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Glasgow Used To Be An Arts Powerhouse, But It’s Losing So Many Arts Spaces

“Glasgow is slowly becoming a hollow shadow of the thriving, radical and creatively edgy place it once was. ... If you’re a young creative...

The Best Way To Read 100 Books A Year

Sure, there’s “be rich” or “have your minions do everything in life for you except reading,” but there’s also this: Read physical books. -...

Look At All The President’s Men, And See That Movie For What It Was

It’s not really a triumphal movie about the power of journalism, but a dire warning about the future - our present. - Salon

A Top Paramount Executive Sees His Career Take A Big Hit For His Friendship...

The Paramount Skydance president is "facing new scrutiny after his Paramount bosses hired a law firm to investigate his surreptitious dealings with a Las...

The Performing Arts In The UK Aren’t Exactly Friendly To Working Parents

So says a new report, which “criticises the industry for failing to consider how it might adapt to better accommodate parents, with the result...

Thaddeus Mosley, A Sculptor Who Found Fame In His Nineties, Has Died At 99

The self-taught Mosley's works “show as much concern for pure form as any modernist’s, and reflect the influence of Constantin Brancusi and Isamu Noguchi,...

The Privilege And Power Of Having A Writing Mentor

Ashley Ford needed “a reason to believe that giving myself over to a creative life didn’t also mean condemning myself to poverty and invisibility....

How DOGE Used AI In An Attempt To Destroy The Humanities

DOGE employees used ChatGPT to make their choices. “The prompt was simple: ‘Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less...

The Women Of Kashmir, Struggling With Climate Change, Create Art In Order To Survive

“Afroza Bano’s hands, once calloused from planting and weaving reed mats, now grow nimble with needle and thread. But sometimes, they get pricked by...

The Internet Is After Timothee Chalamet, Yes, But Also Jessie Buckley

Buckley doesn’t like cats. Big deal, right? Well … yes. Huge deal: "I have to come out and say it: Have we all lost...

South Texas Has A Huge Mariachi Community, And ICE Is Destroying Some Of It

“‘For McAllen, mariachi is like the Friday Night Lights of high school,’ said Anthony Medrano, a prominent San Antonio mariachi musician. ‘There’s pride in...

The Best Actor Race Is Weirdly Up For Grabs

“‘When there’s not unanimity in the lead acting races, it can get really weird.’ In that situation, voters stop gaming out front-runners and simply...

Romance And Romantasy Fans Are Driving A Potential Literary Shift

“Readers’ increasingly vocal partiality for first-person perspective over third person amounts to a profound shift in taste. Even while publishing is in dire straits elsewhere, the romance...

Amazon Tried To Sponsor A Book Festival In France, And That Went About As...

Many - most, even - of France's booksellers pulled out of . Then the organizers got Amazon to “mutually agree” to end its sponsorship....

It’s Such A Brutal Time For Both Theatre And Arts Journalism

So what’s an NYT theatre critic to do? “There are so many things beyond our control ... but somewhere amid all the hubbub, someone...

The Man In Charge Of Pixar Cuts Any Content He Sees As Therapy

Especially if that content is, you know, gay. Surely that will fix the fabled studio! - Wall Street Journal (MSN)

Federal Judge Rules Appointment Of Kari Lake Invalid, Voiding Mass Layoffs At The Voice...

“If upheld by higher courts, Judge Lamberth’s ruling would allow more than 1,000 journalists and support staff members at the news group to return...

For Dublin’s Arts Council, Meetings With Property Developers Are Always On The Schedule

“Our job is to ‘opportunity-make’ a space.’ … A lot of people think cultural development shouldn’t exist. There should be housing development, factory development...

The Met Is The Largest Performing Arts Company In The US, And It’s Desperate...

“The core problem has been ticket revenues, which were weakening even before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered its theater with a devastating financial impact. Box-office...

How The Musical Suffs Emerged From The 2016 Election

“To me, a great protagonist for a musical is somebody who wants something so desperately, who is going to be relentless to the point...

Tatjana Wood, A Skilled Comic Colorist Who Worked On Famous Teams For DC, Has...

“Anyone who laid eyes on a DC Comics cover from 1973 to 1983 was likely seeing an example of Ms. Wood’s work. She colored...

The Cosplayers Taking Emerald City Comic Con To Task For Its Deep Connections To...

“The problem lies in a rotten, corporate family tree,” and the self-described nerds aren’t going to let anyone forget it. For instance, in one...

After An Indigenous Filmmaker’s Speech Is Cut For Broadcast, The Toronto Film Critics Association...

“Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her trophy, the president resigned and 16 members have quit — with more considering their position.” - The Hollywood Reporter

Does This Musician’s Nostalgic Performance Prove The Brits Are Becoming More Conservative Again?

“For all that the audience are loving it, the enthusiastic self-infantilisation feels depressing to me. Is Middle England so deprived of communal singing –...

Remaking The Art Of The Fugue As A Ballet, In Denmark, After Fleeing The...

“When the tanks entered Ukraine, Ratmansky gathered his artistic team and left for New York, severing ties with the Bolshoi and with Russia.” -...