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The Charming Actor Whose Star Power Has Grown Along With India’s
Why is Shah Rukh Khan so celebrated as he marks 30 years in the Hindi film industry? "He shows us a glimpse of a...
Spotify Bought Heardle, But Some Fans Aren’t On Board
Is this a little like The New York Times buying Wordle? Yes, and the outrage is not dissimilar. For instance: "I lost my game...
The Basketball Superstars Who Learned Ballet And Tap To Better Protect Their Flexibility And...
People described Michael Jordan's basketball moves as "balletic," and sometimes said Kobe Bryant "tap-danced" his way to the net - but those were metaphors....
Emmy Nominees Tell Us We’re Truly Not OK
Perhaps that's not such a surprise, well into our third year of a global pandemic, but the drama nominees show "it is easy to...
Artificial Intelligence Can’t Make Art Without Humans To Provide The Spark
At least, not for now. People using the program DALL-E, which takes human words and makes images in response, "have found that it elevates...
The Refugee Orchestra Of Glasgow
In a heavily refugee and immigrant area of Glasgow, "Musicians in Exile a way of helping to give musician asylum seekers and refugees...
Just Say What It Was, Texas
Obviously, "involuntary location" is a nonstarter, but also, "describing someone as a slave does nothing to diminish their humanity. Enslaving someone diminishes their humanity,...
In The Maw Of The Reality Show Beast: America’s Next Great Author
Will there be a montage of typing fingers? A poetry read-off in Iowa City? A "who navigated the workshop the best" scene in LA?...
Music Students Who Fled Afghanistan Remake Their School In Portugal
The school's leader, before the Taliban and now in exile: "We can show the world a different Afghanistan. ... We will show how we...
Social Media Noticed Some Issues With Plagiarism At The Guggenheim Bilbao
Can a painter plagiarize a film? Maybe not in the legal sense - but instead of litigation, the museum and the artists involved in...
Margaret Keane, Whose Paintings Were Claimed To By Her Husband To Be His, Has...
"Her husband Walter Keane fraudulently took artistic credit, while she painted for 16 hours a day to satisfy demand for the work, originally presented publicly...
Artist Maurizio Cattelan Narrowly Wins A Lawsuit, But Questions Of Attribution Remain
Basically, the plaintiff sued the wrong entity - Cattelan's gallery and a museum, not the artist himself. So "the ruling still leaves the key...
Take A Little Vivaldi, Add A Little Irish Dance
And the result is a viral video set in a beautiful environment: "The performance takes place in Swords Castle, an early medieval castle in...
New Use For Spotify Playlists: Recipe Instructions
Why not? People often listen to Spotify playlists while cooking — though a recipe for kimchi fried rice shouldn't usually take as long as...
The Full List Of Emmys Nominations, As It Happened
Ted Lasso? Only Murders in the Building? Squid Game? Better Call Saul? Find out here. - Los Angeles Times
Italy Tells Museums To Cut It Out With The NFTs
After an eye-popping NFT sale for the Uffizi turned out to net the museum only €70,000, far less than half of the sale, the...
Before The Museum Of London Decamps For A New Neighborhood, It Will Host An...
The Museum of London - whose collection and attitude are absolute gems - has been squeezed into "an eccentric building" for years. Now "in...
Why Are Americans So Snotty About Skyscrapers?
The best way for cities to grow is up, but you'd never know it from height restrictions in places like Washington, DC. - The...
The Afterlife Of Public Art
Should public art, once removed from its original space, go to a museum - or to a Dumpster? - The New York Times
Jafar Panahi One Of Three Filmmakers Arrested In Iran
"Award-wining director Mohammad Rasoulof and colleague Mostafa Al-Ahmad were taken into custody for posting a statement on social media urging members of the Iranian...
The Artist Who Reveals Los Angeles’ Tongva Heritage
Mercedes Dorame's work, "in quiet ways, illuminates how Indigenous life and thought remain present in Los Angeles and its landscapes." - Los Angeles Times
Best Director Winner Thinks Netflix, Losing Subscribers, Will Be More Picky About Funding
Jane Campion, who directed the artsy Power of the Dog and won Best Director for it at the 2022 Academy Awards, is worried. "I...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Doghouse
"The Civic Center will now be the permanent home of Wright’s smallest structure, a doghouse he drew on the back of an envelope...
Nevada Artists Join Forces To Get A Mountain Range Labeled A National Monument
Artists might more normally be working in the studio, but "though artist-as-intersectional-avatar is not an unusual circumstance, the curators’ efforts go above and beyond...
An Ode To Bookstores, And To Promiscuous Reading
"Bookstores, like wines, have different notes, different flavors, each one distinct. There are the musty, quirky ones with haphazard piles and dusty rows, usually...
