Video: On restoring Alexander Calder’s mobile, Red Lily Pads (1956), at the Guggenheim.
The Guggenheim’s Nathan Otterson, Senior Conservator, Objects, and Tracey Bashkoff, Director of Collections and Senior Curator, describe the demanding process …
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Here’s the complete 2020 Academy Awards Ballot. Download your copy, print, and party on!
Each January, the entertainment community and film fans around the world turn their attention to the Academy Awards. Interest and …
Dulé Hill reads “As Fast As Words Could Fly.” A wonderful, thoughtful, & teachable 16 minutes.
I joined Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists—now, SAG-AFTRA—in 1972. For the past 48 …
Get ready to vote. Here’s your 2020 Golden Globes Award ballot. Download, print, and party on.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 77th Annual Golden Globe®Awards ceremony will air live coast to coast on NBC from The …
Music subscriptions get expensive. Streams from Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center are free.
For me, the start of each New Year is a time to evaluate all of the various subscriptions that I’ve …
The one about a banana duct-taped to a wall. And, that Cattelan person—crazy, crafty, or clever?
In describing Maurizio Cattelan, The Museum of Modern Art says, “In the grand tradition of Italian comedy that stretches from the …
Nominations announced for the 26th Annual SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS. Here’s your printable ballot.
On March 8, 1998, John Lithgow took the stage and the 4th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® and said, “I …
Theatre people: A 70s Christmas in New York, a dinner in Philadelphia, and a petrified Christmas tree.
It was Christmastime in 1971. I’d just returned to New York after having been on the road in the cast …
Theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s 18k gold toilet is the story behind a new insurance commercial.
Satirical participatory art can move people in unexpected ways. America, the fully functioning gold toilet by Maurizio Cattelan—an 18k representation …
Read a good art book lately? The Getty has over 300 for you to download, read, and keep.
Since the Getty Museum launched its virtual library in 2014, its publications have been downloaded more than 400,000 times. The …
Screen Actors Guild podcasts are available to all. Here, SAG-AFTRA’s president interviews Lily Tomlin.
SAG-AFTRA Actor to Actor: In honor of the SAG Award-nominated series Grace and Frankie, one of the first Netflix original …
I’m not a big fan of Halloween, but creepy old movies are close to the top of my favorite-things list.
The Old Dark House, produced by Universal Pictures’ Carl Laemmle Jr., is one of those creepy movies. It was previewed in …
From the team that brought you the brilliant documentary, RGB—a new film. Working title: Julia.
A party without a cake is just a meeting. — Julia Child The 1961 publication of her best-seller, Mastering the Art …
The Emmy Awards are this weekend. I share a memory of the Emmys and your printable ballot.
I was invited to join the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1974 at age 24 when I was …
Actress Eve Plumb—Jan on The Bradey Bunch—has become quite an accomplished artist.
I’m a big fan of film noir. And, I a big fan of Eve Plumb’s film noir series of paintings—her …
A film treasure came to me today by way of a message from a new Twitter friend, Laurence Fuller.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.” In less than 19 minutes, Echoes of You, an …
Sadly, the Paris Theatre has closed for business. I fell head-over-heels in love with Maggie Smith there.
I clicked on Gothamist this morning and was first startled and then saddened to learn that after 71 years, New …
