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After Francis Bacon’s Friend Has A Row With The Tate, He’s Sending The Priceless...
Barry Joule "said he is so frustrated by the Tate’s failure to exhibit an earlier donation of the artist’s work that he has cancelled plans to...
Meet The Stressed Out Gig Workers Getting Paid Badly To Make A Ton Of...
What a shock: NFT art is also made by low-paid young gig workers. That's so pandemic era. - Vice
A Story About The Banning Of The Book Persepolis Has Led To Another Graphic...
Chicago Public Schools quietly banned and removed the famous graphic novel in 2013. In 2023, a graphic novel will be published that "follows a...
When Disney Collides With Reality
The lash, backlash, and backlash to the backlash around Florida's repugnant "Don't Say Gay" bill is stressing the Mouse out. And "all of this...
Merle Oberon’s Big Secret
In racist Hollywood, Oberon kept her Sinhalese and Maori heritage quiet. "Oberon's mother Charlotte Selby, who had darker skin, followed her as her maid."...
Does Nostalgia Get In The Way Of Music Venue Innovation?
That innovation might not be what music lovers expect. "The picture for live music in Britain is beyond bleak, but it’s more complex than...
Broadway Decides To Drop Vaccine Checks, But Not Mask Mandates
The theatre owners "announced the decision as many governments and businesses nationwide have been loosening restrictions, but with cases rising in New York City...
The Razzies Withdraw One Of Their First-Ever Nominations, To Shelley Duvall
The Golden Raspberry Awards, while rescinding Bruce Willis's nominations after his aphasia was made public, also took back Shelley Duvall's award for The Shining...
Is There Any Way To Win The Fight Against Disinformation?
Yes, but it won't be top-down. "Factchecking outfits may do good work, but they are missing a crucial component: the power of the crowd....
Apparently, The Erotic Thriller Will Be Streamed
They're "movies you want to watch at home," according to Nicole Kidman - and they're hard to make without falling into sexist tropes, so...
Michelle Materre Was A Tireless Advocate For Black Indie Film
Materre, who has died at 67, distributed Daughters of the Dust in the 1990s, as part of her work as "a distributor and educator...
Lockdowns In China Are Killing Movie Theatre Returns, Again
The Chinese box office absolutely crumbled last week. "The current epicenter is Shanghai, where a megacity of 25 million people has been locked down...
National Gallery Renames Degas Painting
They're Ukranian Dancers, not Russian Dancers - and it's not just a stunt during the war. The director of London's Ukranian Institute said last...
Tony Bennett Became The Second-Oldest Winner In Grammy History, At 95
Bennett has 20 Grammys now, and "received his first Grammy nominations at the fifth Grammy Awards in 1963." - Los Angeles Times
It’s Not So Easy To Transform Into Julia Child
Just ask Meryl Streep. But it's probably even harder when you're British. "Before the release of the Meryl Streep–starring film Julie & Julia in 2009, Sarah...
An Illustrator’s Attention To Detail Leads To The Discovery Of A New Species
That discovery came nearly 150 years after Marianne North drew the plant, in Borneo. She was a different kind of illustrator - she used...
Has The Internet Ruined April Fool’s Day?
Or, more likely, has April Fool's Day ruined the internet? "People, us included, get so easily hoodwinked, and ... this has led us to...
Charlotte Bronte’s Tiny Book Of Poems, Long Lost, Has Now Been Found
She created tiny books, as did her sisters, when she was a young teen, to amuse her family and to help create her imaginary...
Who Better To Tell A Story Than A Liar?
"Elena Ferrante's work argues that people lie for a deceptively simple reason: It’s an act of creation, not unlike writing." - The Atlantic
Macbeth Pauses On Broadway After Daniel Craig Tests Positive For COVID
First, it canceled a full day of shows. "Then, late Saturday night, the production said that it was canceling all performances until April 8...
When British And American Actors Play Australian
Sometimes they get the accents right (Kate Winslet, on her second try), or sort of right (Kate Winslet, on her first try). Sometimes, not...
The Grammys Had A Surprise Guest
Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, delivered a pre-recorded message: "Our musicians wear body armour instead of tuxedos. ... They sing to the wounded...
The Grammy Winners, All Of Them
Yes, cancel Will Smith's movies, but by all means, award a Grammy to Louis CK, media folks. Great job. (Here's a tweet that explains...
That Time A Hollywood Star Saved Broadway
To be fair, Al Jolson was a Broadway star long before he hit Hollywood. Still, when he returned to the stage, "consumers tossed money...
UCLA’s Hollywood Diversity Report Doesn’t Include Disability Or LGBTQ Representation
And activists, including the co-director of last year's documentary nominee Crip Camp, would very much like that to change. (The report focuses on representation...
