Or from bad development, anyway. Now it's up for bids not for sale but for "sustainable longterm uses." The fight against a luxury hotel development galvanized Edinburgh preservationists. "F…
Look … "He wasn't just a pro. If there were a fabulous comic-book A-team of character actors " an Expendables, a Wild Bunch, an Avengers Initiative " Christopher Plummer would have been th…
Yes, it's devastating all kinds of careers in the arts. One TV director: "The big question is 'will I ever work again?' And if not, how can I best say goodbye to an industry I have been part…
Yes, Black Panther is returning to comics, but also, so very much more than Black Panther. Here's a guide for newbies. " The New York Times
The Wallace Collection "is in internal consultation" about closing the library and archive that was left to the country in 1897. Is that even legal? Will anyone notice during the pandemic? (…
The last big film festival from 2020 had its virtual tryout this year. It wasn't terrible, but, says one critic: "I'm usually whiny and cranky about Sundance. Why are we in the snow? Why Jan…
A lot of science fiction and fantasy predicts the future " so why not a well-researched movie about a pandemic? (It's worth noting that Britain's vaccine response has been one of the fastest…
This is not a democratic move: "The Muslim comic [was] thrown in a Madhya Pradesh jail on January 1, 2021 with four others on suspicion that he might make some jokes about …
The Met's director, Max Hollein: "Every museum in the U.S. is having these conversations. … For us not to discuss this now would be irresponsible." " The New York Times
The director of Meek's Cutoff and First Cow is also feeling, well, a bit cynical. "There's so much celebration of women and people of color this year and I'm thinking 'that's great,' but a c…
Peter Yarrow said Feeney was "joyous and fiery in her determination to use her music to elevate those who are most marginalised and to move towards greater justice in the land." " The Guardi…
If Instagram is about selling your moves " and your clothing line, your toe shoe line, your skin care routine, etc. " then TikTok is about being yourself. Kind of. "Casual, confessional and …
Gorman: "I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that's Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, Tracy K. Smith, Phillis Wheatley. And then I look…
Reporting to the President of New England Conservatory (NEC), the Director of Cultural Equity and Belonging (CEB) will lead the establishment of NEC's Center for Cultural Equity and Belongin…
Global Arts Live is the leading presenter of international performing arts in New England, bringing global music, contemporary dance, and jazz from around the world
The Salt Creek Ballet Company and School is seeking an Artistic Director to conceive, develop, and implement the artistic vision and focus of Salt Creek Ballet.
"Making stories was how Nichols coped with the world. The biographical question is: why was there a need to cope? The answer is not mysterious. Nichols was unusually self-aware, and he liked…
In a recent study of 217 Border collies that ranged in age from 6 months to 15, the team, together with the Clever Dog Lab in Austria, found similarities with humans in the dogs' personality…
It's not usually after a disaster: in those cases, great cities tend to rebuild and often become grander. (Think of London and Chicago after great fires, Lisbon and San Francisco after earth…
The idea that the world is corrupt and unfair was the subject of medieval morality plays and sermons. They taught a vast population to reconcile itself to misery and subjugation by promising…
"Recent case histories are alternately breakthroughs and models of artistic self-defeat. Which was which?" asks David Patrick Stearns. "The reverse of what I expected." The key: the message …
"At the start of the pandemic, no one had any work, so it wasn't so much of a problem. At times it was even nice not to be working. But when you're freelance, you wonder whose doing what and…
"Shot in half the time the Lugosi vehicle was allotted, and on a much smaller budget, Drácula" " yes, it's the Spanish version " "contains revealing differences. It's 29 minutes longer th…
Guido Frackers is the guy. "So I've seen the environment at least one year before. And we have a "bulldozer" who goes in 24 hours before the orchestra arrives to pave the way, to line every …
Celebrity Series of Boston (CSB) seeks a Director of Marketing and Communications to provide leadership, strategic direction, and overall management