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Just Who, In An Artistic Relationship, Is Whose Muse?
"The truest artist-muse relationship may be that in which the former works with the latter because no other individual talent will bring the art...
What Happened To People Magazine?
“The excavation of the political from the personal is always worth studying, which is part of the reason People has always been such a rich text. But...
This New Ballet Company Features Women Lifting Other Women – Literally
“'It’s an amazing experience,’ Annia Hidalgo, one of the Queer the Ballet dancers, . ‘We all speak the same language. It’s movement, it’s art,...
Is Shogun Spamming The Emmys?
“Being calculated isn’t easy. Networks and executive producers have to consider the politics of choosing one writer’s or director’s episode over another, and individual...
When A Game Is All About Defeating The Player, Players Band Together To Form...
Players of Elden Ring died so often when the game first came out that live streams of other players dying over and over became...
Listening Through The Entire 21-Volume Catalog Of Composer George Crumb
Crumb’s “scores — created by hand and themselves works of art — are rife with exacting instructions to performers: how to thread paper between the strings...
A New Movie In A Native Language Leads Its Director To Ask Hollywood For...
Erica Tremblay: "You don’t know if this is just a moment that Hollywood is having that will just go right back. ... What is...
In 1968, Arena Stage’s Leader Needed A ‘Confidential Plan’ In Order To Integrate Both...
Zelda Fichandler, a month before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated: "When I look around, however, beyond our too-perfected technique and … the...
How To Dominate The Thriller List
Cue the sounds of a long search for success: "After a decade of self publishing, McFadden signed a series of deals with Sourcebooks’...
Ann Philbin, Who’s Retiring From UCLA’s Hammer Museum, Has Been A Transformative, Risk-Taking Leader
“It’s impossible to overstate Philbin’s influence on the museum — and the city. She and the Hammer are one.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
The Price Of Sharing Your Couples Therapy With The World
“‘We really need some help, so hey, what do we have to lose?’ India recalled thinking at the time.” - The New York Times
Authors Famously Don’t Have Money, And Now The Publishing World Wants Them To Fund...
Ugh. “The people who run publishing companies consistently value quantity over quality. This is stressful for the workers on the ground, the ones who...
Camille Claudel Had A Lot Going For Her, Until She Started Working With Rodin
"From 1882 to 1892 she was Rodin’s assistant, lover, muse, and, most importantly, co-creator. However, aside from assertions in pop culture, such as Bruno...
A London Cinema Was Set To Premiere A Film Supposedly Written By ChatGPT, But...
The director said, "If screenwriters take the time to watch the movie and read about the process and why we did this film, I...
Ron Simon, Who Left Tech To Act And Produce Black Stories On Broadway, Has...
Simon won four Tonys as a producer, and he balanced producing film and stage works for years as well. He said, "I’ve found that...
Gaming For Culture
For instance, the lead character encounters a blueberry pie on a picnic table. The game reads, “This is the longest word in Anashinaabemowin: Miini-baalashkiminasljigani-blitoosigani-badakiingwesijigani-blitooyiingwesijigani-bakwezhigan:...
Shakespeare Finally Gets A Library Worthy Of His Name
“By opening itself more forthrightly to a wider audience, the library is doing something that Henry Clay Folger could probably never have imagined would...
Parisian Arthouse Cinema To Reopen After A Buyout From Previously Evicted Squatters Collective
“Two years after being evicted by Paris police, a collective of students and film-industry professionals returned to the arthouse cinema they had occupied from 2019 to...
As Wells College Closes, A Beloved Statue Loses Its Head
Minerva, whose feet students had kissed for luck for 150 years, was decapitated by a backhoe. For many, “the accident felt like a final...
Octavia Butler’s Birthday Is A Reminder That We Need Black Women’s Visions For The...
“Octavia E. Butler envisioned with eerie precision: a world of increasing drug addiction and illiteracy, global shifts towards authoritarian populism, vast gaps between...
The De La Torre Brothers Make Maximalist Art On Both Sides Of The Border
“As a young artist, you’re wondering: Are you a craft person? Are you a conceptual artist? Are you Mexicano? Are you Americano? A Chicano?...
Are The Famous Yellow Van Mobile Libraries Being Phased Out In The Scottish Highlands?
A fleet of ten is now seven, of which a majority “carry fewer books and have to be loaded and unloaded. librarian, whose...
How Hard Is It To Film ESports?
It’s not easy, just like a physical sports game. Some so-called observers “will have the ability to jump between player perspectives, seeing exactly what's...
It’s Summer, So The Debate About The Sweatiest Movie Of All Time Is Too...
Recent movies (Hit Man, anyone?), even when set in New Orleans, just aren’t … sweaty. So what wins the title of sweatiest movie of...
A Dance Dream Fulfilled
As Jawole Willa Jo Zollar fully lets go of the reins, 40 years after founding the dance troupe Urban Bush Women, she’s created one...
