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Tanya Kersey, Who Founded LA’s Black Film Festival, Has Died At 61
Kersey "founded the Hollywood Black Film Festival in 1998, with the goal of spotlighting independent films and filmmakers from the African diaspora." The festival was often...
The Intensity Of Film Censorship In Iran
Panah Panahi, a filmmaker whose filmmaker father Jafar was arrested recently, says, "Who are you doing this for? ... What’s the point of this...
Feminist Zine Author In The 1990s, Canonical Comics Creator Now
How did Julie Doucet become canonical? Part of the reason: "French comics, too, had its #MeToo moment, or #BalanceTonPorc (#DitchYourPig) as the French say." -...
We Love To Connect, But Our Connections Make The Roads Dangerous
Knowledge (including arts administration) workers might improve the world when they work from home. Why? Knowledge workers say they use their phones to make...
San Diego Arts Orgs Assess Their Deep Pandemic Pain
The pandemic "significantly damaged San Diego’s arts and culture organizations last year, costing them more than $77 million in revenue and donations, shrinking their...
Frida Kahlo: The Musical
Actually, just Frida, the Musical, coming soon to regionals, with Broadway in mind for 2024. "The musical’s creators hope the show will offer a...
We’ll Be Hearing Her In All The Old Familiar Places
That is, our earbuds, Air Pods, headphones, etc. - Julia Whelan is an extremely popular audiobook narrator who's writing (and narrating) her own story...
The Green Man Music Festival Isn’t Actually So Green
The government of Wales is under fire for helping the supposedly environmentally concerned music festival buy a farm for the festival to use "as...
The Comics Industry Is Waking Up To A Huge New Trend
That is, comics that read from top to bottom, on smart phones - and whose audience is mostly young women. One author: "We have...
The Pandemic’s Limitations Freed This Dancer And Choreographer To Create Something New
Luke Murphy's Volcano is "performed for an audience of eight, with each audience member in an individual booth." Sure, "it looked like 'financial madness,'...
Classical Music Audiences Want Print, Not PDFs
"Those ushers who once carried proud armfuls of programs now wander the lobbies, outfitted (sometimes literally) with oversize QR codes, waiting to be scanned...
Farewell, California Institute Of Abnormal Arts
"The gallery of curiosities alone was well worth the price of admission on a Friday or Saturday night. Human fetuses in jars, a preserved...
The New Disney Series’ Biggest Problem With Its Depiction Of A Teenager In New...
Sure, Ms. Marvel absolutely nails the life of a Muslim teenager in the U.S. But "there’s been a cardinal unspoken rule when it comes...
The Long Journey Of British Street Art
Have murals finally matured in the UK? "Powerful street murals can enhance a sense of place and local identity, and reach audiences who may...
The Supreme Court’s Dreadful Dobbs Decision May Accidentally Spur Data Privacy Advances
"'The circle of people who have to act like they’re in a spy movie is getting bigger and bigger,' says Cindy Cohn, executive director...
Conductor Collapses From Podium And Dies In Munich
Stefan Soltesz, an Austrian conductor, was near the end of the first act of Richard Strauss' The Silent Woman at the Bayerische Staatsoper in...
The Emmy Nominations Prove No One Knows How To Watch TV Anymore
"Folks just watch things in weird chunks now, sneaking in bits and pieces of viewing where they can." - Wired
For Romans, A Chance To See Art On Its Way Back Home
The Museum of Rescued Art is rescued from thieves, from looters, and occasionally from natural disasters, or time itself. "I think of this as...
What The Newly Discovered Van Gogh Self-Portrait Teaches Us Is This
It's "not hitherto unknown biographical or psychological detail, but an understanding of general artistic process that serves to humanise Van Gogh, to make his...
Gangnam Style Turns Ten, And It Still Holds Records On YouTube
"In December 2012, “Gangnam Style” became the first music video to earn more than a billion views on the platform. That momentum continued to...
Movie And TV Studios Have Extended COVID Protocols Through The End Of September
They're not messing around with omicron variants. - Variety
A Time To Laugh, A Time To Cry
Sometimes, it's easier to attack serious subjects with biting satire - and for Black authors, though that's not exactly new, it is having a...
How Relentless Right-Wing Attacks Shut Down An Entire Library
Vinton, Iowa's library shuttered as the staff resigned after a barrage of attacks. The complaints: "That we were not being fair to President Trump...
Excavation Work Unveils Constantine-Era Rock Layers In Jerusalem
"New excavation findings provide an exciting glimpse into how early churches built within the period known as Late Antiquity were carried out while revealing...
The Rise Of The Messy-Haired, Self-Hating Sarcasm Machine
How Persuasion got itself Fleabagged, and lost Anne Elliot in the bargain. - LitHub
