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Oscars Voters Are Now Supposed To Actually Watch The Movies They Vote On
Wild requirement, hunh? "It's not a sea change, but it's something.” - NPR
Andrea Nevins, Whose Documentaries Covered Everything From Punk Dads To Barbie, Has Died At...
“Her most recent film, The Cowboy and the Queen (2023), examined the unlikely friendship that blossomed between a Texas cowboy and Queen Elizabeth II after she...
A Century Ago, This Magazine Was Crushed By U.S. Government Censorship
Might it be time to reread The Masses? "2025 isn’t the first time our neighbors have delighted in violence against a minority, it’s not...
Should We Be Freaking Out So Much About Hollywood’s Potential Death Spiral?
Maybe! “What happens to a region when the thing you’re best known for four out of five times is done somewhere else?” - The...
What Women Like About Acting In Almodovar’s Films
Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In): “Pedro speaks about the characters as if they were people he has already lived with for years,...
How ‘Free’ Is The Press In The United States?
Turns out, for those who live in the country, their opinion about this question depends almost fully on their political party identification. (But there...
Hollywood Asks For Government Help
“The lobbying effort has led to unusual alliances, particularly in the wake of the strikes, with both studios and Hollywood unions rallying on the...
Minnesota’s Hmong Community Uses Textiles To Tell All Of The Backstory
But the tale is bigger than tapestries, or story cloths: "In the Twin Cities, Hmong culture isn’t just present in the tapestries. It’s everywhere,...
Amazon Claims It Unintentionally Set A Massive Sale On Indie Bookstore Day
Zero humans believe that claim, of course. One bookstore owner: “I just rolled my eyes and thought, Of course they did. We can’t even have one...
Benin Wanted Its Bronzes Back From Boston’s Museum Of Fine Arts. Instead, The Collector...
The MFA’s director, Matthew Teitelbaum: "This was not the outcome anyone wanted.” - The New York Times
We’re All Living In ‘The Studio’ Now
“Barbie was self-aware and auteur-driven, and demonstrated that there was a way to slightly elevate miserable brand properties. So now we live in a...
Folk Music Of The 19th Century Is Being Pressed Into Service For Oppressed Folk...
“Everything feels so precarious, … and suddenly there’s these songs that put you in dialogue with people going back over hundreds of years. That’s...
In Canada, First Nations Peoples Asked A Judge Not To Let Hudson Bay Company...
But the judge seems OK with it, with a caveat. “Osborne ordered Hudson's Bay to provide him and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs with...
How Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre Became A Launching Pad For New Musicals
“Something that always has to be true is: Will this story make the world a better place in some way? It’s a big question—but why tell...
Bunheads Walked So The New Series Etoile Could Leap
Or at least, that’s what creator Amy Sherman-Palladino (the force behind The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) wants to see. “Ballet isn’t something for someone else....
What You Learned About Jane Austen Was Completely Incomplete
No, she wasn’t “the first great woman novelist.” There were so many great ones before her - but somehow they’re missing in our general...
Will Ryan Coogler’s Movie ‘Sinners’ End The Studio System?
“Directors owning their own movies is the opposite of business as usual — and to studios, cause for freaking out. According to senior executives...
Are Blockbusters A ‘Fascist’ Turn For Hollywood?
This author thinks so: “When you stop making middle-class movies — movies with a moderate budget, as opposed to ones made on a shoestring...
The Book That Transformed How We See Ballet
Alexey Brodovitch’s Ballet gets an 80th anniversary reprint. He "intended to foreground shape, blur, contrast, gesture and motion — the atmosphere of dance —...
British Authors Protest Zuckerberg’s Taking Of Their Books For Generative AI
"Earlier this month, a group of protesters gathered outside the London headquarters of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. They were demonstrating over...
Van Gogh’s Final Painting Is Causing Trouble In This Idyllic French Village
“The continued fight over Van Gogh’s tree roots has cast a pall over what is usually a celebratory season in Auvers, population 7,000, where...
Why New York’s Parking Lots Are Stuffed To The Brim And Beyond
It’s the food trucks. Their owners or renters are gone, or in hiding, never opening their doors. In this version of the Big Apple,...
The Naval Academy Was Supposed To Host A Lecture On Idea Censorship And Reading...
Then the Academy, apparently not fearless, censored the lecture. "I did not want to cause them trouble. I did, however, feel it was essential...
The US Knew It Needed Public Housing, But The People Building It Often Didn’t...
Despite the decades of neglect, when a new “Chicago museum’s leadership was pursuing oral histories of public housing, they found other narratives as well...
Buying A Book, Novelist Kiley Reid Says, Isn’t Going To Fix Racism
“Theme always comes last. I never say, I want to write about capitalism or women. What gets me into writing is always this tiny...
