What virus? "Since the beginning of June, five major art galleries have opened here: Pace, Skarstedt, Van de Weghe, Michael Werner and Sotheby's, all arms of New York art p…
Stan Kenton and his big band make their TV debut on Toast of the Town (later renamed The Ed Sullivan Show). The trumpet soloist is Maynard Ferguson and the drummer is Shelly Manne. Thi…
"He measured all his fellow workers by the test of professionalism, and a professional is a man who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it." Alistair Cooke, Six Men Continue re…
Kate Bae was on her way to her temporary job at the Census Bureau, near Bryant Park in Manhattan, when a man walked up to her and punched her in the face. The artist says she's almost used t…
The 2020 version of the ceremony, scheduled for November 18, will now be online. The executive director: "As a country, and within the literary community, we have all experienced a shift in …
Mere minutes after "a Turkish court announced that it had revoked Hagia Sophia's status as a museum, which for the last 80 years had made it a monument of relative harmony and a symbol of th…
The artistic duo, who were admitted to the Royal Academy in 2017 as an entity with a single vote, believed they'd be getting a show at the RA soon. When that was denied, they resigned. "An a…
The movie, which also topped the box office 40 years ago, is a big hit with the drive-in crowd. "Empire's dominance follows Ghostbusters's success over the July 4 weekend and Jurassic …
It wasn't a great look for the massively popular K-Pop band Blackpink, and their Hindu fans let them know immediately. They weren't "cancelled" or anything like that, but they listened, or t…
OK, "mogul" might be stretching it. But Robinson, author of You Can't Touch my Hair and Everything's Trash, But It's Okay, has a deal with Penguin Random House for her own imprint, Tiny Repa…
We're all tired of the Netflix queue and staring out the window at life not being lived on our streets. So the smart, well-edited, fun video set to the Billy Idol classic song Dancing with M…
Well sure, when you're working at the office, you think you might prefer working from home. And then a global pandemic hits. "We adjusted to being, in Laurence Scott's phrase, 'four-dimen…
This is, in case it's not clear, a dictatorial move. "The results of the vote " slammed by critics as an assault on press freedom " could potentially keep the radio, TV and internet giant fr…
And it's an intense reckoning, after two white stars of a Real Housewives spinoff were fired when news went public that they had "called the police on former castmate Faith Stowers in 2018 i…
Julia Sawalha, who played Ginger in the 2000 film, writes, "Last week, I was informed out of the blue, via email, through my agent that I would not be cast as Ginger in the Chicken Run seque…
Without new movies, it will be hard " but without any trust in safety, it will be much harder. "The vast majority of the country's nearly 5,550 indoor theaters remain shuttered, and the r…
Rowan Moore: "It has been deemed acceptable " by the building regulations, by architects, by the professional media " to rip untold tonnes of matter from the earth and to pump similar tonnes…
Richter was "a prolific composer whose determination to be heard in a male-dominated field once led her to rent Merkin Concert Hall to stage a program of her own works" " and she wrote nearl…
"Co-owners Rebecca Fitting and Jessica Stockton-Bagnulo acknowledged that Black customers and employees have felt unwelcome and disrespected, that poor training had led to racial profiling i…
And here's why: "Pulling Facebook ads in July, as they slash their ad budgets anyway, was for many a win-win of saved money and boosted image. But now? Given the response from civil rights l…
Gina Prince-Bythewood, director of Love & Basketball (don't @ us) and the also incredible, totally different Beyond the Lights, casually became the first Black woman to direct a superher…
Thomas Kail, Hamilton director (both on stage and screen): "I remember it was important for me to have a moment at the end of the show where the music and lyrics are resolving that extended …
Since the Covid-19 numbers are looking worse, not better (not by a long shot) in the US, Peter Gelb says that the Met has to push the envelope with new content, even if it mostly employs tho…
Located in the heart of downtown Durham, the Carolina Theatre has been a center of the city's arts and cultural life for nearly a century.
"What they have is the bare minimum, the scaffold of an education department," says Shellyne Rodriguez, an educator whose contract was cancelled in March. "If you don't have educators, you d…