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Ralph Fiennes Wants Theatre To Be More Affordable, And More Surprising

That he, he’s so very finished with content warnings for something like the Scottish play, which he and Indira Varma star in. He said...

Director Wim Wenders Says All Of His Films Are About How To Live

Wenders, the German director whose latest film is nominated for an Oscar, but from Japan, says “For a long time I did not know...

The Lunar New Year’s Lion Dance Draws D.C.’s Chinese Residents Back To Chinatown

The dance unites a disparate group. "Unlike cities like New York and Toronto, D.C.’s Chinatown no longer feels particularly Chinese Chinese architectural motifs still...

What Is To Become Of Opera?

Can any opera company withstand the blows of the 21st century? “The ongoing crisis in opera parallels a current 'free fall' … in American...

Does The U.S.’s Recording Academy Care One Bit About The Issues Jay-Z Brought Up?

"This isn’t just about hip-hop. This is about Afrobeat, Latin music and the genres that the ‘mainstream' overlooks.” And evidence, based on many years...

How Do Social Media People Create Those Art, But Make It Sports Posts?

"Oftentimes, you will see on social media people post a photo from a sports event and say, ‘Hang it in the Louvre,' as a...

The Download Wars, Or, How iTunes Became Relevant Again

In the early 21st century, downloads were a thing, but now, downloading rather than streaming "is a purely performative gesture – it only ever...

Climate Protestor Charged For Defacing African American Civil War Memorial At The National Gallery...

The protestor painted on the wall next to Augustus Saint Gaudens’s Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial, not the piece itself. However: Jackson Green "has been...

Nothing Lasts Forever, Especially Not Digital Archives When Mergers Come Into Play

In short: Don’t give up your DVDs or Blu-Rays, OK? Digital “copies” are simply rentals, as Funimation fans are discovering to their chagrin. -...

A Deep Dive Into Visual Artists On The Small Screen

Visual art "doesn’t always translate that naturally to cinema as a subject. Just as you don’t get the full impact of a painting from...

What’s Going To Happen To Southern California’s Biggest Bookstore When Its Owner Retires?

Vroman’s has been a family concern for 130 years in Pasadena and beyond. What happens next to the “community treasure”? - The New York...

Truly, Not Just Like Every Other Decade Someone Said This, College Students Do Not...

Was it No Child Left Behind? Common Core? COVID-19 school shutdowns? Or - as is the case for most people, from child to adult...

The Composer Who Coaxes Acoustic Instruments Into Playing Electronic Music

Matthew Sheeran: "The first thing you have to do is get the score translated into what I call scordatura notation, where what you hear...

Let’s Talk About The Best Actress Nominees

In other words, how did Annette Bening get a nomination while Margot Robbie did not? - Vulture

The 40 Years It Took This Actor To Become An Overnight Success

When William Stanford Davis auditioned for Friends, he says, "I thought I knocked it out of the park. But when I called my agent...

The Gay Rights Movement Smashed By The Publicity Surrounding Oscar Wilde

“The burgeoning gay rights movement in Britain was connected to wider late-Victorian movements for reform, part of a larger impulse to find new and...

Those Who Professionally Perform Piano Duets Together, Stay Together

Or at least that’s the hope of duo Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, who met at the Moscow State Conservatory and who revived their...

Romance Is Far From Dead

Romantic fiction, that is. With romances propping up the entire publishing industry, how hard could it be to write one? (Turns out writing a...

All Of The Directors Guild Winners From Last Night

In 2023, some DGA wins for Everything Everywhere All at Once seemed to set that film, and its directors, on a path to many...

Britain’s National Gallery Needs To Change Its Cutoff Date From 1900 To, Say, 2000

We’re almost a quarter of the way into the new century, after all, and painting didn’t die off as a great art form before...

Great Movies Don’t Get Their Casts By Magic

Instead, it’s the casting directors’ hard work that makes a great movie - and that will soon be recognized by the Academic of Motion...

What Cities Can Learn From Australia’s 20th Century Art Deco Building Boom

For one thing, stop with the dire warnings about density. "Today’s housing debate may be couched in different terms, but Australia’s first apartment boom...

Warner Bros Apparently Rejected Offers From Paramount, Netflix, And Amazon For An Animated Movie

“It really just seems as if the studio’s leadership simply does not want [ streaming, or in theaters, or really even to be a topic of...

The War-Haunted Choreographer Of City Ballet

Alexei Ratmansky, “vocal in his condemnation of Russian aggression, has seen his name removed from the works he created for Russian companies. He and his Ukrainian wife,...

This Cartoonist Has Cracked The Kid Book Market

Arrowing directly to the heart of the anxious kid, Raina Telgemeier’s books have turned her cartoons into a children’s book empire. - The Atlantic