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What Ever Happened To Avatar, The Biggest Blockbuster In History?
"Though the first Avatar was the world’s top-grossing movie not once, but twice, reclaiming the title from Avengers: Endgame after a 2021 rerelease in...
Pantone Embraces Its Color Of The Year Marketing And The Art World
"Viva Magenta has taken the shape of a massive immersive exhibition during Art Basel—that’s 10,000 square feet and two floors dedicated to a single...
Nan Goldin On Taking On The Art Establishment’s Embrace Of The Sacklers
"For a long time, the Sackler name was a byword for almost unparalleled philanthropy and largesse towards the arts; it is now synonymous with...
What We All Lose When Students Don’t Learn To Read, Or Write, Cursive
Michel Martin's uncles in the military "wrote letters to each other promising to take care of their future families or their families, ... in...
Art Basel Miami Somehow Has No Spanish Anywhere
"Most of the fair workers I approached during my visit ... spoke Spanish, a jarring realization that makes me think the on-the-ground staff...
Let’s Talk About Queer Christmas Movies
Trendy? Flat characters (yes, even more so than the straight characters in the heterocentric holiday movies)? Or something that shows networks' long-awaited embrace of...
Deal To Return The ‘Elgin’ Marbles May Be Coming Soon
According to Greek news sources, "British Museum chair George Osborne, the former chancellor, has been holding secret talks with the Greek prime minister." -...
Julia Reichert, Fierce Filmmaker Who Won An Oscar For American Factory, Has Died At...
Reichert, a documentarian, said, "I always wanted to understand how people worked because I often thought I was like a Martian. I was intensely...
More Legal Drama Over Mockingbird’s New Version
First, the new version sued the old; now it's reversed. "At stake is not only who will profit, long-term, from stage versions of the...
Native American Languages Are In Deep Danger
No surprise, after decades of concerted campaigns to destroy the tribes and their languages. But there's a plan: "The Biden administration announced an effort...
Astra Magazine’s Short Life Shows The Precariousness Of Literary Journals
"Astra Magazine, Spiegelman said, was 'both unusual and exciting, a glamorous and subversive literary project, a breath of fresh air and hope.' And then...
The Long Friendship And Intertwined Careers Of Tilda Swinton And Joanna Hogg
Friends since they met as 10 and 11-year-olds at prep school in 1971, the actor and writer-director "have just in the last few years...
The Best Library Instagram In The United States And Perhaps The World
Who knew this was a contest? And yet, the Milwaukee Public Library is clearly winning. - LitHub
Kanye West’s Massive Reddit Page Turns Into A Holocaust Awareness Campaign
There's also a fair amount of Taylor Swift fandom, but "these posts from fans essentially serve as a denouncement of West’s praise of Hitler...
Aline Kominsky-Crumb, ‘Ranuchy’ And Feminist Underground Comics Artist, Has Died At 74
Kominsky-Crumb "was known for work that was not only autobiographical but often bracingly sexual — focusing on her insecurities — and explicit." - Los...
Can The Academy Forgive Will Smith, At Least As An Actor?
Doesn't seem super likely. But: "If there’s a Best Actor race worth trying to sneak into, it’s this one, and Smith has been careful...
What It’s Like To Play Princess Di And Then Come Out As Nonbinary
Emma Corrin: "It’s hard to be discovering something in yourself at the same time you’re navigating an industry that demands a lot of you."...
Found: A Recording Of 18-Year-Old Stephen Sondheim’s College Musical
It's called Phinney's Rainbow, and Sondheim was a sophomore in college when he wrote and mounted it in 1948. "It's the stuff of legend...
Playwright Lynn Nottage Has Been Running A Theatrical Marathon All Year
The writer of Sweat and the most-produced play of this year, Clyde's, had three productions in New York this year. She says, "The mindfulness...
How Two Norwegian Students Accidentally Created TikTok’s Favorite Sounds
Twenty years ago, high school students Thomas S. Nilsen and Steffen Ojala Soderholm created "nightcore." But it didn't take off until TikTok kicked into...
New Theory: Children Made Stone-Age Owl-Like Carvings
"Archaeologists have previously suggested that they were symbols of goddesses that were placed on deceased people as a burial offering. It is debated whether...
The True Cost Of A Twitter Implosion
"There are whole nations whose political discourse occurs mainly on Twitter. The amount of reputational and social wealth that stands to be lost if Twitter collapses...
Ukraine Detains Eight People Over Banksy Theft
According to Kyiv's governor, "'The image is in good condition and in the hands of the authorities.' Other works in the area thought also...
How A Sync Made A 1985 Song A Hit In 2022
Instead, it took a lot of planning and some carefully waged campaigns. "While syncs have previously boosted older singles, they’ve never generated this level...
On Writing Memoir-ish Fiction And Reader Complaints About Not Enough Sex
Elif Batuman "expects from any book, her own included, nothing less than a real-time experiment in how we should think and live." - Paris...
