Michael Cooper

I’m the deputy editor for news on the Times’s Culture desk. Here are 5 things I have been reading, watching and listening to.

Celebrities, artists, musicians and actors at home, outdoors and in lockdown: The stories behind the pictures that defined our year.

I’m the deputy culture editor for news. I’m doing the best I can to find entertainment at home.

A staggering 100 million Americans voted early, suggesting a record turnout. (Published 2020)

Ilhan Omar calls the president’s tweet ‘an evil thing to say,’ and others decry the implicit suggestion that those who die from the virus are weak.

The nation’s largest performing arts organization, shut by the coronavirus pandemic, sends a chilling signal that American cultural life is still far from resuming.

The Zoom where it happens: Biden speaks with Lin-Manuel Miranda about the Latino vote. (Published 2020) - The New York Times

Many artists have not been paid since March at the company, which hopes to return on New Year’s Eve after its longest interruption in over a century.

The Met, the biggest performing arts organization in the nation, will lose millions in ticket revenues.

Learning to perform without live audiences, or sometimes even theaters, as artists adapt to trying circumstances.