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Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman Followed By A Security Guard, Who Said She Looked Suspicious
The poet, who is 22, "wrote on Twitter that a security guard 'tailed' her while she was walking home Friday night. 'He demanded if...
How Do Independent Book Presses Make It?
Ask Melville House. Or perhaps don't: "We did what you would tell your children to never do. Not just having a business, but funding...
There’s No Hollywood Ending For Movie Theatres Yet
Studios are fighting with movie theatre chains; not enough people have been vaccinated yet to feel comfortable going to theatres; and, well, there's streaming....
Melbourne Theatre Company Starts Rehearsals With Hope
The director of a play in tech rehearsal says of the theatre building, abandoned a year ago as the pandemic swept the world, "I...
French Culture Workers Occupy Odeon Theatre In Paris
The occupation began Thursday; on Saturday, Culture Minister Roselyne Bachot went to visit the out-of-work culture and tourism workers, who want to know when...
After Investigations, Hollywood Foreign Press Association Promises Change
Does anyone believe them? Hm. The Time's Up Organization tweeted a reaction: "On behalf of the many artists who look to us to hold...
American Academy Of Arts And Letters, Static For More Than A Century, Makes An...
Here's the deal: "Founded in 1898, the institution had capped membership at 250 since 1908; members are elected for life and pay no dues."...
The Planned V&A Restructuring Will Take Away Most Of The National Art Library’s Librarians
The details of what appears to be an outrageously short-sighted plan: "They are guardians of some of the nation’s most valued treasures, including Dickens’s...
Math, Music, And Moby Dick
Three great tastes that taste great together. But seriously: Literature is replete with math (and music), and here's a professor who can talk about...
Margaret Atwood Wrote The Words For A New Song Cycle About Murdered Women
The song cycle, with music by Jake Heggie and sung by baritone Joshua Hopkins, was inspired by Hopkins' sister, who was murdered by her...
Pandemic Inspires 1200 New German Words
This truly seems to delight English speakers. "For example, Coronamutationsgebiet is an area where coronavirus mutations are widespread. A Geisterveranstaltung (ghost event) is an event with no people...
In Japan, ‘Disaster Art’ Is Saving People’s Lives
While dealing with emotional turmoil after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, artist Kyohei Sakaguchi made a decision to merge his art and...
Some Are Vaccinated, And Very Ready To See A Movie In The Theatre Again
As New York cinemas open with precautions in place, "what movies are even playing in theaters these days? For those in attendance, the film...
Long Before This Year’s Announcement, Read Across America Was Turning Away From Dr. Seuss...
Conservatives heard that Loudon County had banished Dr. Seuss and started a backlash about "cancel culture." But that wasn't reality. "In fact, the Virginia...
Lockdown Repainting In The Louvre Leads To A Lawsuit
Cy Twombly designed an Aegean sea-colored ceiling mural in the Salle des Bronzes at the Paris museum, which is undergoing various renovations while closed...
Berlin Film Fest Awards Its First Gender-Neutral Acting Award
Women, men, and nonbinary people all compete for the same award starting this year at the Berlin Film Festival - and this year's award...
Naomi Rosenblum, Historian Of Photography Who Forced Others To See It As Art, 96
When she started her major scholarship, "histories of photography traditionally focused on England, France and the United States. But Dr. Rosenblum’s ... A World...
Sydney’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Is The Most Visited In The World
And Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, its director of 22 years, is leaving. "When Macgregor took over in 1999, the MCA was just eight years old...
Egon Schiele Gave A Watercolor To His Dentist As Payment, And Then It Was...
Now the painting, which was in Cologne's Museum Ludwig, is returning to the dentist's heirs. - Hyperallergic
What It’s Like Singing ‘Strange Fruit’ In 2021
Andra Day, who plays Billie Holiday in the new movie The United States Vs. Billie Holiday, explains how she felt when she heard it...
The Toll This Year Took On The People Responsible For Explaining The Toll This...
It's not great. "COVID has led to a sort of existential crisis for me working in journalism. When some of your readers claim that...
Wait, Disney Wants Us To Pay *How Much* For The New Princess Movie?
The economics of it are a bit weird. Mulan was $29.99 for a while, even with a Disney Plus subscription. Then Soul was free,...
A Lot Of Black People Already Knew About Dr. Seuss
"I assumed most people knew that Seuss, despite the support he expressed for civil rights, was capable of depicting human beings of other races in demeaning...
So, Let’s Talk About The Six Hundred Thousand Dollar Meme Art
How to explain this "NFT" thing we're all hearing about in the news? OK, so ... if you buy a unique ID number associated...
Chloe Zhao Makes History With Her Golden Globe, And China Reacts With Anger At...
Zhao, the second woman ever to win a Golden Globe for directing and first Asian woman to win the prize, was at first feted...
