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No, See, Apple Can Make a Hit Movie
All you need are fast cars and Brad Pitt: “The well-reviewed sports movie led the weekend box office derby in North America, giving Apple a much-needed...
The Long Fight To Replace Racist Monuments In The United States
“After nearly half a decade, Vinnie Bagwell, a self-taught sculptor-artist, is still waiting for the million dollars that the New York City department of...
The Woman Helming The Color Purple In Chicago
"It’s organized chaos at rehearsal for The Color Purple on a recent afternoon at the Goodman Theatre downtown,” but “director Lili-Anne Brown looks on with expert calm.”...
The Bookbinding Family Of Paris
“The women who run the Atelier Devauchelle in Paris sew and create new bindings. They restore old bindings and torn pages. They create slipcovers...
The Artist Who Got Catfished By A Fake Lady Gaga
“Needless to say, this was not a situation Webster expected to encounter as an up and coming artist.” - The New York Times
How A Music Librarian Convinced Sondheim To Leave His Smoke-Singed Papers To The Nation
A personalized tour of the Library of Congress “included original manuscripts from composers Béla Bartók, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky and Johannes Brahms. … But...
Authors Ask Big Five Publishers To Promise Never To Use AI
The letter “asks them to refrain from publishing books written using AI tools built on copyrighted content without authors' consent or compensation, to refrain...
Does Our Continual Phone Use Prevent Us From Fully Living?
With each recording, “we’re atrophying our memory a little and trusting that it will work autonomously. But it’s like an engine: if we give...
States Spend Millions To Attract Hollywood
For instance, take New York: “Amid growing competition from nearby states like New Jersey, New York has spent more than $5.5 billion since 2017 to woo...
There’s No One In Charge At The US Copyright Office
Thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE, of course - and no one knows when that might improve. - Wired
The Tiny Chef Got Cancelled, And Then The Creators Responded On YouTube
One person who watched the heartbroken response video: “This is why animation is so important too. AI slop won’t make you feel emotions like...
Spielberg Says He’ll Never Retire
What’s up with movie directors? Well: “Making a film is a battle. ... The process is such a slog that, when a film-maker dies,...
New Yorkers Explain Why They Went To See The New York Phil In Queens
A Dudamel test, and also, well, New York has awesome music in the parks in the summer, basically. - The New York Times
Portland, In A Budget Crunch, Manages To Find Some Money For Hard-Hit Arts Groups
“Arts and cultural organizations in Portland face a double whammy: in addition to cuts in the city’s budget, the proposed elimination of the NEA,...
Diana Oh, Passionate Advocate For Queer Theatre, Has Died At 38
Oh was "a glitter-dusted experimental artist-activist whose theater works intertwined political provocation with profound compassion in rituals of communion with audiences,” beloved by theatre...
Can This Small Museum In England Raise Enough Money To Buy Turner’s First Known...
Maybe! “Although the £100,000 target has been reached, the has said extra money will strengthen its bid when the piece is sold at Sotheby’s.” - BBC
The San Francisco Bookstores Removing JK Rowling From Their Shelves
One of the bookstores writes, “Author JK Rowling publicly committed to using her private wealth from the Harry Potter series to develop the ‘JK Rowling Women's...
Filling The New LACMA With Music
“The celebration, which drew arts and civic leaders for the first of three preview nights, was far grander than the concert on March 26,1965,...
One Man Has Been Tuning Pianos In The Sydney Opera House For Fifty Years
Terry Harper “started on rehearsal pianos in the backroom, while building up his skills and confidence, before finally taking over when his dad retired...
If They Can Make It Here, These Top High School Actors Know, They Might...
That is to say, more than 100 high school theatre stars have been working for a week to put on a Broadway show tonight....
London’s Fabled Ealing Studios Get A Revamp And, Owners Hope, A New Life
“What we dreamed of doing was to make a studio that had all this history, the old stages built in the 1930s and the...
What Jaws Did To, And Also For, Sharks
“Before Jaws premiered in 1975, most shark research was conducted by the U.S. Navy. Much of it involved experimenting and testing repellents to prevent...
Lessons From The Apocalypse
How humanity, or at least some humans, can survive. (Hint: Study archaeology.) - Fast Company
More Fallout From The Broadway Shows That Didn’t Win At The Tonys
Dead Outlaw “was nominated for seven prizes, including best musical, but won none. It is the third new musical to post a closing notice...
The Days When Charles Dickens Was Known As Boz
The writer was so popular that “a ‘Boz Ball,’ attended by 3,000 people, was held in New York in 1842 to welcome Dickens to...
