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Remember A Few Months Ago When Kind Comedy Was All The Rage?
Well, things have changed: The Ted Lasso freakout has faded, while Squid Game's popularity has spurred producers to search for more "international drama." -...
Musicians Aim To Revitalize The Maori Language
In 1999, when musician Dame Hinewehi Mohi sang the national anthem in Maori at the men's Rugby World Cup, she got quite a backlash....
The New Maria Callas Statue In Athens Is Attracting A Lot Of Attention
But not for its skill or beauty. One complaint: "Nothing could be less representative of Maria Callas, as no opera singer, not even a second-grade...
Inside The Battle For Britain’s National Trust
Many National Trust properties rest on profits from the labor of enslaved people. "The charity seems to have become a lightning rod for the...
Omnipresent Memes Might, Or Might Not, Help Sell Movie Tickets
But they definitely help define the internet: "Years later, after the movie itself has been largely forgotten, you will still find images from it...
Was Mexico City’s Pyramid Light Show A Victory For Decolonization – Or For Revisionist...
During a light show on a replica of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan, "vendors walked among the crowds selling Aztec-style souvenir headdresses with colored...
Tentative Agreement Reached Between IATSE And Hollywood
The membership hasn't ratified the contract, so a strike could still be called. The details go to the membership for a vote. - The...
Reinventing The Nude
Mickalene Thomas keeps a "loving, lusty, multifaceted gaze on the Black female form." - The New York Times
Everything American Fans Are Probably Missing In Squid Game
Fans of K-drama probably know much of this already, but "peppered throughout the series are blink-and-you'll-miss-them references to historical events and political jargon." -...
What Will Happen When The College Culture Wars Come For Public Radio?
Nearly two-thirds of NPR stations are affiliated with colleges or universities, and "with higher education at the crossroads of the culture wars, public media...
The Golden Globes Will Not Be Televised On NBC
But they are happening, and they will be televised - on the CW Network. Will anyone in Hollywood care? - Los Angeles Times
The Pacific Northwest’s Only Latinx Theatre Plans Its Comeback
Milagro Theatre's artistic director: "It brought home the value of what we do — that we are practitioners of live theater. ... How do...
Tango Is Back, Baby
During the pandemic, tango suffered more than most other dance forms. "There is no distance between bodies; partners lean into each other, faces and...
When Facebook Went Down Last Week, News Searches And Traffic Went Way Up
Sure, some of that was people searching for news about Facebook's outage. However: "For a whopping five-hours-plus, people read news, according to data Chartbeat...
How To Survive Being The Subject Of A Documentary
It helps if you're also the writer-director of the documentary, or the sister or parents of said writer-director. But the intense focus is far...
Conducting Isn’t Easy, And Then You Add In The Dancers
Australia Ballet conductor-in-training Alexander Rodrigues says conducting an orchestra for ballet is a true challenge, thinking about the music's past, present, and future -...
How Julie Taymor Went From Directing Opera And Off-Broadway To Disney
She was reluctant to do Lion King. "I was interested in the avant-garde. I didn’t have any interest in commercial theatre. I hadn’t even...
Nobel Prizewinner Abdulrazak Gurnah Has Some Strong Words For Europe
Gurnah, who is from Tanzania and lives in Britain, said, "People don't come with nothing, they come with their youth, their energy, their potential....
An Attempt To Remake The Western, Via Covid Protocols And Great Britain
The Harder They Fall is "righteous and rowdy" - and has a Black British musician director who says that his music and films come...
The Curator Who Can’t Live Without Sculpture
Claire Lilley, who placed 18 sculptures for the London Frieze Sculpture show this year: "I love how we as humans occupy the same space...
It’s Time To Start With Oscar Predictions
That seems wild, since this year's version was recent - and grim. "The Oscars’ class of 2020 included plenty of good films ... seen...
Cuban Artist Tania Bruguera Left The Island In Exchange For The Release Of Political...
The activist artist says she accepted a position at Harvard after telling the regime, "Look, you want me to leave, well now you have...
Peter Bunnell, Who Forced The Art World To Take Photography Seriously, 83
"It is a measure of Professor Bunnell’s success that today photography is unquestionably accepted as both a fine art and a discipline worthy of...
Musicians And Venues Struggle To Balance Safety With The Joy Of Finally Having Performances
Rock musician Dave Grohl speaks for pretty much every performer: "You wake up every day, cross your fingers that they’ll open a door, turn...
This Netflix Exec Wants British Talent To Come Back To The UK
Fiona Lamptey's vision: "I really want to bring back our stars, like people that have to leave their home to go make a film...
