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What Is The Pritzker Prize Going To Do About Tom Pritzker’s Ties To Jeffrey...
Looks like nothing except defend the jury’s independence — and say that “the announcement of the next laureate, which typically occurs in the first...
Disney Told The Creator Of A Fairly Anti-Fascist Series Not To Use The Word...
“You get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could...
At The BAFTAs, A Person In The Audience Yelled The N-Word At Michael B....
“A spokesperson for the BBC attributed the language outbursts to an attendee with Tourette syndrome,” but the BBC apologized to viewers. Social media outrage...
Movie Promotions Have Gotten Completely Out Of Control, But Why?
Think color, branding, social media - and publicists. - El País English
Susan Sheehan, Who Won The Pulitzer Prize For One Of Her Books Chronicling Life...
“Sheehan’s prose was cool and restrained, as if to counterbalance the harrowing and chaotic lives of many of her subjects.” - The New York...
Britain’s National Gallery Deficits Shouldn’t Be Taken Out On The Country’s Public
Or so says The Guardian: “Culture is not a luxury. It is vital to the country’s wellbeing, tourism and international standing.” - The Guardian...
Let’s Talk About A New Play That Deeply Understands A Very American Form Of...
That is, the kind of “theatre” that one might see on C-SPAN — indeed, that some people did, in 1993 (though the 1993 version...
A Tiny Museum In San Francisco That’s More Like A Giant Time Capsule
The museum “covers the entire history of city parks within a 6-by-10-foot room. … Because the museum capacity is five people and the pent-up...
K-Pop Demon Hunters Dominates The Annies
Does any other animated film have a chance at an award this year? The film “won in every category in which it was nominated,”...
The Symphonic Supermarket Aisles Of Sheffield
“I headed to the back of the shop and to a cluster of three freezers. This was it. The sound they were making was...
Trump Demands That Netflix Fire A Board Member After Her Warning That Corporations Shouldn’t...
Susan Rice, former United Nations Ambassador, said on a podcast this week that “corporations, media companies, law firms and universities that ‘take a knee’...
Why Is Nearly Everyone Reading Fantasy These Days?
“The strictly disenchanted world, where nothing exists but physical processes describable without metaphor, and even consciousness is just a material problem waiting to be...
Mexisistentialism Is A New Definition Of An Age-Old Strain Of Mexican Philosophy
Mexistentialism “teaches us that our crises, even if they are framed by the catastrophic, are that only in appearance. … Our crises will not...
Matz Skoog, A Charismatic Swedish Dancer Turned Director Of The English Ballet, Has Died...
Skoog came on board at a rough time, just as 9/11 obliterated any arts attention. “The softly spoken, self-effacing and courteous Skoog set about...
The Regular Schmoes Asked Up On The Ballet Stage
“When the mood and choreography strike, Kansas City Ballet Artistic Director Devon Carney invites a few folks to perform on stage as supernumeraries. That’s...
The Federal Communications Commission In The U.S. Is Going In On The ‘Must Be...
The FCC chair asked broadcasters to sign a pledge, and said they should “inform and entertain audiences by upping programming that ‘celebrates the American...
Damian Lewis On Being In The Public Eye
“I had a stalker. We had an injunction on her and I thought that everything was safe and then I was on stage doing...
Ireland’s Basic Income For The Arts Is Now Permanent, But What Does It Mean...
In Ireland, despite how often the government uses Irish arts to market the country to tourists, "more than 56 per cent of artists and...
With Lost Boys And Dracula On Broadway, Plus Sinners At The Oscars, Why Are...
“These mythological creatures tap into our anxiety over what would happen if we became otherly human. … As the horror author Grady Hendrix put...
The New Wuthering Heights Treats One Of Its Women Very, Very Badly
“The film Isabella is a narrative tool for Heathcliff rather than developing in her own right. She becomes another victim of ‘fridging,’ a term coined...
South Africa Has Pulled Out Of The Venice Biennale
“The move comes after the country’s right-wing culture minister Gayton McKenzie scrapped a pavilion proposal by artist Gabrielle Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo.” They said,...
Why Discord’s Age Verification Idea Isn’t Going According To Plan
Hackers discovered the Peter Thiel-backed verification software, Persona, "bundled in an interface that pairs facial recognition with financial reporting – and a parallel implementation...
Rediscovering The Classic Cassette Tape Player
For Spencer Richardson, who finds, repairs, and sells tape players, “his customers include older baby boomers and Gen X‑ers nostalgic for the players of...
Willie Colon, Trombonist And Bandleader, Producer And Composer, Has Died At 75
Colón’s “driving musical energy and mischievous bad-boy image — he was long promoted as ‘El Malo’ — helped made him a luminary of New...
The Berlinale Has Been A Complex Mess Of Politics. Why?
“The Berlinale has gained a reputation as the most overtly political of the major festivals, not only for its programming choices, but for its...
