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A New Age Of Iranian Cinema, On Display At The Oscars
“In a collective act of civil disobedience and inspired by the 2022 women-led uprising in Iran and many women’s continued defiance of restrictive social laws, Iranian...
A Contrarian Take On Demi Moore’s Projected Oscar Win For The Substance
“The Substance is a mess, full of sound and fury, signifying little, with Moore given scant else to do besides ‘react with horror to...
In Fire-Ravaged Los Angeles, Musicians Help Musicians
Brandon Jay "said he drew inspiration from buy-nothing groups that encourage participants to give and receive items within a community rather than buy them....
The World’s First Sewing Machine Orchestra Hit Germany This Weekend
The project was "an anarchic happening somewhere between a pop concert, a community sewing party and experimental theatre,” partly in reaction to Germany’s far-right...
Yes, People Have Been Searching For ‘That Actor In That One Film’ Even Before...
Praise or blame Col Needham, “he is in many ways one of the last remaining relics of the promise of the internet, of a...
But Wait A Second, Anora – Conclave Takes The SAGs
Oscars voting is finished, but who is one of the bigger voting blocs for the Oscars? That’s right … the actors. So Demi Moore’s...
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Famous Person
That is to say, a lot of celebrity memoirs are publishing in the first half of this year. - NPR
Bong Joon Ho On Trying To Follow Up An Oscar Winner
The director at first claims his Oscar wins changed nothing, but then he says that "the Oscars probably did help raise budget and...
Suggestive Artwork Of Priests And Nuns Draw Controversy In Mexico City
A complaint signed by thousands of people has been filed, but artist Fabián Cháirez says, “I think there are other issues we should be...
To Reimagine Democracy, We’re Going To Need The Humanities
“Democracy cannot get underway without the kind of imaginative experiment that literature provides, a perspective provided by the rearrangement of temporal and spatial coordinates...
The Benin Bronzes Are Returning To Nigeria
The pieces were stolen from Nigeria's Kingdom of Benin by British soldiers in 1897. The British went on to sell their spoils, and the...
Actor Peter Capaldi Is Returning To One Of His First Loves
That is to say, music. Says the Doctor Who star's label manager, “People seem to recognise the voice, but they can't place the singer....
Artists Continue To Try To Figure Out How To Thread The Kennedy Center Needle
One rock band frontman: “I feel bad for the people who have worked there for many years and the people who booked us. I...
At The Indie Spirit Awards, Anora Wins Big
Best Director winner Sean Baker "spoke passionately about the difficulty of making independent films in an industry that is no longer able to fund...
How Far Will Britain’s National Goverment Go To Help A Film Studio?
Turns out, pretty far. This is for the economy, the government claims - though "the proposed film studio is not crucial infrastructure or...
AI Generated ‘History’ Videos Are Going Viral On TikTok
But - unsurprisingly! - the accuracy leaves a lot to be desired. For instance, a Pompeii “reconstruction” ignores the actual eyewitness account of Pliny...
What It’s Like To Be A Rising Ballet Dancer In Houston
New principal Angelo Greco, who came from San Francisco: "People are approachable here. We stay in the theater all day long, so once I’m done,...
Spotify Is Expanding Its Audiobook Offerings In New Countries
“We should see Spotify rapidly expand its market presence not just in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, but...
The Berlin Film Festival Awards Its Top Prize To A Norwegian Teenage Sex Drama
The director, Dag Johan Haugerud, “said the film was about the act of ‘writing and reading.’ He added that people should ‘write more and...
A German High Court Has Ruled That Birkenstocks Are Not Art
German hikers - and much of Eugene, Oregon, for that matter - are a little upset. - CBC
The Trump Administration’s Attempts To Control The Arts Come From A Horrifyingly Familiar Playbook
In Brazil, for instance, “museum director Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt hid artworks and advised artists on how to leave the country after officials from...
These Objects Look Like Books, But Don’t Expect To Read Them
“A benign quirk of humanity is that we are delighted by things designed to look like other things.” - The New York Times
Behind The Scenes With Oscars Strategists
“When I called one to ask how the season had gone, she responded with seven uninterrupted seconds of laughter. Thankfully, this week was the...
The Moral Crisis In Arts Funding
“This is a grim cautionary tale about complying with authoritarianism in advance, and it's not going to be pretty, but at the end I'll...
Artists Who Have Represented Australia At The Venice Biennale Call For Ousted Artist, Curator...
In the open letter to Creative Australia, the artists write, “To strip the chosen artistic team of this opportunity is unacceptable. Indeed it signals...
