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Let’s Talk About Chilean Artist Cecilia Vicuna
"Her magically vibrant and simultaneously mournful and vulnerable painting expresses the dualism at the heart of her vision — and perhaps at the heart...
We Can Now Be Pretty Sure What, And Who, Is Going To Win Each...
Sorry, Paul Giamatti! Cillian Murphy and Oppenheimer are her. Lily Gladstone seems to have the edge over Emma Stone in the Best Actress category...
The Sound Duo Behind The Ely Cathedral Scene In Maestro Had Quite A Job
"Normally they would pre-record the music and run playback while musicians and conductor Leonard Bernstein (as played by Bradley Cooper), mime along. But that’s...
Lunchtime Theatre, With A Pint? How Very British
Actually - how very Scottish. A Play, A Pie, and A Pint premiered in Glasgow in 2004 and hasn’t stopped (aside from the early...
Two Gaming Champions Say The Gaming Company Is A Monopoly
Before 2019, other companies held Call of Duty tournaments. Then things changed. "The lawsuit claims that at one point, Activision Blizzard required teams to...
The Paintings British Artists Love At Their National Gallery
The beloved paintings come from many places, but not any of the countries that make up the United Kingdom. - The Observer (UK)
The English National Opera Laid Off Singers And Musicians While They Were In Mid-Performance
“Many of the performers only saw details of their redundancy during the interval, when they opened the notification backstage. Despite this, they went back...
It Took Years, Nearly 50 Million Dollars, And Sweat Equity To Turn A 40-Year...
When a couple bought the Bridgeport, Illinois space for $1, they weren’t, perhaps, thinking it would take quite this much. "When asked if the...
Miyazaki Won In London, But At The Annies, It’s All Spidey
The Annies hand out prizes in animation for series and film - and Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse cleaned up, beating The Boy and the...
In The West Bank, Palestinian Artists Mount A Show With A Backdrop Of Despair
The exhibition, "showing at the Palestinian Museum in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a collection of protest that is as much about the art...
Israeli Forces Raid, Destroy Publishing Houses In The West Bank
"IDF raids on Palestinian publishing houses are nothing new. Seven Palestinian publishing houses were raided or destroyed over a six-month period in 2016-2017, and eleven more were...
Duke’s Herbarium Is One Of The Best In The World, And A Donor Offered...
So of course the university in North Carolina is closing it, to the outrage of the scientific community. - Inside Higher Ed
What Can Movies Teach About Marriage?
Perhaps it’s not ideal to take Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as marriage advice, but movies, including that one, have a lot to teach,...
Chileans Start Social Media Campaign To Get Easter Island Statue Back From The British...
"The online campaign began after an influencer encouraged his followers to ‘spam' the museum's Instagram posts with 'return the moai' comments. The British Museum...
The Life Of A Pro Whistler, Including Her New Album And Her ‘Barbie’ Fame
Molly Lewis: "People often don’t have a reference for whistle music apart from a jingle or a riff in a bad pop song. …...
This Year’s New Hollywood A-Lister Is A Real Dog
That star is Messi - not the soccer player, but the border collie who won the Palme Dog at Cannes. - The Guardian (UK)
The BAFTAs, Including Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s British Acting Roots
Randolph started her career in London’s West End. After she won her BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Holdovers, she...
This Artist Emerged From COVID’s Early Days Of Isolation With An Instagram Following, And...
Danielle Mckinney had "spent her entire professional life pursuing photography without showing in a commercial gallery, but soon she had dealers on both coasts,...
The U.S. Is Mired In The Who Can Be A Country Singer Debate Again
Remember Lil Nas X and “Old Town Road” (2018) or, gosh, Beyoncé and “Daddy Lessons” (2016)? The discussion rages on as country music stations...
New Biographies Of Recently Deceased Celebrities Are Coming From – You Knew It –...
This is a "macabre new publishing subgenre: hasty, shoddy, A.I.-generated biographies of people who have just died." - The New York Times
What’s The Matter With Public Art In New Hampshire?
"If the residents of Littleton vote to limit public art, as one Board of Selectmen member has suggested, the statue will have to be...
We Need To Talk About Goodreads
Goodreads appears to be somewhat innocently letting “the public” tell other members of the public what is worthwhile. "For the well-reviewed author, this is...
How The Met Is Bringing The Harlem Renaissance Back Into The Spotlight
The last Harlem show at the Met, in 1969 (!), contained no Black artists. This one is going to be different. Some works were...
All Of The BAFTAs, As They Happen
A live feed mixing fashion commentary and media reporting, the way the internet was intended to give us our awards news. - The Guardian...
Reddit Has A Deal To Train AI With Its Many Years Of User Info
Yes, longtime users, Reddit ITA, to the tune of $60 million a year. “It’s not known what company Reddit made the deal with, but...
