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The Oral History Of Blue Man Group
"That this undeniably unusual show found an audience when it launched ... made a certain kind of sense for the era. But its lasting...
Let The Streamer Floodgates Open
And yet: "After years of Netflix and Amazon trying to produce and acquire their way to the top—despite the Hollywood old-schoolers who looked down...
How CODA Came From Way Behind To Win The Oscars
Timing (and a relentless campaign): "After the bombast of awards season, it seemed fresh and fulfilling: a movie that told its story with a...
What It Took To Produce The Oscars This Year, By The Numbers
Fourteen miles of fiber optic cable, 1500 lighting instruments, 14,000 PCR tests ... and a longer broadcast despite having fewer awards presented in full....
That Familiar Video Game Jump Sound Dates To The 1970s
Truly, the first video games were silent. Can you imagine? But: "The hup, as it’s sometimes known, is the onomatopoetic vocalization of effort given by...
Sadly, Halle Barry’s Win Changed Nothing For Black Women At The Oscars
"If Monster’s Ball is still the only movie in which a performance from a Black actress is recognized as superlative, does that mean that Leticia Musgrove...
You Know Which Russian Composer Isn’t Suffering In The West?
Tchaikovsky. Just look at the Met's revival of Eugene Onegin. - The New York Times
William Morris’s Farmhouse Is Restored And Reopening, After Millions Of Pounds And Many Years
Kelmscott Manor "was a place of huge inspiration for an artist who dramatically influenced fashions and ideologies with fabrics and furniture, stained glass and...
The British Museum Removes The Sackler Name From Its Walls
Mostly. "The Sackler name would remain on a list of donors to the museum’s Great Court, because the museum 'has always recognized the important...
How Propaganda Became Entertaining
Blame (or praise) WWII. - The Atlantic
Journalists Supposedly Run Toward Wars, And So Did This Illustrator
Two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, artist George Butler took flights, busses, and other paths "to Odesa in southern Ukraine, where he stayed for...
The Artist Studios Of The World Trade Center
They're part of a nonprofit that helps provide NY artists "with places where they can work, a signature need for artists in a real...
Samuel L. Jackson’s Honorary Oscar Award Speech Was Pretty Great
The 73-year-old actor was nominated, but didn't win, for his role in Pulp Fiction. "In an emotional acceptance speech, Jackson looked back on his...
Historic Wins At The Oscars Overshadowed In The Moment By Ableist Joke, On-Stage Slap
Ariana DeBose was the first out queer actor of color to win a major acting award. CODA? First Best Picture win for a streamer....
Oscars Live Updates, The Vanity Fair Edition
This one will be heavy on the red carpet and after-party updates; we'll add other live update news sites here (here's NPR; here's Washington...
It’s Hard To Make A Living As A Theatre Artist
The group Artists Who Code is trying to help artists (and not just theatre artists) make a transition to the world of actual remuneration...
The Charles Dickens Museum Got Shadowbanned On TikTok
It took a full-blown Twitter campaign to get the author's name, and the museum's name, and all of the museum's content, unbanned. You probably...
Is Streaming Going To Win Best Picture At Last?
"Three years ago, Hollywood was engaged in a knock-down, drag-out fight over the future of cinema — what, exactly, constitutes a film — with...
Darcy’s White Shirt Is Going On Exhibit In Jane Austen’s House
Yes, Austen lovers, that shirt. "Jane Austen Undressed focuses largely on the undergarments that Austen heroines would have worn under their Regency dresses, but one...
What Happens When Kids (And Some Adults) Learn History Through Video Games?
"Teachers may not even notice that the student asking why the Ottomans didn’t colonize America or what happened to Burgundy may have a view...
The Resurrection Of Andy Warhol
Not that his influence ever went away, "but if Warhol seems particularly ubiquitous right now, that’s because he is — onscreen, onstage, in museums and...
Fine, Let’s Rank All Of The Full-Length And Short Movies Nominated For Oscars
Yup: "There are actually 53 movies nominated across all 23 Oscar categories this year, ranging in quality from great to terrible." - Vulture
Oh No, It’s The Oscars, And Evening Gowns Are In Trouble Because Of Supply...
Gowns are out of stock everywhere. "It really has almost been like a roaring twenties situation," one store buyer said. - Fast Company
The New Novel For A Time Of New War, A Century Ago
Ali Smith: Take note of what happened when Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf's friendship addressed war - it changed everything for Woolf, her novel...
Two Men Are Now Helming Madison Ballet
Ja'Malik, the company's new AD: "A lot of people think is a very elitist art form. It’s only for a certain demographic, a...
