With his quick business acumen and even faster punches, Bob Wall is a martial arts master who pushed disciplines like karate, aikido and Brazilian jiu-jitsu into the American mainstream, making friends along the way and screen-sharing with the likes of Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris. died on January 30 in Los Angeles. He was 82 …
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At the start of the pandemic, prospects looked bleak For the Barrow Group, a 35-year-old Off Broadway theater company known for its actor education programs. She brought her existing classrooms online and then vacated her 18-year lease on West 36th Street in July 2020. But now – as a result Salary Protection Program financing a …
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As New York City’s arts and culture sector struggles to recover from the economic devastation caused by the pandemic, The Ministry of Cultural Affairs announced on Thursday that it will grant $51.4 million in grants. 1000+ nonprofit arts organizations. The grants for the 2022 fiscal year represent the largest allocation ever for the fund, known …
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Ed Bullins, one of the most important Black playwrights of the 20th century and one of the leading voices in the Black Art Movement of the 1960s and 70s, died Saturday at his home in Roxbury, Mass. He was 86 years old. His wife, Marva Sparks, said the cause was complications from dementia. During his …
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NS Irish Arts CenterA New York nonprofit dedicated to advocating the culture of Irish and Irish-Americans is finally moving into a home as big as its aspirations. Organization, Founded in the East Village in 1972has been in business for decades in a one-off condo in Hell’s Kitchen. Now, completing a pandemic-delayed construction project that went …
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DETROIT — “If we knew how the gallery world works, I don’t know if we would jump into it,” said JJ Curis, who founded an art gallery with her husband, Anthony Curis. Library Street Collective, in 2012, in a once-abandoned alley. However, he thinks that their naivete to take this first venture may have allowed …
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Fueled by “The Queen’s Gambit” and “The Crown,” Netflix dominated the competition at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards over the weekend. Netflix received 34 Emmys in three separate ceremonies held on Saturday and Sunday, while Disney+, the publisher’s closest rival, won 13 awards. HBO and streaming service HBO Max have just won 10 Emmy’s permanent …
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Announced Thursday, New York Live Arts’ upcoming season will feature two major milestones: the 10th anniversary of the arts organization and the 40th anniversary of its resident community, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. “I think Arnie would be pleased,” Bill T. Jones, artistic director of Live Arts, said in an interview. (The other founder …
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Abrons Art Center‘s fall season series greets groundbreakers and innovators in the arts, public housing and emerging technology. “As we come out of lockdown, we wanted to focus on work that is still ongoing and evolving in different ways during the pandemic,” Craig Peterson, the centre’s artistic director, said in an interview. “Because it deserves …
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NS Helen Frankenthaler The foundation, named after the American abstract expressionist painter, announced on Wednesday that it has committed $10 million to the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative to help the nation’s visual arts institutions become more energy efficient. “We wanted to help US arts institutions get involved in the climate fight,” the foundation’s president, Fred Iseman, …
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The National Foundation for the Arts announced Jazz Masters class of 2022 – and represents a wide field of blues-based, pushing the boundaries that have been made under the jazz label in the last 50 years. The NEA said Tuesday that the new Jazz Masters consists of bassist Stanley Clarke, drummer Billy Hart, vocalist Cassandra …
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The Queens Museum is among 46 cultural nonprofits selected by Bloomberg Philanthropies for a new $30 million program. This aims to support technology development in groups and help them stabilize and thrive in the wake of the pandemic. Philanthropists announced Tuesday that each organization has appointed a Bloomberg Tech Fellow. Heryte Tequame, deputy director of …
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