Winslet is playing Lee Miller, a photojournalist in WWII (and also the lover of Man Ray and a model for Vogue). She wanted another woman to direct, though “potential investors had been ‘patronising’ in their dismissal of Lee as 'a woman’s story.’” - The Observer (UK)
“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 popular rivals such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Sony and 50-odd other streaming platforms.” - BBC
“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 he desist, underscore the complex legalities of copyright infringement in today’s digital, streaming and licensing era.” - Washington Post
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 more like animals.” Later, she created “objects made from metal, liquid, mirrors, and more that seemed not quite human yet not quite inorganic.” - ARTnews
Check the map. “Florida and Texas have the most bans in place, with 2647 and 1469 in place respectively. Thankfully the number of Little Free Libraries is higher in both states: Florida has 2886, and Texas has 2373.” - LitHub
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 book about poet and essayist, publisher and teacher Audre Lorde. - The Atlantic
With his group, Brasil ’66, “some of the songs were in Portuguese, some were in English, but all of them were driven along by Mr. Mendes’s piano and infectious Brazilian rhythms, with the vocals wafting like a summer breeze.” - Washington Post
“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 Music Box Theatre. His hazmat suit, face mask, goggles and knee pads all click and swish and trap heat as his headway kicks up dust.” - Chicago Sun-Times
In 2022, a commander told Gamlet Zinkivsky to put down his guns and start painting because “the power of his art is much stronger than him taking a machine gun and assaulting or defending trenches. His art could empower the people defending the city.” - The New York Times
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 a chart position, because physical sales still leapfrog the streaming economy.” - The Guardian (UK)
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 lost loves who went off to sea. They sang of nostalgia, melancholy and passion. Many of them are also … long forgotten.” - El Pais
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’ snivelers who complained about the game’s use of pronouns on its character selection screen.” Four weeks after launch, Sony killed it. - Wired
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 of Vice hese companies like Disney are investing in the ideas of a Nazi. You cannot separate the two.” - Los Angeles Times
“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 with Disney, the owner of this channel, has expired. We appreciate your patience while we negotiate.’” - Slate
