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Being The First Is A Lot To Carry
Lily Gladstone, who may win Best Actress at the Oscars, isn’t new to Hollywood, but this is a different level. “After more than two...
Art Shows The Reality Of War In A Way The News Can’t Quite Reach
Thinking about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, for instance, “to come close to the feeling and texture of war as it is lived behind the...
Star Trek Actor Kenneth Mitchell Has Died At 49
Mitchell, who was diagnosed with ALS five and a half years ago, “played three roles in three seasons on Star Trek: Discovery. The last...
How Robert Garland Is Navigating His First Season In Charge At Dance Theater Of...
“Garland is big on history. His passion for linking ballet to the events of the real world, past and present, is an important part...
At The Indie Spirit Awards, The Winners Are Past Lives, The Holdovers, And American...
They will likely not be big reflections of what will win at the Oscars - but the bittersweet Past Lives was rewarded with Best...
Pro-Palestinian Supporters Drown Out Presenters, Winners At Indie Spirit Awards
"A few attendees stepped outside to acknowledge the incident and see what was going on, but the awards show continued. Host Aidy Bryant said...
From Wagner To Verdi, It’s An Unexpected Step For This Soprano
Before she took on roles in Italian operas at the Met, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen "soft-launched the Italian side of her voice” in recitals...
This Law May Deem Many Journalists, And Regular People Online, To Be Hackers
“Some laws operate like hidden trap doors — everyone walks across the trap at one point or another, but only a handful of us actually...
Kumar Shahani, Leader Of India’s Arthouse Parallel Cinema Movement, Has Died At 83
Shahani "was known for his formalist style of filmmaking and his landmark films include Tarang (1984), Khayal Gatha (1989) and Kasba (1990).” He also...
Nearly Every Best Picture Nominee Could End Up With Some Sort Of Trophy
Why not be more, shall we say, even-handed with the winnings? There’s a path forward for nearly every Best Pic nominee to win something....
When Artists Can’t Go Home Again, All That’s Left Is The Art Itself
"To live as an artist in exile is among the most glorious triumphs of human will: a spiritual victory.” But the cost is tremendously...
College Students Discover That Even On Vending Machines, Facial Recognition Cameras Track Our Every...
“The scandal started when a student using the alias SquidKid47 posted an image on Reddit showing a campus vending machine error message, ‘Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe,’ displayed after the...
Investigators Say The Art Institute Of Chicago Is Clinging To A Nazi-Looted Schiele Drawing
“The institute’s decision to continue to fight the efforts by Manhattan prosecutors to retrieve its Schiele work makes it a lone holdout among the...
As The BT Tower Becomes A Hotel, What Will Change About London’s Futuristic Landmark?
“With its slender vertical fuselage and long-stalled revolving restaurant, it speaks of the hopeful futurism of the 1960s, of the white heat of technology,...
As ‘The Outsiders’ Makes Its Way To Broadway, The Young Cast Visits Its Oklahoma...
The cast and crew took a “granular, history-flecked tour of the place where, about 60 years earlier, S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age story was written and...
Why Aren’t We Talking About Robert De Niro’s Best Performance?
This actor we all know so well has done something that, for him, is entirely new - at 80 years old. “Rather than the...
The Heartbreak At The Center Of Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron
“Many scenes and images in The Boy and the Heron echo those from his earlier films, only this time they’re rendered in service of a story...
In The UK, Galleries And Museums Fight For Younger Audiences
"We have to make our galleries welcoming and accessible, and to make it clear they are not just about the past and full of...
Why Is Second City Moving To First City?
In Brooklyn, “on the site of an old record shop and club, the company has built a 200-seat mainstage, a 60-seat second stage,...
Steve Paxton Of The Judson Dance Theatre Has Died At 85
Paxton "helped radically upend ideas about dance as a member of the 1960s collective Judson Dance Theater in New York City, and ... developed...
Chicago, And Its Artists, Are Obsessed With The So-Called Rat Hole
Honestly, the memes are everywhere on social media - and now there’s rat hole art for sale. Why enshrine a rat (or more likely...
Hollywood’s Musicians Reach A Tentative Deal With The Studios
The musicians’ union calls it “a major win” and “a watershed moment.” Next up: The “below the line” workers - that is to say,...
The Berlin Film Festival Stays Different
The Golden Bear goes to … a one-hour documentary about the return of some artwork? Yes. And “by awarding the top prize to Dahomey,...
Do Historically Black Colleges And Universities Provide An Edge For Their Theatre Alumni?
Says one HBCU alum, Broadway director and theatre founder Kenny Leon, “I was trained to believe in myself and know that anything is possible....
Can We Still Write Good Climate Fiction If We’re In Despair?
American fiction has some problems, including an inability to focus on something so big, it encompasses everything. - LitHub
