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Keeping Artists Out Of The Mother-Shaped Hole That Swallows Creativity
The problem?"If you aren’t in a lactation closet, you’re at home." - LitHub
Frontrunners In The Race For The Academy Awards
It's Cate Blanchett, no doubt. Then things get a bit complicated. - Washington Post
Turning Paris’s Trash Into Visual Poetry
Itinerant artist and poet Ser Serpas says that "Parisian trash is sturdy." The 27-year-old, "like, many of her peers, she favors objects that bear...
More Star Actors Bow Out Of Awards Ceremonies After Getting COVID
The list of those testing positive and missing Sunday's Critics Choice Awards, a few days after the Golden Globes, included nominees Colin Farrell and...
Michelle Yeoh Says She Hopes She’s Helped Smash Barriers For Asian Actors
The star of Everything Everywhere All at Once says, "But the only way we can keep this going is by getting the right storytellers,...
The Best Words For Our Times May Be Ones That Come From Our Distant...
For instance: You might be feeling like a crambazzle thanks to winter - so it might be time to get some snerdles in your...
The Conductor Who Trained Cate Blanchett
Natalie Murray Beale says, "We looked a lot at the physical aspects, ensuring she would not be too reverent of the conductor’s podium, because...
Getting A Movie Produced During A Pandemic Hasn’t Been Exactly Easy
Six producers of potential Oscar contenders explain why they did it anyway. Says the producer of Banshees of Inisherin, "Your aim is to be...
AI-Based Plagiarism Is Easy To Spot, And Right Now, Impossible To Stop
Bad news for writers and artists: As AI improves, the plagiarism will become less apparent. "There’s no quick technological fix to these issues. As...
Novelist And Playwright Cai Emmons, Who Maintained A Blog On Dying, 71
Emmons - her obit is in today's Boston Globe - "was furiously busy in the months leading up to her death," including publishing two...
American Dance Institute Decides To Sell Lumberyard Performing Arts Center
Blame the loss of the Catskills incubator for city dancers on, what else, the pandemic - and donor priorities. - The New York Times
Writing Kills Memory, And So Does Google
But, alert, the trade-offs may be worth it. - The Atlantic
How Los Angeles Arts Organizations Are Dealing With The Storms And Flooding
Cancellations due to flooded theatres, reschedulings, and an art project that was about rain but needed a dry site for the actual installation. Feels...
When Actors Become Directors
Marlee Matlin, Billy Porter, and Michael Chiklis discovered the other side of the camera with TV episodes in a new series. Chiklis: "One of...
The Norwegians Who Find Bronze Age Carvings In The Snow And Dark
"Since making petroglyph hunting their collective hobby, in 2016, the three enthusiasts have transformed knowledge about prehistoric art in Norway, more than doubling the...
Hanif Kureishi’s Vivid Dispatches From His Hospital Bed
The writer "is narrating his ongoing drama but also conjuring past memories, musing about writing and art and describing the terrifying, sometimes transcendent profundity...
Yet More Cutbacks And Restructuring At The Oregon Shakespeare Festival
This summer's season will have six shows, down from 11 pre-pandemic and eight in 2022. AD Nataki Garrett: "Our numbers have come in between...
Is This The Year That Film Directors Revolt?
Or at least that film directors go on strike? - Los Angeles Times
The Dangerous Decline Of The Profession Of History
"Without professional historians, history education will be left more and more in the hands of social media influencers, partisan hacks and others unconcerned with...
How Michael Tilson Thomas Carries On
The conductor survived brain cancer surgery and has been conducting at a furious clip - but he's also been "trying to dig out his...
Hugo Ball Prize Halted As Organizers Address The Artist’s Antisemitism
The prize, named for the influential German Dadaist, was awarded - but at the request of artist winner Hito Steyerl, and agreement of writing...
Publisher Withdraws Coloring Book Based On Popular Novel About Domestic Abuse
No, not even Colleen Hoover's popularity can win this one. "The coloring book, which was set to be published by Atria, was, according to...
Riverdance’s Michael Flatley Diagnosed With An Aggressive Cancer
The long-heralded "Lord of the Dance" (who retired in 2016) once had his feet insured for $30 million, at the height of the traditional...
The Wait For Prince Harry’s Memoir Stretches Into Years At Libraries
At Orange County, the wait is more than 55 weeks (or was when the article was written, as "more than 700 people are on...
Some Historical Fiction Is Only Kinda Based On A True-ish Story
And lawsuits are quick to follow. - The New York Times
