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Artist Lambasted By Trump Says Her Business Has Been Harmed
Sarah Boardman: “President Trump is entitled to comment freely, as we all are, but the additional allegations that I 'purposefully distorted' the portrait, and...
Color Is A Math Nightmare
Also: “We technically could create a ‘universal’ solution, but every color space is made for different purposes, and they impact how everything is displayed, from the...
The Oliviers Award Fiddler On The Roof, Benjamin Button, And A Play About Roald...
John Lithgow, who won best actor, “thanked the audience for ‘welcoming me to England’ and said ‘it’s not always easy when you welcome an...
The Upper West Side May Get Its Art Deco Cinema Back, Two Decades Later
A nonprofit, the Upper West Side Cinema Center, bought the building with state and local funds. "It plans to revitalize the building, on Broadway...
After Winning An Olivier, Lesley Manville Calls For Funding For The UK’s Regional Theatres
“Repertory theatres are not funded properly any more. ... I’d love to see regional theatres given more funding. When I was starting out, it...
What Happens When The Entire SNL Audience Swears On Live TV?
We’re about to find out. - Vulture
Looks Like Scientists Might Finally Be Defining The Forever Known Unknowns
“Undecidability means that certain questions simply cannot be answered.” - Wired
Marcia Marcus, Popular 1960s Artist Rediscovered In Her Final Decade, Has Died At 97
“Marcus was everywhere that mattered to a young, determined and very talented artist in the late 1950s and ’60s. In Provincetown, Mass., on Cape...
A Documentary About Art Hustler Thomas Kinkade Lionizes, And Extends, The Whole Scam
At least, that’s what Philip Kennicott thinks: “What will become of the one-man Kinkade business model if there is no Thomas Kinkade, or people...
Even Gamers Are Furious About New Tariffs
The Nintendo Switch 2 has been delayed. Why not move production to the US? "Nintendo would need to spend billions to open a factory...
Pierce Brosnan Is So Much More Than Bond
But he’s OK if you’re stuck on that era of his long, and continuing, career. Meanwhile, he’s also a painter, which is why The...
Director’s Ex-Assistant Says He Assaulted Her And Then Backed Out Of Settlement Deal
Writer and director Paul Schrader "has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting his former personal assistant, firing her when she wouldn’t acquiesce...
Why Is An Oregon Employment Lawyer Composing And Producing Neo-Romantic Music?
Andrew Lewinter: “What things do I want to incorporate from that music into my own music, to make something that’s both intellectually satisfying and...
How Betty Boop Made It To Broadway
“Betty, who arrived just a decade after American women won the right to vote, was always working, and she often had jobs that were...
As An Irish Literary Festival Turns Forty, There’s An ‘Explosion’ Of Irish Lit Worldwide
“Cúirt is the time when all of us grassroots people get to celebrate literature and writing in our own city. ... Writers are very...
What’s Wrong With The Algos?
"I couldn’t figure out why any computer program would suggest that a person attending an Australian journalist’s lecture about a distant Hungarian relative selling...
Twenty-One States Sue The Feds For Trying To Dismantle Agency Funding Libraries And Museums
“The suit argues that the steep cuts and at two other small agencies violate both the Constitution and other federal laws related to...
Ireland Gets The Most Beautiful Sewage Treatment Plant In The World
Perhaps that’s not a long list, but still - its design is inspired by the Sydney Opera House, and the plant “stands like a...
How Does Reductress So Deeply, Accurately, And Concisely Satirize Readers?
“You can only make jokes about an enemies to lovers romance novel about two rival realtors who are also randomly immortal werewolves just trying...
An Unlikely Arts Oasis Arises In LA, Built Partly With LACMA’s Rubble
Conceptual artist David Horwitz has created the 7th Avenue Garden in an empty lot, turning it into “a small but verdant oasis that hosts...
It’s A Myth That Bilingual Kids Are Slower In Both Languages At First
The problem is in the evaluators, not the kids: “‘Code-mixing, or using two languages in the same sentence, is often interpreted as confusion. It's actually...
Internet ‘Views’ Are Lies
That’s right, we’ve built a whole architecture - and funded people’s lives, or defunded their jobs entirely - based on nothing but lies. -...
Tracy Chapman, Ready To Rerelease Her Debut Album On Vinyl, May Someday Tour Again
She’s always in the studio, she says - and in addition, “I play and I sing, probably annoying people around me,’ she added....
The Japanese American National Museum In Los Angeles Takes A Stand Against DOGE
The board chairman knows a thing or two about governmental overreach. “‘Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the...
What To Do If You Wake Up With A Banksy On Your House
“You'll have to make a series of clever decisions to come out of it unscathed.” - BBC
