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The Guardian Apologizes For Cartoon Of Former BBC Chair
The cartoon depicted Richard Sharp, "who is Jewish, with exaggerated features and carrying a puppet of Rishi Sunak. One Jewish group said it 'falls...
Piano Fever Is (Once Again) Sweeping The UK
"For years, it seemed like the piano was disappearing from British public life. The bulky instruments were cast out of homes and schools and...
Why Isn’t Artist Pacita Abad More Known?
One explanation: "In addition to being a woman and a woman of color, she was considered a craft artist operating on the fringes of...
Say Goodbye To Ad-Free Television
"Investors are no longer sure streaming is a great business; the streamers are searching desperately for new ways to make money. The golden age of...
A Novelist Pushing On Our Ideas About Prison And Abolition
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, whose new novel incorporates a lot of trademarks in prisons: "Once you go into that for-profit model and also think about...
Starring In A WWII Series That’s Not About Men
Bel Powley, who's playing Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank's family: "I’d shied away from second world war stories – because it’s...
The Pre-Opera Routine Of Ryan Speedo Green, Star Of Terence Blanchard’s New Opera
"When you’re portraying character, first of all, that’s an athlete. Also portraying a character that has to be half naked on stage for...
The Glorious, Challenging Quest To Star In A Sondheim Revival
"I learned from my theater community that Sondheim was the goal, and that if you get the opportunity to do Sondheim, you take it, no matter...
Arlington Cemetery’s Confederate Monument Is Coming Down
The issue with the moment was the artist's "representation of a White soldier going off to fight on the Confederate side of the Civil...
The Gesture For OK Now Lives In ‘The Purgatory Of Meaning’ Thanks To Politics
The University of Nebraska mascot no longer makes an OK symbol "because the universal symbol of approbation—curling the index finger to touch the thumb, forming...
The Tate Modern Looks North For Its New Director
Karin Hindsbo, a Danish art historian who oversaw the revision and remodel of Norway's National Museum, was named director of the Tate Modern "at...
Just How Similar Are The Ed Sheeran And Marvin Gaye Songs?
It's clear that "Thinking Out Loud" and "Let's Get It On" have some similarities - but how similar are they? The BBC breaks it...
James Harithas, Museum Director And Founder Who Brought Activism To His Work, 90
"He looked outside the art world and its hierarchies to a much larger pool of artists. ... It was his commitment to social justice,...
Jane Austen, But Make It Muslim, South Asian, And Martial Arts
"Potential financiers would ask if she could make the central family a white one. Others would have preferred something a little bit less action...
The Ways We Must Change The ‘Nonprofit Industrial Complex’ For Artists
"Dignified wages and sufficient financial resources are the two most pressing areas of concern for artists," but arts organizations "overestimate the extent to which...
Is It Time To Rename The Audubon Society For This Bird Artist?
Rex Brasher, who left "almost 900 large-scale watercolors documenting American bird life and habitat," was not a self-promoter. He preferred to learn from birds...
Ukrainian Sisters Staying In the UK Celebrated As Musical Prodigies
The 17-year-old and 12-year-old "have now received scholarships to two of the UK’s foremost music schools, less than a year after fleeing their home...
The Potential Writers Strike Isn’t Just About Wages
It's also about artificial intelligence in the writers' room, and whether writers will be replaced by programs - the so-called Nora Ephron problem: "Hollywood...
Opera Ebony Turns Fifty This Year, But Can It Survive?
When Opera Ebony was founded, the Black Arts Movement was underway. "Spirituals, work songs, jazz and gospel, all were included in Opera Ebony's repertoire,...
French Actress Wins A Lawsuit For Her Salary In A Film That Never Got...
Eva Green won her $1 million fee after she "sued White Lantern Film, saying she was owed the sum after the film collapsed amid...
A Dancer Retires Young, But With A Plan
Harrison Ball was promoted to principal dancer at City Ballet last year, after years of being wild, getting sober, and living through the pandemic....
The Value, Joy, And Community Of Local Libraries
When you can't find a place to just sit down in the middle of a city, the library is there, with books, newspapers, community...
Writers And Producers Meet Again To Try To Avert Monday Night Strike
"After talks Saturday in the AMPTP’s Sherman Oaks offices, the two sides have scheduled further negotiations for Sunday in hopes of sealing a deal...
How Strong Is Disney’s First Amendment Case Against DeSantis?
It looks like "Disney’s retaliation claim is a strong one because corporations have substantial rights to express their views under the 1st Amendment, just as...
We Need To Remember Not Just What We Listened To And Watched, But How
And that how is together. "The very idea of collectively tuning in to history as it happens has been altered, as the profusion of...
