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Meta Mehta On His Sound, Mahler, And More
"Shortly after becoming music director of the L.A. Phil and not long before her death in 1964, Mehta visited Alma Mahler, the composer’s widow...
Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Writer Suzy McKee Charnas, 83
"In an epic that began with Walk to the End of the World (1974) and concluded 25 years later, ... Charnas conceived a...
Oh No, Chris Rock, Why?
"He and his peers have achieved immense success, but still don’t know how to cope with the cultural shifts that naturally occur over a...
Now Even Going To The Movies Is A Test Of Your Paycheck
Everything is about class, including where we sit in the cinema. "One of the last truly democratic public institutions where everyone paid the same...
A Stranger Things Actor Steps Back From Movies Thanks To A Producer’s Sexual Advances...
So, #MeStillFreakinToo. Grace Van Dien is "looking for more agency after a producer on 'one of the last movies I did' allegedly asked for...
The Hay Book Festival Is Going Eurovision
It's real: "The Eurovision book contest will culminate in an event at this year’s literary festival in June, where a panel will discuss the...
How Jamie Lee Curtis Emerged As ‘The Most Unhinged’ But Fun Nominee Of 2023
You can blame (or be grateful to) the visual flood known as meme culture (and the actress herself). - Slate
When Will Argentina’s 1980s Military Dictatorship Finally Face A Reckoning?
The events of the Oscar-nominated Argentina,1985 aren't much fictionalized. "With more than 300 open investigations and 14 trials, the process is 'permanently alive,' said...
Giving The English National Ballet Body Type A Makeover
"The new boss of English National Ballet wants to ditch the stereotypical image of super-skinny dancers and see 'all' body types on stage." -...
The Techno Club In Berlin Where Classical Music Composers Find Inspiration
One composer "felt at home in this genre, somewhere between abstract contemporary opera and sound art, but like many composers she had to reconcile...
What Reason Is There For Not Letting Former Guantanamo Prisoners Take Their Art With...
"We had nothing, so we made art out of nothing. We drew with tea powder on toilet paper. We painted our walls with soap,...
The View Of The Oscars, But From The Tuxedo Shops Of LA
"Tuxedo vendors say that awards season drives huge sales on top of their usual income from weddings and proms, on the order of 20%...
It’s The Most Wonderful Day Of The Year, For Some Movies, Anyway
How to watch the Oscars red carpet (this year, the red will be more beige) and the show itself, and here are also a...
Just How Does Angela Bassett Do The Thing?
During red carpets for her second Oscar nomination, 29 years after her first, the actor has to remain guarded. "It’s an attempt to remain...
The Great British Bake Off Is Being Turned Into A Musical
"Paul came to see the show and loved it. ... He gave me two handshakes after and is going to bring his mum...
Rafael Vinoly, Architect Of Dramatic Glass Roofs For Cultural Centers, 78
The Uruguayn-born "Viñoly was at once a 24-7 architecture geek and a bon vivant with a penchant for French wines. ... He was also...
A Film Tour Of The UK
Whether you're in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, or even England, the whole place has basically served as the film set of many a movie....
Some Of Publishing Turns To Sensitivity Readers, But Others Object Loudly
One author "said while he believes using sensitivity readers to rewrite classical literature like Dahl is problematic, employing them to work on in-progress manuscripts can...
A Better Seat At The Movie Theatre Will Now Cost You More
For instance, movie theatres "have been pushing customers toward premium-priced specialty tickets" - IMAX? Dolby sound? Reclining seats? Or your regular, standard, much cheaper...
What Earned More Money For Charity, Everything Everywhere’s Googly Eyed Rock Or Its Sex...
The toys - but "the most desired lot of all was Raccacoonie, a raccoon puppet that features in one universe in the film where the...
The Academy Changed The Way We See Movies
But that had nothing to do with the Oscars. "Academy reps conducted extensive studies and established standards for theater screen illumination, detailed the growing...
Lou Stovall, Artist And Printmaker Who Worked With Alexander Calder And Jacob Lawrence, 86
"Working with sponges, brushes, towels, squeegees, hand-cut stencils and a rich array of oil-based inks, Mr. Stovall helped demonstrate that printmaking was an art...
Russian Artists Are Walking A Perilously Thin Line In Europe
"The continuing war in Ukraine has turned , which features many Russian artists and nationalistic themes, into a vexed issue." Many of the Russians...
Ballet Is Actually Great For Human Bodies
"The whole process of becoming a dancer was deeply embodied: We learned not by sitting and reading but by imitating, trying, falling, adjusting, trying...
With AI Skills, MARZ Became The Hollywood Go To For Anti-Aging Effects
The company - Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies, which, well, of course - now wants to "fix dubbing." - Fast Company
