Add Victorian Science And Victorian Bigotry, And You Get Dracula
Witness a folk remedy popular in the 19th century: "If the heart of a corpse contained blood, it was believed that it showed it...
What’s Going To Happen At The Oscars?
Only pundits know, and even they don't really know much. "The Academy declared 276 films from 2021 as Oscar-eligible, and much of the responsibility...
A Re-Delayed Reopening On Broadway
The musical Mrs. Doubtfire closed temporarily because of Omicron and will not reopen until April. "The hiatus left the show’s cast, crew and musicians...
Prison Choirs Unite To Sing Beethoven’s Fidelio, An Opera About Unjust Imprisonment
In this production, via recordings, "singers from six prison musical groups — a mix of over 100 men and women who are incarcerated as...
How The French Rococo Inspired Disney’s Look
That's right, if you don't like the look of Disney princesses, not to mention the talking clocks and wardrobes, you can blame Jean-Honoré Fragonard,...
Building Communities People Really Want
Talk less; play more. When people used their hands to build a model Los Angeles, they made "bioswales, pedestrian zones, unearthing creeks long covered...
The Museum Within A Museum, Bringing A Long-Held Dream To Reality In Brazil
The artist Abdas do Nascimiento dreamed of a museum for Black art in his country, but "after years in exile during a military dictatorship...
Regular Streaming Is Crowded, And Then There’s The Fight For Anime
On the good side, "you no longer have to shell out hundreds of dollars for a VHS set or rely on pirated versions of...
An Argument About The Loan Of A Congolese Statue Escalates With The Sale Of...
A Virginia museum has loaned the statue to Europe but won't loan it to a gallery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, so...
How Does A Film Studies Prof Teach Last Year’s Complex, Not Oscar-Nominated, Palme D’Or...
Titane is not easy to parse. "Julia Ducournau is willing to explore the strange, to show us our own bodies, soft and hard, that...
What ‘Slave Play’ Means To The Actors In The Play
Antoinette Crow-Legacy says the Jeremy O. Harris play "gives me freedom to be messy and complicated and blur the lines between right and wrong."...
To Find Out How Much Medieval Literature We Lost, We’re Turning To Wildlife
A wildlife tracking method, specifically: "Mike Kestemont, computational text researcher at the University of Antwerp, and his colleagues used the 'unseen species' model, which...
There’s A Boom In Horror Right Now, Especially By Women Directors
What's that about? "There’s a great artistic freedom in horror that’s perhaps not available in other genres. Obviously, in a drama, you can’t have...
The Uncanny Valley Has Turned Into The Trustworthy Town Square
It's a bit alarming. "Farid and Nightingale asked participants to look at a selection of them and sort them into real and fake. Participants...
Playwright Sanaz Toossi On Language, Representation, And The Comic Potential Of Bleeding Onto The...
Toossi wrote one her plays going up in New York in white-hot anger after the Trump Muslim travel ban. "If all that ever gets...
What A Tennessee Ban On ‘Maus’ Means For The Artists Inspired By The Book
"Maus galvanized a generation of comics creators to fill bookshelves with graphic narratives about the Holocaust and its inheritance and inspired a community of thinkers...
Mark Morris Says No, Artists Are Definitely Not OK Right Now
Morris, on dance rehearsal: "It was horrible. ... Everyone was freaked out. You’re scared being next to each other, and you’re scared to talk...
The Painful Experience Of An In-Person Film Festival
In Berlin, during the many nasal swab tests, "I look up and to the right as the technician inserts the little wand, either affecting...
Why Hasn’t The City Of Los Angeles Reopened Its Arts Spaces?
In a "totally Kafkaesque" situation, one artist's show ran without the public ever being able to see it. "All facilities overseen by the city’s...
Why Hollywood Won’t Quit Guns
In the most heavily armed country, the presence of guns isn’t considered out of the ordinary, especially in states with open-carry laws. That familiarity extends...
How Libraries Shape Our Literature
Books reach Americans in multiple ways these days, not only as e-books. They might arrive as audio books, in serialized form through online services,...
Ultimate Brag In Social Media: “I Can’t Stop Thinking About…”
If one person shouts that she can’t stop thinking about something, the natural response is not to join in her particular obsession but to...
Reimagining NPR To Serve Everyone
In his new book, Chávez uses media industry data and 50 interviews with public media workers to argue that NPR’s growth has come at...
Claim: NFTs Are Nothing But A Scam
I think people accurately recognize that just by watching people get involved in crypto. You watch an artist who starts selling NFTs, and over...
Report: NYC Arts Organizations Serving People Of Color Are Struggling
It’s not as if more money isn’t a goal for these organizations; more often than not, they say, it’s a question of resources and...
