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Smithsonian Moves To Return Benin Bronzes
The museum has become "the latest Western cultural institution — and one of the most prominent to date — to agree to explore returning...
How ABBA Became Such Beloved Gay Icons
The group's songs weren't actually popular in gay clubs at the time - but then came the 1980s, when disco was supposedly "dead," and...
A Parent Wants To Criminally Prosecute Librarians
During a tsunami of deeply virulent homophobic, racist protests against books, a parent in Kitsap County, Washington, has asked to prosecute librarians for having...
Who Said Tech Had To Look So Bland?
"I’m tired of tech that caters to the heterosexual, cisgender, male, white, wealthy masses. I’m tired of AirSpace, of minimalism, of bland beige tones. ......
The Artist Who Brought Day Of The Dead Into Focus For The United States
No, today isn't "Mexican Halloween." Just ask artist Ofelia Esparza. "At its core, the tradition is a pitched battle. Forgetting, Esparza said, is what...
The Secrets In Van Gogh’s Olive Trees
It helps to see his paintings near each other, but it's not just viewing that's useful; the knowledge comes from a "years-long, collaborative conservation...
Dance Is Under Serious Threat In British Schools
The pandemic hurt a lot, but "nearly two-thirds of dance educators said teaching had become more difficult in recent years, while half of teachers...
Tracey Emin Says She’s Been Mischaracterized, And Her Art Overlooked
The artist, who shot to fame with the work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995, says she's been characterized as a narcissist, and...
The Word Of The Year 2021 Is Vax
So says Oxford Languages, publisher of The Oxford English Dictionary. "'All these other vaccine words increased, but nothing like vax,' said Fiona McPherson, a...
Horror Helps Us Deal With The All Too Real Experience Of Loved Ones’ Deaths
Not to mention our own. "In horror, there is no ultimate triumph at the end. Even if the characters survive or defeat the monster,...
What Happens When Everyone Is Literally Writing The Same Book?
As one might suspect, one author says that "when we learned of one another’s existence, it felt a little awkward." - The New York...
The Power – And Virtue – Of Hateful Characters
Oh, it's a joy to hate the Roys on Succession. How refreshing! "Likeability is an odd requirement, as well as a sterile and stifling...
As Lockdown Ends In Australia, Artists Are In Desperate Straits
A Melbourne gallery director says that along with years of massively shrinking arts funding, "the pandemic lockdowns left the industry on its knees. ......
The People Who Want To Ban Toni Morrison’s Beloved Have One Thing Right
One expert on challenged books: "Beloved is an extremely violent book, it’s absolutely true. But that is the point of the book. This mother ?...
There’s An Explanation For Why Some People Loathe Specific Celebrities
Honestly, you might think, who cares about James Corden or Nicki Minaj? Some people really care, and frankly, it's a little scary. "Fan culture,...
It Wasn’t Just Gertrude Stein And Alice Toklas, And A Prizewinning Book Knows That
No Modernism Without Lesbians is the title of Diana Souhami's most recent book - and the "hugely enjoyable" history of queer women like Stein,...
Can Afghan Art Survive The Taliban?
Hundreds, perhaps more, of artists of all cultural areas have fled. One artist, whose murals have been whitewashed: "The future of art and culture...
The Choreographers Making Utopian Films In Minneapolis
One choreographer - a former econ major at Macalester College - says, "If I walk out of here in downtown Minneapolis, I don’t know...
How Facebook Has Failed Us All
The social media giant "has algorithmically surfaced false information about conspiracy theories and vaccines, and was instrumental in the ability of an extremist mob...
Comments Sections Are A Toxic Stew Of Sexism, And That’s By Design
"It’s not enough to simply call on women to speak up. We do need to change public conversations, but it is fundamentally a design...
Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait Says There’s No Such Thing As Cancel Culture
"People love to say, ‘George Carlin couldn’t do his act today! What would he say about all this?’ ... I know exactly what he’d...
The Vancouver Opera May Be Returning To A New Kind Of Normal
A costume sale for Halloween heralded the semi-return to normal for an opera house whose costume shop pivoted last year to mask-making. Cleaning out...
Reckoning With Monuments In The North
The American South isn't the only place with iffy monuments. Consider Boston. - The New Yorker
In Britain, Subtitles May Finally Be Returning After Fire
"Hundreds of hours of Channel 4 programming have been affected by the outage, which began when fire suppression devices destroyed hard disks at a...
The Chief Electrician On ‘Rust’ Blames The Film’s Armorer For The Fatal Shot
In a Facebook post, gaffer Sergey Svetnoy wrote of holding Halyna Hutchins as she died, and he blamed the 24-year-old armorer - and the...
