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Building Communities People Really Want
Talk less; play more. When people used their hands to build a model Los Angeles, they made "bioswales, pedestrian zones, unearthing creeks long covered...
The Museum Within A Museum, Bringing A Long-Held Dream To Reality In Brazil
The artist Abdas do Nascimiento dreamed of a museum for Black art in his country, but "after years in exile during a military dictatorship...
Regular Streaming Is Crowded, And Then There’s The Fight For Anime
On the good side, "you no longer have to shell out hundreds of dollars for a VHS set or rely on pirated versions of...
An Argument About The Loan Of A Congolese Statue Escalates With The Sale Of...
A Virginia museum has loaned the statue to Europe but won't loan it to a gallery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, so...
How Does A Film Studies Prof Teach Last Year’s Complex, Not Oscar-Nominated, Palme D’Or...
Titane is not easy to parse. "Julia Ducournau is willing to explore the strange, to show us our own bodies, soft and hard, that...
What ‘Slave Play’ Means To The Actors In The Play
Antoinette Crow-Legacy says the Jeremy O. Harris play "gives me freedom to be messy and complicated and blur the lines between right and wrong."...
To Find Out How Much Medieval Literature We Lost, We’re Turning To Wildlife
A wildlife tracking method, specifically: "Mike Kestemont, computational text researcher at the University of Antwerp, and his colleagues used the 'unseen species' model, which...
There’s A Boom In Horror Right Now, Especially By Women Directors
What's that about? "There’s a great artistic freedom in horror that’s perhaps not available in other genres. Obviously, in a drama, you can’t have...
The Uncanny Valley Has Turned Into The Trustworthy Town Square
It's a bit alarming. "Farid and Nightingale asked participants to look at a selection of them and sort them into real and fake. Participants...
Playwright Sanaz Toossi On Language, Representation, And The Comic Potential Of Bleeding Onto The...
Toossi wrote one her plays going up in New York in white-hot anger after the Trump Muslim travel ban. "If all that ever gets...
What A Tennessee Ban On ‘Maus’ Means For The Artists Inspired By The Book
"Maus galvanized a generation of comics creators to fill bookshelves with graphic narratives about the Holocaust and its inheritance and inspired a community of thinkers...
Mark Morris Says No, Artists Are Definitely Not OK Right Now
Morris, on dance rehearsal: "It was horrible. ... Everyone was freaked out. You’re scared being next to each other, and you’re scared to talk...
The Painful Experience Of An In-Person Film Festival
In Berlin, during the many nasal swab tests, "I look up and to the right as the technician inserts the little wand, either affecting...
Why Hasn’t The City Of Los Angeles Reopened Its Arts Spaces?
In a "totally Kafkaesque" situation, one artist's show ran without the public ever being able to see it. "All facilities overseen by the city’s...
The Spotify Backlash Offers A Rare Glimpse Into The Struggles Of Working Musicians
When the Joe Rogan controversy broke with Neil Young removing his music from Spotify, other musicians decided that enough was enough: They didn't want...
Romance Isn’t Only For Twenty-Somethings
Let filmmaker Nancy Myers show Hollywood the way: "Rom-coms typically suggest that thrilling courtship is for people in their 20s and 30s." They fall...
American Films Don’t Really Matter Much To China Anymore
Hollywood is not pleased; China let in no Marvel movies at all last year. "There's routinely Chinese comedies, Chinese dramas, Chinese science-fiction epics topping the...
This Year’s Super Bowl Ad Theme Is Certainly Not Joy
The bad, the good, and the deeply joyless — or, ad agencies have all of these creative people, and this is what they came...
The French Director Who’s Relieved That Netflix Asked Him For A Movie
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of Amélie who wouldn't bow to Harvey Weinstein, loathes the pressure of theatrical openings. But "with Netflix, half a billion...
The Courtald Institute Is Under Fire For Its Cutesy, Weird Van Gogh Gifts
Mental illness, hilarious: "Apart from the eraser ear, visitors can buy a £5 bar of soap, marketed as ideal for 'the tortured artist who...
Pictographs May Be Beautiful To Look At, But They’re Not Now And Never Have...
Petroglyphs and pictrographs aren't "rock art" - they're heritage objects. "Vandalism and theft is a physical attack on heritage objects. Another is appropriation of...
An Australian State Orchestra Finally Gets An Indigenous Conductor
At least for a brief time: Noongar man Aaron Wyatt "conducted the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) in Long Time Living Here, a musical Acknowledgement of...
Ancient Roman Porta-Potties
How do we know the pots weren't used for something like olive oil instead of, well, feces? Ah, science: "Intestinal parasitic worms trapped in...
The Sleep That Never Ends
If we're feeling surveilled, it might be because our electronic gadgets never really turn off. Instead, they're "sleeping" - or perhaps lying in wait....
Looking For Electrifying, Informative, Creative Books For Black History Month?
If you're tired of the same old lists, the editors of The Rumpus will definitely surprise you with an eclectic list ranging from memoir...
