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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…
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…
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…
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…
Intimacy comes from much more than the sound design for sex scenes, intense though they may be in Hulu's 12-part Normal People. The music throughout the series, as with other audio queues, i…
The reactions of AMC and other chains to NBCUniversal's touting of a streaming-only release of the movie Trolls: World Tour is head-shakingingly weird. Almost everyone is stuck at home " and…
Choreographer Paul Taylor once wrote of McGehee, "She is basically a lyric dancer but she can turn into a spark-ejecting demonette when cast in dramatic roles." She taught the Graham techniq…
"It is a documentary not about the coronavirus, but about the intimate experience of the confinement that is obviously transformed into a film with dramatic, comical moments, especially touc…
Photographer Robin Schwartz is used to quarantine, having dealt with being isolated during cancer treatments, but it's only intensified lately. Luckily, her subjects are the same as ever: He…
There's literally nothing to report for the box office this week of 2020, so why not go back in history and see what was going on 98 years ago, during the first year of box office reporting?…
The concert hall was empty; the musicians were greatly reduced in number and sitting far from each other; they wore masks backstage and were tested before the event. "Though the seating arra…
Perry (The Essex Serpent) couldn't even go into her study at first; books seemed items of contempt. But: "Recently I have concluded that all this amounts to a kind of failure of courage. As …
Jonas ran the English National Opera and the Bavarian State Opera in his career, emphasizing "bold interpretive approaches to the great yet elusive and multilayered operas of the past." And …
The dancers rehearsed at home and performed on streets and beside canals. "I like this project because we can show what we want to do, and what we're waiting to do again. … Art, right now,…
The web has its own culture, it's own language, its own ethos. Putting facsimile arts experiences online won't cut it. And yet, we need to develop a hybrid model that includes the online exp…
Closing a museum is not just a matter of shutting the doors and turning off the lights. Institutions with significant collections have ethical and sometimes legal obligations to make sure th…
"As it currently stands, the publishing industry largely serves the interests of the wealthiest higher-ups, and that is the entire reason for any financial strain on publishers without the c…
So your workplace has shut down (your theatre, concert hall museum, stage, whatever). Now what? Moving online is the obvious play. And in the weeks since lockdown there has been a flood of a…
Iceland has tested its population widely for virus, and has had few cases so it could be safe for shooting. The country, with its sparsely populated but spacious North Atlantic geography, ad…
Why is it in the UK we are afraid of expressing big thinking, challenging the government to a discussion about the indispensability of the arts and making the case that its practitioners are…
04.30.20
The dictionary defines equation as "the act of making equal." In his engrossing new solo album, pianist Matthew Shipp creates eleven new pieces of music in which the equality of his powerful…
The point of the exercise is to wean the young artist off result-oriented copying from photos. 'Taking the line for a walk' lets the drawing come about in the process of drawing. " Jan Herman
We learned a lot of things about Singin' in the Rain during the Lockdown Theatre Club group watch. Here are 20 of them " from dubbing the dubbers to Gene Kelly's buttock-framing trousers. " …
Yes, the COVID lockdown has deprived most museums of nearly all their income, which is why the Association of Art Museum Directors has given qualified approval for members to "use the procee…
