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A Massive Renovation In Glasgow Goes Right For Visitors, And Wrong For Architecture
The Burrell Collection "represents a road that turned out to be less travelled in modern British architecture, where buildings were considered as things composed,...
Julie Saul, Effervescent Manhattan Gallerist Who Began Championing Photographers Out Of An Upper West...
Saul, an art historian with the ability to be bluntly honest with her artists but also to protect them fiercely, created a place for...
Is Someone Taking These Little Free Library Books To Censor LGBTQIA Content?
Possibly! "This clear-out of the Little Queer Library comes at a time when Waltham Public Schools have placed two LGBTQ books under review, Gender Queer:...
Biden Reverses Trump’s Restrictions On Art
"The Biden administration revoked order, reversing Trump’s rule that the Art in Architecture program’s commissions must depict prominent American historical figures, events, and 'ideals...
If You Love Toshiro Mifune In Kurosawa Movies, Add These To Your TBW List
The actor made 170 movies, only 16 with Kurosawa. "Mifune might not have been working with his favorite director, but watching these, it’s clear...
Books By Women Get Different Treatment Than Do Books By Men, Says Canadian Author
Sheila Heti: "It’s been really interesting reading the reviews for Fuccboi and comparing them to my reviews for Motherhood. Critics give him the benefit...
Those TikTok Surveillance Videos Asking Amazon Delivery Drivers To Dance Are Actually Horror Movies
Demanding your delivery person dance is, let's say, not great. "Forcing another person to dance for you is a classic villain move rooted in...
The Relatively Short Long Game Of Getting NFT Collectors Interested In Physical Art
Maybe this was the end goal of the (environmentally destructive) infatuation with NFTs? "Catering to the tastes of the crypto nouveau riche has become...
What Reality TV Shows Us About How Very Limited People Are About Motherhood
We've got an issue with mothers, and let's note that "the idea that they should be constantly emotionally available to their children, monitor them...
Reclaiming A More Complex Music History For, And In, Nashville
"Authoritative tellings of Nashville's music history have centered institutions like the Grand Ole Opry and Music Row. ... But that focus neglects a world...
What Should A Museum Do With Its Collection Of Vital, Fragile Works On Paper?
Ask the Hammer Museum at UCLA, where not only more study access but a new gallery space will show off, in careful rotation, the...
Dear Museums, Stop Building New Wings, And Build A New Staff Instead
Museum donor money could go someplace it would make a real difference - hiring, and keeping, a more diverse staff. - Fast Company
Meet The Teens Who Formed A Book Club To Read Banned Books
As conservative U.S. adults go on absolute orgies of book objections and attempts to censor and ban books by or about LGBTQIA+ people, Black...
Boston Has Been Without A Concertmaster Since 2019, And Its Search Is Being Conducted,...
Boston music lovers are curious because "the Boston Symphony Orchestra has been quietly searching for its next concertmaster. Whomever they appoint to this coveted...
Stephanie Selby, Known To Millions As ‘A Very Young Dancer,’ Has Died
The book that inspired thousands of aspiring dancers caused the subject serious issues. "Stephanie was not just another young woman who decided that the...
This 45-Year-Old Album Has Been On The Charts For 926 Weeks
That's right: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours has been selling well for longer than any Millennial has been alive, and now it's selling more copies on...
A Statue Of A Racist Former Governor In Mississippi Is Now Stashed In A...
Mississippi House Clerk Andrew Ketchings "said he had been bothered by the statue for years 'because of everything he stood for. ... It was...
The New MoviePass Wants In On The Metaverse
What does that mean? Well: "You don’t need fake popcorn; you don’t need tomatoes; you don’t need other things that are in there. And...
The Black Authors Shaking Up Brazil’s Literary Scene
"Until recently Black authors had a hard time getting book deals from mainstream Brazilian publishers," when a few authors decided to change things: "They...
We Don’t Understand The Past, And We Don’t Have Any Idea What’s Coming
Or so says historian and science fiction author Ada Palmer. "As she sees it, societal progress may be stochastic, unpredictable, but certain constants shape...
Admit It: Jimmy Kimmel Has A Point About The Oscars
OK, he sounded a little like a frat boy while dissing The Power of the Dog, but "the thing that Kimmel was getting at...
Why Does A C Look Like A C?
Or any letter at all - what's the reasoning behind letter shapes? Turns out it might not be as random as linguists thought, and...
Finding A Balance In Opera Performance
Soprano Marlis Peterson: "In the beginning of my career, the singing was most important. ... Then the music became as important as the text,...
No Shock That In-Person Library Use Plummeted In Early 2021
But, in the UK at least, there was a corresponding gain in e-usage. But "borrowing of physical books had returned to around 84% of...
Perhaps We Need A True Oscars Villain To Know Movies Can Come Back From...
The true way to unite a culture is to give the Best Picture nod to something like Crash. (Please do not, though. Please.) -...
