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Iranian Actress Arrested After Voicing Support For Protests
Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, posted messages on social media supporting the protests after Iranian authorities executed a 23-year-old prisoner. "'Your silence means supporting oppression and...
Music Inspired By The Fire At Notre Dame Cathedral Wins The Grawemeyer Award
British composer Julian Anderson was devastated by the fire. He "began channeling some of his despondence into 'Litanies,' a 25-minute meditation for cello and...
Sesame Street’s Beloved Bob McGrath Has Died At 91
"McGrath played the friendly neighbor Bob Johnson, serving as a Sesame Street mainstay across five decades and 47 seasons of broadcast television. His final...
What Were Ancient Romans Eating At The Colosseum?
Nuts, fruit, and ... pizza. - Hyperallergic
A Season-Long Goodbye Ends With Nutcracker
Sterling Hyltin has been the Sugar Plum Fairy since 2006, but this season will be her final one. "One reason she gives for stepping...
The Composer Of The Queen’s Funeral Music Began Keeping It Secret In 2011
Sir James MacMillan "had not even heard a rehearsal of the piece, which he had written in secret, and until the night before the...
Bernadette Mayer, Who Brought Magic To Stream-Of-Consciousness Poetry, 77
Mayer "rejected formalism for the avant-garde. She expanded the parameters of poetry by incorporating other elements into her work, including photography, collage, letters from friends,...
How A Great Woman Critic And Publicist Made A Male Architect Famous
When Aline Louchheim took on Eero Saarinen, she "leveraged power dynamics and skirted journalistic ethics to get what she wanted: ... to champion...
One Button, And We’d Be Living In The Correct Timeline Again
Well, with the "Oh, yeah?" button, we could have tried for a better internet, anyway. - Slate
What Ever Happened To Avatar, The Biggest Blockbuster In History?
"Though the first Avatar was the world’s top-grossing movie not once, but twice, reclaiming the title from Avengers: Endgame after a 2021 rerelease in...
Pantone Embraces Its Color Of The Year Marketing And The Art World
"Viva Magenta has taken the shape of a massive immersive exhibition during Art Basel—that’s 10,000 square feet and two floors dedicated to a single...
Nan Goldin On Taking On The Art Establishment’s Embrace Of The Sacklers
"For a long time, the Sackler name was a byword for almost unparalleled philanthropy and largesse towards the arts; it is now synonymous with...
What We All Lose When Students Don’t Learn To Read, Or Write, Cursive
Michel Martin's uncles in the military "wrote letters to each other promising to take care of their future families or their families, ... in...
Art Basel Miami Somehow Has No Spanish Anywhere
"Most of the fair workers I approached during my visit ... spoke Spanish, a jarring realization that makes me think the on-the-ground staff...
Let’s Talk About Queer Christmas Movies
Trendy? Flat characters (yes, even more so than the straight characters in the heterocentric holiday movies)? Or something that shows networks' long-awaited embrace of...
Deal To Return The ‘Elgin’ Marbles May Be Coming Soon
According to Greek news sources, "British Museum chair George Osborne, the former chancellor, has been holding secret talks with the Greek prime minister." -...
Julia Reichert, Fierce Filmmaker Who Won An Oscar For American Factory, Has Died At...
Reichert, a documentarian, said, "I always wanted to understand how people worked because I often thought I was like a Martian. I was intensely...
More Legal Drama Over Mockingbird’s New Version
First, the new version sued the old; now it's reversed. "At stake is not only who will profit, long-term, from stage versions of the...
Native American Languages Are In Deep Danger
No surprise, after decades of concerted campaigns to destroy the tribes and their languages. But there's a plan: "The Biden administration announced an effort...
Astra Magazine’s Short Life Shows The Precariousness Of Literary Journals
"Astra Magazine, Spiegelman said, was 'both unusual and exciting, a glamorous and subversive literary project, a breath of fresh air and hope.' And then...
The Long Friendship And Intertwined Careers Of Tilda Swinton And Joanna Hogg
Friends since they met as 10 and 11-year-olds at prep school in 1971, the actor and writer-director "have just in the last few years...
The Best Library Instagram In The United States And Perhaps The World
Who knew this was a contest? And yet, the Milwaukee Public Library is clearly winning. - LitHub
Kanye West’s Massive Reddit Page Turns Into A Holocaust Awareness Campaign
There's also a fair amount of Taylor Swift fandom, but "these posts from fans essentially serve as a denouncement of West’s praise of Hitler...
Aline Kominsky-Crumb, ‘Ranuchy’ And Feminist Underground Comics Artist, Has Died At 74
Kominsky-Crumb "was known for work that was not only autobiographical but often bracingly sexual — focusing on her insecurities — and explicit." - Los...
Can The Academy Forgive Will Smith, At Least As An Actor?
Doesn't seem super likely. But: "If there’s a Best Actor race worth trying to sneak into, it’s this one, and Smith has been careful...
