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Norway Had Its Own John Singer Sargent
“Asta Norregaard was a sought-after portrait painter among the rich and famous in Norway at the turn of the 20th century, but when she...
Did The Pitt Put Forward Enough Of Its Actors For Emmys?
“Particularly curious is Irene Choi, who isn’t on the ballot for her performance as med student Joy Kwon, even though her character was essentially on...
The Fierce Dance That’s An Ode To Sinead O’Connor
“O’Connor was 56 when she died and still making music – she had almost completed a new album. To be a middle-aged woman in...
What Should Ghosts Look Like In Children’s Books?
“What children know of ghosts, and at what age they know it, is murky territory. … And if you show even a very young...
All Of The Music That’s Been Fed Into ‘Generative’ (Read: Theft-Based) AI
“Companies often claim to use only content that is freely available online, but the datasets reveal the quantity of downloadable music that developers can...
The Movie ‘Obsession’ Is Raking In The Money, But Who’s Seeing The Profits?
“The art director of Obsession disclosed her paycheck for about three weeks of work: $6,741.36, after taxes.” The movie has now made $300 million...
About Cannes, A Lot Of Alcohol, And Getting Sober
“The first film I was able to get into after that meeting was an anniversary screening of The Shining (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1980). I’d seen the...
When Your First Book Sells Like Hotcakes And Gets A TV Adaptation, Writing The...
“Queenie is not polished, nor noble or aspirational. She makes bad choices repeatedly, has terrible sex, and sends regrettable messages. She is self-sabotaging and...
Living ‘FridaMania’ In Kahlo’s Hometown
“Frida died – but she didn’t pass away. She was like a rocket. She just went up and up.” - The Guardian (UK)
Why The Art Workers Coalition Still Resonates Across The Art World
“Among their demands were a section of the museum dedicated to Black (and, in a later, amended statement, Puerto Rican) artists, an artist committee...
Juneteenth Is A Big Deal In Parts Of Mexico
Why? It all goes back to enslaved people escaping their captors across the South, and fleeing to Spanish-controlled Florida. - NBC News
Why Are We So Obsessed With Aliens?
“You can keep it pretty simple. There are the alien movies where the aliens come in peace and the alien movies where the aliens...
The 91-Year-Old Venezuelan Artist Says No To Weaving With Electronic Machines
“Mora, who is 91 and tiny, wearing head scarves around her weathered face, has clung to a mix of ancestral Indigenous and Spanish traditions.”...
Where Did This Family’s Looted Artworks Go?
“Despite evidence that Neumann did appropriate the Zoellners’ furniture and paintings, he was not convicted; in 1947 he was deported from the Netherlands as...
As The Knicks Win, All Of New York City Becomes A Dance Stage
“Of all the joy blooming throughout the Knicks championship run, the most visible has been the jubilant transfer of energy from body to body.”...
Even In The UK, Music Festival Central, Costs Are Causing Collapse
Womad in Glasgow “is the 20th casualty so far this year as small and independent festival operators enter another tough summer facing myriad challenges,...
If People Aren’t Reading, Why Are Bookstores Thriving?
“The bookstore boom is a story about a certain educated, culturally aspirational demographic doing what it has always done, while the literacy crisis unfolds...
Jane Yolen, Award-Winning Author Of Some 450 Books, Has Died At 87
"Yolen never encountered a genre she didn’t like; among her early books was a history of kites. Yet running through almost all her writing...
A Spielberg Alien Movie Is Simply Irresistible In The Summer
According to analysts, it’s “an encouraging sign for what could be a big summer for theaters.” - Los Angeles Times
What Nineteenth Century American Art Star Frederic Church Is Trying To Tell Us
“The American art world that Church entered in the 1840s was more an aspiration than an entity. Great painting, everybody knew, was Europe’s bailiwick. American...
Ruth Ozeki Knows The Power Of A Good Book
And that good book is Charlotte’s Web. - The Guardian (UK)
If You Want To Read More Books This Summer, Here’s How To Do It
“I have this daydream where I go to the park and read under a tree. The sun is shining. It's not too hot. The...
When Next You Go To Donate Blood, The Chicago Symphony May Be Playing The...
There’s a new way to distract oneself while donating blood - to play immersive virtual reality games. And the games's soundtracks? “Abbott commissioned...
How David Hockney Celebrated, Sometimes Mischeviously, Gay Life
“What’s so revolutionary about Hockney’s paintings is not just that they portray male nudity and desire, but scenes of domesticity: men swimming, showering and...
Dito Van Reigersberg, Philly’s Beloved Theatre Founder And Performer, Has Died At 53
“Antic yet elegant, Mr. van Reigersberg was closely associated with two important strands of 21st-century performance: devised physical theater — in which an ensemble...
