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Gen-X, Watching Its Very Own Shows With Its Gen-Z And Alpha Kids, Faces The...
“Having lived through the era, I can’t say it’s all depicted perfectly.” - The New York Times
Scholars And Artists Respond To The US Administration’s Alarming List Of So-Called ‘Objectionable’ Art
This is a playbook we’ve all seen before. Rigoberto Gonzalez, whose painting about refugees crossing the border wall was deemed “objectionable,” says that “the...
In Egypt, Divers And Officials Recover Ancient Ruins From The Mediterranean
The remains of the sunken city include "partially preserved pre-Roman statues of sovereigns and sphinxes, such as a beheaded Ptolemaic granite sculpture and an...
Why Is Duolingo’s Chess App So Weirdly Addicting?
Sure, yes, so is the language part. But: “The game is filling a hole for this type of instruction; there aren’t many programs that...
The 13th Century French Castle Built Entirely By Hand, Mostly In The 21st Century
“Guédelon has quarriers, stone cutters, masons, joiners, blacksmiths, tilers, painters, carpenters, ropemakers, wheelwrights, carters and basketmakers – 60-odd artisans in all – building cob...
The Rather Specific Niche Of Perfect Airplane Movie
“I look for anything that is mindlessly fun or otherwise engrossing enough to help me forget that I am hurtling through the air in...
The Long Past, And The Future, Of Lesbian Pulp Novels
"Cheap and easy, at least five hundred lesbian-themed paperbacks sold millions of copies nationwide between 1935 and 1965. That’s a lot of lesbians.” -...
A Highly Infectious Disease Forced This Band To ‘World Tour’ Themselves Locally
In 2001, thanks to foot-and-mouth disease, “the Rothbury Highland pipe band embarked on a tour of the Coquet Valley in Northumberland.” And they haven’t...
Chris Doyle, Artist Whose Work Was Described As ‘Narnia On Acid,’ Has Died At...
Doyle was “a multimedia artist who made poetic and beguiling pieces — exquisite animated work that explored ideas about civilization and evolution.” - The...
Will K-Pop Demon Hunters Make It Into The Oscars?
The film premiered in June on Netflix to little fanfar. But “given the way that Demon Hunters has broken out, the streamer would be remiss not...
American Playwriting Is, Truly, The House That George C. White Built
White's "initial goal was modest: He wanted to open a theatre.” Things sort of snowballed from there. - American Theatre
Bluesky Is The First Social Media Site To Go Dark In Mississippi As A...
Bluesky: “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond its child safety goals, and creates significant barriers that limit free speech and disproportionately...
Italian Filmmakers Ask Venice Film Fest To Take A More Pro-Palestinian Stance
And Venice says it "is, as always, open to dialogue.” - Variety
Museums Across The United States Are Trying To Figure Out How To Face Rising...
Mostly, they’re knuckling under. One might, if one were a student of history, think of this as totalitarian. “The chilling effect on museum programming...
The United States Can’t Afford To Lose The Institute Of American Indian Arts
"I believe in the power of offering Indigenous people opportunity and space for investigation — both personal and communal. I believe in the power...
Oh, Francis Ford Coppola, You Can’t Lecture People Into Making Your Movie A Cult...
A basic - and weird - misunderstanding of fandom accompanied the director on a six-city tour and lecture series about Megalopolis (still unavailable to...
Bobbi Jene Smith And Or Schreiber, The Couple Who Are The ‘It’ Choreographers Of...
The dances they make “hinge on an evocative, slippery-fish ambiguity. Their dreamlike montages are often turbulent and disorienting, but can also feel unnervingly familiar.”...
John Grisham Adaptations, Ranked
The rate of Grisham adaptations has, of course, slowed down in recent years, which means there’s been time to catch up. - NPR
The Scottish Jazz Pianist Who Thought He Was Getting Punked When Spike Lee Called...
Then there was the email, which Fergus McCreadie also thought was spam. "Eventually I think my manager was like 'maybe we should just check...
After Decades At MoMA, Director Glenn Lowry Is Preparing To Step Down
“Having survived 9-11, the Covid pandemic, the 2008 financial crash and the 2021 protests that led to the resignation of chairman Leon Black over...
Creating KPop Demon Hunters Involved Years, And A Lot Of Acting
“Before KPop Demon Hunters became the megahit we know today, director Maggie Kang spent many years writing and animating her idea. And part of that hard...
Are Behind The Scenes Photos On Movie Sets Ruining Film Magic?
The senior fashion features editor at Grazia claims these photos are popular: “Across social and online, the appetite for it is huge. They lend...
Manhattan’s School Of Visual Arts Quietly Lays Off Staff
Two months after faculty unionized, "the faculty union told Hyperallergic that they believe reductions took place across the school, including undergraduate and graduate programs, the library,...
Novelist Sally Rooney Says She’ll Continue To Support The Group Palestine Action Despite New...
The Irish author writes, “If this makes me a supporter of terror under UK law, so be it.” - BBC
Inside The Luigi Mangione Musical That’s Playing To Sold-Out Crowds In San Francisco
“The San Francisco Chronicle’s review says the production is ‘the most talked-about play in S.F. It’s also terrible.’” But that might be far, far from the point....
