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What’s The Point Of A Prize?
"Winning a prize is an undeniably thrilling, magical thing. It is, in essence, the world’s way of telling you that you’ve done something noteworthy...
An Auto-Captioned World Is On Its Way
"My first conversation with captioned glasses did feel like something out of the movies. I kept shaking my head in wonder at the captions...
Writing, During A Pandemic And A War, About Rachmaninoff In Exile
"We remain guests, respectful of the amount we can never know, hoping to take away something of lasting value for all." - The Observer...
The Woman Trying To Archive Black Twitter
Professor Meredith Clark "says preserving Black Twitter will allow for a more accurate and complex retelling of the history of the internet. But it's...
The British Team Trying To Preserve, And Restore, As Many Banksys As Possible
"If you owned a valuable painting you'd keep it inside, in correct lighting and temperatures but outside art is open to all the elements...
How Disney’s Musicians Redid The Music For The New Little Mermaid
Regardless of the movie's critical reception, the music is pretty good. "With the help of a renowned dance company, an 86-person orchestra and a...
How Did A Novel About Game Development Become A Multi-Year Bestseller?
Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, isn't sure. And it's a bit weird for her. "Even though is not her...
A New York City Artist Is Paralyzed After Being Shoved On The Subway
Artist and illustrator Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy's "designs have been featured in outlets such as Chicago Magazine and NPR, and she won an American Illustration award in 2021." - Hyperallergic
Ingrid Haebler, Splendid Interpreter Of Mozart, Has Died At 96
Haebler was a pianist who "drew particular acclaim for her performances and recordings of the works of Mozart, impressing critics while still in her...
NPR’s Biggest Gaffe Turns Forty
That's right, this is four decades on from the time the national radio network let a six-year-old entirely spoil Return of the Jedi. -...
A French Murder Mystery Wins The Palme D’Or At Cannes
Anatomy of a Fall director Justine Triet is the third woman ever to win the prize. The courtroom drama, which stars German actress Sandra...
It’s A Grave Mistake To Cede The Humanities To Artificial Intelligence
Maureen Down isn't having it. "Without humanities, humanity and humaneness, we won’t be imbuing society with wisdom, just creating owner’s manuals. That would be...
Celine Dion Cancels Tour Dates For The Foreseeable Future
Dion has not performed since before the pandemic because of her condition. "Stiff Person Syndrome is a progressive neurological and autoimmune disorder that affects...
Turns Out The Glasgow Subway Is Just Like Conservative Florida Schools
No full-body imagery of Michelangelo's David here, the Scots say: "The designs commissioned by the Barolo restaurant were rejected from spaces in the subway...
Making Art – And It Doesn’t Need To Be ‘Good’ Art – Is Superb...
OK, and this is possibly unexpected, "Coloring within the lines — of an intricate pattern, for example — appears to be especially effective" at...
Social Media And Emojis Are Fueling The Return Of An Ancient Filipino Writing System
"One glance at Filipino social media and you will find a recurrent set of waves, twists and inverted heart shapes. They’re more than just...
Steve McQueen’s New Documentary About Occupied Amsterdam Is Supposed To Be Challenging
"The weight of what happened was so heavy you can’t hold it in your head forever. If you forget things that’s OK because of...
In Order To Save Downtowns, We Need To Destroy Them
At least the way they're configured now. The issue: "What to do with office buildings when we don’t need offices anymore?" - Wired
Students Chant In Support Of Hollywood Writers As Head Of Warner Bros. Speaks
"Picketers and audience members broke out in chants, including, 'pay your writers!' as Zaslav spoke about his career experience" at Boston University. - Washington...
A Spider-Man Mask-Wearing, Hammer-And-Chisel Wielding Guy Attacks BBC Sculpture
This comes after the BBC decided to start restoring the sculpture by pedophile artist Eric Gill, which was also attacked in January of 2022....
The Person Who Wrote Your Favorite TV Show Is Eating Ramen, Not Caviar
Essayist - and TV writer - Samantha Irby: "Some guy commented on my Instagram that I was destroying the American family, and I was...
The 1980s Were A Formative Decade For Asian American Cinema
"You have people who are imagining what ‘Asian American’ can be in wildly different ways, that might not adhere perfectly to that sense of...
An Artist On The Rise Who Wants To Slow Everything Down
Njideka Akunyili Crosby will go to many lengths in order to do the research for her paintings. "She spent hours looking through pictures of...
Who Owns This Statue? It’s A Mystery
How did The Wounded Indian, long thought to have been destroyed in the 1930s, end up in Norfolk? And who owns it now? -...
The Writers Strike Is Opening Some Barely Healed Wounds
To be honest, "as Hollywood has transformed since the 1950s, workers and their unions have contended with endemic insecurity". - Los Angeles Review of...
