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Daniel Woodrell, The Author Of Winter’s Bone, Has Died At 72
Woodrell was “a novelist known for prose as rugged and elemental as the igneous rock of the Ozark Mountains, his birthplace, which he returned...
The Oxford Word Of The Year Is Probably Something You Experience Every Day
You know what clickbait is, right? Well, the word of the year is its anger-fueled cousin, rage bait, "manipulative tactics used to drive engagement...
There’s A Lot Of History, And Art, Beyond Art Basel Miami Beach
Getting beyond the tent walls means understanding just how much the Cuban diaspora means to the city. - The New York Times
Why Is A 1998 Musical Resonating With Audiences Now?
“We wrote something, you know, with very open hearts and no political agenda. We just wanted to tell this amazing story, and look what...
A Classical Pianist’s Plea To Let Art Be Messy, And Real
"Playing an instrument well is phenomenally difficult. It takes a lifetime of arduous work and can become all-consuming, making it easy to forget that...
In The Miserable Economy For Creative People, What Happens When One Is Successful?
In Alison Bechdel’s newest book, “Communal systems of support and shared resources are positioned against the capitalist drive to isolate, hoard resources, and privatize.”...
Inside The Philly Traveling Museum Where Black Collectors Have The Spotlight
“It got to the point where I had more art than walls. … I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool for a bunch of collectors...
The Super Weird, Remixed Way People Are Watching Old TV Shows
“People are sitting through one-to-two minute, out-of-order clips of TV shows and movies on social media, awkwardly cropped for the vertical format and often...
Nashville Would Like To Bring Back A Pretty Cool Piece Of Red Grooms Visual...
“Grooms’s carousel illustrates the financial challenge of regional museums, which scrounge to raise funds and then have to decide whether to add a wing...
Major Studios Turned Down ‘Stranger Things’
And it’s become, essentially, Netflix’s Star Wars, “that anchor series that drives customer acquisition and helps define the original programming.” - Los Angeles Times...
Tom Stoppard’s Language Blazed With Urgency
“He loved his words to the point of mania and yet fretted over their inadequacy, making the mere act of speech seem somehow both...
With A Phone, A Friend, And Some LEGO, You’re All Set To Understand The...
Sure, people didn’t have phones (or LEGO) 2,000 years ago, but even they knew the Earth was round. - Wired
Whose ‘Time’ Is It, In Oscars Terms?
And what does that mean, anyway? Can an actor, or director, win on vibes alone? - Vulture
How Did These Film Studios Get Approved In A British Greenbelt?
One person on the town council: “This is the direct result of ill-thought-out planning changes and poor decision making, which threaten to destroy our...
Actor Jason Schwartzman Loves The Library
“Everyone else is so calm, and everyone’s working or researching or something. It’s almost like a movie set, and I have to pretend I’m...
In Turbulent Times, An ‘Uneasy Book’ Might Be The Perfect Thing
Tessa Hadley: "Storytelling was the most powerful magic I knew: it got expressed first in the games I played out with my friends. Written...
Do You Miss Angelfire And Geocites?
Then the indie web might be for you. It’s “pushing back against algorithms and AI and calling for a more creative, personal internet.” -...
The Weird Instrument, Invented By Accident, That Sometimes Gets Its Players Exorcised
Well, if not exorcised, at least accosted by crosses: “Thereminists appear to carve sound out of thin air, using their hands to prompt a...
Look, Says The Guardian, Both Turner And Constable Were ‘Radical’ In British, And International,...
“Constable’s paintings might not have the exciting steam trains, boats and burning Houses of Parliament of Turner’s, but they were radical too. Painting mill...
This Seattle Graphic Novel Store Focuses On The Art Of Comics
Larry Reid, the man who owns and runs Seattle’s Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, says that comics have “a more immediate impact on culture than...
Sally Rooney Says She May No Longer Be Able To Sell Her Books In...
Rooney says that “UK legislation may mean she cannot be paid royalties by her British publisher or the BBC because it could leave both...
Spotify Is Starting To Lose The Streaming Race
“This year, the internet is uncharacteristically quiet during the period when Spotify Wrapped typically appears. The lack of anticipation comes ... as it faces...
The Decline Of Filmmaking, Thanks To The ‘Marvelization’ Of The Art
“Classic films, you may have noticed, concentrate practically all the energy in every facet of their production toward the expression of specific themes, stories,...
The Grand Ole Opry Turns 100
“Many of the performances on Friday focused on the fundamental strains of traditional country, bluegrass and gospel that helped shape what began as the...
Robert A. M. Stern, Architect Who Designed The George W. Bush Presidential Center And...
Stern “was the ultimate insider, … yet he seemed to enjoy tweaking the architectural establishment.” - Washington Post (MSN)
