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How Are U.S. Libraries Doing Amid Book Bans And Culture Wars?
It’s rough in these reading streets. “Librarians across the country are fighting to maintain students’ access to books and to keep their jobs amid...
Ireland’s Artist Basic Income May Not Account For Artists With Disabilities
“Ó Ceallacháin says many artists with disabilities feel as though they need to “]exist between ‘professional enough’ to be a ‘real’ artist for the...
The Next Director Of The Tate Has To Confront An Unwieldy ‘Beast’ Of An...
“Visitor numbers have indeed recovered after falling from their peak in 2019, but finances were hit hard during the pandemic. Those financial headwinds have...
A Cultural Critic Admits They Were Very Wrong About A 2010s Flashpoint
“There was something very intentional to Girls, something that spoke to me. I could’ve connected with it. Instead, I rejected it dramatically. I wasn’t the...
The Writers Guild Gives Its New Contract A Green Light
The contract, which is oddly long but helps shore up health care, earned the approval of more than 90 percent of the members who...
In Lawsuit Over Unlicensed Robert Indiana Art, Indiana’s Former Business Partner Is Awarded One...
“The wide-ranging battle over control of the Indiana legacy — which included accusations of forgery, unpaid royalties, elder abuse and copyright infringement — clouded...
It’s Been A Century Since The Term ‘Scientifiction’ Was Coined
That was for Amazing Stories, a magazine that published Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and other stories driven both by ideas and some possibly limited...
Every Single Fictional Pop Star Feels So Phony
Not to go all Holden Caulfield, but honesty, the fakery - it burns. Yes, including Mother Mary. - Variety
As Indie Bookstore Day Gives Stores A Boost, They Talk About Battling Amazon
“There are about 70% more bookstores now than there were six years ago in the United States. After 20 years of declining numbers, they’re...
You Might Have Associated Michael Tilson Thomas With San Francisco, But He Was Actually...
Mark Swed: “MTT made music matter by making hope matter. He was, moreover, one of us. He achieved greatness though an epic amplification of...
The Deep, Inescapable Unease Of The New Michael Jackson Biopic
And ‘unease’ is too kind a way to put it: “Everything left unsaid still lingers between the lines, sandwiched between the formidable melodies of...
But Opera Will Die If We Can’t Wrest It Back From Big Tech
“There is something in the embodied expression of a trained singer, on stage, in a room with other human beings, that no synthetic content...
The Death Of Opera Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
"Opera has had to adapt to survive, and the truth is it has done so successfully.” - New York Sun
The Deep, Strange Comfort Of A Rewatch
“Familiar things require less from us; they deliver the emotional payoff we expect. But repetition is also a way of revisiting earlier versions of...
News Publishers Are Trying To Prevent AI Scraping, But They’re Killing A Valuable History...
Talk about the baby and the bathwater: "History needs stewards. The people of the Internet Archive do an outstanding job of preserving irreplaceable work...
Think Shakespeare Isn’t For You?
Well, says the first Director’s Resident of Washington, D.C.’s huge Folger Shakespeare Library, you might need to look a little deeper. - NPR
The Board That Built Apple – And A Personal Computing Revolution – Is Turning...
“The Apple I marked a great leap forward in convenience by coming already assembled, albeit without a monitor, a keyboard, or even a case;...
Letters That Keats Sent His Beloved, Stolen In The 1980s, Are Found
“The customer told them that the books had been bequeathed to him by his grandfather, who had kept them in a box at his...
No Big Deal, But This Canadian Director Just Had Two Movies Open On The...
Chandler Levack: “It's very surreal. I just feel like I crossed into, like, a multiverse or … a timeline that I was never supposed...
Nathalie Baye, Star Of French Cinema, Has Died At 77
“Baye, a stalwart of France’s domestic cinema, starred in about 80 films and took home the best actress César, France’s equivalent of the Oscars,...
At The LA Times Book Festival, Prizewinners Tout The Power Of The People
One winner: “The people banning books are never the good guys in history, and it’s up to us in this room and beyond —...
Historically Face-Eating Leopard From Paramount Tells Hollywood Everything Will Be Fine
David Ellison of Paramount gave his pitch last week to theatre owners, saying that he would commit Paramount to a 45-day theatrical window. “‘Long...
Writers Who ‘Use’ AI Are Truly Missing The Point
“The hard work of writing is, for people like me, a critical aspect of the whole effort, bringing one's self to the task of...
What It Means That Hampshire College’s ‘Experimental’ Liberal Arts Education Is Saying Goodbye
“The shuttering of Hampshire College … feels different, not so much another liberal arts domino falling as the symbolic end of a whole tradition...
Museums Are For Kids
There’s a “national wave of new children’s museums, expansions of existing institutions and a broadened lineup of programming aimed at young visitors.” - The...
