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Ed Sheeran Will Stand Trial In The US Over Copyright Of Marvin Gaye Song
The trial is about "claims he copied his hit 2014 song Thinking Out Loud from Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On, after a federal...
Oh, The Humanities
Humanities departments have to face up to what's happening to their students, both undergrad and (here, the news is even worse) graduate students. Where...
Sue Mingus, Who Promoted Her Husband Charles’ Work, Has Died At 92
Sue Mingus "helped secure legacy as one of the 20th century’s greatest musical minds" after his death of ALS at age 56. Incredibly,...
What Did The Me Too Movement Do For Hollywood’s Craft Services?
Five years on, little has changed, say women behind the scenes. One woman in editorial says, "Realistically, you may have to be willing to...
Museum Directors Give Official Blessing For The Sale Of Some Art To Care For...
"Rules around deaccessioning have long been controversial, with some holding that museum collections should not be treated as liquid assets to weather difficult times." But...
A Conductor With Ties To Russia Will Eventually Step Down From A German Orchestra
Teodor Currentzis, who has ties to a Russian state-owned bank and has been criticized for it, will step down when his contract ends -...
Quick Q&As With The Authors On A Prestigious Nonfiction Award Longlist
Andrea Elliott: "The intensity of my reporting stems from a belief that well-told stories—those with depth and nuance—are the product of intimate knowledge. And...
Lyrics Can’t Be Considered Criminal Evidence In California Anymore
"The bill covers all forms of creative expression but is especially salient for hip-hop artists, whose slice-of-life lyrics have frequently been cited by prosecutors...
Zimbabwean Author Found Guilty Of Inciting Violence With A Six-Word Sign
Tsitsi Dangarembga held a sign in 2020 that read, "We want better. Reform our institutions." On Thursday, she was "convicted of participating in a...
What Cultural Appropriation Really Means
What people think it means: "A member of the dominant culture — an insider — taking from a culture that has historically been and is...
Hollywood, That Bastion Of Conservative Attack Ads
In 1934, Upton Sinclair shocked Californians by winning the Democratic primary for governor. Hollywood couldn't - and wouldn't - have it. - Los Angeles...
After Years Of Protests, The Victoria And Albert Museum Finally Drops The Sackler Name
"This weekend the signs that directed V&A visitors to the Sackler Centre for Arts Education, and to the £2m tiled 'Sackler Courtyard' on Exhibition...
Clapping Back At The No-Clappers
What's up with the no clapping between movements - and, in 2022, is it time to make a compromise between the rowdy 18th century...
Louise Fletcher, Who Won An Oscar For One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Has...
"The Ratched character had been softened in the script compared to Kesey’s original, and Fletcher gave a rather subtle performance, often conveying the character’s...
Alan Rickman’s Secret Diaries
The actor, who died in 2016, kept impeccable diaries with sketches and accountings. About the first Harry Potter: "The film should only be seen...
Who Gets To Make What Films?
A white woman making a film about four men who were in Saudi Arabia, undergoing deradicalization? Sundance has dumped it, but one Muslim American...
At The Rijksmuseum, Insects Now Rule
"An Open Letter for Invertebrate Rights, penned by Saraceno and placed next to one of the webs that has appeared in the museum over recent...
Nancy Hiller, Who Broke The Glass Ceiling In Woodworking, Has Died At 63
Hiller opened her own studio in 1995, becoming as force as a woodworker - and as a writer of both popular and scholarly articles...
On The Set Of ‘The Bear,’ The Chefs Are Truly The Bosses
Two chefs supervise the food. "The culinary producers devised on-camera dishes for the FX on Hulu series and also served as inspiration and sounding...
Streaming May Be Killing Bollywood
But not for the usual reasons. "As growing audiences began to avidly consume Tamil (Kollywood), Telugu (Tollywood), Malayalam, Kannad (Sandalwood) and Marathi-language cinema in...
The Metaverse Looks Cool, But It Puts Everyone’s Privacy At Risk
How? Big data. "Headset devices are able to record things like a person’s movements, facial attributes, blinking, surroundings, and their activities when they’re in...
Trombones Take Over The Gaming World
Well, the game Trombone Champ, that is. Viral videos of players are driving "a lot of tooting, to songs like the national anthem and...
Novelist Zadie Smith Talks About Discovering Black England
"By 1999 I’d gone through 15 years of formal education, including a three-year English degree, without ever being given a book to study that...
So What If Stalin Hated This Opera?
Stalin called Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensh "muddle instead of music, an ugly flood of confusing sound, ... a pandemonium of creaking, shrieking and...
Marvel Is Never Going To Get The Fantastic Four Right On Screen
The proof is in Alex Ross, artist who paints for the comics. Disney "has not totally eaten Marvel Comics yet, probably because, even if...
