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Mixtape Supremacy Hasn’t Ended Yet
You can keep your playlists. Mixtapes are where the love (and new music) are best found. - The Guardian (UK)
Emerald Fennell’s Grand Millennial Movie Master Plan
The director is "an artist whose aesthetic feels as informed by the bubblegum, color-drenched landscapes of Sweet Valley High and She’s All That as by erudite directorial idols...
Adapting Narnia Is Ridiculously Difficult
"The idea of Gerwig shaking the architecture with a spikier take on Narnia has a real zing to it, given how careful previous...
When ‘Regeneration’ Architecture Goes Disastrously Wrong
Sure, you can blame Boris Johnson for this Hackney Walk - and you might not be entirely wrong - but there's more to the...
The Internet Has Changed How Those In Gaza Tell Their Stories To The World
And that has likely changed how Millennials and Gen-Zers see and feel about what's happening now. - The New York Times
Hollywood Will Be Glad To Know That Movies Can Be Therapeutic Gold
People in cinematherapy "engage with carefully selected films that resonate with their personal experiences. They connect with characters and storylines, extract meaning, and reflect...
The Occult Is Rising In The Art World
Surrealism is back, amid "a new generation has been inspired by witchcraft, mysticism and spiritualism." - The Observer (UK)
How National Parks Tell The Story, And The Myth, Of The United States
It's a provocative discussion. There are many sites "where the story is being reframed at this very moment." - Hyperallergic
The Arts Can Help Solve Our Addiction Crisis
But "what should the arts be doing? They can break the national narratives around addiction," first off. Not everyone goes to AA. And not...
Happy Banned Theatre Week, From California
At Santa Monica College, "the campus police chief told if protesters breached backstage during a performance, they could grab fire extinguishers to defend...
Alfred Molina On Playing A Lawyer In The Scopes Monkey Trial
"We've had a lot of excited conversations after the play with members of the audience who are responding very energetically to the questions that...
The Challenges Of Describing Dance
Making ballet accessible to those with low vision or those who are blind isn't simple. It's so much more than just the movement -...
That Freshman Year Class Where You Learn To Make A ‘Selfie’ Quilt
"At the end of the first week, I hand out needles and thread." - Inside Higher Ed
Joan Armatrading Has Entered The Classical Music Chat
"Armatrading’s creative life is built on asking questions." - The New York Times
This Finnegan’s Wake Reading Group Has Finished The Book, 28 Years On
There's a reason Finnegan's Wake often has reading "gropes" instead. "Fialka leans into that visionary aspect, describing his group as 'more a performance art...
Who Is Blocking Latinx Representation In Hollywood?
"Every culture, country or ethnic group is a fragile project held together by duct tape and shared myths. In the most literal sense, we...
The Secret Life Of A Times Square Busker
"A stream of passengers walked by, searching for anything to look at other than the 32-year-old man struggling to fit an egg-shaped cardboard headpiece...
In Portugal, A DJ Priest Spins Up Electronica For His Parishioners
To be fair, he also caters to non-parishioners, and even non-believers, at the dance hall. - MSN (AP)
Director Michael Winterbottom On Finding His Passion
"In my teens, I went to ... fortnightly foreign-language film screenings religiously. I was always desperate to escape, and these films briefly transported me...
Making A Hugely Popular Dance Game Accessible
Just Dance has more than 500 choreographed routines from around the world - and has now added dance routines for people using wheelchairs....
Who Won The National Translation Awards?
"In the title poem, 'one long-serving intellectual screamed at his friend / When I’m talking about democracy / you shut the hell up.'" - LitHub
Artists Rally In NYT Headquarters To Call Out The Newspaper’s Gaza Coverage
"About 150 artists and cultural workers including photographer Nan Goldin and poet Eileen Myles flooded the lobby of the New York Times headquarters in midtown Manhattan."...
Want To Know The Roots Of Inequality?
Look no farther than the art of Europe in the Middle Ages. - Fast Company
Face It, Prestige TV Is Over
"It’s a story of dizzying success, followed by hubristic overreach and cautious retreat." - The Observer (UK)
Can We Please Not Resurrect The First-Person-Industrial-Media-Complex?
Just stop (again) with the personal essay craze. - Out of Your League
