Olivia Jackson was gravely injured on a Resident Evil set in South Africa in 2015. But who should pay?. "Jackson's ordeal highlights the vulnerabilities of performers on sets, especially on …
Malls and other retail establishments reopened in the state as well. Movie theatres that reopened were showing older-run movies for $5. In one San Antonio theatre, "in an upscale shopping ce…
One of the last songs at this winter's Youth Traditional Song Weekend emphasized standing together in song. Now, "the act of gathering to sing feels like something for a tenuous tomorrow. On…
Howard Silverman helped found Bristol's Spike Island nearly 50 years ago " and now a new board has told him he must pack up his studio and go, in the middle of the coronavirus lockdown. "Fel…
Buffman produced everyone, including Elizabeth Taylor in The Little Foxes (it was a hit) and Muhammed Ali in Buck White (it was a memorable flop). But he "was even busier in Florida than on …
The move was widely criticized across the world " and feared by nonprofits. One of them said that "the proposed buyout was an attempt by domain name industry insiders to profit off of thousa…
Emily Mann was set to wrap up three decades as the director of McCarter Theater Center in Princeton this spring. Then everything shut down " and her gala went online. "'I think I liked this …
In the category of things some of us hadn't thought enough about before this moment: "Vincent was an avid and multilingual reader, a man who could not do without books. In his brief life he …
The theatre company Slung Low is used to thinking creatively, says its artistic director. This is just a bit different: "Constantly I'm on the phone doing deals. The other day, I swapped a l…
The organizer said, "Lockdown Maypole dancing is still possible," and, in their own gardens or even inside, many agreed. " BBC
Everyone's watching to find out, but one big issue is social distancing and profit margins (such as they are not, typically, in theatre). "Keeping audience members two metres apart would lim…
The George N'Namdi galleries were sometimes the only game in the country for Black artists in the 1980s. According to a recent lawsuit, "Discrimination in the art world prevented the recogni…
"There's nothing like the Xanadu of a giant screen, air conditioning, darkness, Milk Duds and a big Hollywood movie in a packed theater" " which means that, right now, there's a very well-li…
Idir trained to be a geologist, but "his life took a twist in 1973 when he was called up as a last-minute replacement on the radio to sing 'A Vava Inouva.' It was a lullaby with the 'rich or…
Let's start with graph paper (and an emphasis on making work instead of the reception of work). " Hyperallergic
Allen was a Nigerian drummer who perhaps didn't invent Afrobeat but certainly popularized it and took it everywhere. "Allen's swirl of jazz, Yoruba and highlife was unlike anything the world…
The U.S. and other countries have been looking to China and Italy to predict what the pandemic would be like during the most intense times of infection. Now, take Wuhan as an example, the sl…
This isn't a great time for teachers and performers of improv comedy. Caroline Martin, who taught at Upright Citizens Brigade: "I have seen and been invited to do improv shows online on Zoom…
Streetscapes aren't looking too great right now in many cities. And "museums and galleries around the world have locked their doors as people wait out the coronavirus pandemic in isolation. …
In Oregon, arts organizations know Ronni Lacroute, and she knows what they need " usually. Right now, says the philanthropist, things are just a bit different: "The way I donate hasn't reall…
N.K. Jemisin won three Hugo Awards in a row for her Broken Earth trilogy, a science fictional world where the protagonist is a middle-aged Black woman (and mother). But to get to that point,…
Khan, who was only 53 when he died earlier this week, had a quality common in French cinema but rarely embraced in Bollywood: He was jolie laide, beautifully ugly or ugly beautiful, but more…
And that trust took him to some weird places in Lorrain's newest movie, Ema. Bernal: "All films are mysteries; you don't know how they're going end up . . . but this one had mystery as its k…
Davies was also a fierce advocate for the art form at the Photographers' Gallery, intended to be democratic in its shows and its audiences. "School parties were encouraged, as were discussio…
There's even a Twitter account to analyze exactly what's going on: "As the broadcast industry shelters in place, the bookcase has become the background of choice for television hosts, execut…