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Henry Darger’s Landlords Inherited The Rights To His Art, But Should They Have?
Good question, though without the landlords' advocacy, the world might never have heard of the artist and his work. "Now distant relatives of Darger...
How Physics Shape Opera, And The Rest Of Reality
It's all about resonance. "A system’s natural frequencies depend on its intrinsic properties: For a flute, for instance, they are the frequencies of sound...
It’s Possible That On Tuesday, The Oscars Will Nominate No One New For The...
The trend is weirdly strong: "If you read the tea leaves put forth by the nominations for the DGA and SAG, there’s a strong...
Artist Damien Hirst Faces His 16th Accusation Of Plagiarism
Can one plagiarize a painting of cherry blossoms? Perhaps. "English artist and writer Joe Machine ... says they look just like his own cherry...
Why Are People Upset About The Sudden Demolition Of This 1945 House?
The Marcel Breuer-designed Geller House "embodied the optimistic, now-vanished values of postwar suburbia: technological progress and a lifestyle built around children’s needs." - The...
Along With COVID Disinformation, Turns Out Joe Rogan Was Peddling The N-Word An Awful...
Spotify has removed 70 episodes wherein Rogan used the N-word, but none of the episodes removed were related to the protest over Rogan's habit...
A Harvard Student Has Created An Entire Musical For A Korean Disney Princess
Julia Riew's senior thesis at Harvard is "complete with script, screenplay, and more than 15 original songs. Her Disney-inspired work tells the story of...
One Way Singapore’s Theatre Actors Have Kept Busy During The Pandemic
Would you believe that interactive Zoom mystery theatre is a thing? Actor Bright Ong says, "The tectonic plates under have shifted, and the...
The New Trend In Indie Movies Is Female Silver Foxes
But whew, the discourse. For instance, Emma Thompson isn't "brave" for acting in sex scenes; she’s "an actress who’s still at the top of...
Virginia Woolf Was Many Things, But She Was Not A Great Cook
In To the Lighthouse, "these dishes are described with great fanfare but, as any competent home cook will know, beef stews are neither challenging...
Yiddish Scholars Are Helping Rescue Immigrant Women’s Fiction From Obscurity
For decades, the early 20th century fiction written by Yiddish women was "dismissed by publishers as insignificant or unmarketable to a wider audience." Luckily,...
Why Are So Many Artists Placing Sculptures On The Ocean Floor?
It's climate change, dummy: "Activist artists are working to get humanity to change course before it’s too late. They are sculpting major artworks that...
The Rise Of The Literary Thrill-Seeking Complex
"New narrative booms. Its dissociative forms and themes — the anxiety/bliss of romance/sex, psychic roleplay, identity-in-ideology, dream states, trauma, more sex — now serve...
What To Do On Broadway When Your Leads And Nearly A Third Of The...
As Music Man showed, you shut down for days; keep paying everyone; and hire great swings. "We had swings covering seven roles and trying...
What Could Possibly Account For The Popularity Of The Mediocre Movie Encanto And Its...
The Disney movie and its soundtrack, by Lin-Manuel Miranda, sit at the center of several global changes in media and music power. - The...
No One Cares About The Oscars, Except When They Very Much Do
The Oscars maintain a "strange aura ... as a gold standard of cinematic achievement: For several months a year, people fret and discuss and...
Is ‘Wonder Boys’ The Very Best On-Screen Depiction Of An Author?
Yes, partly because the film absolutely bombed at the box office. "Wonder Boys succeeds. It succeeds because it failed, and because at heart it’s about...
Spotify’s Joe Rogan Problem Is So Much Bigger Than Rogan
"Spotify has a responsibility for what it’s amplifying. Does that mean that it has the only responsibility? Does that let the producer, the content...
When We Compare Schools To Factories, We’re Ignoring History
Sure, "we like stories about education that feel true" - but this one simply isn't. And keep in mind that "those who want us to forget...
The Week When Not Only Spotify But A New NFT ‘Scam’ Infuriated Musicians
"For a few days this week, a new firm called HitPiece sold nonfungible tokens, or NFTs — pieces of code asserting ownership over a digital object...
Jason Epstein’s Influence On American Publishing Was Massive, And Continued For Decades
Epstein was the editor of Philip Roth, Jane Jacobs, and W.H. Auden; one of the founders of The New York Review of Books; and...
The Latest Book Cover Trend Is A Bit Distressing
Or at least, distressed: Young women, well-dressed, sad ... and entirely faceless. - The Guardian (UK)
The Treasury Department Says The Art Market Is Vulnerable To Money Laundering, But Doesn’t...
Doesn't need regulation ... for now, anyway. "It’s often the case that there are larger underlying issues at play, like the abuse of shell...
The Damage, And The Lie, Of The Myth Of Solitary Genius
The erasure of collaborators - and the sometimes terrible behavior to others - is just the tip of the iceberg. See: A new novel...
Why Is Britain Having Such A Hard Time Repatriating The Parthenon Marbles?
"The situation circles, perhaps conveniently. It’s not up to the government, it’s up to the trustees. And yet it’s not up to the trustees,...
