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The Artist Turning Junk Into A Queer Church
"At just 34, Yore’s art has become instantly recognisable in its spectacular, colourful vulgarity, taking on gender, sexuality, politics, religion, capitalism and advertising." -...
James Earl Jones Is Stepping Away From Darth Vader
The 91-year-old actor, who has played the voice of the terrifying villain for decades, apparently "signed over the rights to his archival voice work,...
What Book Bans Take From Kids
"Scary books give children the tools to deal with fear off the page. ... Banning books shuts that gateway to the good and the...
Lynn Nottage Is The Playwright Most Produced In The US This Year
And her play Clyde's, a sequel of sorts to Sweat, the most produced play. "On the Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights list, she is tied...
Newspaper Comics Pages May Be Nearing Their End
"Bizarro" creator Dan Piraro says, "'Seeing the dominoes begin to fall at such an accelerated pace is scary,' ... noting that he still depends...
The Board Members Of A Toronto Contemporary Arts Center Resign En Masse
Twenty-four board members of Toronto's Power Plant resigned together "in response to their parent organization Harbourfront’s alleged attempt to terminate and replace 12 members...
Documenta Is About To End, Perhaps Forever
"This Documenta, unlike any before it, was not about art, or ideas, but about the friends we made along the way — the friends...
Are We Doomed To Repeat The Mistakes Of Futurism?
"Technological changes may seem inevitable, but they often come down to one person making an arbitrary choice. If Henry Ford had decided to build electric cars...
MoviePass Somehow Still Has Diehard Fans
Sure, the service mostly died in 2019 - but it's being revived now, and a lot of hardcore users still have their MoviePass cards....
Cursive Is A Foreign Language To Gen Z
How will future historians read primary sources if they don't even know what the sources say? - The Atlantic
MoMA’s Photo Curator Returns To France
Clément Chéroux arrived just two years ago, and during his time MoMA "was closed for the coronavirus pandemic and its programming was disrupted." He's...
Why Cameron Mackintosh Is Willing To Let ‘Phantom’ Go, At Very Long Last
"As a veteran of long-running shows, I’ve found there comes a point with the greatest show where the only thing you can do is...
The Grit Under The Glamour At Hollywood’s St. Francis Hotel
In 1975, Penny Wolin took photos of everything at the St. Francis residential hotel, "from an American man in his 70s and his new...
This Postal Clerk By Day Was A Masterful Music Producer At Night
Richie Weeks - aka the Love Magician - lived his working life sorting the mail, but his other working life producing and creating music...
Another Judge Refuses To Let ‘Rust’ Script Supervisor Lawsuit Continue
The judge "decided two of three claims that Mitchell filed against the producers — assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress — could...
Azerbaijan Has Destroyed A Massive Percentage Of Cultural Armenian Heritage Sites
"The new report by the Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) identified 108 medieval and early modern Armenian monasteries, churches, and cemeteries in Nakhichevan that were completely destroyed...
Russia’s Self-Mythologizing About Leningrad Leaves Out A Few Inconvenient Truths
So does every other country's belief in its war history, of course. "Versions told by autocrats and family men trample diary entries and letters....
The Woman King, A War Movie Starring Viola Davis, Surprises Analysts With Its Success
Apparently, some people can't predict when a Black woman-led (and directed) action film might truly perform at the theatre. But "The Woman King received rapturous...
How ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Got A Life
As the musical closes, the production team says they're proud of the work that the musical has done to bring teen mental health forward...
Sacheen Littlefeather Gets An Apology From The Academy
"The Native American activist, who endured decades of harassment after declining Marlon Brando's best actor prize at the 1973 Oscars ceremony, received a formal...
The Motion Picture Academy Thinks New Producers Can Solve The Oscars Viewership Issues
"The academy is looking for more experienced TV veterans to steer the Oscars, which has been dogged by declining ratings for years, and hopes...
Palm Trees Ignite At The Hollywood Bowl After A Sound Of Music Sing-Along
The fire "was first reported shortly after 11 p.m. involving 10 trees at the location of Highland Avenue and the Hollywood Freeway, near...
Emojis Make Communication Easier And Faster, Survey Says
Shocker: Ninety-one percent of emoji users "like to employ them to 'lighten the mood of a conversation.' ... The presence of a little smiley...
What ‘Atlanta’ Gave To The Cultural Landscape
"Agile in its strangeness from the beginning, Atlanta never lacked for awe. It reveled in it. What gave the series its juice was its willingness to...
Korea’s Arts, Media, Music And Fashion Popularity Keep Growing
It's a soft power wave. "My resigned teenage self could never have imagined that one day, my non-Korean friends would be recapping the latest...
