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We Finally Have An Opening Date For LACMA
That’s April, 2026. “LACMA has likened Zumthor‘s design to a kind of living organism. Indeed, the raw concrete is already showing signs of...
Maybe Having Billionaire Newspaper Owners Isn’t Great For Democracy?
The LA Times and Washington Post didn’t endorse a candidate, and it seems like their executives are "hoping to hedge their bets in advance...
The Indie Filmmaker Trying To Change Our Narrative On The American Dream
Sean Baker’s Anora and his other films are “raw, intimate portraits of Americans who are often misrepresented or overlooked in pop culture, particularly sex...
Will The Repaired, Reopened Notre Dame Charge An Entrance Fee?
The reopening is barreling toward its reopening date, and “while visitors to the most notable cathedrals in neighbouring countries, including Spain, Italy and Britain,...
Israeli Authorities Censor A Film Screening In Jaffa
“Hours before a scheduled screening of a documentary about the 1948 depopulation of the Palestinian city of Lyd, Israeli police blocked a Jaffa theater from...
The Ultimate Fan Find: A Long-Form Pre-Dracula Story By Bram Stoker
"Brian Cleary stumbled upon the 134-year-old ghostly tale while browsing the archives of the National Library of Ireland. Gibbet Hill was originally published in...
The UK’s Northern Ballet May Start Sharing An Orchestra With Opera North
Northern Ballet said that it was “under financial pressure, brought about largely by rising production and touring costs” - and in order to save...
No, Marvel Didn’t Kill The Movie Star, Whatever That Is Anyway
"The problem with this theory is that it stems from a rather conservative sense of cultural terror." - The Guardian (UK)
Why Nostalgia Is Taking Over Television
What an expert says: "In times of disagreement and dissent, nostalgia peaks. COVID was an example of what stimulates nostalgia. … Vintage TV wants...
A Dog’s Relationship To Art
"Oscar seems to like interacting with the art, and his way of interacting seems ideal to me—kinetic, bodied, hyperpresent to the granular details of...
How The Artists Of The Third Generation Since The Holocaust Are Dealing With Historical...
“The third-generation perspective on the Holocaust is carefully hedged, defiantly distanced, explicitly filtered, supremely self-aware. These stories fundamentally do not belong to the writers...
Ten Important Oscar Movies Questions
And answers. For instance: Why would this be the year the Academy finally embraced Sean Baker? - Vulture
Norway’s TV Station Run By, And For, People With Learning Disabilities
“In Norway, as in every country, people with learning disabilities face issues ranging from low employment rates to access to support and housing. Being...
Has Michel Houellebecq Truly Written His Last Book?
The French novelist “is such a sly and ambiguous writer that I’m not always sure when he’s kidding. I often identify with his characters,...
Will Reality TV Franchises Kill Reality TV?
“As a risk-averse industry relies more and more on safe, conventional choices in a genre built on provocation and experimentation, reality’s franchise explosion raises...
Can Democracy Survive?
Anne Appelbaum, who has written many a book on autocratic dictators, says there’s a real case for optimism, or at least against pessimism. “It...
When The Art Of Tirzah Garwood Finally Came Back Into The Light
Most of her work belongs to private collectors, and she was, before now, known more as a wife to an artist than as an...
The Thirty-Year-Old Encrypted Code That Helped End Apartheid
Once apartheid fell apart, the man who created the code encrypted the disk it was on - and eventually forgot the password. - Wired
How To Write The Biography Of A Woman
“Dilemmas on how to depict a woman so that she is taken seriously and how to navigate the archival violence previously done against her,...
What It’s Like To Be A Poet Whose Home Is Gaza
Poet Mosab Abu Toha, who fled with his family last year: “My frightening childhood shaped me. And I'm still traumatized from childhood. And I'm...
How Navalny’s Prison Diaries Made It Into Print
“Navalny wrote about how it was becoming more difficult to get his messages and memoir pages out. 'Everything that I write and keep, or...
Fired Dallas Black Dance Theatre Members Aren’t Giving Up The Fight
“The dispute threatens to cloud the company’s new season, with the fired dancers demanding to be reinstated and vowing to form picket lines at coming performances....
Author Joy Williams Says The ‘Comfy Story’ Writers Enjoy Telling Must Change
“I’m always trying to convince myself that fiction will rise up and throw away the crutches that have been supporting it for far too long.” -...
Architects Love A Tricky Site
“Some projects seek to soar above the mucky stuff. Others embrace the difficulties, making them into an occasion to create something that would never...
The Ur-Designer Who Knows Apple Has Lost Its Way
Don Norman: "Apple fell prey to the disastrous part of design, which is that design is about making something beautiful and elegant. And I...
