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Yayoi Kusama Apologizes For Past Anti-Black Comments

"My lifelong intention has been to lift up humanity through my art. I apologize for the pain I have caused." - Hyperallergic

Living At The End Of Time

"This is in fact the end of time, and you have to be a tech bro or a fascist, or both, to think that...

Nobel Prize-Winning Poet Louise Gluck Has Died At 80

GlĂ¼ck also won the Pulitzer in 1993. She "wrote about childhood, family, loneliness and death, drawing inspiration from Shakespeare, William Blake, ancient mythology and...

Gen Z Can’t Read Cursive

Thus, an iconic outdoor brand had to change its 60-year-old logo. - Fast Company

Living The Archaeology Dream

A team of Egyptian and German archaeologists has found multiple hidden chambers in a pyramid - and they say the work "has completely changed...

How Paperback Publishing Helped The US Win WWII

"The paperbacks were intended to help soldiers pass the time. But they were also meant to remind them what they were fighting for, and...

New Orleans Drummer Russell Batiste Has Died At 57

Batiste was a "pyrotechnic" drummer, "the "whose furious style and genre-busting approach provided the rhythmic pulse for bands like the Meters and Vida Blue...

When Storefront Theatres Run Out Of Storefronts

It's not pretty. Just ask Chicago. - American Theatre

Yes, The Internet Truly Is Worse

Worse than it used to be, worse than it should be, thanks to Google and Amazon. - The Atlantic

The ‘Pioneer Woman’ Does Not Own All Of The Land Stolen In Killers Of...

A viral tweet was wrong, or wrong-ish (surprise). The truth is far more intense. - Slate

How A Tiny, Newish Bay Area Publisher Snagged The Nobel Prizewinner’s Books

Of course, Jon Fosse hadn't won when Transit Books got its start. - Los Angeles Times

Balanchine Biography On British Prize Short List

One judge on the 784-page Mr. B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century, by Jennifer Homans: "I’m hopeless on the dancefloor, ... but this book takes...

The Ken Dream Ballet Sequence Almost Didn’t Happen

Barbie director Greta Gerwig: "There was a big meeting that was like, ‘Do you need this?' And I was like, ‘Everything in me needs...

Literary Folks In New York Want Books To Get So Much Sexier

Literary books, that is (guessing most of them don't know much about the open door, spicy romance subgenre). - Vulture

The Banned Books Bus Tour Kicks Off

The U.S.'s fervor for banning books (based, studies say, on 11 people's complaints) is being met with busloads of the censored cultural capital. ...

Films Are So Much More Than Their Plots

A movie's story is not always - nor even often - the thing. - The New York Times

Irish Writers Like Colm Toibin Share In The AI Training Disgust

Poet Vona Groarke: "I think my voice is being appropriated, my life, in a strange way, I fear, is also being appropriated, my sensitivity,...

As Frieze London Turns 20, The Art World Is A Radically Different Place

Fairs expanding geographically? Nope. Smart phones? In the future. Instagram? No way. - The New York Times

Can The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Recover From The Past Few Years?

A financial review shows that the festival gets up to 80 percent of its budget from ticket sales - a high number that puts...

The Lost Buildings Of Britain’s Most Influential Modernist Architect

Georgie Wolton launched the careers of Norman Foster and Richard Rogert, but all that's left of her legacy now is a house in deep...

Hong Kong Man Sentenced To Prison For Importing Children’s Books

"The books feature sheep that lived in a village and had to defend themselves against wolves. In the series of books, the sheep take...

We’re Inside The Orwellian Nightmare

Social media's rewards for rage and hate are immediate, and terrifying. - The Guardian (UK)

Amazon Will Blind Us To The Night Sky

Astronomers aren't happy about the proposed 3200 (!) satellites. - Wired

The Painter Asserting Personhood, Against Picasso And Gauguin

Claudette Johnson: "It’s good to know that there will be another story being told about women, Black women, Black people, that counters some of...

Post-Shooting ‘Rust’ Lawsuits Enter A New Chapter

A judge orders the movie's producers to turn over records to prosecutors. - Los Angeles Times