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Why Superfans Treat Disney Like A Religion

To Deborah DeGiovine — and others around the world — visiting a Disney park isn't just a summer vacation. It's the site for important life events, and personal meaning that may border on the spiritual, or even religious. - CBC

Appreciating The Singular Talent Of Angela Lansbury

Lansbury’s ability to be both broad and subtle, larger than life yet unmistakably human, was indispensable in introducing the world to “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” - Los Angeles Times

Riding AI Image Generators Down A Rabbit Hole Of Bizarre Pop Culture

After a while I started to realize that this was more than just fun and more than just horror: Stable Diffusion is birthing a multiverse of alternate realities, all distilled from the very personal visions of tens (hundreds?) of thousands of fans who probably jumped at the possibility. - Fast Company

Inside Orange County’s New Museum

Los Angeles-based Morphosis, which was founded by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, designed the structure to have a "gradient of architectural intensity, from complex forms at the museum's entry to rectilinear and flexible forms within the galleries". - Dezeen

Special High-Tech Glasses For Color-Blind Visitors At The Dallas Museum Of Art

Glasses from the specialist manufacturer EnChroma "use cutting-edge lens technology to enhance the color perception of visitors with red-green deficiency ... to give color blind visitors a chance to experience the full spectrum of some of the museum’s most vibrant paintings." - Artnet

The Point Of Poetry?

If you asked a hundred contemporary poets working today to define what they meant by poetry you would find yourself orbiting a hundred differing, often conflicting definitions. - The Point

“A Strange Loop” Will Have The Shortest Run Of Any Recent Best Musical Winner

"(The Tony and Pulitzer winner) will close on Broadway on Jan. 15, after a short run that reflects the industry's ongoing pandemic-related struggles and the challenges of marketing an unconventional musical that wrestles with complex themes." - The New York Times

Even TS Eliot Couldn’t Make A Living By Writing Poetry

Not even great poets can live off their poetry — “The Waste Land” sold only about 330 copies in its first six months — so Eliot, from the mid-1920s on, worked as a director of a new publishing firm called Faber & Faber. - Washington Post

Why Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Is So Pleased To Be Taking Over Geneva’s Ballet

"Although I was born in Flanders, I sometimes feel like a foreigner because of my background and the way my life has gone. In Geneva, at least I am a real foreigner! I often feel ... shared between several cultures, and in Geneva, I am happy to find real multiculturalism." - Bachtrack

The New Economy: Warner Brothers TV Makes Deep Cuts

The studio is cutting 26% of personnel, a total of 125 positions, across scripted, unscripted and animation. - Deadline

How Hindu Nationalists Have Intimated And Bullied Bollywood Into Submission

Actors and directors are threatened by crowds and harassed by authorities; occasionally, a film set is vandalized; some stories become off-limits. "Out of fear, you draw back and you draw back and you draw back, until you step on the very people you ought to be defending." - The New Yorker

Why It Always Comes Down To Good Versus Evil

The ideas of “Good” and “Evil” are premised on some concept of “Value.” That is, “Good” and “Evil” can only be real if some things are “better” and some things “worse.” - 3Quarks Daily

Toshi Ichiyanagi, Composer And Major Figure In Japan’s Avant-Garde (And The First Mr. Yoko Ono), Is Dead At 89

"(He was) a pioneer, using free-spirited compositional techniques that left much to chance, incorporating ... traditional Japanese elements and instruments but also electronic music. He was known for collaborations that defied the boundaries of genres, working with Jasper Johns and Merce Cunningham, as well as innovative Japanese artists ... (including) Ono." - AP

Cate Blanchett Works Very, Very Hard, And She Really, Really Doesn’t Like To Talk About How She Does It

"It's the eternal problem where you make a deep, instinctual connection with something ... but then you move through it, you put it out there, ... and then we go through this process where somehow the person that it's moved through has to make sense of it." - The New York Times Magazine

How Much Is The Life Of Cate Blanchett’s Character In “Tár” Like That Of A Real Conductor?

In terms of the music-making, Justin Davidson observes, Blanchett and filmmaker Todd Field do very well. But Lydia Tár's awful behavior? She could've gotten away with much of it decades ago, but not now.  And, alas, no female conductor has yet had the opportunity for anything like Tár's career. - Vulture

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