Don’t Put Hannah Arendt On A Pedestal
“Nearly a year into a second Trump presidency and 50 years after Arendt’s death, she is still routinely invoked as the key to understanding our moment. It’s...
The Sphere May Be The Horrifying Future Of Entertainment For All Of Us
“There is no escape in the Sphere. The walls are screens. The ceilings are screens. The floor, swooping underneath you at an impossible angle,...
Mad Men’s Special Effects Foreman Has Some Things To Say About The Events Of...
Such events being HBO’s Mad Men remaster that showed a little too much. “We always tried to camouflage ourselves as much as possible, but...
Performance Professionals Are Learning From Toddlers
“Some artists are … making very young children a part of the choreographic process, or creating music designed to get them moving. They’re...
Four European Countries Boycott Eurovision Over Israel’s Participation
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have all withdrawn from the 2026 competition. The Dutch broadcaster: "After weighing all perspectives, Avrotros concludes that, under...
What Changed About Hamnet Between Page And Screen
The book is not only made up of words but also concerns words. The author, who co-wrote the screenplay: "To make a 400-page novel...
This Oscar Winner Has Been In The Business For More Than Six Decades
Youn Yuh-jung, Oscar winner for Minari, doesn’t want to be seen as an icon, however. “In Korea, they usually say, ‘Is there any message...
According To The BBC, These Are The Ten Most Iconic Gehry Buildings
From Spain to France to the Czech Republic and, well, Spain again, here are the BBC’s faves. - BBC
And We Know It’s Good For Netflix
The deal with Warner Bros. “gives the streaming giant an identity it didn’t have before and a back catalog that will rival that of...
Hey, Hang On, Netflix Might Be Great For Warner Bros.
Well, good, anyway. “Staffers at the company are taking comfort in what Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said about HBO on a...
Our Changing Notions Of The Purpose Of Monuments
Rather than construct an imagined past as a universal tradition, as with conventional monuments... contemporary artists understand ambivalence and impermanence as key conditions of...
Where Drag Meets The Viola (There’s A Joke In There Somewhere)
Stuck at home in Palo Alto with two parents who teach in Stanford’s music department, Ezra Costanza created the drag character Obsidienne Obsurd, a...
Architect Frank Gehry, 96
Gehry, who arrived in L.A. as an aimless teenager just after World War II and went on to become the most famous and one...
The Notion Of Decline Of Our Education System Is A Long-Running Trope
The suspicion that Americans are becoming more illiterate has long been irresistible to the educated class. In the present day, this happens to be...
Norman Foster’s New JP Morgan Tower In Manhattan: An Obscene Essay In Steel
The sheer amount of structural steel – 95,000 tonnes in total – is obscene for a building that contains just 60 storeys in its...
Ex-Director Of Dance At Kennedy Center Says Her Firing Wasn’t A Surprise
Jane Raleigh: “There was definitely an overarching feeling of waiting for the shoe to drop. I was committed to staying until I was removed,...
This Year’s Best New Architecture
Editors of Dezeen pick their favorites, including new cultural institutions, homes, hotels, skyscrapers and even an architecture school. - Dezeen
Fascinating: Research Find That Fantastical Programming Impairs Cognitive Attention In Children
The researchers found a significant negative effect for fantastical content. Children who watched programs featuring impossible events tended to perform worse on attention and...
Report: Trump’s Kennedy Center Is Stiffing Artists On The Fees
Representatives for three performers tell THR they’re still waiting on checks months after their shows. - The Hollywood Reporter
Pathé Will Return To Making English-Language Films
“French production and exhibition giant Pathé is looking to ‘re-launch’ its English-language film business with the appointment of FilmNation president of motion pictures Ben Browning as co-CEO of...
Why Trump Fired His Ballroom Architect. And Here’s His Replacement
Trump and McCrery had clashed over the president’s desire to keep increasing the size of the building, but it was McCrery’s firm’s small workforce...
How AI Is Changing How Architecture Is Conceived
Across design firms, respondents emphasized two immediate gains: speed and the ability to generate options. - ArchDaily
Why Does AI Write Like That? And Why Are People Willing To Read It?
If you’re anything like me, you did not enjoy reading that paragraph. Everything about it puts me on alert: Something is wrong here; this...
CEO Of Waterstone’s And Barnes & Noble Says They Would Sell AI-Authored Books (If...
“We as booksellers would naturally and instinctively disdain it,” said James Daunt, but “maybe it's going to produce the next War and Peace. And...
This Year’s Kennedy Center Honors Will Be Different
Previous hosts of the Kennedy Center Honors have included Walter Cronkite, Stephen Colbert, Gloria Estefan and Queen Latifah. Trump will host this year, a...
