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Today, For The First Time, The Pope Went To The Biennale
“The pope greeted the inmates of the Giudecca prison individually in an inner courtyard. Some gave him flowers, and others pressed envelopes and notes...
On The Whole Screentime Front, Some People Think Kids Belong In Front Of TVs...
Are some screens better than other screens? Possibly! "Research strongly supports the benefits of ‘co-viewing,’ or actively engaging with screens together with your child....
How ‘Shirley Card’ Color Processing Shaped Our Understanding Of Analog And Digital Photos
The Shirley card, which set Kodak color processing values, was intensely racist. - El País English
When A Protest Musician Becomes A Grandparent
Billy Bragg has been putting in the hard work for literal decades. And "here he is in the seaside retirement resort, still fighting the...
Science Fiction Can Be Great, But Boy Howdy Did It Screw Up On Conspiracy...
The man who invented the deep state "wasn’t just a writer and soldier. He was an anti-communist intelligence operative who helped define U.S. psychological...
If New York Bookstores Were People
In honor of yesterday’s Independent Bookstore Day (which, of course, we could all celebrate every day), here’s a visual analysis of some of the...
Young Researchers In Britain Are Desperate For Better Access To Cultural Archives
One curator says, "If this project has taught me anything it is about the need to educate and to introduce learning around how to...
The Challenges Of Translation In Shogun
"Court etiquette of the Sengoku era, as well as the gender politics of the time, mean a lot of things cannot be said explicitly....
The Golden Age Of Mid TV
How did Donald Glover (Atlanta) and Maya Erskine (PEN15) become the poster chlidren for middle-range, middle-of-the-road, no-stakes characters? Their work is just fine in...
The Paramount Acquisition Drama Continues With An Ousted Longterm Executive
Bob Bakish "has been with Paramount and its Viacom predecessor since 1997. He was recruited by Redstone in 2016 to help bring order...
The Surprising Things The Walker Art Center Did To Its Gift Shop
“‘It’s a shop disguised as an exhibition, or an exhibition disguised as a shop,’ Clark said. 'We kind of built a house, and we...
Losing TikTok Would Mean Losing A Lot More Than Fun Dance Videos
One creator: “I don’t think that banning an app that many people have used to raise funds for each other, bring awareness to different...
As Phones Become Mere Commodities, Apple’s Walled Garden Is Crumbling
“We’re a long way from the ‘wow’ moment of that first iPhone. It’s not all vibes, either" - some of it is legal decisions...
Traditional Museums Are, Finally, Waking Up To Children
At the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, for instance, an Art Crawl "is held three times a month for newborns through 14-month-old children, who...
Kerry Condon Is The Most Successful Irish Woman Actor
Did you know that? She’s happy if you don’t. - Irish Times
Should The Louvre Move The Mona Lisa To Its Own Room?
"Such a move would give visitors, many of whom visit the Louvre for the famous painting alone, a better experience, Laurence des Cars told...
What Is The Deal With LACMA’s Plan To Share Art With An As-Yet Unbuilt...
“Rather than enlarging its physical footprint, LACMA aims to broaden its cultural reach, influence and presence in the West, and globally — a benign...
How Five Actors With Limited Musical Training Became A Band For Broadway’s Stereophonic
“'I was like, as long as someone is musical, any idiot can be in a band,’ Butler said. ‘I can write to whatever...
The Critical Book Stanley Kubrick Blocked With Legal Threats Is Now, At Last, Going...
“His reaction to The Magic Eye showed Kubrick’s image-control obsessions taken to extremes. He didn’t just make edits – he erased the entire project.” But now,...
Smithsonian Staff Are Worried About A Clampdown On LGBTQIA Content
At a GOP hearing in December, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch told representatives that he didn’t think having children at drag shows was “appropriate.” Since...
Marvel Star Chris Pratt And His Wife Demolished An Architecturally Significant Los Angeles House
The Zimmerman House was designed by architect Craig Ellwood in 1950, and was - before Pratt and his wife, Kathryn Schwarzenegger, had it torn...
Blue Denim, A Painting Seems To Show, Is Centuries Older Than Levi’s
An Italian gallery "is appealing for further research to help identify an anonymous painter who specialised in street scenes that often depict poor people...
At The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Winners Support Ousted USC Valedictorian
"Tananarive Due, who won ... for her novel The Reformatory, used her speech to add: ‘As we face the horrors in our cities, in...
The Tips And Tricks Of A 23-Year-Old Crossword-Solving Champion
The young speedster says, Ttraining your eye to move back and forth from clues to grid without losing your place, remembering clues when you...
The Original Star Trek Enterprise Model, Missing For Decades, Has Surfaced At Sotheby’s
"For die-hard Trekkies, the model’s disappearance had become the subject of folklore, so an eBay listing last fall, with a starting bid of $1,000, didn’t go...
