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Art Basel Miami Beach Has A Different, Much More Diverse, Line-Up
In the online iteration of 2020, no African American galleries were included. But "over the past year, Art Basel changed its admission requirements and...
Sondheim Also Revolutionized Crosswords
"Sondheim is particularly remembered among connoisseurs of word puzzles for his role in introducing Americans to British-style cryptic crosswords. ... The crosswords that he...
Let’s Look At The Logic Of Netflix’s Christmas Movies
"Netflix’s Christmas rom-coms are not meant to be judged on a spectrum of 'good' to 'bad.' They are only to be understood on a...
Almudena Grandes Started Her Writing Career With An Acclaimed Erotic Novel
Before her death at 61, she had become one of Spain's most ambitious, and certainly most progressive and feminist, novelists. Spain's prime minister wrote,...
Theatre Freelancers Have Had A Hard Time During The Pandemic
Gigantic surprise, right? On the other hand, a study found that in Britain, "Freelancers have also been networking and organising and built up a...
What’s The Future For Musicians Who Work On Streaming Shows?
In terms of payment, it's a huge mess - thanks to the failure to win residuals from reruns in the 1960s, plus streamers' legendary...
Will Theatres In Ireland And Britain Make It Through Panto Season?
Maybe, but without kids onstage: "We would usually have four teams of 10 children under 12, and four teams of four teenagers rotating through...
In 2021, We Were Still Cry-Laughing, Or Laugh-Crying, A Whole Lot
At least, according to our collective emoji use. The "face with tears of joy" accounted for five percent of all emojis sent online last...
How John Coltrane Became A Literal Saint
A church founder says hearing Coltrane turned him into "born-again believer in that anointed sound that leaped down from the tone of heaven out...
Turns Out It’s Not So Easy To Bridge The Gap Between Scotland And Northern...
Boris Johnson wanted a span crossing a 300-m trench filled with munitions, but his bridge game is off after "a government feasibility study by a team...
Sondheim Placed The Musical Firmly At The Heart Of American Culture
Before the pandemic, his songs permeated U.S. media. "His primacy within wider culture came from the widest possible acknowledgement that not only had Sondheim...
Duolingo’s Weird Sentences Show Us How Our Brains Work
It's all about "reward prediction errors" and "the sweet spot between rote and nonsensical." Once you've learned the Swedish for "a clean reindeer" or...
When Non-Horror Movies Feel A Lot Like Horror
"How do you know if you’re watching a horror movie when there’s no killer or monster, exorcism or blood? It’s a decades-old question that’s...
Good Thing Library Fines Are Out Of Style
A sequel to Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was checked out in 1910 and returned, anonymously, to the Garden City library near Boise, Idaho. -...
Developers In Britain Are Challenged To Stop Destroying And Start Retrofitting
That's in order to save the world - no, really. "Our throwaway building culture is one of the key reasons that UK construction has...
Virgil Abloh, A Barrier-Breaking Designer Who Was Compared To Warhol And Koons, Has Died...
Abloh was a theorist with sometimes controversial opinions on fashion. "For him clothes were not garments but fungible totems of identity that sat at...
Netflix May Dominate The First Awards Of The Season
The Gotham Awards sees Netflix's Passing and The Lost Daughter square off on the movie side, and let's not even get into what may...
Recovering From A Rough Gig At SNL, Natasha Rothwell Hit It Big On Insecure
The showrunner for Insecure, where Rothwell, post-writing gig at Saturday Night Live, has written and played Kelli: "The idea that anybody would try to...
Repatriation Of Benin’s Bronzes Should Be Only The Beginning
Museums in Europe and the U.S. have more to do to help Nigeria showcase the bronzes safely and well, argues an advisor to a...
An Ancient University Gets An Addition And A Makeover
Rowan Moore is mostly a fan of two Oxford colleges' innovations, but he adds, "All of leaves me wishing there was more work...
NPR’s Books Rec App Changes Its Name, Keeps Its Attitude
NPR's beloved books editor Petra Mayer died a few weeks ago, and so "Books We Love" is named and created "in the spirit of...
Land Acknowledgements Are Exhibitionist Pabulum
"A land acknowledgment is what you give when you have no intention of giving land. It is like a receipt provided by a highway...
Are We Truly Ready For The First Pandemic Novels?
It's not over yet, so perhaps not. "In the hospitals, there has been something like a wartime atmosphere of disaster, but for so many...
Broadway Gathers To Mourn Sondheim
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles, Josh Groban, members of every Broadway show up right now, and many, many other people gathered "on the red stairs...
The Republicans Who Want To Erase LGBTQ Literature And Authors
They've got a lot in common with Chinese censors, says Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon and Far from the Tree. "I had...
