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Disney’s Not Alone In Dealing With Employee Revolt
As recent Netflix and Spotify (and now Disney) employee backlash shows, "Higher-ups are increasingly contending with a socially conscious and internet savvy generation of...
Pixar Employees Say Disney Censors The Studio’s LGBTQ Stories
A group of LGTBQIA Pixar employees and allies released a statement holding the corporation accountable. "Even as employees have attempted to make inclusion a...
At The Kennedy Center, Mapping The Future Of Classical Music
The idea: "The Cartography Project, a multiyear initiative, will generate new works from dozens of composers and artists of color, each representing American communities...
Encanto Is Kinda Colombian, Mas O Menos
Colombia's culture minister: “What, for me, would be the greatest win or success for Encanto — aside from the three award nominations in the Oscars —...
Is Beloved Literary Journal Conjunctions Going To Survive?
Public pressure and a backlash might be convincing Bard College to pony back up: "The ever vibe-conscious Bard is now trying to figure out...
How To Form A Band Inside A Pixar Movie
"The stakes of the movie, the goal of the movie, is not to save the world. It’s not to save the princess. It’s to...
Artists Band Together To Bring The ERA Back Into The Spotlight
The Equal Rights Amendment, again? Yep. A new campaign "brings together a who’s who of creatives. ... The ultimate hope? To use the power...
The Director Of Kyiv’s Art Museum Takes Steps To Preserve Art And Artifacts
Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta is the director of the Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex in Kyiv. "It doesn't feel very safe, as you...
New State Education Laws May Mean Movies Like Selma Can’t Be Shown In Classrooms
Of course, one might imagine that's the point of those "anti-critical race theory" laws. And "even when teachers decide to use clips, they must...
A Man Forced His Way Into MoMA And Stabbed Two Employees
The suspect had had his membership revoked because of recent unruly incidents. He jumped over the counter and stabbed the employees, who at press...
This Artist Lost A Decade Of Work To Fire Just Before The Pandemic Caused...
But the artist says the aftermath has made him calmer, and more focused on different goals. "I’ve been attempting to make paintings which speak...
More Expensive Tickets For ‘The Batman’ May Mean More Expensive Tickets Forever
Sure, AMC raised prices over The Batman's opening weekend, but Regal and Cinemark had already started raising prices with another blockbuster - Spider-Man: No...
The Difference Between An Indie Bookstore And An Amazon Bookstore
A physical bookstore "requires superb customer service, dedicated staff who provide knowledgeable advice about what to read, an inviting environment in which to browse...
Conductor Of Bolshoi Quits Rather Than ‘Clarify’ Stance On Putin
"A prominent Russian conductor said on Sunday that he would resign from his positions with two orchestras — at the storied Bolshoi Theater in...
Do These Rock Art Paintings Show Human Interactions With Ice Age Mammals?
Or are the painting actually not very old at all? "Where Dr. Iriarte’s team sees potential giant ground sloths and Pleistocene horses, Dr. Urbina...
Kennedy Center, Other Monuments Light Up In Colors Of Ukraine’s Flag
It's not simple: "Creating these immense light installations isn't a matter of changing some lightbulbs. The Kennedy Center Production Department used 48 sheets of...
Children’s Lives Are Dramatic, And This Author Knew It
Shirley Hughes, a beloved British author who died last week at 94, "created art, stories and poetry that took children’s feelings as seriously as...
Toronto Film Fest Suspends Russian Government-Backed Entries And Participants
But TIFF also "voiced its solidarity with 'the people of Ukraine and those within Russia who stand against these attacks,' noting films from independent...
The Mythmaking At The Heart Of The Western Genre
"Westerns aren’t about gunfights or stagecoaches. They’re about how an extreme landscape boils human storytelling down to the essentials. ... The Western is...
If You’re A Journalist, You Probably Don’t Want To Call Yourself A Storyteller
Republicans and Democrats alike lose faith in the (mostly broadcast) reporters who have the word "storyteller" in their bios, a study says. "Some negative...
How Belfast Sounded During Lockdown
One PhD student at Queens University recorded it all. "Like many cities throughout the UK, Belfast had previously been dominated by the sound of...
Michael Tilson Thomas On Music, And Death
"To speak to MTT about music is not so far removed from speaking frankly of life and death. His music — whether conducting or...
Jane Campion Is Displeased With The Academy For Removing The Design Awards
The director, whose The Power of the Dog has 12 nominations, says that's because "the designer is one of the very first people I...
What Happened When One (Very Big) Reality TV Show At Long Last Integrated Its...
"The messiness on ... points to a central crisis within the 'Real Housewives' universe: Can shows predicated on entitlement and endless pot-stirring evolve into...
The Feud Over A Removed Painting Entirely Closes A Museum In Israel
In short, one artist's work was removed for being "antisemitic," and then other artists covered their work in protest, the museum's chief curator resigned,...
