Mar 15 ‘Mank’ leads Academy Awards nominations with 10 nods By Jake Coyle, Associated Press David Fincher’s “Mank” has led nominations to the 93rd Academy Awards with 10 nods, and for the first time, two women — Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell — were nominated for best director. Continue reading
Mar 14 Yo-Yo Ma serenades newly-vaccinated at inoculation clinic By Associated Press Newly vaccinated Massachusetts residents were treated to a mini concert over the weekend when famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma brought out his instrument after getting his second coronavirus shot. Continue reading
Mar 14 Who run the Grammys? Beyoncé, Taylor Swift make history By Mesfin Fekadu, Associated Press The Grammys are drunk in love with Beyoncé and Taylor Swift: the singers both made history at the 2021 show. Continue reading
Mar 12 Watch 6:25 Record-breaking sale of digital creation makes history in art and cryptocurrency markets By Jeffrey Brown, Jaywon Choe Christie’s, the auction house, sold a work of art Thursday for a record-breaking $69.3 million for a piece that exists only digitally. The sale, reportedly made to an investor known by a pseudonym, is seen by many as history-making development… Continue watching
Mar 12 Watch 3:39 Unraveling the mystery of a pioneering American painter’s missing work By Mike Melia, Tommy Walters, Lynsey Jeffery Imagine discovering that a painting on your wall is a long, lost masterpiece. In two recent cases, the story centers on Jacob Lawrence, a pioneering American modernist painter. Lydia Gordon, of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, is our… Continue watching
Mar 12 WATCH: How Yuh-Jung Youn’s memories of her own great-grandmother inspired her ‘Minari’ role By Joshua Barajas Youn said she drew from her own experiences as a grandmother for the film, but also built the character of Soonja in "Minari" by relying on memories of her own great-grandmother, who was alive until Youn was 10 years old. Continue reading
Mar 12 Netflix tests a possible password-sharing crackdown By Mae Anderson, Associated Press Netflix confirmed the test, but did not say how many people were part of the test or if it was only in the U.S. or elsewhere. Continue reading
Mar 11 Digital artwork auctions for $69 million amid online craze By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press Christie's said it also marks the first time a major auction house has offered a digital-only artwork with a non-fungible token as a guarantee of its authenticity. Known as NFTs, they have swept the online collecting world recently. Continue reading
Mar 10 Watch 8:14 Leveraging the power of art to achieve ‘community immunity’ By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport The pandemic has highlighted structural inequities within American life, including a disproportionate impact on Black communities and poorer neighborhoods and access to and attitudes toward the vaccine. A new national public health campaign is trying to reach some Black Americans… Continue watching
Mar 10 Invalidations of Meghan’s claims of racism hurt Black women By Christine Fernando, Associated Press As many Black women watched those social media conversations turn to questioning over whether racism affected treatment of Meghan by the British press and royal family, the headlines and discussions became painfully familiar. Continue reading