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Does The U.S.’s Recording Academy Care One Bit About The Issues Jay-Z Brought Up?
"This isn’t just about hip-hop. This is about Afrobeat, Latin music and the genres that the ‘mainstream' overlooks.” And evidence, based on many years...
How Do Social Media People Create Those Art, But Make It Sports Posts?
"Oftentimes, you will see on social media people post a photo from a sports event and say, ‘Hang it in the Louvre,' as a...
The Download Wars, Or, How iTunes Became Relevant Again
In the early 21st century, downloads were a thing, but now, downloading rather than streaming "is a purely performative gesture – it only ever...
Climate Protestor Charged For Defacing African American Civil War Memorial At The National Gallery...
The protestor painted on the wall next to Augustus Saint Gaudens’s Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial, not the piece itself. However: Jackson Green "has been...
Nothing Lasts Forever, Especially Not Digital Archives When Mergers Come Into Play
In short: Don’t give up your DVDs or Blu-Rays, OK? Digital “copies” are simply rentals, as Funimation fans are discovering to their chagrin. -...
A Deep Dive Into Visual Artists On The Small Screen
Visual art "doesn’t always translate that naturally to cinema as a subject. Just as you don’t get the full impact of a painting from...
What’s Going To Happen To Southern California’s Biggest Bookstore When Its Owner Retires?
Vroman’s has been a family concern for 130 years in Pasadena and beyond. What happens next to the “community treasure”? - The New York...
Truly, Not Just Like Every Other Decade Someone Said This, College Students Do Not...
Was it No Child Left Behind? Common Core? COVID-19 school shutdowns? Or - as is the case for most people, from child to adult...
The Composer Who Coaxes Acoustic Instruments Into Playing Electronic Music
Matthew Sheeran: "The first thing you have to do is get the score translated into what I call scordatura notation, where what you hear...
Let’s Talk About The Best Actress Nominees
In other words, how did Annette Bening get a nomination while Margot Robbie did not? - Vulture
The 40 Years It Took This Actor To Become An Overnight Success
When William Stanford Davis auditioned for Friends, he says, "I thought I knocked it out of the park. But when I called my agent...
The Gay Rights Movement Smashed By The Publicity Surrounding Oscar Wilde
“The burgeoning gay rights movement in Britain was connected to wider late-Victorian movements for reform, part of a larger impulse to find new and...
Those Who Professionally Perform Piano Duets Together, Stay Together
Or at least that’s the hope of duo Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, who met at the Moscow State Conservatory and who revived their...
Romance Is Far From Dead
Romantic fiction, that is. With romances propping up the entire publishing industry, how hard could it be to write one? (Turns out writing a...
All Of The Directors Guild Winners From Last Night
In 2023, some DGA wins for Everything Everywhere All at Once seemed to set that film, and its directors, on a path to many...
Britain’s National Gallery Needs To Change Its Cutoff Date From 1900 To, Say, 2000
We’re almost a quarter of the way into the new century, after all, and painting didn’t die off as a great art form before...
Great Movies Don’t Get Their Casts By Magic
Instead, it’s the casting directors’ hard work that makes a great movie - and that will soon be recognized by the Academic of Motion...
What Cities Can Learn From Australia’s 20th Century Art Deco Building Boom
For one thing, stop with the dire warnings about density. "Today’s housing debate may be couched in different terms, but Australia’s first apartment boom...
Warner Bros Apparently Rejected Offers From Paramount, Netflix, And Amazon For An Animated Movie
“It really just seems as if the studio’s leadership simply does not want [ streaming, or in theaters, or really even to be a topic of...
The War-Haunted Choreographer Of City Ballet
Alexei Ratmansky, “vocal in his condemnation of Russian aggression, has seen his name removed from the works he created for Russian companies. He and his Ukrainian wife,...
This Cartoonist Has Cracked The Kid Book Market
Arrowing directly to the heart of the anxious kid, Raina Telgemeier’s books have turned her cartoons into a children’s book empire. - The Atlantic
This Is Why TikTok And Universal Music Are At Loggerheads
"There are repercussions in the real world where people might not even realize—they just know, Oh, an old song is popular again. But if they...
The Book That ‘American Fiction’ Came From Is Still All Too Relevant
"The movie has come at a time when new authors of color are engaging with the same questions posed by Erasure — and publishers...
All Of The Austen Adaptations Coming To The Hallmark Channel
Yes, the Hallmark Channel. After all, some have claimed Jane Austen’s extensive novels of manners (and so much more) as “romance novels,” and after...
When Writers Choose Camp Over Tragedy
Shades of American Fiction, but make it gay: "If you were a young Black writer in America in the 1950s and early ’60s, it...
