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A Poem About Suffering Was Not Wrong
A close reading of Auden's "Musée des Beaux-Arts" reveals a lot about Europe just before WWII - and, perhaps, about our own times. -...
Please Stop Calling The Artisan Oscars The ‘Tech’ Awards
And, as a matter of fact, if the Academy can't fully respect them, get them their own show. Yes, their own awards show -...
NBCUniversal Is Clawing Back Its Content From Hulu
Streaming is starting to sort itself out. "The nixing of the content deal comes as Comcast tries to grow its own streaming service, Peacock....
Writing A Novel Is Like Creating A Good Mixtape
This metaphor might not work for younger writers, but: "I was suddenly free of the 'logical order' I had thought was so important. ......
Watch What You Share
Time to pull up and reconsider that lightning-fast reshare impulse: Did the Kremlin make the image you're about to share? (In one prominent case...
Leonard Cohen’s Entire Catalogue Has Been Sold To Hipgnosis
The Hipgnosis Songs Fund long game continues. (As Pitchfork points out, "The firm has acquired several major publishing catalogs from legacy artists, including Fleetwood...
The Best Independent Music Platform Has Just Blown Up Its Independence
Bandcamp was the one streamer that every fan of music trusted to take care of its artists. When people started leaving Spotify over Joe...
Why Would A Fashion Giant Need To Steal Artists’ Ideas And Work?
An intellectual property lawyer explains: "The fundamental issue, I think, is that fashion companies are under pressure to produce large volumes of new and...
In Oscar Contender Drive My Car, The Actors Meet And Transcend The Limits Of...
The main character is "directing a multilingual production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya with a cast composed of actors who speak English, Chinese, Tagalog, Japanese, and...
Elena Ferrante In Conversation With Elizabeth Strout
Ferrante: "I don’t like artists who imagine themselves shamans, and I would prefer that we definitively stop making the alphabet sacred, that we complete...
Hollywood Is So Obsessed With Terrible Entrepreneurs Right Now
Why? Series like Inventing Anna and The Dropout "create a shared universe in which scamming and entrepreneurship meet in a chaotic portrait of American...
The Art Palace Of Lviv Has Turned Into Headquarters For Aid Arriving From Western...
"Aid HQ -- a palatial faux Art Nouveau exhibition and cultural centre -- runs like clockwork. Basement: medicines. Ground floor: food and a stand...
How Blondell Cummings Transformed Choreography
The legendary performer "called her style of dance 'moving pictures,' which drew from her love of theater, postmodern dance, performance art, television and video art and...
Brandon Sanderson Is Making *How* Much Money On Kickstarter?
In the most jaw-dropping Kickstarter ever, the fantasy author has taken in (at the time of posting) $24 million for a year of special...
The Brownstone In Brooklyn Where Sitting Bull’s Grandson Advised Rodgers And Hammerstein On Annie...
A real NY story: "The theater director Muriel Miguel grew up there, and lives there still. When she was a child, in the 1930s and...
The Historical Inaccuracies Of Netflix’s New Hot Viking Show
For one thing, "Valhalla definitely takes place in a universe where Game of Thrones exists." - Slate
Sackler Family Makes New Concessions In Settlement Talks
For museums in the U.S., a big new agreement is that institutions can remove the Sackler name with no penalty. - Artnet
How A Long Despair Led To Karen Joy Fowler’s New Book
After the 2016 election, Fowler couldn't see the point in writing her book about John Wilkes Booth and Lincoln. "I knew pockets of the...
Westerns Have Been Dealing With ‘Male Intimacy’ For A Very Long Time
Dear Sam Elliott: As a fan of Westerns, maybe you should check out Zachariah, which "shot back at the genre's fatalistic masculinity by celebrating...
How The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Retrofitted A 1930s Theatre For Sound
First of all, "the Warner Grand Theater building was originally designed for film screenings, not live performances, so the depth of the stage had...
China’s Formerly Intense Appetite For Anything Hollywood Has Disappeared
"In the last few years, as China’s diplomatic relations with the west – and in particular the US – plummeted, the preferences of Chinese...
The Crown’s Jewels (And Other Props) Were Stolen
"The props are collectively valued at roughly $200,000, and include a replica of a Fabergé egg, several sets of silver and gold candelabra, a...
Possible New Info In Gardner Museum Theft
At least, new info to the public. Investigators have been looking at links between the 1990 art heist and a 1991 execution-style murder for...
Sure, Music Can Heal – But Can It Heal Bones?
A new study says maybe it can. - Salon
Wait, What Film Just Won At The SAG Awards?
That's right: CODA. And though it was the biggest surprise, it wasn't the only one in an unpredictable evening. - CBC (AP)
