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In Bangkok, An Art Center Censors Its Exhibition Because Of ‘Pressure’ From China
The exhibit is on state violence and resistance, and “some of the censored works reference China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other primarily Muslim ethnic...
Why Does Hollywood Love To Destroy Los Angeles?
“Los Angeles is a city of constant change — it reinvents itself, tearing down old buildings and putting up new ones. Hollywood is also...
It’s Time To Re-Title A Famous Kafka Book
In English, that is (oh, and Spanish as well). “Could the now dominant mythological and scientific ‘Metamorphosis’ eventually give way to the aptly unadorned...
Don’t Call Disney’s Settlement With A Fired Actor Cancel Culture
We know what real, and terrifying, cancel culture and real corporate capitulation look like now, thanks to Paramount Global, law firms, and a certain...
A Young Donor’s Sudden Death Leads To Questions, And Challenges, At Some Of New...
Matthew Christopher Pietras “found himself eagerly courted by institutions that are desperate to find new generations of young patrons. He was invited to join...
TikTok Has Made Manny Jacinto A Star, But Can Hollywood Follow Suit?
Celebrity can be weird these days: “The 37-year-old actor has for years now been a subject of TikTok thirst edits and calls for him...
Apparently, Emma Thompson Speaks Italian?
Or, of course, she’s a very good actor. - Variety
Australia’s Prestigious First Nations Art Prize Goes To An Artist Who’s Buzzy
Sketched on discarded road signs, “the artwork’s surface depicts hundreds of stringybark blossoms and thousands of bees, referencing the songline of Wuyal, the honey...
Glimmerglass Versus America’s National Pastime
Opera lovers trying to find hotel rooms or Airbnbs - or anything at all - near their favorite summer opera festival are now competing...
What In The Stalker Influencer Hell Is Going On At Instagram?
“The platform added a map tool that lets your Instagram friends see your precise location every time you open the app.” Then there’s...
Do The Emmys Need A Nomination Ceiling For Certain Shows?
“The Emmys continue to saturate the zone with their favorite shows, clogging up the supporting performance categories (and sometimes even lead, or writing and...
The Relatively Quick De-Centering Of English-Language Literature
“The consolidation of the English-language publishing industry in the 1980s and 90s gave its most successful writers a worldwide reach and a critical impact that...
The Comedian Who Grew Up A Hasidic Lubavitch Jew And Now Plays One On...
Robby Hoffman "recently received her first acting Emmy nomination — for the role of Randi” on Hacks. It was relatively quick success, after she...
The Woman Who Perfected Flower Painting Was Once More Famous Than Vermeer
“Over the course of her nearly 70-year career, Ruysch shunned radical innovation and experimentation, and opted for the subtlest of variations on a theme....
A Paris Show Traces Gaza’s Cultural History
“The exhibition, Saved Treasures of Gaza, at Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe brings what curators called a sense of ‘urgency’ to explain the rich history...
Jimmy Fallon Has Knuckled Under To Kiss The Conservative Ring On His Late-Knight Show
"Fallon is a professional. If he has any reservations about interviewing Gutfeld, … made headlines by joking that conservatives should proudly reclaim the word...
Jane Morgan, Torch Singer Who Charmed Paris, New York, And Los Angeles, Has Died...
Morgan “arrived in Paris in 1948, having dropped out of Juilliard after the French nightclub impresario Bernard Hilda offered her a chance to sing...
Awful As It Is, Ad-Supported Streaming Is The Future
But hey, one currently hard-up business might benefit: "If anything sends viewers back to the cineplex, it will be ads for depression meds in...
Loni Anderson, Star Of WKRP In Cincinnati, Has Died At 79
“Anderson’s seemingly ditsy, bombshell character was anything but, and her performance as Jennifer showed that looks and smarts could go together.” - The New...
On The Muppets, And Grief
“After a great loss, some people find themselves communing with nature, at the seaside or deep in a forest. Others turn to spirituality, toward...
This Theatre In Upstate Wisconsin Survives, And Thrives, On Local Lore, And Cheese
At Northern Sky, “There’s kind of an ownership because you saw shows about people that you know, Midwesterners.” Some of them, like Lumberjacks in...
The Salt Path Scandal Could Put An End To The Nature Memoir
Or not: “Reading about someone else’s deep dive into forest, field or water furnishes us with the sense that we’re participating in an environment that,...
The Quest To Preserve Marfa
Four years after a fire gutted it, Donald Judd’s “Architecture Office will reopen with new ventilation systems, recycled-denim insulation and an upstairs apartment for...
How Emmys Voters Award, And Ignore, Writers And Directors
“Writing and directing winners often get caught up in a sweep … so when they do diverge from the series winner, it can...
Ann Harris, Who Shaped The Exorcist, The Thorn Birds, And Many Other Bestsellers, Has...
“'She was a classic, old-style editor,’ Frances McCullough, who worked with Ms. Harris as an editor at Harper & Row, said in an interview....
