Since COVID-19 descended, several awards show were postponed and later revamped due to COVID-19 restrictions. The BET Awards was the first major awards show during the pandemic and was a success thanks to its imaginative, highly produced, well-crafted pre-taped performances. The MTV Video Music Awards featured Lady Gaga winning awards and performing onsite in a mask, and the Latin Grammys pre-taped several performances the week of the show
‘We lost an important figure from my country,’ wrote vocalist Carol Samaha, ‘and he took with him the most beautiful musical era in the history of the Lebanese music’
Many of the shows and performers in Metro al Madina’s repertoire – ‘Franco-Arab,’ ‘Aghani Servicaat,’ ‘Hishik Bishik,’ vocalist Abd al-Karim al-Shaar, as well as the new work – have or will be staged before a half-house audience while streamed online
In the Al-Marg area north of Cairo, veteran oud-maker Khaled Azzouz heads the biggest oud workshop in Egypt, producing 750 instruments monthly
In September, a young Tibetan woman died after her ex-husband came after her with gasoline and set her alight while she was broadcasting a livestream from her...
Beirut Chants 2020 reaches its halfway mark with a free-of-charge evening of cool, cosmopolitan jazz that’s weirdly reminiscent of the pre-COVID era
From 1938 the Nazis had engaged Hildebrand – who was himself of Jewish heritage – to deal in items taken from Jewish owners or confiscated as ‘degenerate’
Mustafa al-Ghazi, an antiquities directorate official in Muthanna province, which is among one of Iraq’s poorest, told AFP the directorate only provides...
Without explanation, ‘WandaVision’ finds witch Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and other-worldly android Vision (Paul Bettany) living happily married in the...
As the first prominent award show to go forward during the pandemic, the Gotham Awards took a trial-and-error approach to mounting a show that couldn’t...
John le Carré’s ostensibly ordinary upbringing was an illusion. His father, Ronnie Cornwell, was a con man who was an associate of gangsters and spent time in...
This year, amidst the COVID-19 crisis, the Museum of Modern Art’s annual film benefit also benefits Artist Relief, an emergency initiative supporting artists