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England’s New Monument To Shopping And Instagram
Yikes: "Rearing up at the western end of Oxford Street as a faceted green shell ... the 25-metre high Marble Arch Mound is one of the...
Marvel Has All The Money In The World, But Can Its Actors Do Accents?
A dialect coach weighs in on the Russian accents of Black Widow. "In the ideal world, I invite the actors first to get into...
Live Theatre Is Endangered Again, Still
On Friday, the Public Theater canceled its show for the third night in a row because of a positive COVID-19 test. Can we ever...
When A Revered Musician Makes Very Bad Choices
Eric Clapton's "dangerous stance on vaccines has forced yet another conversation about the importance of 'separating the music from the man.'" - Los Angeles Times
Overhauling ‘Traditional’ Monuments With An Indigenous Focus
In the wake of nationwide protests, Native artists are changing the way U.S. institutions see, and commission, public art. - FastCompany
The League Of Unfortunate Writers
When your book release happens the same week - or day - that most of your country locks down for a pandemic, well ......
The Emotional Return To Tanglewood
One young musician: "What you want to do is play with people—you don't want to record iPhone videos and upload them to a cloud!...
Adapting Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Into An Action Film Was Quite The...
As anyone who's read the poem in English Lit classes (or for fun?) can imagine, the challenges ran deep. - LitHub
Graham Vick, Opera Director Who Sought Out New Audiences And Formats, Dies Of Covid-19...
Vick, who founded the Birmingham Opera Company, "made exciting and experimental stagings at opera houses across the world." - The Guardian (UK)
Movie Theatre Owners Blame Drop In Black Widow Numbers On Disney Plus
The cinema owners' association claimed that profits from Black Widow were less than expected, even when Disney added in those buying the movie to...
Dance Choreography Can Make Humans More Comfortable With Robots
For instance, "areas of robotics research like social navigation, where robots update their paths to account for nearby humans’ movements, implicitly build upon dance improvisation."...
The Friendliest Artist In America
Pope.L is finally having a moment, "but he does not take it for granted. 'The institution is always about itself,' he says of museums."...
The Hidden History Of Women Heroes Of The Holocaust
Judy Batalion didn't mean to find all of this out, but she stumbled across a book in Yiddish - which she speaks and reads....
It’s A Weird Performance Summer
Do you need a mask? Does the venue require social distancing? What about proof of vaccination? It all depends. - The New York Times
Can We Ever Truly Know Van Gogh?
Thinking of all of the immersive Van Gogh shows, a critic wonders, "Can an artist’s work be reimagined to give an audience in modern...
India’s Beautiful Single-Screen Cinemas Are Dying Out
The multiplex and the pandemic are a powerful one-two punch to the heart of "the talkies," as they're called. - NPR
What’s Holding Back The Vinyl Revival?
Record Store Day 2 was Saturday, but between production issues and the pandemic (and Brexit, for Britain), vinyl isn't doing as well as it...
Mat George, Co-Host Of Popular Podcast ‘She Rates Dogs,’ Killed In A Hit-And-Run At...
Mat George’s "humorous takes often drew widespread attention on Twitter. Last week, he shared a photo of his mother and Snoop Dogg." - The New York Times
It’s Not Easy For ‘Diverse’ Actors To Find Good Agents
"They basically told me they would only sign me if I permanently flat-ironed my hair. ... I was like, ‘I’m Black, I can’t get...
A Tasmanian Writer Wins Australia’s Most Prestigious Literary Prize
For her seventh novel, 74-year-old Amanda Lohrey won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Labyrinth. - The Guardian (UK)
Foundations Expand Focus On Long Neglected Disabled Artists
Disability Futures will have at least two more 20-person cohorts. Great, but "the feedback from the first class ... was frank: Do even better...
In British Columbia, Lack Of Child Care Is Harming Women Directors
And not just directors. "Most daycares operate on a traditional workday schedule that isn't suitable for the families of shift worker in industries like film and...
The American Booksellers Association Canceled Itself
The ABA took its Twitter private after promoting a scientifically inaccurate anti-trans book to indie bookstores, apologizing, and then deleting the apology. - LitHub
How TikTok Is Rewriting Harry Potter And Fandom
Users claim they can "reality shift" to any fictional world; just, they say, "switch your consciousness to the right parallel universe." - Washington Post
Toyko’s Olympics Architecture Is Not About A Wow Factor
Why? "Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow, one of Japan’s livelier practices, has objected that 'we independent artists are banned and totally deleted from the list of...
