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The Numbers For Black Architects Are Abysmal
One solution? Expose kids to architecture and architects starting in elementary school. - Fast Company
Making Community-Engaged Art Means Taking Risks
Jana Harper: "The thing about community-engaged work is that it takes an actual community for it to work. ... I feel like I just...
Live Performances Have Been Back, But The Pandemic Isn’t Over
And that means audiences have been thin on the ground. "Fewer than half as many people saw a Broadway show during the season that...
The Ukrainian Artist Painting Military Equipment As A Symbol Of Resistance
"Varvara Logvyn might look like any other open-air artist working in Kyiv’s historic Independence Square ... except she doesn’t direct her attention to a...
The Push For A Memorial To LA’s Biggest Race Massacre
In 1871, a mob murdered 18 Chinese people and looted every Chinese building in what's now downtown LA. "A bronze plaque embedded in the...
Author Karen Joy Fowler On Reading Doris Lessing
"Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow and Ken Kesey – their women were inexplicable. They were often childish, petty and shallow, yet desirable. My bewilderment just...
How This Small East Coast Film Festival Became A Hot Spot For Black Hollywood
"Steadily growing in size and prestige since incubating 20 years ago in the Brooklyn apartment of co-founders Stephanie and Floyd Rance, the Martha’s Vineyard...
A Mystery In The Desert, Solved
Michael Heizer's megasculpture in the Nevada desert is called City and is a mile long, half a mile wide, and the artist's masterpiece. "It...
Finding A Greener Solution To The Vinyl Backlog
By replacing vinyl with a different plastic, can this Dutch company get records playing again - without all of the delays, and without as...
Our Digital Filing Systems Define Us
"Sorting through this morass might seem too overwhelming to even consider—unless we shift how we think about the purpose of organizing information: What if...
In New York, Writers Gather To Read, And Support, Salman Rushdie
"The writers included Gay Talese, Kiran Desai, Roya Hakakian, Colum McCann, Amanda Foreman, A.M. Homes and many others; their remarks were sometimes calls to...
Traditional Western Storytelling Isn’t Going To Cut It With Climate Change
No hero's journey narrative could possibly fit the times. "Writers choose to believe in the power of stories because it gives us hope. ......
How To Be A Writer When Covid Leaves You Too Sick To Hold A...
Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet, knows - as did one of her COVID companions, Virginia Woolf. "Perhaps we all develop methods to survive the...
Writing Women Back Into The Film History That They Made
"Long before talking movies became the norm, women ran wild in movies. And I mean, really wild. They riotously schemed, fought and defied convention,...
A Group Of Classical Musicians Have Been Arrested As Part Of A Sex Ring...
"The group, which operated as the Buenos Aires Yoga School, was headed by 84-year-old Juan Percowicz. The group is accused of sexual trafficking, including of minors, as...
HBO Max Just Pulled 200 Older Episodes Of Sesame Street
It's a move that confirmed every pessimistic prediction about making the show for a private entity. "Some of the most notable episodes HBO Max once...
The U.S. Bananas Art Trial Is About To Begin
The judge who allowed the trial to go forward: "While using silver duct tape to affix a banana to a wall may not espouse...
If You Watch Just One Movie About Tech, Make It This Nearly 40-Year-Old Val...
It''s "a movie about responsible innovation—as Chris says, about how you can’t have science without philosophy. ... Creators need to think about how their...
Cinemas Are Struggling With Crushing Debt
What box-office rebound? - Los Angeles Times
What We Learned From The Three-Week DOJ Publishing Trial
Just in case you weren't riveted on Twitter, "the three-week trial offered an unusual glimpse into the world of publishing, offering observers a parade...
Cops Chase Artists Out Of A Park In Manhattan
The artists, who were painting, had their names displayed - and the park cops said that constituted "soliciting." - Hyperallergic
MGM Parts Ways With Universal And Chooses Warner Instead
"During the pandemic, Universal had helped MGM steer Ridley Scott’s starry crime drama House of Gucci to $100 million overseas, Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming-of-age...
Zofia Posmysz, Who Survived A Concentration Camp And Wrote About Them For Decades, 98
Posmysz, who as a student worked with others in the Polish resistance to the Nazis, later "gained acclaim for her works on the Holocaust...
Apparently, Some Brits Are Having Trouble With Pronouns
There's so much backlash to Joan of Arc using they/them in a new production at the Globe that the artistic director had to release...
How An AI Codes What It Sees In An Art Museum
It's "mostly strange, often comedic readings that both simplify and expand upon the artworks’ meanings." - Aeon
