An Interview with Choreographer Mark Travis Rivera
“Growing up in my neighborhood, you didn’t make it out just by being an artist,” Mark Travis Rivera tells me as he applies his makeup before heading to rehearsal at …
ART & CULTURE
Teacher who wanted students to sing Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus song “Rainbowland” is terminated
A Wisconsin school board has terminated an elementary school teacher who tweeted in March about her disappointment that administrators had banned students from singing the Dolly Parton and Miley Cryus duet “Rainbowland.” The song …
Shutdown Looms as Actors Say Contract Talks Have Collapsed
July 13, 2023, 11:17 a.m. ET July 13, 2023, 11:17 a.m. ET Members of the actors’ union came out to support the television and movie writers who went on strike …
Frieze Acquires Art Fairs EXPO CHICAGO and the Armory Show
Frieze, already an art world behemoth with annual fairs in London, New York, Los Angeles and Seoul, is about to become even bigger with its acquisition of two of the …
‘The Five Demands’ Review: Occupying a College for Racial Justice
Among the wave of student protests that occurred across American university campuses in the late 1960s, the student occupation of The City College of New York in April 1969 was …
What’s in Billionaire Sheldon Solow’s Mysterious Art Collection?
When real estate tycoon Sheldon Solow died in 2020 at age 92, he left behind a $4.4 billion fortune, a portfolio of residential and commercial properties and one of the …
Call It Dance, Puppetry or Sculpture, It Is Eerily Beautiful
A classic marionette might have eight to 10 strings. Leah Ogawa’s latest puppet, an ethereal tree-shaped form, has more than 600: clustered into thickets and tangles, threaded through eye bolts …
When Spider-Man Met Jeff Koons
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” the sequel to the 2018 reimagining of the arachnid-adolescent superhero, doubles down on the first installment with an inventive and magpie visual style. The result is, …
Weekend Picks: Glensheen the musical, Loch Mess, and cellos aplenty
I ventured to theater productions indoors and outdoors and have reports for you about my findings in this edition of Weekend Picks. The short story is that “Glensheen” at the …
‘Bird Box Barcelona’ Review: Blind Faith
In the mildly entertaining Sandra Bullock vehicle, “Bird Box,” alien invaders were presumed so fearsome to behold that all who gazed upon them immediately offed themselves. Possibly to save audiences …