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How Paris Theatres Are Dealing With Moliere At 400
"Does Molière, the 17th-century comedy master and doyen of French playwrights, really still have the power to surprise? As France celebrates the 400th anniversary...
Shooting WWII In Color
In part to counteract the skills of filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, who wasted her great talents on supporting fascism and the Nazis, Hollywood filmmaker George...
A Chance Find, A Storied Past, A Relaunch
How does a writer like Bette Howland fall into obscurity - and then get rediscovered? Thank the sale rack at Housing Works Bookstore in...
Dora Maar’s Photos Show An Artist Who Knew Her Worth Before She Met Picasso
It's unfortunate (in the extreme) that writers and artists let their relationship overshadow her own work, which not only documents the Surrealists but also...
Hollywood Companies Vow To Pay Employees’ Travel And Other Abortion Costs
Many Hollywood companies, and the unions SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild, say they will pay for employees' costs if they need to travel from...
What’s The Labor Of A Social Media Moderator Worth?
Nothing, but also millions of dollars - at least on Reddit, where moderators are volunteers whose contributions are estimated to be worth $3.4 million....
Only One Broadway Show Is Keeping Its Mask Requirement
Circle in the Square's American Buffalo will require masks through the end of its run. It's the only Broadway theatre left "not operated by...
Peak TV Is Overwhelming, But Emmy Voters Need To Watch It Anyway
Some of these shows and people won't win, but they deserve to be nominated; and the categories deeply need to change to keep up...
The Mind-Boggling Logistical Challenge Of This Theatre Company’s New Plays
The same 14 cast members in three plays at three different theatres, all running at exactly the same time. Happy 50th, Crucible Theatre in...
Why The Inventor Of The Shopping Mall Denounced His Design
Victor Gruen "set his sights on bringing a dose of Viennese urbanity to what he saw as the car-dominated 'avenues of horror' of American...
FBI Seizes Disputed Basquiat Works From Orlando Show
"Orlando Museum of Art spokeswoman Emilia Bourmas-Fry said in a statement that they were complying with a warrant from the FBI for access to...
What It Takes To Light Up The Hollywood Sign
It's a surprisingly rare event, and it takes a lot of moxie, permits, projectors, and work. - Los Angeles Times
Want To Have A Nervous Breakdown?
Designing an exhibition is "truly a collaborative process, drawing upon content specialists, community representatives, professional designers, donors, partner institutions and others. It really does...
Unpave A Parking Lot, Make Paradise
Or at least that was Milan's approach, even before the pandemic, when the city started turning 250,000 square feet of parking lots into playgrounds,...
Which White British Guy’s Vision Of A Nightmare Society Are We Trapped In?
Aldous Huxley or George Orwell? Well, we thought it was Orwell. But now? "We are back to the future. Back to the Brave New World narcotic...
Some States Aren’t Stopping With Censoring School Libraries
States like Kentucky, with conservative legislatures, are taking control over what books can be in public libraries as well. Doesn't sound fascist at all,...
Tony Award-Winner Myles Frost Got To MJ From YT
The star accidentally found his way into the musical. "As a high schooler at Thomas Wootton in Rockville, he sang and danced to Jackson’s...
Culture As A Weapon Of War, Or Division, Around The World
"Culture really does become a matter of life and death, then, when a society is under pressure. This can be for good or for...
How A Curator, A Librarian, And The FBI Tracked Down Paintings That Were Stolen...
Do art auction houses have a responsibility not to sell stolen goods? This case would seem to say there's no such responsibility. And the...
What Will TV Watching Be Like In 15 Years?
Streaming could go a lot of different ways, but how will it go? "Streaming broke our TV-watching culture. ... It's totally fractured now, we...
The Royal Shakespeare Company Finally Casts A Disabled Actor To Play Richard III
"The days of 'cripping up' - a term disabled actors regularly use to describe those with no physical impairment playing disabled characters - appear...
Slow Fashion Is Coming Back Into Style
Or rather, the fashion of re-fashioning old things into new, what one might call the "use it up, wear it out, make it do"...
An Animated Movie’s Fake Boy Band Gets Its Own Breakout Success Manga
The boy band 4*Town (with five members) from Turning Red is so popular on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and the music charts (with music...
An Experiment In Being Seen
Can Los Angeles media ever represent the entire city - or even some of Black L.A.? "I remember begging news outlets to come and...
Please Spare Us Any More Art World Spaces Made In Excellent Taste
Or, how the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery's remodel wants to go the way that facelifts usually go. - The Observer (UK)
