Madison Avenue’s Biggest Event Returns to a Brand New World

[ad_1] For the first time in three years, the circus is back in town. The television industry’s biggest showcase for advertisers, so-called front lines, will return to Manhattan landmarks like Radio City Music Hall and Carnegie Hall after the pandemic puts flamboyant, in-person premieres on hold. Just like in the old days, media executives will …

A Science Fiction Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The True Story Is Here

[ad_1] Last fall, science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson was asked to predict what the world would look like in 2050. He was speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, and the atmosphere at the summit was described as “last, best”. “hope to save the planet” – it was bleak. But Robinson, …

Smithsonian Turns Its Head to Change and Adopts Ethical Returns Policy

[ad_1] The Smithsonian Institution announced on Tuesday that it has adopted a policy that will formally authorize its founding museums to return items that have been looted or once unethically obtained from their collections. The institution’s leaders said the policy enacted Friday represents a departure from the long-held position it and other museums have taken, …

Review: Sasha Waltz’s Action Picture Returns in ‘C’

[ad_1] The directions for Terry Riley’s groundbreaking 1964 composition “In C” are quite simple. The one-page note consists of 53 short musical motifs that the musicians play in sequence. But there is a constant shift of alignment and displacement as each musician chooses how many times to repeat each figure before moving on to the …

Review: In ‘Lucia’ at the Met, A Modern Woman Returns

[ad_1] It seems that the Metropolitan Opera’s new production “Lucia di Lammermoor” has little in common with the production that replaces it. old staging, which premiered in 2007 and most recently revived in 2018, Donizetti’s work – about a girl driven into murder by forced marriage – is set in the late Victorian era with …