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An Independent News Site Was Critical Of Facebook, And Then Its Links Were Blocked
After an outcry, Facebook apologized for blocking links to the independent Kansas Reflector - then expanded the crackdown to other news sites. A spokesperson...
Japanese American Women Made Art During Internment – And They’re Finally Getting Recognition
"During these dark times, many people turned to art, and the Topaz Art School was born, where hundreds took classes in still-life and architectural drawing within...
As Illinoise Opens On Broadway, Choreographer Justin Peck Plans To Conquer Hollywood As Well
"Peck, who has created almost 40 works for NYCB and other ballet companies around the world, is ambitious to bring modern dance to bigger,...
Why Are We So Obsessed With Beloved TV Shows Sticking Their Landings?
There is no “final score” for a series. "The modern fixation on endings is partly a creation of the TV business itself. For most...
Writers Must Be Able To Perform Magic
Myriam J.A. Chancy: "When history is a nightmare, all one can do is circumvent it, write another version, a fiction. This is what literature...
Margaret Tynes, Who Soared In Verdi And Strauss, Has Died At 104
Tynes, as a Black woman, found little work in the United States, but "with her incendiary, full-throated voice, in roles like Aida and Salomé,...
Cloud Atlas, At Twenty, Is A Tattoo-Worthy Novel
The complexity and melancholy of Cloud Atlas have inspired "cosplay, reader art, fan fiction and scholarship … in great quantity. It is a response that...
It’s Not Easy, But It’s Possible, To Be Both Critic And Creator
Linda Holmes is not just any critic, but host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour and an alum of the revered sarcastic review site...
The Marlborough Gallery Is Closing After Nearly 80 Years
“Perhaps the real story here is how Marlborough managed to last nearly eight decades when so many galleries have only a decade in the...
How Richard Serra’s Work Will Outlive Humanity
“1300 B.C.E. Copper and tin smelters around the eastern Mediterranean encounter a shortage of materials and begin experimenting with some other ores, eventually producing...
Percival Everett Wants To Hear The Jeers
The author of Erasure, adapted as American Fiction and nominated for several Oscars, and the new James, says a bad review "might be fun?...
If No One Will Read Your Academic Work, Perhaps You Need To Hire A...
Her climate change studies were getting a professor down. So she turned to the University of South Florida's school of music. "Composition professor Paul Reller worked...
The Big Business Of Two-Actor Musicals
"Musicals with such small casts are potentially big business, in part because it can be easier to recoup their streamlined production costs compared with...
What Happened To Berlin?
The city was a beacon of artistic freedom. Then came October 7. Now, "a climate of fear and recrimination has put Berlin’s status as...
West End Production Of Romeo And Juliet Sees Barrage Of Racist Abuse Toward Its...
The theatre company said, "We are working with a remarkable group of artists. We insist that they are free to create work without facing...
Cole Brings Plenty, Actor In Yellowstone Spinoff 1923, Is Found Dead In Kansas
Days before the actor’s body was found, Lawrence, Kansas, police said they had probable cause to arrest Brings Plenty “in response to allegations of...
Texas Prisons Regulate Women’s Reading Material And Self-Education
“Living in a cell the size of a parking space without a television, tablet, phone, or air-conditioning and an only temperamental radio signal, a...
How To Shop In A Used Bookstore
Some wisdom from Michael Dirda includes wearing grubby clothes, starting at the sales cart - and taking your time. - Washington Post
Center Theatre Group Lays Out A Tentative Path For Recovery, Including Reopening The Mark...
"The post-pandemic picture is improving but from such a low that no one can feel confident about moving forward. Theater attendance hasn’t yet rebounded...
As Ailey II Turns 50, There’s Plenty To Be Proud Of
The two years of apprenticeship is so tough that former dancers who went on to sitcom work, Broadway, and even the unionized top-level Ailey...
Today Isn’t The Only Day To Avoid Getting Tricked Online
Hinst for fake-info spotting every day of the year: “Stop when you see something that's 'too good to be true, or too crazy to...
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Thinks We Should Be Listening To Older Women All Year Long
In pursuit of info, the first season of the actor’s podcast “featured guests like Carol Burnett (90), Isabel Allende (81) and Darlene Love (82)....
The Glorious Possibilities Of Public Art
From Jeanne Claude and Christo’s wrappings to Banksy’s newest tree, “public art requires us to be present, to bring it to life with our...
Stop Trying To ‘Keep Up’ With Books
On social media, erstwhile readers post out of "a combination of obligation, social performance, genuine curiosity, love of books, and a desire to be...
Hollywood Seems To Be Selling A Conflict-Free Colorblind Past
But it’s weird. “The bones of the world are familiar. There is only one change: Every race exists, cheerfully and seemingly as equals, in...
