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What Cultural Appropriation Really Means
What people think it means: "A member of the dominant culture — an insider — taking from a culture that has historically been and is...
Hollywood, That Bastion Of Conservative Attack Ads
In 1934, Upton Sinclair shocked Californians by winning the Democratic primary for governor. Hollywood couldn't - and wouldn't - have it. - Los Angeles...
After Years Of Protests, The Victoria And Albert Museum Finally Drops The Sackler Name
"This weekend the signs that directed V&A visitors to the Sackler Centre for Arts Education, and to the £2m tiled 'Sackler Courtyard' on Exhibition...
Clapping Back At The No-Clappers
What's up with the no clapping between movements - and, in 2022, is it time to make a compromise between the rowdy 18th century...
Louise Fletcher, Who Won An Oscar For One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Has...
"The Ratched character had been softened in the script compared to Kesey’s original, and Fletcher gave a rather subtle performance, often conveying the character’s...
Alan Rickman’s Secret Diaries
The actor, who died in 2016, kept impeccable diaries with sketches and accountings. About the first Harry Potter: "The film should only be seen...
Who Gets To Make What Films?
A white woman making a film about four men who were in Saudi Arabia, undergoing deradicalization? Sundance has dumped it, but one Muslim American...
At The Rijksmuseum, Insects Now Rule
"An Open Letter for Invertebrate Rights, penned by Saraceno and placed next to one of the webs that has appeared in the museum over recent...
Nancy Hiller, Who Broke The Glass Ceiling In Woodworking, Has Died At 63
Hiller opened her own studio in 1995, becoming as force as a woodworker - and as a writer of both popular and scholarly articles...
On The Set Of ‘The Bear,’ The Chefs Are Truly The Bosses
Two chefs supervise the food. "The culinary producers devised on-camera dishes for the FX on Hulu series and also served as inspiration and sounding...
Streaming May Be Killing Bollywood
But not for the usual reasons. "As growing audiences began to avidly consume Tamil (Kollywood), Telugu (Tollywood), Malayalam, Kannad (Sandalwood) and Marathi-language cinema in...
The Metaverse Looks Cool, But It Puts Everyone’s Privacy At Risk
How? Big data. "Headset devices are able to record things like a person’s movements, facial attributes, blinking, surroundings, and their activities when they’re in...
Trombones Take Over The Gaming World
Well, the game Trombone Champ, that is. Viral videos of players are driving "a lot of tooting, to songs like the national anthem and...
Novelist Zadie Smith Talks About Discovering Black England
"By 1999 I’d gone through 15 years of formal education, including a three-year English degree, without ever being given a book to study that...
So What If Stalin Hated This Opera?
Stalin called Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensh "muddle instead of music, an ugly flood of confusing sound, ... a pandemonium of creaking, shrieking and...
Marvel Is Never Going To Get The Fantastic Four Right On Screen
The proof is in Alex Ross, artist who paints for the comics. Disney "has not totally eaten Marvel Comics yet, probably because, even if...
This Jazz Saxophonist Was Told Black People Like Him Shouldn’t Go To University
Courtney Pine became a success despite that music teacher. Even his dreams are in sync with his career: "I usually dream about music, about...
No Surprise To Harry Styles Fans, But Gen Z Drove The Box Office Last...
Well yeah: "Women made up 66 percent of the audience, according to Warner Bros., the studio behind the $35 million film, with an unusually...
The Runners And Cyclists Using GPS Mapping To Create Art On City Streets
Why not use the surveillance capabilities of satellites for good instead of evil, right? "Instead of biking on a straight path or in circles...
A Film From Colombia Wins The San Sebastian Film Fest
The film, Los Reyes del Mundo (The Kings of the World in English), "follows five young men from Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city, trying to...
Constance Wu Reveals Sexual Harassment From A Fresh Off The Boat Producer
The unnamed producer controlled what she wore and how she handled business matters. "One evening, she writes, after she and the man attended a...
Art Made By AIs Is Powered By Everything From Execution Videos To Non-Consensual Porn
"With AI it’s all garbage in, garbage out. So who controls this data and is there anything we can do about it?" - Vice
Yes, Controversy Sells Movie Tickets
Did all of the rumors, speculation, reports of on-set arguments, and reports of affairs fuel sales for Don't Worry, Darling? You bet: "It’s been...
A Canadian Went To Maine For A Bargain, And Returned With A 700-Year-Old Music...
"Academics confirmed the parchment was from The Beauvais Missal, used in the Beauvais Cathedral in France, and dated to the late 13th century. It...
Joffrey Ballet School Brings Dance Therapy To Uvalde, Texas
Saturday was the four-month anniversary of the school massacre that killed 19 kids and two teachers. At the library where the Joffrey dancers were...
