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What Is The Deal With LACMA’s Plan To Share Art With An As-Yet Unbuilt...
“Rather than enlarging its physical footprint, LACMA aims to broaden its cultural reach, influence and presence in the West, and globally — a benign...
How Five Actors With Limited Musical Training Became A Band For Broadway’s Stereophonic
“'I was like, as long as someone is musical, any idiot can be in a band,’ Butler said. ‘I can write to whatever...
The Critical Book Stanley Kubrick Blocked With Legal Threats Is Now, At Last, Going...
“His reaction to The Magic Eye showed Kubrick’s image-control obsessions taken to extremes. He didn’t just make edits – he erased the entire project.” But now,...
Smithsonian Staff Are Worried About A Clampdown On LGBTQIA Content
At a GOP hearing in December, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch told representatives that he didn’t think having children at drag shows was “appropriate.” Since...
Marvel Star Chris Pratt And His Wife Demolished An Architecturally Significant Los Angeles House
The Zimmerman House was designed by architect Craig Ellwood in 1950, and was - before Pratt and his wife, Kathryn Schwarzenegger, had it torn...
Blue Denim, A Painting Seems To Show, Is Centuries Older Than Levi’s
An Italian gallery "is appealing for further research to help identify an anonymous painter who specialised in street scenes that often depict poor people...
At The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Winners Support Ousted USC Valedictorian
"Tananarive Due, who won ... for her novel The Reformatory, used her speech to add: ‘As we face the horrors in our cities, in...
The Tips And Tricks Of A 23-Year-Old Crossword-Solving Champion
The young speedster says, Ttraining your eye to move back and forth from clues to grid without losing your place, remembering clues when you...
The Original Star Trek Enterprise Model, Missing For Decades, Has Surfaced At Sotheby’s
"For die-hard Trekkies, the model’s disappearance had become the subject of folklore, so an eBay listing last fall, with a starting bid of $1,000, didn’t go...
Why Is Caravaggio Everywhere On The Cultural Scene?
"This is, after all, the guy who changed it all by introducing emotional intensity and identifiable humanity into the business of representing biblical stories."...
Lourdes Portillo, Director Of ‘The Devil Never Sleeps’ And A Visual Artist, Has Died...
The documentary filmmaker " ocused her work on writing, directing and producing film and videos that centered the emotions and circumstances of Latin American, Mexican...
Netflix Gets Caught Using AI-Generated Images Of A Murder Victim In A True-Crime Documentary
"This isn't inventing a fictional narrative for the sake of entertainment — this is tinkering with the fabric of reality itself to manipulate a...
The Very Dark Side Of The Rare Book World
That is, the side where some books are bound in human skin. - The New York Times
Google’s AI Results Are A Disaster For Publishing
"According to ad sales company Raptive, Google’s Search Generative Experience could lead to a drop in search traffic ranging from 20% to 60%, a potential...
Wait, The Actors From Blair Witch Project Have Never Gotten Residuals?
The actors improvised the script and shot most of the footage. "The film was bought by Artisan Entertainment for $1 million, after which the...
Fifteen People Were Injured In A Tram Crash At California’s Universal Studios
The injuries were minor, but this isn’t great. "Universal Studios tour is one of the theme park’s most popular attractions, taking riders on a...
The Argument To Pay A Lot More Attention To Tiny Art
That is, to miniature art and the museums that collect it. "Miniatures imitate life but have no clear practical purpose. They can be harder...
The Jazz Detective
To Zev Feldman, “solving a case means discovering a concert recording that has been gathering dust in an archive for decades, or studio sessions...
The Vatican’s Biennale Show Is Set Inside A Women’s Prison
So … the show is for what audience, exactly? Probably not the incarcerated: "As if involuntarily submitting to state power wasn’t enough, one of...
The Shakuhachi Is Having Its Moment
The Japanese bamboo flute is familiar to audiences who play video games and watch Japanese movies. "It is the sound of the earth. …...
As ‘Ecofiction’ Hits Its First Official Decade, Here Are Some Of Its Best Examples
"Many readers are seeking fiction that addresses environmental issues but explores a successful paradigm shift: fiction that accurately addresses our current issues with intelligence...
Portugal’s Eurovision Song In 1974 Helped Topple Its Military Dictatorship
Portugal's song tied for last, but coup planners needed a signal on the radio. The first song suggested was censored, and too obvious. So...
Call Salvador Dali On His Lobster Phone To Ask An AI Dali Your Burning...
Cool and deeply creepy at the same time: “The artist's AI voice was trained on voice samples taken from archival interviews Dalí did in...
Will Sony Buy Paramount As Streamers Consolidate?
Maybe! "Sony and Apollo’s entry would complicate a deal already in the works for the storied studio behind Mission: Impossible and The Godfather. Paramount,...
Sir Andrew Davis, Conductor Who Brought Humor To The Last Night Of The BBC...
Davis was both chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the musical conductor of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the 1990s. In 1997,...