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Can An Art Exhibit Fight The Power?
That’s the question Miami artists are asking in an anti-Alligator Alcatraz show that is an attempt to create "an activating power,” not "just going...
When An AI-Generated Image Passes The So-Called Visual Turing Test, What Next?
"If a machine creates a song that brings a person to tears, does it matter that the machine felt nothing? Where does the meaning...
Smell Test: Something About This Malevich Painting Story Doesn’t Add Up
No, really: What kind of weird, involved scheme is this, and can we trace it back to Stalin? - BBC
Three Pittsburgh Theatres Say They’re On The Brink Of Collapse
“Three of Pittsburgh’s most venerable troupes announced they are looking into ways they might join forces to survive. The announcement by Pittsburgh Public Theater,...
In An Era Of Getting Everything On Our Small Screens, We Still Love Stadium...
But why? Truly, in - for instance - the Stade de France, with 80,000 other people, how is the moment at all good, musically...
There’s A New Movie About Social Media Stalking, And Even Its Actors Can Barely...
“Someone could make the right comment on the right day or reply to a story in the right moment and get inside the head...
If Netflix’s Animated Smash Also Smashes The Box Office, We’ll Never Know
At least, not by official box office receipts, though estimates (including one that says it “set a box office record”) have some pretty strong...
If You Love Paris, Or Beauty, You Probably Love This Caillebotte Painting
But why is it so compelling - and why isn’t the artist better known? - WSJ (Internet Archive)
Gen-X, Watching Its Very Own Shows With Its Gen-Z And Alpha Kids, Faces The...
“Having lived through the era, I can’t say it’s all depicted perfectly.” - The New York Times
Scholars And Artists Respond To The US Administration’s Alarming List Of So-Called ‘Objectionable’ Art
This is a playbook we’ve all seen before. Rigoberto Gonzalez, whose painting about refugees crossing the border wall was deemed “objectionable,” says that “the...
In Egypt, Divers And Officials Recover Ancient Ruins From The Mediterranean
The remains of the sunken city include "partially preserved pre-Roman statues of sovereigns and sphinxes, such as a beheaded Ptolemaic granite sculpture and an...
Why Is Duolingo’s Chess App So Weirdly Addicting?
Sure, yes, so is the language part. But: “The game is filling a hole for this type of instruction; there aren’t many programs that...
The 13th Century French Castle Built Entirely By Hand, Mostly In The 21st Century
“Guédelon has quarriers, stone cutters, masons, joiners, blacksmiths, tilers, painters, carpenters, ropemakers, wheelwrights, carters and basketmakers – 60-odd artisans in all – building cob...
The Rather Specific Niche Of Perfect Airplane Movie
“I look for anything that is mindlessly fun or otherwise engrossing enough to help me forget that I am hurtling through the air in...
The Long Past, And The Future, Of Lesbian Pulp Novels
"Cheap and easy, at least five hundred lesbian-themed paperbacks sold millions of copies nationwide between 1935 and 1965. That’s a lot of lesbians.” -...
A Highly Infectious Disease Forced This Band To ‘World Tour’ Themselves Locally
In 2001, thanks to foot-and-mouth disease, “the Rothbury Highland pipe band embarked on a tour of the Coquet Valley in Northumberland.” And they haven’t...
Chris Doyle, Artist Whose Work Was Described As ‘Narnia On Acid,’ Has Died At...
Doyle was “a multimedia artist who made poetic and beguiling pieces — exquisite animated work that explored ideas about civilization and evolution.” - The...
Will K-Pop Demon Hunters Make It Into The Oscars?
The film premiered in June on Netflix to little fanfar. But “given the way that Demon Hunters has broken out, the streamer would be remiss not...
American Playwriting Is, Truly, The House That George C. White Built
White's "initial goal was modest: He wanted to open a theatre.” Things sort of snowballed from there. - American Theatre
Bluesky Is The First Social Media Site To Go Dark In Mississippi As A...
Bluesky: “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond its child safety goals, and creates significant barriers that limit free speech and disproportionately...
Italian Filmmakers Ask Venice Film Fest To Take A More Pro-Palestinian Stance
And Venice says it "is, as always, open to dialogue.” - Variety
Museums Across The United States Are Trying To Figure Out How To Face Rising...
Mostly, they’re knuckling under. One might, if one were a student of history, think of this as totalitarian. “The chilling effect on museum programming...
The United States Can’t Afford To Lose The Institute Of American Indian Arts
"I believe in the power of offering Indigenous people opportunity and space for investigation — both personal and communal. I believe in the power...
Oh, Francis Ford Coppola, You Can’t Lecture People Into Making Your Movie A Cult...
A basic - and weird - misunderstanding of fandom accompanied the director on a six-city tour and lecture series about Megalopolis (still unavailable to...
Bobbi Jene Smith And Or Schreiber, The Couple Who Are The ‘It’ Choreographers Of...
The dances they make “hinge on an evocative, slippery-fish ambiguity. Their dreamlike montages are often turbulent and disorienting, but can also feel unnervingly familiar.”...
