This actor we all know so well has done something that, for him, is entirely new - at 80 years old. “Rather than the banal, De Niro’s Hale embodies what you might call the congeniality of evil.” - Slate
“Many scenes and images in The Boy and the Heron echo those from his earlier films, only this time they’re rendered in service of a story almost wholly about the profound ravages of war.” - The Atlantic
"We have to make our galleries welcoming and accessible, and to make it clear they are not just about the past and full of dead white males.” Lower prices for those younger than 25 don’t hurt either. - The Observer (UK)
In Brooklyn, “on the site of an old record shop and club, the company has built a 200-seat mainstage, a 60-seat second stage, several classrooms, where improv and comedy writing are taught, and a restaurant." - NPR
Paxton "helped radically upend ideas about dance as a member of the 1960s collective Judson Dance Theater in New York City, and ... developed contact improvisation, a movement form that is now practiced around the world." - The New York Times
Honestly, the memes are everywhere on social media - and now there’s rat hole art for sale. Why enshrine a rat (or more likely a squirrel) this way? “The rat hole, in an odd way, conveys hope." - Chicago Sun-Times
The musicians’ union calls it “a major win” and “a watershed moment.” Next up: The “below the line” workers - that is to say, the Hollywood crew members in IATSE and the Teamsters - start to bargain. - MSN (Los Angeles Times)
The Golden Bear goes to … a one-hour documentary about the return of some artwork? Yes. And “by awarding the top prize to Dahomey, the jury doubled down on Berlin’s distinctive, more political and less populist identity.” - The Guardian (UK)
Says one HBCU alum, Broadway director and theatre founder Kenny Leon, “I was trained to believe in myself and know that anything is possible. You didn’t have to go to Juilliard, Harvard, or Yale. All you have to do is understand the practicality.” - American Theatre
"Her magically vibrant and simultaneously mournful and vulnerable painting expresses the dualism at the heart of her vision — and perhaps at the heart of existence itself." - Washington Post
Sorry, Paul Giamatti! Cillian Murphy and Oppenheimer are her. Lily Gladstone seems to have the edge over Emma Stone in the Best Actress category too. The SAG Awards were on Netflix this year - which maybe didn’t know how to handle them. Anyway, here’s the list. - The Hollywood Reporter
A trigger warning is not a call to censorship as the quoted tweeter above suggests – if there is an instinct for that, it should be enacted in the rehearsal room. But it is entirely right that we ensure our audiences know what it is they are getting into. - Classical Music UK
Michelangelo was trapped with his thoughts. He began to have doubts, ones he described as “crazy.” He worried painting in such an unnatural position would lead to bad work. “The painting is dead,” he wrote, adding “I am not in the right place—I am not a painter.” - Artnet
