Prince William and Kate Middleton are getting married. You may think you’re not invited, but you are. The world party set to kick off in London just hours from now is more about us than it is about the bride and groom. More in Television
It begat Bonnaroo and Coachella. This year, the musical brainchild of Perry Farrell is turning 20, and daddy loves what the kid has turned into. More in Music Here’s the lineup. Name a band. Any band. Odds are good they’ll be there.
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Business heavyweights, working musicians and even a politician come together in a conference to debate the future of the music industry. Or if there’ll even be one. Luke O’Neil reports. More in Music
An obscure UAE art exhibition mounted before the current unrest in north Africa and the Middle East gains a new relevance amid the growing regional turmoil the art works appear to have all but predicted. Sylvia Smith of BBC News reports. More in Art
Huffington Post: A decade old, the Tribeca Film Festival transplants movies’ indie spirit and celebrates the revival of a neighborhood. More in Movies Vanity Fair: The ten films to watchTHR: Ten years after, the festival founders look back at the building of “a hectic love letter to downtown Manhattan.” More in Movies
“It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish,” writes David Foster Wallace in The Pale King, his vast unfinished novel, a book that for Alicia J. Rouverol of The Monitor is “every bit as brilliant and daring as Infinite Jest, with a deftness and maturity of writing that exceed it.” More in Word
Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses, the massive new exhibition at EMP, is the product of curator Jacob McMurray's vision: put the biggest band of the early 90’s in context with the Pacific Northwest music scene of about the same period. No grunge-era artifacts, no flannel shirts in display cases. McMurray went after the ambience of the scene in surprising ways. More at seattlepi.com
The artist Elizabeth Catlett, praised for sculptures of power and timelessness, weaving African-American art and the styles of the celebrated Mexican muralists, is one of the greats of our time. Her work is the basis for two new exhibitions in the United States, the country she regards from afar. Valerie Gladstone of The Root sits with a legend. More in Art
“My homeland will be strong,” sings Massoud Abu Assir, the Libyan singer whose folksy style puts some in mind of early Bob Dylan, and whose message has galvanized the rebels fighting for a free Libya. More in Music
He may have been pop culture’s first global superstar, and more than 30 years after his passing, his impact on modern film as an actor, writer, director and composer is indelible. The films of Charlie Chaplin (born 122 years ago today) will be shown this month in several different locations, including Seattle and Baltimore, and in May, a Chaplin film festival comes to Proctors in Schenectady, N.Y.
The “Bye Bye Kitty!” exhibition at the Japan Society in New York through June 16, was planned well before the disaster that struck Japan on March 11. The uncannily prescient exhibition showcases the work of 16 artists grappling with issues of life, death, struggle and a sense of powerlessness before the forces of nature and man.
It's time to welcome back an old favorite: A new graphic novel of the revered cartoon characters presents the old familiars of childhood in a bold new format, one that offers a fresh take on Charles M. Schulz’s comic meditations on longing, security and the need for acceptance. Charles Moss of PopMatters reviews in Word
Lumet, one of modern film’s most prolific directors and perhaps the last of those who came of age in the creative hothouse of 1950’s television, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 86. Gregg Kilday of The Hollywood Reporter surveys the life of “the actor’s director” in Movies Michael E. Ross: King of the gray areaOwen Gleiberman: The quintessential N.Y. filmmaker
A shift is underway in the American television landscape, with the legacy brands of the medium challenged by defections in their own ranks, experienced and well-capitalized newcomers, a fickle viewing public, and their own resistance to change. More in Television + Video
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The celebrated South African playwright, never a Tony Award winner despite 35 years of writing powerful plays as Blood Knot and Master Harold … and the Boys, will receive a special lifetime achievement award in June, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Katie Couric, for almost five years the anchor of the CBS Evening News, is leaving the post, according to a network executive who told The Associated Press on Sunday night. More in Television Couric’s departure caps a long period of chafing and discontent that reflected, more than anything else, a clash of cultures. More in Television
In a bid to reach the one in every six Americans who are Hispanic, News Corporation is creating Fox Hispanic Media, combining two old cable channels and a new one to focus on a rapidly growing American demographic. More from The New York Times’ Stuart Elliott in Television & Video
The author and pre-eminent scholar of African American history dies in New York at 60, on the eve of publication of an expansive re-examination of Malcolm X. Cornel West said Marable “kept alive the democratic socialist tradition in the black freedom movement.” William Grimes assays Marable’s life in Word
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Prince William and Kate Middleton are getting married. You may think you’re not invited, but you are. The world party set to kick off in London just hours from now is more about us than it is about the bride and groom. More in Television
