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Solanas is most famous for having shot Andy Warhol, of course, but she had an artistic life long before that moment. In the beginning, the writer and Warhol Factory superstar Ultra Violet wr…
The Federalist organized the 150-person protest at the statue. "Speakers supporting the statue used the protest to rail against a broad range of issues including abortion and religion. One w…
They've been trying for years to bar Trump from using "You Can't Always Get What You Want" as his walk-off music at rallies " and their efforts have always been in vain. Until now, perhaps. …
Public funding was the way. However: "Back then there was even less agreement on a public role for creatives. The Writers' Project assigned them a public role in producing travel guidebooks,…
From just about everything on TikTok to Broadway performers singing Sondheim on YouTube, there's a lot of culture on the internet right now " and very few of the creators of that culture are…
People are right to be frustrated about the lack of diversity backstage, says the president of the Broadway League, which is ready to perform a "diversity audit" of many parts of Broadway. S…
"I've survived," tweeted Michael Rosen. "The 74-year-old author, performer and broadcaster is one of Britain's most beloved writers, the author of more than 140 books including We're Goin…
The form of "novel" is young, but its conventions are mostly clear " and the novel of ideas is different. "Whether executed as science fiction, bildungsroman, or more recently, the satirical…
"Lewes's major work, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality (1988), traced the evolution of the prevailing view that homosexuality was a curable illness and explored what he c…
Well, maybe something is salvageable (though very possibly not, as numbers of infections continue to mount): "If audiences show faith in theaters' revamped safety, social-distancing, and cle…
Without the small stages, emerging voices in British theatre don't have much of a chance. One playwright: "Uncertainty is dreadfully demotivating. I intended to use the lockdown to write a n…
A new "museum" in Sydney is intended to be built on a flood plain, with no clarity about permanent collections, no storage on site, and so much more that's even worse. "The new Powerhouse in…
Most of the statues are bad art in any case, with the Confederate ones intended to pave the way toward a white supremacist future. "Even if most of the hero statues remain standing, we shoul…
The government issued a five-step roadmap to reopening … a roadmap that "did not come with dates or monetary help attached." One theatre executive said the roadmap was "'as useful a map as…
Stone "was enjoying a moderately successful career as a singer and actress when she jumped to a new level of fame in 1968 as part of the wildly popular musical revue Jacques Brel Is Alive an…
Six people were arrested in France, with two accused of organized theft and four of concealing the theft. "The artwork, part of a series made by Banksy during a visit to Paris in 2018, was s…
Spinks was working as a school librarian in Pontiac, Michigan, when "she and a friend, also a librarian, contacted the U.S. Library of Congress and volunteered to visit Washington, D.C., to …
Why would Silas Farley leave the stage at New York City Ballet when he was absolutely at the top of his game? "My hope is to become a leader in a really substantive way in the art form. … …
There's truly no way to perform the craft of being an orchestra conductor right now. So they, like most of us, are doing other things: "For conductors with steady work before the pandemic " …
The actor who played Burr in the original off-Broadway and Broadway casts on negotiating better pay for the soon-to-be-out movie: "You want to be an ally? You make sure that Black people and…
Some streets are pedestrian-only now, zoned for restaurants to spread into the middle of the street where cars once crowded. Though this design is new and pandemic-related, research shows "t…
They're busier than ever, but "as Black bookstore owners race to meet their demands, many are dealing with complicated, sometimes painful feelings about what the new business means," and why…
Aluna Francis: "We not only need to give credit to the artists that created the genre, we also need to establish a long-term plan to secure a healthy future for dance music that is culturall…
Sudden, massive fame may seem grand " but it's not so easy to live through. "My life exploded and I'm still trying to put it back together. I jumped on the rollercoaster, it's been really ch…
Of course, there will be plastic between customers and food workers; there will be spaces between people in the theatres; and … there will be Singing in the Rain, at least until new movies…
