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The Guys Who Design Those Really Intense Movie Theatre Popcorn Buckets
“The most difficult products are the ones that have a human face, because getting skin tones and the shadows and all that stuff can...
Maria Benitez, Who Popularized And Championed Flamenco In The States, Has Died At 82
Benítez was “an American dancer and choreographer who, as the founder of a popular Spanish dance troupe, played a major role in making New...
What The Internet Archive Decision Means To All Of Us
The Internet Archive “is the only keeper of the internet’s first days, via the Wayback Machine. ... The archive is a huge source for...
As The British Empire Died, Tropical Modernism Came To Dominate Postcolonial Architecture
A new exhibition shows how local architects in Ghana and India took the British idea of tropical modernism and turned it into a symbol...
Michael Lerner, Founder Of The Influential, Controversial Magazine Tikkun, Has Died At 81
“By the late 1980s, Tikkun had established itself as an outlet for writers who shared his conviction that some form of Palestinian self-determination was...
Amid A Wider Exodus From China, Ballet Dancer Du Hai Finds His Place In...
He tried the United States for a while, but then a spot opened in Japan - and, like many other Chinese intellectuals, he’s found...
Millennial Nostalgia Is Driving Pop Culture
Just as Boomer nostalgia influenced Gen-X for far longer than it perhaps should have, Gen-Zers (and the rest of us) will have years of...
Kate Winslet Opened The Door For Another Woman To Get A Big Credit On...
Winslet is playing Lee Miller, a photojournalist in WWII (and also the lover of Man Ray and a model for Vogue). She wanted another...
Disney Plans An Entertainment Merger In India To Strengthen Its Existence
“This gives Disney a stronger foothold in the challenging Indian market while supporting Reliance's expansion efforts. It also pits the new entertainment behemoth against...
Is There Any Merit To Musicians’ Copyright Claims Against The Former President For His...
“Music industry experts and copyright law attorneys say the cases, as well as Trump’s decision to continue playing certain songs despite artists’ requests that...
Artist Rebecca Horn, Whose Sculptures Saw The Body As A Portal To Other Dimensions,...
Horn created performance-oriented works in the 1960s that “envisioned new possibilities for women’s bodies, outfitting her participants with appendages that caused them to seem...
Little Free Library Plans To Get Banned Books Into The Hands Of The People
Check the map. “Florida and Texas have the most bans in place, with 2647 and 1469 in place respectively. Thankfully the number of Little...
An Unconventional Approach Can Put The Life Back Into Autobiography
That’s what Janet Malcolm did for Sylvia Plath in 1994, and thirty years later, that’s what Alexis Pauline Gumbs decided on for a new...
Sergio Mendes, Bossa Nova King And Brazilian Hitmaker, Has Died At 83
With his group, Brasil ’66, “some of the songs were in Portuguese, some were in English, but all of them were driven along by...
What Happens When You Drop Your Phone Down An Air Vent In Chicago’s Music...
“The light of Matt Carr’s headlamp only goes so far while he’s crawling in one of the air shafts beneath the seats of the...
HBO Hasn’t Had This Few Emmy Nominations Since Bill Clinton Was A First-Term President
Should HBO/MAX and parent company Warner Bros. Discovery be worried? - Vulture
Documenting Russia’s War On Ukraine, One Ruined Building Mural At A Time
In 2022, a commander told Gamlet Zinkivsky to put down his guns and start painting because “the power of his art is much stronger...
In-Store Record Shop Gigs Are Changing Touring For Regular Musicians
For indie bands in the UK, “the in-store has become part of the process of building a week-one launchpad for the campaign and building...
Mexican Singer Jaramar Sotos Has A Passion For Revitalizing The Voices Of Women In...
The Grammy winner stumbled across 17th-century music by accident. “Much of this Baroque music was written by women who sang about the pain of...
The Future Of Video Games, Like That Of A Lot Of Media, Is Looking...
With eight years in development, Concord, “was a brand-new franchise that didn’t get much of a marketing push and drew the ire of ‘anti-woke’...
Deep Inside The Precipitous Rise And Steep Fall Of Vice Media
Eddie Huang, who worked at Vice and has a new documentary out: Gavin McInnes's “voice and opinions are so entangled and at the foundation...
Jackie Winsor, The First Woman Sculptor To Have A Solo Show At MoMA, Has...
“In contrast to Donald Judd, her neighbor in ... Manhattan, who outsourced much of his work to industrial fabricators, Ms. Winsor could typically be...
Disney Is Trying Hard To Kneecap Traditional TV
“At 7 p.m., we encountered ... a dark message, accompanied by a QR code and a suggestion to visit the website TVPromise.com: 'Our contract...
Elizabeth Strout On Why Writing About Her Ordinary Characters Is So Interesting To So...
“It’s so interesting to think about the vast variety of things that can take place within one person’s life, and how nobody ever really...
How To Change A New Opera For The Met
Jeanine Tesori: “If we did Grounded in theater, George and I would be going up to some room with questionable carpeting and just working...
