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Professional Armorers Say Guns Belong On Film Sets
One armorer: "You can’t keep hiring people who aren’t qualified just to get your movie made because you have a time constriction. ... Getting...
The Best Set For A Teen Comedy Is A High School You Bought For...
At American High, "the school has not had actual students in the halls for years, but it is once again home to high school...
Decades Of Success As An Arts Administrator Requires Flexibility And Nimble Responses
Of course the past two years have meant near-constant revisions of goals, budgets, and the definition of success - but in Portland, the Friends...
It’s Well Past Time To Democratize The Arts In New York
In New York, the arts' elitism "stands in stark contrast to the middle decades of the 20th century, when the city was a haven...
The Joys Of Playing In The Long-Locked Beatles Vault
"It is striking just how much joy is contained within the vivid and eerily detailed footage. Contrary to almost all accounts over the past...
Bonnie Sherk Had A Performance-Based Take On Landscape Art
The artist, dead at 76, did this near an on-ramp: "A young woman was sitting on a bale of hay, surrounded by potted palm...
A Planned Virginia Woolf Statue Is Getting Pushback Because It’s By The Thames
The inventive author, who ended her life by walking into the River Ouse, absolutely deserves a statue. But, the local council asks, does it...
Facebook, Via Instagram, Experiments On Teen Girls
And it harms their mental health - a lot. But "families are trapped. ... Many parents say that they don’t want their children on...
US Publishing Discovers That It Skews Rather White
Following up on pledges made during protests in 2020, Penguin Random House did a self-audit for diversity. What it found: "The demographics of its...
Come On, Britain: Give The Marbles Back
This is important to Greece: "The missing Parthenon frieze in its original state is a reminder of the country’s humiliation by the Turks, and...
Why Elementary Schoolkids Need This Adaptation Of The 1619 Project
"Stories about slavery for children must do more than transmit information about the past. These stories have a reparative function—they must also humanize and liberate. These stories must...
The Synergy Between Cinematographer And Camera Operator Can Be The Lifeblood Of A Film
When it works, anyway. One cinematographer: "What I look for in an operator is basically a clone of myself. An idealized clone. Somebody who...
Lubaina Himid Won The Turner When She Was 63
She wants her audience to understand difficulty - and the value of the grind. She says, "It’s not easy to make a painting, it’s...
The Woman Who Was Half Of The Mystery-Writing Duo ‘Charles Todd’ Has Died
Caroline Todd (a pen name for Caroline Watjen) and her son Charles (er, David) wrote more than 40 mysteries set in rural England after...
The Influential Librarian Who Was Not A Goodnight Moon Fan
The book's "widespread fame is relatively recent. Though Goodnight Moon was published in 1947, sales dropped low enough in 1951 that the book nearly went out...
Is The Australia Ballet Letting Go Of Tutus – And Classic Ballets?
Not forever, but the 2022 season is tutu-less thanks, new AD David Hallberg says, to the realities of pandemic programming - and "Kunstkamer, a...
Do We Really Need Netflix Viewing Numbers?
Netflix has released its Top 10 lists. But "the obsession with the numbers generated by films in the first few days of their release...
TR (And The Horse He’s Riding On) Heading To North Dakota
The Teddy Roosevelt statue that's been in front of the American Museum of Natural History for decades will soon be bound for Minot, ND,...
Putting The Fun Back Into Franz (Schubert)
And the puppets; don't forget the puppets. Instead of a quiet recital hall, "Schubert’s songs grew from entertaining evenings of spontaneous, alcohol-fuelled interaction, with...
What To Learn From Being The Target Of (Deeply) Hateful Attacks For What You...
Nikole Hannah-Jones on what she's learned: "Power doesn’t flash what it’s going to do. ... It doesn’t signal what it’s going to do. It...
When The Uffizi Almost Sued Pornhub
To be fair to Pornhub, the Birth of Venus is definitely a "classic nude." But the larger issue is about how museums make money...
Lee Maracle Propelled Herself And Other First Nations Writers Into Canadian Consciousness
Maracle died at 71, after having "chronicled the effect of Canadian settlement on the land’s Indigenous people and the persistence of discrimination, only to...
Reviving A Dying Record Label In The Era Of Streaming
Claddagh Records, founded in the '50s to preserve Irish musical heritage, fell on hard times in the 2000s. But now a deal with Universal...
Novelists Could Take A Cue Or Two From Poets
Or so says a novelist who took a poetry class that helped her move forward after a stale period of writer's block. - LitHub
England’s Artistic Culture Stretches Beyond London
You might think that's obvious, but it's not necessarily so to those in the capital city. Even during COVID, "London draws all the oxygen,...
