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Jessie Maple, A Filmmaker Who Broke Many Barriers, Has Died At 86
Maple was "a bacteriologist who took up filmmaking in the 1970s, became the first Black woman to join the camera operators union in New...
The Story Of The Benin Bronzes Just Added A Strange New Chapter
Plans were underway to give them back, and a Ghanaian architect was designing a great new building. Then "Nigeria’s outgoing president announced he had...
The Case For Multilingual Museums
"One of the biggest challenges with incorporating Spanish and English text is planning for the display of double the amount of text which would...
Another News Story Featuring Michelangelo’s David
This time, "Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism won a lawsuit against Edizioni Condé Nast, which published a magazine cover with a...
The British Museum Seems To Have Actually Dropped BP
But "the museum said that 'certain terms' of the deal remain in effect, because it has verbally agreed to let BP exercise its 'supporter...
Is Now Truly The Time To Protest Here Lies Love Using Pre-Recorded Music?
"Even with Broadway budgets for musicals regularly topping $20 million, suddenly adding 19 people (the theatre minimum according to the collective bargaining agreement in...
The Directors Guild Has Reached A Tentative Agreement With Studios
If the members ratify a deal, it will avert a directors strike. "The agreement between the union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and...
A Crackdown On Comedy In China Is Now Harming Beijing’s Music Scene
The harsh crackdown on comedy is bad enough, but now it's getting bad for musicians as well. "The problem is that those making the...
The Bioscientist Slash Pianist Who Creates Silent Film Scores In His Off-Time
Jon Mirsalis says, "If you see a title on the screen, there are probably 30 different ways you can read the title. With the...
Review Bombing Of ‘The Little Mermaid’ Forces Review Aggregators To Change Tactics
Aggressive one-star reviews, most from people or bots who have definitely not seen the movie, pepper IMdB and Rotten Tomatoes to such a degree...
It’s Good For An Author To Think Of Writing As Fun, Right?
That's what Brandon Taylor says writing is for him - "the most fun I'm capable of having." But the title of his third book...
Juilliard’s Dean Of Dance Sees Her First Class On To The Reality Of Life...
Alicia Mack: "The idea is that you graduate students who have an extraordinary range ... but are also entrepreneurial and think of themselves as...
Journalistic Objectivity Isn’t Real, But It’s Still Important
It was invented by NYT publisher Adolph Ochs in the late 1890s, and now it's certainly under assault. "But giving up on such an...
A New Documentary Lets Its Conductors Shine
And they're all women. Director Maggie Contreras: "When you asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, John...
The Return Of The Large Broadway Orchestra
Sure, David Byrne is trying to make do with no orchestra in his show, but check out Sweeney Todd, Camelot, and Some Like It...
How IP Ruins Most Movies
Yes, even ones that have nothing to do with Marvel or DC, like Barbie. And yet: The newest animated Spider-Man has figured out a...
Women Directors Outnumber Men At This Year’s Tribeca
That's a first, and it's not reflected in larger films. Still, "the news from Tribeca suggests that a more equitable future is possible, particularly...
The Actors Concerned About Generative AI Are All Too Correct To Be Worried
"It’s not hard to imagine a future in which a wide-eyed actor signs up for one season of a vampire TV show, and then...
Will This Year’s Emmys Finally Show Some Love To Latina And Latino Actors?
I mean, we're talking about Pedro Pascal, here, people. And Selena Gomez, Diego Luna, and Jenna Ortega. Before this year, the only - only!...
Production Design For The Barbie Movie Wiped Out A Global Supply Of Pink Paint
Not a joke. To be fair, the pandemic's supply chain issues, plus the 2021 Texas deep freeze, created a shortage on their own -...
Ghanaian Author And Playwright Ama Ata Aidoo, 81
Ata Aidoo, "as well as being a writer and university professor, also served as Ghana’s education minister in the early 1980s; she resigned when...
Old-School Romanian Pottery Has Suddenly Become A Hot Commodity
A Romanian-born owner of a London design store says "the décor industry is fond of artisanal work right now, adding that if it’s 'obscure'...
The Hollywood Writers’ Strike Is Going Strong, One Month In
There was a K-Pop themed strike day, and the writers have also held "singles events, Greta Gerwig appreciation day, Pride and drag queen day,...
Don’t Learn To Code
"Computers that we can all 'program,' computers that don’t require specialized training to adjust and improve their functionality and that don’t speak in code:...
In The UK, A Statue Of A Black Woman Was Painted White By A...
But the artist invited the entire seaside community of Bexhill to help fix the damage and restore the statue. "More than 300 volunteers ......
