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The United States Can’t Afford To Lose The Institute Of American Indian Arts

"I believe in the power of offering Indigenous people opportunity and space for investigation — both personal and communal. I believe in the power...

Oh, Francis Ford Coppola, You Can’t Lecture People Into Making Your Movie A Cult...

A basic - and weird - misunderstanding of fandom accompanied the director on a six-city tour and lecture series about Megalopolis (still unavailable to...

Bobbi Jene Smith And Or Schreiber, The Couple Who Are The ‘It’ Choreographers Of...

The dances they make “hinge on an evocative, slippery-fish ambiguity. Their dreamlike montages are often turbulent and disorienting, but can also feel unnervingly familiar.”...

John Grisham Adaptations, Ranked

The rate of Grisham adaptations has, of course, slowed down in recent years, which means there’s been time to catch up. - NPR

The Scottish Jazz Pianist Who Thought He Was Getting Punked When Spike Lee Called...

Then there was the email, which Fergus McCreadie also thought was spam. "Eventually I think my manager was like 'maybe we should just check...

After Decades At MoMA, Director Glenn Lowry Is Preparing To Step Down

“Having survived 9-11, the Covid pandemic, the 2008 financial crash and the 2021 protests that led to the resignation of chairman Leon Black over...

Creating KPop Demon Hunters Involved Years, And A Lot Of Acting

“Before KPop Demon Hunters became the megahit we know today, director Maggie Kang spent many years writing and animating her idea. And part of that hard...

Are Behind The Scenes Photos On Movie Sets Ruining Film Magic?

The senior fashion features editor at Grazia claims these photos are popular: “Across social and online, the appetite for it is huge. They lend...

Manhattan’s School Of Visual Arts Quietly Lays Off Staff

Two months after faculty unionized, "the faculty union told Hyperallergic that they believe reductions took place across the school, including undergraduate and graduate programs, the library,...

Novelist Sally Rooney Says She’ll Continue To Support The Group Palestine Action Despite New...

The Irish author writes, “If this makes me a supporter of terror under UK law, so be it.” - BBC

Inside The Luigi Mangione Musical That’s Playing To Sold-Out Crowds In San Francisco

“The San Francisco Chronicle’s review says the production is ‘the most talked-about play in S.F. It’s also terrible.’” But that might be far, far from the point....

Hollywood Will Never, Ever Stop With The Remakes

“Hollywood's affection for recycled and rehashed stories started right alongside Hollywood itself: going as far back as Georges Méliès' L'Arroseur from 1896, a remake of the...

When Puzzling Became An International Community Event

“Slocum first threw this party on April Fools’ Day in 1978; just 10 people gathered in the living room of his Beverly Hills home.”...

One Hot Immersion Summer, Or, How English Speaking Opera Singers Learn German

“I know after this program that when I walk into an audition room with other Americans, or people from different countries than Germany, that...

A Second Master Chef Contestant Has Been Edited Out Of The New Season

Why is the BBC still running this show after “a report which upheld claims against hosts Gregg Wallace and John Torode”? What will be left...

What Texas Needs Is A Huge Paramount Studio To Make More Yellowstone Content

Yep. “The massive production hub will be situated on the Alliance Texas campus, a 27,000-acre development owned by billionaire Ross Perot Jr.’s Hillwood, a...

How Are Native Broadcast Stations Preparing For Existence Without The Corporation For Public Broadcasting?

These stations “are unique in the landscape of American media. While many are part of the NPR and PBS networks, they are mostly staffed...

South Park Is Crude, Cynical, And Childish, So Perhaps It’s Perfect For This Moment

“If you were making a list of the series likeliest to become voices of the Trump 2.0 resistance, South Park would not have been...

Creative Control, Catalogues, Contracts, And Creedence Clearwater Revival

John Fogarty, after a long fight, in January 2023: “This is something I thought would never be a possibility. … After 50 years, I...

How Fan Fiction Has Changed The Publishing World

Sure, there’s Twlight fan fiction and Huck Finn fan fiction, Murderbot fanfic and Star Trek and etc. But there’s an awful lot of Biblical...

Doris Lockhart Saatchi, Critic And Prominent Art Collector, Has Died At 88

Lockhart Saatchi was an “American-born collector of contemporary art and art writer who played a leading role in giving movements like Minimalism and Pop...

For Older Gamers, On Confronting Death

And on confronting the ways that media that appeal to anyone over 35 (OK, sure, that’s “older”) don’t deal in any serious way with...

Greenpeace Hangs Huge Anish Kapoor Artwork From A Gas Extraction Rig

“‘I call it Butchered,’” the British sculptor told the Guardian. ‘I’m referring to the butchering of our environment. It is at the simplest level...

Another Top Official Resigns From The Kennedy Center As The President Of The US...

“The top official overseeing theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is stepping down, throwing into question the stability of...

How The Heck Did Apple TV’s The Studio Score A Cameo From Martin Scorsese?

The show boasts a “deftness in casting both fully fledged characters and quick-hit celebrity cameos, thanks in large part to the work of the...
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