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Britain’s National Trust Encourages Slow Looking
The Trust “said it wanted to increase the average eight-second viewing time for an artwork, as a way of reducing stress and developing emotional...
How Is Everyone In Oslo So Darn Nice, Even While Having Sex?
At least, according to a director of movies about the sex lives of Norwegians. “It could be regarded as utopian,” he says. - The...
The Surprising Numbers About Playwriting Equity In The United States
“The new-play results nationwide and in New York are very close to parity after all, while the all-play results, which include all the Shakespeares...
Daniel Day Lewis Didn’t Actually Mean He’d Retire
Sure, he said that, but what he meant was that he "just stopped doing that particular type of work so could do some...
Why Are Video Games Taking Longer And Longer To Make?
“Success can be a blessing and a curse in video games. Critical acclaim can mean big sales, which help to fund your next work. But...
Why Readers Love Reading Books About Books
Or actually: “Books about books, or bookstores, or people who work in bookstores, or in publishing, or in libraries, or anything book-adjacent.” - LitHub
Nancy King, Who Was Called The Best Living Jazz Singer As She Shunned The...
“King’s improvisational skills were formidable, even by the standards of a music built on improvisation. ... She would rearrange songs on the fly, and...
When The Studio Cleans Up At The Emmys, Will You Be Watching?
OK, OK, that’s just a (widely shared) prediction, but in any case - here are the details for the big ceremony tonight. - The...
The Netherlands Joins Ireland In Threatening Eurovision Boycott If Israel Is Included
“Avrotros said it too could no longer justify Israel's inclusion ‘given the ongoing and severe human suffering in Gaza’ and the ‘serious erosion of...
Many Philly Arts Orgs Have Regained Their Pre-Pandemic Audiences, But Theatre Lags Behind
The only truly good news from the report: Performing arts was “the sector with more increased attendance over the past year than libraries, community,...
What Will Take Over For Movies Now That Hollywood’s Superhero Bubble Has Popped?
Video games, of course. In the parlance of our times, "studios see all of these as intellectual property worth mining.” - Los Angeles Times...
The War On Art By, And About, Trans People
“Government websites are stripping away references to trans people, history, and art. Book bans are targeting trans authors in conservative states, eradicating their work from curricula and...
Actors, Directors Sign Pledge Not To Work With Israeli Film Groups They Say Are...
The pledge “claims to draw inspiration from the cultural boycott that contributed to the end of apartheid in South Africa.” - The Guardian (UK)
A New Banksy Mural Appears On The Royal Courts Of Justice Just After 900...
“It depicts a judge in a traditional wig and black robe hitting a protester lying on the ground, with blood splattering their placard.” A...
Reassembling A Jewish Library Disassembled By Nazis In 1944
At the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest, Hungary, "about 20,000 books and many valuable manuscripts have been missing since the end of World War...
What Happens When Directors And Actors Go In Directions Their Audiences Never Expected?
Sometimes it’s nearly perfect, as with Scorsese’s adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. Sometimes, it’s a full-on career revival, or reversal (Liam...
In France, AI Money Is Going Directly To Journalists
Could that ever happen in the US? What about novelists? - Nieman Lab
Lizzy Bennet Is Almost Wild, And That’s Why We Love Her
“We don’t judge Elizabeth harshly for going against polite strictures, because she’s often revealing some hypocrisy or injustice. ... Lizzy generally punches up, directing...
Dance Is The Key To One Of The Fall Festival Circuit’s Hottest Films
Sirât director Oliver Laxe: “One of the first ideas that I had for this film was a sentence from Nietzsche: … 'I won’t believe...
A 27-Year-Old Just Won Britain’s Prestigious Painting Prize
Ally Fallon, a 27-year-old from Manchester, won the 2025 John Moores Painting Prize for If You Were Certain, What Would You Do Then? The...
With Billy Porter’s Sepsis Diagnosis, Cabaret Is Ending Its Broadway Run A Month Early
“The abrupt re-scheduled closing is a surprise finish for a staging that has been by all accounts a massive success in London's West End,...
Christoph von Dohnanyi, Longtime Director Of The Cleveland Orchestra, Dies At 95
“Dohnanyi’s adventurous programming, allied to ultra-refined and precise orchestral skills, compelled Time magazine to dub the Cleveland Orchestra ‘the best band in the land’...
Artists Are Using AI In Museums, And That Makes Its Own Meaning
“This feeling of being at the mercy of incomprehensible forces is an old one in art. For 19th-century painters of the sublime like J.M.W....
David Bowie’s Secret Final Project Was A Musical About 18th Century Britain
Who would not want to hear a rousing chorus about the 1778 Catholic Relief Act, written by Bowie? - BBC
Was The Venice Film Festival Jury Afraid Of Fallout, Or Did They Simply Pick...
Honestly: “Every jury decision is a copout. All juries are horse-trading and compromising and collectively accepting second-choice movies that no one objects to from...
