most of the artists will only speak anonymously. "One of those behind some of the most strik…
Turns out, no. But here are several reasons to reread, including missing your favorite characters: "I miss the them"miss their superegos, their relatable pride, their all-too-human folly. I …
Actor Leslie Jordan is just fine with all of the attention to his "pillow talk" tales of working with more famous " and often much more highly paid " actors and performers. "What was interes…
What's special about midsize groups? The perfect storm: "these organizations have greater overhead costs than small groups and fewer deep-pocketed donors than large organizations, [so] they …
It's not as if the 8th graders will get another chance. The Olympics were postponed; the Spelling Bee was canceled. They have been working much of their entire (short) lives for this. Despit…
At least for magicians. For instance, one new show, "with a stringent ticket allocation " only 25 Zoom logins per performance " felt more like pre-isolation theater than anything I have enco…
One illegal downloader: "Just streaming is not enough, I mean, people want to watch those fresh, hot films that are just not on streaming." " BBC
Yes, this is real. The cherry tomatoes get snipped once a week, and a hundred pounds at a time are donated to City Harvest. "They were written about in the Southeast Produce Weekly, which…
Basically, it's tough to plan for anything. "What does our season look like if we start in January of 202? What if there is no theatre for a full season? … What if the government says thea…
Some directors say they're not truly created for stressful times. "Calling an endowment a 'rainy day fund' is 'grossly inaccurate,' said Brent Benjamin, Saint Louis Art Museum director and A…
Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always was never tipped to be a blockbuster. Her heavily realistic, light on the swelling music movie of two young women in search of at least temporar…
The masked audience members lined up, 6 feet apart, at the concession stand. People were grilling. There was at least one birthday party going on. Then the movies began " and then the storms…
No one " certainly not the federal government " will be saving the arts, it appears. And that's horrible. Also, it's time for all kinds of thinking. "How about we make possible something I h…
A computer playing the Goldberg Variations backwards sounds, yes, like a counter-counterpoint, but "at the same time, it sounds eerily familiar, starting with the upside-down Aria " the them…
The eternal debate about what books are good for " "I feel that literature is rarely of immediate practical help. I think the kind of knowledge reading fiction imparts is stealthy and slow-b…
Kirchherr, a 22-year-old art and photography student, captured the young lads when they were in Hamburg, playing scruffily in the red light district. " The New York Times
Professional playwrights still need commissions, and honestly, people still need theatre even when we can't go to the theatre, so: "Theater companies big and small across the country, includ…
Shelton created and directed many small-scale, intimate indie films, funding those well-reviewed passion projects with tons of TV show work, including, recently, four episodes of Little Fire…