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Everyone’s Missing The Point About Art History

Inside the story about Hamline University is a much deeper, truer piece of information: It's impossible to teach art history well without pissing people...

Evaluating, And Reevaluating, The Legacy Of Nikki Finke

The feared Hollywood journalist's "ambitions were sometimes thwarted by a slew of factors that, depending on whom you ask, included her being too tough,...

Lupe Serrano, ABT’s Former Prima Ballerina Of Stunning Power, Has Died At 92

"During a tour in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, one audience showered Ms. Serrano with rapturous applause during a dozen curtain calls....

Netflix Appears To Be Bouncing Back

Subscriber numbers are "providing an early sign that its shift to include ads in a cheaper version of its video streaming service is helping...

A String Of Lawsuits Tries To Slow Down Generative AI

Maybe. But, says one intellectual property lawyer, "Copyright law is the right to stop people making copies, right? ... It’s not the right to...

Expats In Paris Wish Emily Would Go The Heck Home Already

American expatriates know the French don't like Emily in Paris. Nor do they: They "complain that they have spent years perfecting understated elegance and...

Emma Straub Swore Online While Protesting For Freedom, So She Was Disinvited From Texas...

"This is just so monumentally dumb, though not entirely surprising in a state run by theocrats who’ve already banned the catch-all bogeyman of 'Critical...

Will Iran Release Jailed Filmmaker Jafar Panahi?

"Panahi, 62, who has won a number of awards at European film festivals, was arrested on 11 July last year and sent to jail...

Predictably, Perhaps, The Online Backlash To The Embrace Is Vicious

"From one angle, the limbs form a heart, representing the couple’s love. But much as Chicago’s landmark 'Cloud Gate' sculpture quickly became known as...

Boston’s Newest Public Art Is Meant To Honor The Kings

The sculpture, called "The Embrace," is also meant to give Boston a new shine. "People come to Boston to get their American story reified....

The Full List Of Critics Circle Awards

Cate Blanchett rolls on, and Everything Everywhere All at Once picks up critical steam. - Variety

A Friend Hid This Munch Masterpiece In A Barn To Keep It From Nazis

"Dance on the Beach was part of a masterpiece of 12 major panels, which Max Reinhardt, the theatre director, commissioned in 1906 for his avant-garde...

Awards Shows Are Rapidly Losing Audience

Should they follow the Screen Actors Guild to Netflix or other streamers? - CBC

Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Abandons Seatgeek To Return To The Fee-Laden Clutches Of Ticketmaster

Why? It's a mystery. "The abrupt switch, at a high-profile venue in one of the biggest markets in the world, is head-spinning news in...

Try This One Not So Weird, Research Based Trick To Be Happier

Only connect: "The strongest predictors for people to maintain their happiness and health throughout the course of their lives were people who described their...

Who’s Guiding Marvel’s Multiverse Now?

Without Iron Man, there's a leader-shaped hole at the center of all of the various stories. Is Paul Rudd really supposed to fill that...

Ruth Adler Schnee, Who Fled Nazi Germany And Turned Textiles Into Midcentury Modernist Art,...

Schnee's "ebullient fabric designs and avant-garde home furnishings store in the heart of Detroit introduced midcentury modernism to baffled and delighted Midwesterners" - and...

Keeping Artists Out Of The Mother-Shaped Hole That Swallows Creativity

The problem?"If you aren’t in a lactation closet, you’re at home." - LitHub

Frontrunners In The Race For The Academy Awards

It's Cate Blanchett, no doubt. Then things get a bit complicated. - Washington Post

Turning Paris’s Trash Into Visual Poetry

Itinerant artist and poet Ser Serpas says that "Parisian trash is sturdy." The 27-year-old, "like, many of her peers, she favors objects that bear...

More Star Actors Bow Out Of Awards Ceremonies After Getting COVID

The list of those testing positive and missing Sunday's Critics Choice Awards, a few days after the Golden Globes, included nominees Colin Farrell and...

Michelle Yeoh Says She Hopes She’s Helped Smash Barriers For Asian Actors

The star of Everything Everywhere All at Once says, "But the only way we can keep this going is by getting the right storytellers,...

The Best Words For Our Times May Be Ones That Come From Our Distant...

For instance: You might be feeling like a crambazzle thanks to winter - so it might be time to get some snerdles in your...

The Conductor Who Trained Cate Blanchett

Natalie Murray Beale says, "We looked a lot at the physical aspects, ensuring she would not be too reverent of the conductor’s podium, because...

Getting A Movie Produced During A Pandemic Hasn’t Been Exactly Easy

Six producers of potential Oscar contenders explain why they did it anyway. Says the producer of Banshees of Inisherin, "Your aim is to be...
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