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Odell's simply considering things, not worried about producing art during the lockdown. "I have been thinking about that redirecting of attention. Our grocery store has the usual spaced-out …
Wright, whose first hit came when she was 17 and who produced and mentored scores of other performers as she aged, had 20 singles in the Billboard R&B Top 40 and a voice that blew other …
Linda Boström Knausgard has some pretty good ideas about that. The writer, ex-wife of Karl Ove Knausgard, has published two of her own novels in quick succession. "It's a fresh start. Most …
What does he think will happen now? "Nothing will go back to how it was and the new normal will reflect some aspects of lockdown life. More people will work from home, more people will cook …
Or rather, misuses the textile, a late-18th-century military rank badge. "Byron Breedlove and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, authors of the cover feature 'Auspicious Symbols of Rank and Status,' try t…
Little Richard, the pianist and singer behind "Long Tall Sally," "Tutti Frutti," and many more, was the epitome of early rock and roll. His musical influence was massive, but his "stage pers…
Actually, Marabar, the million-pound granite sculpture, isn't the problem: The National Geographic Society's plan for expansion is the problem. Artist Elyn Zimmerman isn't happy with the pla…
The innovative music executive founded Uptown Records and changed the sound of R&B and rap in the 1980 and 1990s. " The New York Times
After many members of SAG-AFTRA and other Hollywood unions were locked out of a bill that was supposed to help freelance and self-employed artists, the unions are calling for changes. "Music…
"'Finally, there's a glimmer of hope!' wrote one enthusiastic cinephile." " Variety
Australian writer Mem Fox knows what it's like to worry about being well enough, surviving long enough, to finish a book. "She feels the terror in her body " something like cold sweats and s…
The video, conceived of by Misty Copeland and another ABT dancer, stars 32 ballerinas from 14 different countries and is meant to raise money for dancers who depend on performance income to …
The new changes are for the foreign language motion picture category to match similar changes for all other categories " making pictures eligible that would have been released in their home …
Animation studios, like the one that produces (all parents and grandparents may now groan) Paw Patrol, are still going full force " from home studios. It's not always simple: "the biggest ch…
Seriously, the lists stopped mattering around the second, or was it third, or fourth? week of quarantine. "Our rapid shift from laser-focused self-improvement to read-all-the-things omnivoro…
Gujral studied with Diego Rivera and David Siquieros, recorded the pain of 1947's Partition, and designed the Belgian Embassy in New Delhi " among his many, many, many other accomplishments.…
The herstory is real: "This is not about slamming the patriarchy, but a joyous trip through women's work on screen, puckishly curated into 40 chapters on different themes including openings,…
This is the way it's working in Germany and (soon) Belgium: "How are art museums to reopen without endangering staff and visitors? Cimam, the international committee for museums and collecti…
This is when networks usually spend millions of dollars for a live show to gain billions of dollars in advertising for the upcoming year. "Advertising has long served as a media-industry lif…
Does any of this seem like a good idea right now? "The scheme is set to bring a 12,500-seat arena, 300-room hotel and three vast exhibition halls to the 10-acre waterside site, along with sh…
Actor Daniel Dae Kim, one of the first celebrities (after Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson) to reveal that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, is one of the narrators for a new series that …
Idea originator Emily Levin: "Preparing and recording a video was already a large time commitment. I expected my colleagues to simply send me their recordings. That's not what happened. Inst…
What the shutdown has revealed; "The theater industry is crucial to giant studios, which for the most part aren't interested in proceeding without theaters. The profits come from selling tic…
An art installation called Caretaker will run on the Royal Court's stage until the theatre reopens. The show "is a livestream of the theatre's uninhabited main stage, with intermittently bro…
The Guthrie's leadership had envisioned various scenarios as lockdown orders arrived. But "now, as the ripple effects of the coronavirus health crisis are felt throughout the economy, and th…