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Han Kang On South Korea’s Constitutional Crisis, And How It Felt To Win The...
“Han was not prepared for her new status as national hero. ‘Too much attention is not very good for writers,” she says. … ‘You...
One Week In The Life Of An Experimental Theatre Director, In January
As commercial theatre recovers from the holidays, experimental theatre is amped up. "January is this incredible crush of everyone doing everything all the time,...
Embracing The Analog
“In modern reality, most media are streamed, digitized, and easily vaporized; not so much owned as leased; pockmarked with ads and often tweaked (or falsified)...
Two Films Yanked From Sundance’s Online Portal Thanks To Piracy
Before Twinless and Selena y Los Dinos even found distributors, "people were circulating clips and key plot points for both films.” - Vulture
Neko Case On Where Artists Can Put All Of Their Rage
Case thinks that "if her upbringing had been stable, ‘I would have been a much better musician, because I’d have started earlier – I...
Philip Guston Mural Restored In Mexico
“The surreal, Renaissance-influenced composition of broken bodies, ominous hooded figures and tools of cruelty was crumbling and faded. Whole sections of the piece were...
Can Dutch Cinema Compete With The Rest Of Europe?
One producer says, “Unfortunately, the talent isn’t really stimulated in the Netherlands in the right way, and there is a definite lack of ambition,...
Claire Tabouret Is One Of Eight Artists Chosen To Design New Stained-Glass Windows At...
"I never applied for any competitions before. … And I think when I saw this, I was like, ‘OK, if I’m going to try...
Wired Is Tracking As US Government Websites Disappear
An employee said, “Decades worth of taxpayer-funded reports and analysis gone in an instant. … We have no idea what is happening behind the...
Phyllis Dalton, Oscar-Winning Costume Designer For Historical Epics Doctor Zhivago And Henry V, Has...
“‘Anyone can make a smart frock,’ she said. … 'It’s much more difficult to make people from the past who are wearing ordinary...
Is There Any Way To Fix The Academy’s International Film Category?
“Alone among the Oscar categories, International Film puts people who are not in the Academy in charge of what Academy members can and cannot...
What Makes Lion Dancing So Rigorous, And Rewarding
Lion dances for Lunar New Year are part of “an art that dates back to the Han Dynasty and is said to bring good...
Hollywood Is Finally Giving Older Women Second Chances
“One of the prevailing narratives of this year’s awards season leading up to the Oscars has been that of the return to the limelight...
People Who Know Little About AI Are Much Friendlier Toward Using It
Bascially? People who understand AI isn’t “magical” are less enamored of it. - Wired
Spotify And Universal Music Group Reach A Deal That May Help Musicians After Bundling...
The deal, which supposedly ameliorates some of the damage from last year’s audiobook-music bundling plan by the streaming giant, “also marks the first direct...
How Can Los Angeles’ Most Beloved Industry Survive?
“At stake is the future of a defining industry that helps make Los Angeles a vibrant creative capital, employing tens of thousands of workers...
Why Reading Lolita In Tehran Still Holds Up
Or maybe holds up even better, more than two decades later: Azar Nafisi’s memoir “isn’t just about reading and teaching literature under a repressive...
Every Artist In Britain Including Paul McCartney Wants The Government To Stand Up To...
What the actual artist-hating hell, UK? “The government is considering an overhaul of law that would allow AI developers to use creators' content...
Felicity Jones Does Not Want To See Herself In Her Movies
That is, she’ll watch them - but, she says, "When I see a blink or a laugh I recognise as my own, I think:...
As We Get Farther From The Year She Died, What We’re Missing About Anne...
“Anne’s iconicity requires her story to achieve a difficult balancing act. It warns powerfully against all persecution, but must remain true to its character...
Which Author Better Predicted, Or Can Help Us Deal With, The Fires In Los...
What did Octavia Butler, who died nearly two decades ago, know “about the future that the Fonz now finds himself in after many, many...
Sundance Documentary About The Vietnam War’s Most Famous Photograph Arrives Under A Cloud Of...
Did Nick Ut take the famous photo Napalm Girl? "Ten days before the premiere of the documentary The Stringer at the Sundance Film Festival...
Theatre Critics, Tear Down That Wall
A regular rotation of theatre articles and criticism from daily papers (whatever those are) isn’t coming back. So it’s up to theatre makers to...
Jessie Grimes Has Been A Successful Classical Musician For Years, And At Last She...
The artist in residence in Dublin says, “The fact that I wore a dress for all those years now boggles my mind. I was...
Netflix Is Becoming Cable, And Other Streamers Aren’t Even Close
And oh, how we’re all going to pay for that. - The Verge
