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Rewatching Frances Ha, Ten Years On
Picture Frances "as she whips out her phone and bursts, 'I just got a tax rebate! Want to go to dinner?' (I did not...
The Return Of Kate Bush
How did Running Up That Hill finally hit number one on the pop charts? Well ... Stranger Things, actually. - The Wrap
What It’s Like Creating An Opera About A Collapsing World, During A Pandemic
Composer Tom Coult: "There’s a lot in Violet about just how quickly society can break down. It was very odd to see that happening...
The Architect Making Slag Livable
Landscape architect Julie Bargmann's work "to revitalize toxic sites and reconnect them to their communities has earned her the nicknames 'Toxic Avenger' and 'Queen...
The Generations Recovering, And Playing, Music The Nazis Suppressed
James Conlon wants to pass the torch to a new generation so he doesn't hear, "'I never heard of this person. How good could...
Silence Is Really, Really Good For Your Brain
But, of course, how to get it in an always-connected world? - Salon
IKEA Is Doing What To Billy Bookcase?
It's one of the most popular piece of furniture in the world. And it's getting a redesign. (For safety, and the planet.) - Fast...
Samella Lewis, Central To The World Of Black Artists, Has Died At 99
There's no way to sum up her influence, but: "Lewis was an artist, an activist, a historian, an author, a curator, a professor, a...
The Ridiculous Challenges Of Trying To Visit Literary Sites In A Very Inaccessible City
London absolutely sucks for wheelchairs and the people using them. "Somewhere, the ghost of Virginia Woolf was smiling knowingly, or maybe rolling her eyes....
Mere Months After The Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures Opened, The Staff Say It’s...
"The Cultural Workers United (CWU) movement, as AFSCME has dubbed their campaign, has taken hold at museums like MOCA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum...
Hitting The Right Notes In History Musicals
If history musicals don't succeed this season, it won't be for sheer effort, or numbers. The doubt is always there: Hamilton made it, but...
Let’s Talk About Ray Liotta’s Breakout Performances
The actor died suddenly at 67 last week, and many people are remembering him for Goodfellas. But the true breakout was Something Wild, wherein...
Conde Nast Is No Longer A Magazine Company, Says Its CEO
The CEO who has made Condé Nast profitable again: "We have about 70 million people who read our magazines, but we have 300 something...
A Movie About Class Warfare Wins The Palme D’Or
The winner was Triangle of Sadness, a Swedish comedy (because class war is hilarious) by Ruben Ostlund, who also won in 2017 for the...
The FBI Investigates Some So-Called Basquiat Paintings
The FBI's Art Crime Team is really quite interested "the authenticity of 25 paintings that the Orlando Museum of Art says were created by...
What Can Fiction Do In The Face Of Climate Change?
Jeff VanderMeer investigates Ursula Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness, and our devastating realities. "Just as the inhabitants of Winter have dozens of words...
Dear American Publishers: Stop Pretending All Books Are Written In English
Translators "advocate for untranslated authors, bringing them to the attention of agents and editors. They act as de facto ambassadors for their authors, helping...
How To Make A Traveling Art Show Locally Relevant
The best thing at the Portland Art Museum isn't the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera show that's been traveling the country since 2018. It's...
Are Summer Movies Back?
If so, despite massively climbing COVID-19 numbers, which one is going to dominate the summer? (Probably dinos, but what about the little French-ish shell?)...
The Standing Ovation At The Tonys Luncheon Was For A Waiter
"The whole room just lost it. ... To see her coming full circle, from a little girl watching him serve, and he had worked...
The Florida Orchestra Fights Back
A nonbinary composer gets their debut with a piece called "Ode to Liberty." Subtle? No (nor were Tchaikovsky or Beethoven in their day). "That...
What Does A Production Designer Exactly Do?
Good question. The boring answer - "A production designer works with the director and the producer (or showrunner) to build a story’s world." -...
The Damage Memes Can Do
Yeah, this is not great for domestic violence survivors. "We're seeing this proliferation of misinformation about a domestic violence trial. We're seeing people see...
Should Music Only Be A Pursuit For The Wealthy?
As a royalties group in Britain slashes its charitable giving arm by 60 percent, new young musicians say they'd never have kept playing without...
Dervla Murphy, Who Produced Reams Of Travel Writing Via Her Bicycle, Has Died At...
"For her 10th birthday, Dervla Murphy received a secondhand bicycle and an atlas. As she rode up a hill near her home that day in Lismore,...
