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Some Of Publishing Turns To Sensitivity Readers, But Others Object Loudly
One author "said while he believes using sensitivity readers to rewrite classical literature like Dahl is problematic, employing them to work on in-progress manuscripts can...
A Better Seat At The Movie Theatre Will Now Cost You More
For instance, movie theatres "have been pushing customers toward premium-priced specialty tickets" - IMAX? Dolby sound? Reclining seats? Or your regular, standard, much cheaper...
What Earned More Money For Charity, Everything Everywhere’s Googly Eyed Rock Or Its Sex...
The toys - but "the most desired lot of all was Raccacoonie, a raccoon puppet that features in one universe in the film where the...
The Academy Changed The Way We See Movies
But that had nothing to do with the Oscars. "Academy reps conducted extensive studies and established standards for theater screen illumination, detailed the growing...
Lou Stovall, Artist And Printmaker Who Worked With Alexander Calder And Jacob Lawrence, 86
"Working with sponges, brushes, towels, squeegees, hand-cut stencils and a rich array of oil-based inks, Mr. Stovall helped demonstrate that printmaking was an art...
Russian Artists Are Walking A Perilously Thin Line In Europe
"The continuing war in Ukraine has turned , which features many Russian artists and nationalistic themes, into a vexed issue." Many of the Russians...
Ballet Is Actually Great For Human Bodies
"The whole process of becoming a dancer was deeply embodied: We learned not by sitting and reading but by imitating, trying, falling, adjusting, trying...
With AI Skills, MARZ Became The Hollywood Go To For Anti-Aging Effects
The company - Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies, which, well, of course - now wants to "fix dubbing." - Fast Company
A 10-Year-Old Didn’t Want To Do Homework, So She Wrote A Score Instead
Then her mom posted it to TikTok, asking musicians to perform it. So far? "In the following days, musicians played the score on a...
Conservative Legislators In Tennessee, And Many Other States, Are Attempting To Crush Drag Performances
In their deeply hostile "think about the children" anti-drag legislation, they may be also trying to crush theatre. - The New York Times
As Other Art Houses Across The Country Take Hits, Las Vegas Gets A Blinged-Out...
It's an art house fever dream, including "the theatrical lighting rig, the pencil mics that descend from the ceiling for post-screening Q&A sessions and...
What It’s Like To Be Hard Of Hearing In The Theatre
It's hard. "Across the board, the HOH artists I interviewed expressed their frustration over accommodations having slipped through the cracks—from cast mates refusing to...
Amazon Pauses Construction On DC-Area Headquarters
"The project impacted encompasses three 22-story office towers and 'The Helix,' a dystopian 'corporate conference center' and excellent place to die. So far, developers...
The Costs, And Contradictions, Of Ballet
"We smile while bearing the full weight of our body en pointe for hours. 'Blood builds character, one of my teachers said. ... Yet...
Creating A Score For The Third Try At A German WWI Movie
Volker Bertelmann: "When I saw the film the first time, I was thinking I need an instrument from that time. And then my studio...
Aging In Hollywood Isn’t Easy
And in some ways, says actor Mimi Rogers, it's even harder on writers than on actors. "Biases and double standards are still firmly in...
Institutions Like Museums Have A Hard Time Changing Their Historically Racist Ways
And that's not an accident, says former Montreal Museum of Fine Arts curator eunice bélidor: "I realized they didn’t care about what I was...
The Argument For A Four-Day Workweek Gains Traction
A massive new study shows that, at least for white-collar companies including advertising agencies and consulting firms, it's a good deal for employees and...
Pierre Apraxine, Who Transformed The Met’s Photography Collection, 88
"Born into exiled Russian nobility and numbering among his forebears an admiral who served under Peter the Great, Mr. Apraxine had trained in classical...
Canadian Police Make Arrests In Years-Long, Massive Forgery Investigation
The wide-reaching fraud included three separate groups that traded fake Norval Morrisseau paintings back and forth and created fake certificates of authenticity. More than...
Everything You Want To Know About The Oscars, If You’re Not Tired Of This...
For instance: "The likely wipeout for Steven Spielberg’s drama about his parents’ divorce would indicate the Oscars are no longer in thrall to big...
At The Indie Spirit Awards, Everything Everywhere All At Once Continues Its Historic Run
The sci-fi domestic challenges immigrant multiverse comedy-drama (yes, all of that) "led all films this year with eight nominations and a won a total...
Chatbots Are The Final Vindication Of Ask Jeeves
"In a sense, Bing and Bard are finishing what Ask Jeeves started. What people want when they ask a question is for an all-knowing,...
Barnes And Noble Has Revved Into Expansion Mode
It's even taking over abandoned Amazon bookshops. - NPR
Film And Digital Video Desperately Need Preservation Focus, Skills, Funding
"To indefinitely continue access to the ever-expanding glut of content – not just an invaluable artistic heritage, but a crucial account of how the...
