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A Mass Erasure Of Architectural And Cultural Heritage In Los Angeles As The Fires...
“‘It’s staggering and heartbreaking — I don’t know any other way to put it,’ said Ken Bernstein, principal city planner at Los Angeles City...
Houston Symphony Hires Gary Ginstling As CEO
That’s mere months after his surprise departure from the NY Phil. The Houston Symphony board president: "No one wants to work in an environment...
Australian Aboriginal Author Alexis Wright On Finding Her Voice, And Re-Finding Some Fame For...
“The buzz around her latest novel has drawn new attention to her back catalogue around the world,” and that’s obviously great for her, and...
Why Isn’t Mike Leigh’s Rapturously Reviewed Movie Getting Into Awards Conversations?
“The glitziest awards bodies have all overlooked Jean-Baptiste thus far—although, in a rare moment of unanimity, the New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles...
Doris Salcedo’s Crack In The Tate Modern Floor
“Having lived through more than 50 years of civil war in her native country, and having witnessed the fallout of that conflict in the...
As His Severance Debuts Its Season Two, Ben Stiller Has A Lot To Say...
Stiller, who’s spent his entire life around Hollywood, says, "It’s kind of true that everybody will say yes and it doesn’t mean yes. It...
In The UK, National Heritage Needs To Be As Concerned For Nature As For...
“What we have at present is a rather stark hierarchy of heritage. Buildings and artefacts are granted high levels of safeguarding. Yet culturally important...
Author Nicola Dinan, Who Was A Scientist And A Lawyer, Just Won A Debut...
“Working as a lawyer taught me how much can turn on a single word. I was always too clumsy to actually be a scientist...
The Best Actress Race Is Rough To Predict
“It’s hard to think of a year more stocked with major female contenders than this one. At one point, it seemed like there were...
In Los Angeles, Artists’ Life Work Has Gone Up Into Smoke And Ashes
As one of the many, many artists who lost studios and archives said, "It’s terror and despair.” - The New York Times
Why The Supreme Court Is Likely Going To Let The TikTok Ban Proceed
“The argument really felt like a national security case and a First Amendment case walk into a bar. There’s two totally different cases, and...
Sam Moore, Who Died Last Week, Was One Of The Twentieth Century’s Best Performers
“The effect is electrifying, both intense – Moore used to talk about himself ‘liquefying’ during performances.” - The Guardian (UK)
Richard Foreman, Theatre Impresario And Mysterious Playwright, Has Died At 87
“Foreman’s plays tended to be ‘peerless mini-extravaganzas’ offering ‘dizzying theatrical joys,’ Ben Brantley wrote in one 2004 Times review.” Then there was the genius grant,...
Inside The San Diego Symphony’s 104-Year-Old Organ
“The original organ mechanisms from the 1920s were made of hair sheep leather imported from England. They have been replaced with new hair sheep...
Spotify Is Simply Awful For Music
Just … wow: “The neo-payola promotional schemes; the minuscule royalties paid to artists, not to mention the royalty-free 'ghost artists'; the designation of huge...
How Do You Write, And Draw, To Keep A Baby’s Attention?
Board books: They’re really hard. Imagine a baby. “The baby has a note taped to them. The note says, 'I can’t read. I can’t...
Did A Blockchain Billionaire Squash An Article About Him Eating Maurizio Cattelan’s Banana?
According to Fortune, Justin Sun “pressured the crypto trade publication CoinDesk to retract a December 2 article by Callan Quinn that was critical of Sun’s press...
How TikTok, And Other Tech, Are Reshaping Classical Music
Big caveat, of course: “Technology enhances the concert experience, but we must ensure it doesn’t overshadow the music itself.” - Daily Cal
What The Arts Mean In The Long Run Isn’t What We Think They Do...
“Many musicians and other creative spirits feel as if they have little significance or impact in our society. The prevailing metrics of success—money, power,...
Why Are Airports Such Great Settings For Thrillers?
They’re intense places, and as we all know to our chagrin, they’re often "where your long-held plans can go awry.” - NPR
London Relaxed Its Rules About Turning Office Blocks Into Apartments, But It’s Still Slow...
“There has been a surge in applications for office-to-residential conversions since the lifting of an office space limit last March. However, architects say they...
TikTok Creators Are In Limbo, Wondering What’s Going To Happen Next
Will it be banned? “That’s the pressing question keeping creators and small business owners in anxious limbo as they await a decision that could...
The Process – And The Anti-Pigeon Devices – That Went Into Mike Leigh’s New...
Turns out the improvisational process he goes through with his actors is similar for the set designers. "I discover the story as the characters...
Animation Seems Ripe For AI, But That’s Not To Say It’s Going To Be...
Studios plan to use artists to create characters or looks - and then “fine-tune” them, owning them forever, using AI. As you might imagine,...
The Architects Were Fascists, So Should Italy Tear Their Buildings Down?
"There is no room for revisionism concerning the regime’s cruelty, but the Casa del Fascio and other buildings by Terragni and his circle show...
