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The Raw, Brief Power of Dance
Emma Portner isn’t thrilled that people are still finding her choreography from a 2012 Facebook video. "The whole reason I got into performing is...
Gavin Newsom Just Vetoed An AI Safety Bill That Silicon Valley Didn’t Like
The bill "would have established requirements for developers of advanced AI models to create protocols aimed at preventing catastrophes” - and would have required...
Looking For An Artist By Examining Her Palette
Or his, of course. For instance, "Picasso’s palette from 1961 recently fetched £56,250 at auction despite being made of cardboard.” - The Guardian (UK)
How Does Lin-Manuel Miranda Decide What Projects To Pursue?
“If it’s just one idea, it will probably die in the impulse phase. If the idea opens avenues and you see many more roads,...
The Most Devoted Fans Of Sleep No More Are Mourning Its Eventual End
And they’re going to see it again - and again, and again. Not that that’s unusual. - Washington Post
The Art Dealer Who Discovered Picasso And Matisse
Berthe Weill practically created the avant-garde, or least she paid them. Why has she been written out of art history? - The New York...
The Knock-On Effects Of The Hollywood Strikes
“'The air has come out of the content bubble,’ says Matthew Belloni, the founder of Puck News, which covers the entertainment industry. ‘Crisis is...
Fiction Writers Can Learn A Thing Or Two From Dungeons And Dragons
D&D is "a folk practice for generating stories that are both visionary and ephemeral,” a practice which can help create, or sustain, novelists. -...
How Artists Can Partially Control Their Legacies
Michael Crichton was so powerful that he won a “frozen rights” contract, one that even follows him after death - and may tank a...
Kris Kristofferson, Singer, Songwriter, Actor, And Activist, 88
“Steeped in a neo-Romantic sensibility that owed as much to John Keats as to the Beat Generation and Bob Dylan, Mr. Kristofferson’s work explored...
The Film Industry Is Mildly Obsessed With Wuthering Heights
The current controversy isn’t (to mix countries) the industry’s first rodeo with the classic. - The Observer (UK)
Podcasts Are Dominated By People Chatting – And Always Will Be
Why? Money. “Just to be straight up, a lot of the companies wanted to figure out ways to invest less in programming. Narrative podcasts...
It’s Aubrey Plaza’s Autumn, And We’re Just Living In It
“I’m never going to not be hungry to find parts. … It’s almost a survival thing for me where I need to act or...
What That Warhol Decision Means For Art
Nothing good. “Is a commercial art gallery willing to risk litigation if it dares to offer one of Warhol’s Prince or Marilyn silk-screens ‘for sale?’ What if another commercial gallery across town...
Maggie Smith Grew Older, And Old, In Public
She helped redefine what that meant, too, especially for women. “The face and body may change, but the spirit need not falter, the desire...
What’s With The Fourth Wall Break In Francis Ford Coppola’s New Movie?
It only happens in selected screenings (sorry, small-city America). But “it’s more of a feature than a bug, and I salute the audacity.” -...
Herb Alpert At Fifty
Fifty albums, that is. The nearly 90-year-old trumpeter, planning a 2025 tour, says, "Music is a healing vibration that fills me.” - NPR
For A While, We All Had To Read A Separate Peace, But It Actually...
And then, the novelist explains, there’s Gertrude Stein - and William Trevor. - The Guardian (UK)
National Symphony Orchestra Strike Ends A Short-Lived, Historic Strike
“In an escalation after months of labor talks, the musicians walked off the job on Friday for the first time since 1978.” The strike...
The Erotic Review, Formerly An Online Literary Magazine, Is Now In Print
And, supposedly, quite a bit more feminist. The second issue of the relaunch has “'the explicit aim of moving away from the male gaze’...
Clarice Rivers, Muse Of Many An Artist, Poet, Playwright, And Actor, 88
Rivers is the one who inspired Niki de Saint Phalle’s iconic Nana figures, but in addition, she was "a bohemian saloniste whose lifestyle was...
The Fight To Save The History Of The Internet
“The Internet Archive is one of the most important historical-preservation organizations in the world. The Wayback Machine has assumed a default position as a...
How To Game Your Betting On The Oscars
Just like fantasy football, betting on the Oscars (why not, right?) has some simple rules. For one thing, nail your bargain picks. - Vulture
A Judge Rules That Netflix’s ‘Baby Reindeer’ Didn’t Live Up To Its Billing As...
That ruling allows "the real-life ‘Martha' to pursue her defamation lawsuit.” - Variety
The Tech Ethics Drama Playing Out At WordPress
"Last week, WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg came out with a harsh attack on WP Engine, a major WordPress hosting provider, calling the company a ‘cancer’...
