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Artists In The United States Survived A Rabidly Anti-Art Government Before
And here’s how to do it again. - The Conversation
Helping Cinemas Survive Might Mean Moving TV Series To The Big Screen
For instance, this TV series about the life of Jesus is doing numbers, as in, big numbers. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Should Gaudi Be Seen As A Saint?
Even if you’re not a believer, the answer is probably a yes. “Gaudí’s mission was to find spiritual meaning in a world transformed by...
Medieval Monks Did What?
In the Ireland of a thousand years ago, monks fleeing the Vikings spread their beautifully decorated version of Christianity to Europe. Some of those...
The Thing About ‘Black Mirror’ Is, It’s Not So Fictiony Anymore
“Every episode serves in part as a warning about how technological advancement run rampant will lead us, often willingly, toward a lonely, disorienting and...
When Hobbies Like Knitting And Fishing Become Too Expensive, We All Lose
When hobby inflation takes over, we lose community across all kinds of lines: “Hobbies can produce communities where, because the hobby itself takes top...
How One Talk Show Absolutely Nails It On TikTok
“Before taking the stage, guests make their way down a hallway as members of the show’s staff serenade them with a complicated, customized hype...
Once You’ve Begun Writing, When Do You Stop?
Poet and memoirist Maggie Smith says, “You have to enjoy the process more than you enjoy patting yourself on the back about having a...
After A Movie That Lionized Him, The Guy Who Popularized Tetris Wants To Tell...
The movie, described by one outlet as The Big Short meets The Bridge of Spies, was a bit, let’s say, intensified. But the real...
Making Opera Local Again
“If you want to find a creative space, it doesn’t necessarily need to be in Manhattan or Brooklyn. … It’s where you are.” -...
How Trump And His People Want To Capture The History Of The United States
“The president has gone beyond rhetoric, moving to challenge or seize control of history-related federal cultural institutions including the Smithsonian, the National Park Service...
When An AI Chatbot Simply Makes Up A Company Policy, Things Can Go Very...
This seems fine: “Instead of admitting uncertainty, AI models often prioritize creating plausible, confident responses, even when that means manufacturing information from scratch.” -...
The Important Twins Of Recent Media
“Eer since people have feared the idea of doppelgängers, twins have been featured in hundreds of stories over the years.” - Variety
The Life Of An Author Can Be, Well, Imaginative
Author Sayaka Murata: “Ever since I was a child, I’ve had 30 or 40 imaginary friends who live on a different star or planet with whom I have...
Way Too Early Emmys Handicapping
“With so much time between now and July 15 (nomination day), not to mention September 14 (Emmys night), we’ll have plenty of opportunities to...
Some Hollywood Productions Are Filming Anywhere But California
“International sites often come with lower labor costs and more expansive tax incentives than those that California offers, making it much cheaper to film...
Can Architecture, And Urban Planning, Help Older People Age In Safer Neighborhoods?
“Cities are often defined by spatial ageism where environments are not set up for older people. The age-friendly movement aims to ensure older people can still play a...
Samuel Beckett Versus The Archbishop’s Censorship
“After the archbishop’s interference, Beckett withdrew all rights in protest, for all of his works in Ireland, indefinitely.” - Irish Times (Internet Archive)
Turner, 250 Years On, Is Still Britain’s Best Artist
That “is partly because he is so intensely aware of a defining fact about his country: it’s an island. For Turner, Britain is bordered...
More Cuts Hobble The Kennedy Center In A Variety Of Departments
Marketing, campus planning, and the entire social media team - gone as of Friday. “Kennedy Center staff members ... spoke on the condition of...
Are Em-Dashes Really A Sign Of AI-Generated Content?
If so — not to put too fine a point on it — is this a sign that the content AI stole, “scraped," from...
Where Is Ninety Percent Of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Material Cultural Legacy?
In Western museums, of course. - African History Extra
Cinemas Really Want That Theatrical Window To Lengthen
But we’re all addicted to streaming now, so it seems unlikely to change. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
What If George Lucas Is Right, And The Original Star Wars Is Pretty Bad?
“It’s so long since we’ve seen the original version of Star Wars, our collective memories of it as a gritty, charming space western may...
An Author’s Desire To Be Seen, And Also Never To Be Seen
Kaliane Bradley: “There was the absolute dread that it would go to people I know and respect and they’d talk to one another and...
