Stories

“Not so long ago, the entertainment industry tucked away women of a certain age on Sexless Mom Island while their male peers wooed girls young enough to be their daughters and granddaughters.” - Washington Post

But that his most recent book is up for both fiction and nonfiction prizes pleases him. “I thought much about my parents who, in a world they knew to be meaningless, nevertheless asserted an idea of love as their answer to the horrors out of which my island home is torn.” - The Guardian (UK)

“Art leaves gaps that invite collaborative dreaming. That is one way Shakespeare manages to keep holding the mirror up to nature.” - Los Angeles Times

At least that’s what Elizabeth Olsen, the woman who plays Wanda Maximoff, says. - Vulture

The social media site that’s been gaining new members by the million this week says that unlike Twitter (“X”), which has promised the opposite, Bluesky does “not use any of your content to train generative AI, and has no intention of doing so.” - The Verge

The thing is, "We invent technology. Technology doesn’t invent us.” (Take that, “AI art.”) - Wired

“The Prado has been bringing novelists to live in an apartment overlooking the museum. They stay for periods ranging from three to six weeks, but they are not expected to write there. All they have to do is look at the art.” - The New York Times

Really, it’s a musical installation, with speakers set up as far from each other as possible in a living room. “The idea is to encourage 'an increased awareness of one’s presence in space — architectural, communal and individual.’” - Washington Post

Artists got a PowerPoint’s worth of info, and then developed their music/dance/theatre/projection combos on their own. The Met “anticipates that many exhibition-goers will encounter performances unexpectedly as they make their way through the show.” - The New York Times

He’s already had his lawyers go after both The New York Times and Penguin Random House. - LitHub

Scabby the Labor Rat now has his own show in New York. - Hyperallergic

“'I’m afraid leather forearm bracers have nothing to do with ancient Rome,’ says Alexander Mariotti, a historian and specialist in gladiatorial combat who worked as a researcher and script consultant on . ‘They don’t appear in any imagery or sources … they just look good on film.’” - The Guardian (UK)

Fishman “was sitting in a restaurant in Adams Morgan one night in 2003 with his wife, attorney Stephanie Richards, when they grabbed a napkin and pen to outline his vision for a jazz festival in the nation’s capital.” - Washington Post (MSN)

"What began with … piling the family and their sets into a van and putting on shows for churches and home-school groups has evolved into a performing arts conservatory, a 300-seat theater and a twice-annual residency at the Museum of the Bible just south of the National Mall." - The Washington Post (MSN)

It is nearly double the size of its original location, at 11 East 26th Street in New York, which opened in 2012 and closed in 2020 and pivoted to virtual programming during the pandemic. - The New York Times