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Making Art – And It Doesn’t Need To Be ‘Good’ Art – Is Superb...
OK, and this is possibly unexpected, "Coloring within the lines — of an intricate pattern, for example — appears to be especially effective" at...
Social Media And Emojis Are Fueling The Return Of An Ancient Filipino Writing System
"One glance at Filipino social media and you will find a recurrent set of waves, twists and inverted heart shapes. They’re more than just...
Steve McQueen’s New Documentary About Occupied Amsterdam Is Supposed To Be Challenging
"The weight of what happened was so heavy you can’t hold it in your head forever. If you forget things that’s OK because of...
In Order To Save Downtowns, We Need To Destroy Them
At least the way they're configured now. The issue: "What to do with office buildings when we don’t need offices anymore?" - Wired
Students Chant In Support Of Hollywood Writers As Head Of Warner Bros. Speaks
"Picketers and audience members broke out in chants, including, 'pay your writers!' as Zaslav spoke about his career experience" at Boston University. - Washington...
A Spider-Man Mask-Wearing, Hammer-And-Chisel Wielding Guy Attacks BBC Sculpture
This comes after the BBC decided to start restoring the sculpture by pedophile artist Eric Gill, which was also attacked in January of 2022....
The Person Who Wrote Your Favorite TV Show Is Eating Ramen, Not Caviar
Essayist - and TV writer - Samantha Irby: "Some guy commented on my Instagram that I was destroying the American family, and I was...
The 1980s Were A Formative Decade For Asian American Cinema
"You have people who are imagining what ‘Asian American’ can be in wildly different ways, that might not adhere perfectly to that sense of...
An Artist On The Rise Who Wants To Slow Everything Down
Njideka Akunyili Crosby will go to many lengths in order to do the research for her paintings. "She spent hours looking through pictures of...
Who Owns This Statue? It’s A Mystery
How did The Wounded Indian, long thought to have been destroyed in the 1930s, end up in Norfolk? And who owns it now? -...
The Writers Strike Is Opening Some Barely Healed Wounds
To be honest, "as Hollywood has transformed since the 1950s, workers and their unions have contended with endemic insecurity". - Los Angeles Review of...
Upending A Sacred Broadway Tradition Brought One Musical To A Much Wider Audience
That is to say, fan videos of Six made it a megahit. The closing number was "written specifically to be recorded and shared on...
Nobel Prize Winners Demand The Release Of Belorussian Peace Laureate
"More than 100 Nobel laureates, including Kazuo Ishiguro, Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee, have called for the release of Nobel peace prize winner Ales Bialiatski and...
Why Does Voicemail Refuse To Die?
What? "If its full storage capacity was purposed for music, a modern iPhone or Samsung Galaxy could hold hundreds of thousands of downloaded songs,...
The Landscape In Hollywood Had To Shift For ‘American Born Chinese’ To Get Made
"When I was growing up, it was a few networks trying to appeal to tens of millions of viewers, but ... look at...
The New Little Mermaid Has Responsibilities
Halle Bailey says she would have liked having a Black little mermaid when she was a kid. "That would have changed my whole perspective,...
It’s The People You Meet Along The Way
That is, along the way of your quest to succeed at Zelda games, of course. "For me, it's been a way to begin to...
City Ballet Finally Has An Asian American Woman Principal
Mira Nadon, who's 21: "That's exciting for me to have some responsibility and feel like I can do something to help ... the culture...
Stage Fright? Check Out What Katharine Hepburn Felt Like
The actress was basically terrified of audiences. "Now and again she’d puke in the wastebasket, because she was so wired and scared and 'Oh...
Production Companies Arrow In On Mexico City As The Next Big Spot
There are scenes of designers turning the Xochimilco canals into the Ganges River and much more, as "American and European companies send TV and...
At Least One Performer Camps All Month For The Edinburgh Fringe Fest
The money-saving measure is "not as grim as it sounds," the comedian says. But performers are almost entirely priced out of the city -...
How Much Nazi-Looted Art Is Still Hanging In Britain And Belgium?
Belgium once claimed it had finished its work on looted art in 2001. But no, says one museum director. "I can say without hesitation,...
Natalie Portman Is Tired Of Double Standards At Cannes
At the French film festival, women are required to wear heels on the red carpet, for one thing. Portman: "The expectations are different on...
We Get More, Not Less, Creative Over Time
But it's all about persistence, not fairy dust: "The serial-order effect applies to tasks that last minutes or days, but creativity also improves across...
What’s The Impact Of The SCOTUS Decision About Warhol’s Prince?
Don't stress, artists: "What the majority actually had problems with — what the decision was mostly about — was the Warhol Foundation’s failure to...
