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Drew Barrymore Says Nominating A Child Actor For A Razzie Award Is Bullying
Barrymore and an wider backlash on the internet led to permanent changes: "Razzies organisers have apologised and introduced an age limit for the awards."...
The Many Performers Who Are One Measly Award Away From An EGOT
Kate Winslet, for example, needs a Tony. Dame Maggie Smith could use a Grammy. And, of course, Dick Van Dyke could use an Oscar....
Eight Ways, Aside From Scrapping Ticketmaster, To Make Ticket Buying Better
There's the obvious - cap the prices, end hidden fees - and then some less-obvious, but useful, ideas, like upgrading ticket-buying software to eliminate...
Corecore Is TikTok’s Interpretation And 21st Century Reinvention Of Dada
A hundred years post-Dada, Corecore "confronts viewers with an onslaught of media tidbits stitched together and overlaid with melancholy orchestral (or piano) compositions and...
The Sometimes Hazy Line Between Life And Art
Mia Hansen-Love is used to her semi-autobiographical, or perhaps semi-memoirish, movies being "described as autofiction." Her new film about a woman dealing with a...
Soprano Julia Bullock’s Opera Star Rises
Her path, forged at Bard College and the Ojai Festival, and a lot of work with Peter Sellars, hasn't been exactly conventional - but...
On Not Reading
It's not the flex some celebrities seem to think it is. - The Atlantic
Amsterdam Museum Finds Out Presenting ‘Nuance’ About WWII Isn’t Such A Great Plan
The effort to provide profiles of everyone from Resistance heroes to those wowed by Nazi propaganda "has touched a sensitive nerve among many Dutch...
Texas Library Board Chair Says She Was Removed Because Of Anti-LGBTQIA Bullies
"Cat Serna-Horn says council members offered her 'political favors' to quietly resign from the board ... was told the board's compromise to keep LGBTQ...
Take A Look At Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unbuilt Mile-High Chicago Skyscraper
"The new renderings include the Gordon Strong Automobile Objective, a planetarium proposed in 1925, as well as the National Life Insurance building, the...
Florida Governor’s Desire To Whitewash History Is Sparking Pushback
"The latest controversy in Florida education policies began this month, when the DeSantis administration said a pilot Advanced Placement course on Black history would...
Broadway Is Really Into Drag, But Why?
A new Some Like It Hot musical tries to balance painful depictions "and the rich reality of drag as art, self-expression, and everything in between....
A Chinese Musician Is Working To Revive The Gehu
The gehu, an instrument which was introduced into Chinese orchestras in the 20th century and then replaced by the cello, "has four strings, a...
Arts Groups Must Innovate If They Want An Audience
The pandemic accelerated a generational shift: "Past program choices are not adequately energizing younger audiences. They want the experience to be new and different,...
It’s Not Just The Oscars Failing Black Women – It’s The Whole Ecosystem
"What does it say that the Black women who did everything the institution asks of them — luxury dinners, private academy screenings, meet-and-greets, splashy...
After A Long Campaign, The UK’s Royal Opera House Cuts Ties With British Petroleum
That long campaign was by climate activists, one of whom said, "What we are witnessing is a seismic shift, a near wholesale rejection across...
What Gives Food Its Taste?
Turns out it's what's already in your mouth. "When people eat, he explains, they don’t actually savor the food itself, but a mixture of...
The Joys Of Revisiting Edna Ferber
Even a century ago, "Ferber is not interested in cautionary tales of shrinking violets, favoring instead women who, out of necessity or desire or...
Why Did Cate Blanchett Choose Her Role In Tar?
Because, she says, she's "an experience junkie" - and playing a conductor was a new and challenging experience. - El PaÃs
British Opera Singer Creates A Work Based On Music Of Enslaved Ancestors
Baritone Peter Braithwaite: "These folk traditions are really strong; they’re about resistance and they’re about remembrance of former freedoms, but they’re also about laying...
There’s An Inheritance Battle Over the Site Of Caravaggio’s Only Known Ceiling Mural
The Texas-born "Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi has ... defied the court order demanding she vacate Rome’s Villa Aurora. The property is known for...
Victor Navasky, Editor Of The Nation And Voice For Progressive Journalism, 90
Navasky "appreciated the work of making news stories passionate and beguiling. He told NPR he watched Fox News for years, because Bill O'Reilly and...
Why Is The Rebuild At The Glasgow School Of Art Taking So Long?
The post-fire clearance took forever - "'intricate and painstaking' work, done by hand, of removing from the site and evaluating in excess of 2,400...
The Rise Of Queer Comics, And Why Bans Will Backfire
"Long before witty digital comics found a home on your Instagram feed, depicting things from the struggle with Grindr to birth-control access, there were...
Dance Artists Of Color Are Getting More Chances To Lead
Kiyon Ross at Pacific Northwest Ballet: "The skills you learn as a choreographer are definitely transferable to being a leader. ... You have to have...
