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Big Publishing Has Mostly Abandoned Change And Diversity
But writer, editor, and idea peddler Dhonielle Clayton is determined to drag books forward. - The New York Times
Disney’s – And Salvador Allende’s – Fight For Our Cultural Souls
Ariel Dorfman: "The smiling, friendly form of capitalism now presents — the very fact that it doesn’t wish to shock or alienate its...
A Comedian Performs Three Secret Shows To Help His Hometown Theatre
Peter Kay "broke off from his current mammoth arena tour to appear at Bolton's 390-capacity Octagon theatre on Sunday, raising £80,000 for the venue."...
A World Map With No Borders, Only Animals
The artist started work on this during lockdown in July, 2020. "Three years, approximately 2,602 working hours and 1,642 animal species later, “Wild World”...
The One Game You Might Want To Be Playing
The game Baldur's Gate 3 had a gonzo night at the Game Awards - it won "Game of the Year, the Dungeons and Dragons...
A Melbourne Gallery Drops An Artist Because Of Words In His Artwork
The words "Nazi" and "Israel" appeared next to each other in performance artist Mike Parr's work, says his longtime gallery owner, Anna Schwartz. Parr...
Irish Playwright And Novelist Thomas Kilroy Has Died At 89
Kilroy was praised "for his role in modernising Irish theatre since his 1968 breakthrough play, The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche," which included...
The Noguchi Museum Board Picks A Director Who Was There At The Beginning
Amy Hau "set up first archives and built the collection records for more than 3,500 works, including sculptures in stone, metal, wood and...
The Strikes Even Hurt A Los Angeles Public Radio Station
Popular Santa Monica station KCRW has a $3 million budget shortfall. The station generally "relies on member contributions and corporate sponsorships, including studios looking...
After Vegans Protest, A British Panto Removes A Song
So, vegans are "annoying, anemic, and gassy"? That was what Cheltenham's Everyman Theatre claimed in one of its Mother Goose songs. - BBC
Green Text Bubbles Aren’t The Problem
The problem isn't Apple vs. Android, say the Wired folks. It's that we're addicted to our phones - and missing chats, aka discussions, with...
The Architects Who Believe In Reduce And Reuse, But For Buildings
"The French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are famous for their belief in keeping existing buildings whenever possible, no matter how unpromising or...
Rediscovering Surrealist Painter Leonor Fini
Why was Fini, who was part of the first major surrealist exhibitions, ignored for so long? André Breton, of course. He "would not have...
Anatomy Of A Fall Wins Another Major European Film Award
Does France regret not submitting this one for an Oscar? It definitely should. Anatomy (the Palme d'Or winner) just won the European Film Awards,...
Sometimes, You Just Need A Dutch Master In Order To Chill
"It was embarrassing to want excitement, but never more than when looking at a Ruisdael did I realize how wholly I was a creature...
The Dark Side Of Christmas Music
Holiday music can feel dark - and not only the mighty suspicious drink the guy gives the woman in "Baby, It's Cold Outside." -...
Italy Is Pouring Into Cinemas For An Unlikely Film
The movie - C'è ancora domani, or There's Always Tomorrow - is the first film directed by comedian Paola Cortellesi, and it's about a...
The Latest Turner Prize Winner Blames Margaret Thatcher For Cuts To The Arts
But that's just inaccurate, and misses the point. "There are plenty of people, elected and non-elected, who are far more deserving of our ire...
The EU Passes A ‘Sweeping’ New Slate Of Regulations For Artificial Intelligence
"It includes bans on biometric systems that identify people using sensitive characteristics such as sexual orientation and race, and the indiscriminate scraping of faces...
Poet And Professor Refaat Alareer Has Been Killed In Gaza By An Israeli Airstrike
The poem pinned to the popular creative writing teacher's Twitter/X account since November is called "If I must die, let it be a tale."...
Women Have Moved To The Center Of K-Dramas
Actress Uhm Jung-hwa says there's a shift from the 1990s, when women characters were focused on finding husbands: "Now we can see many strong...
The Best Book Covers Of 2023
Right, don't judge a book by its cover, but go ahead and judge the covers. - The New York Times
The Quiet Plan To Make The Internet Dramatically Faster
There are so many potential bottlenecks for the speed of something we rely on: "Each part of the network (such as switches, routers, modems,...
Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet, Actor, Musician, And Activist, Has Died At 65
Zephaniah, who refused an OBE, "was heavily influenced by Jamaican music and poetry, and he was often classified as a dub poet." - The...
Wikipedia’s Most Prolific Road And Highway Editors Left The Site
Then they made their own wiki. "Behind this seemingly amusing clash of nerds is a far more pressing issue: how to reconcile 20 years...
