Horror Helps Us Deal With The All Too Real Experience Of Loved Ones’ Deaths
Not to mention our own. "In horror, there is no ultimate triumph at the end. Even if the characters survive or defeat the monster,...
What Happens When Everyone Is Literally Writing The Same Book?
As one might suspect, one author says that "when we learned of one another’s existence, it felt a little awkward." - The New York...
The Power – And Virtue – Of Hateful Characters
Oh, it's a joy to hate the Roys on Succession. How refreshing! "Likeability is an odd requirement, as well as a sterile and stifling...
As Lockdown Ends In Australia, Artists Are In Desperate Straits
A Melbourne gallery director says that along with years of massively shrinking arts funding, "the pandemic lockdowns left the industry on its knees. ......
The People Who Want To Ban Toni Morrison’s Beloved Have One Thing Right
One expert on challenged books: "Beloved is an extremely violent book, it’s absolutely true. But that is the point of the book. This mother ?...
There’s An Explanation For Why Some People Loathe Specific Celebrities
Honestly, you might think, who cares about James Corden or Nicki Minaj? Some people really care, and frankly, it's a little scary. "Fan culture,...
It Wasn’t Just Gertrude Stein And Alice Toklas, And A Prizewinning Book Knows That
No Modernism Without Lesbians is the title of Diana Souhami's most recent book - and the "hugely enjoyable" history of queer women like Stein,...
Can Afghan Art Survive The Taliban?
Hundreds, perhaps more, of artists of all cultural areas have fled. One artist, whose murals have been whitewashed: "The future of art and culture...
The Choreographers Making Utopian Films In Minneapolis
One choreographer - a former econ major at Macalester College - says, "If I walk out of here in downtown Minneapolis, I don’t know...
How The Humanities Make Better Thinkers
Henry Adams once wrote that “nothing in education is more astonishing than the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”...
K-Pop Is Big. So It’s Getting Its Own 20,000-seat Arena
Backed by CJ Live City, a subsidiary of Korean entertainment conglomerate CJ ENM, the venue is designed for mega-scale concerts with 20,000 indoor seats, and...
Whitney Houston Is Back. Singing! Dancing! Are These DeepFake Holograms Creepy Or Cool?
The show in many ways shatters the norms of techno-illusion. A two-minute deep fake is one thing. The dead dancing for us is another....
The Dance That Didn’t Get Made During Lockdown (Sorta)
Choreographer Madeline Hollander has brought together New York City dancers, from big and small companies and from Broadway shows, and given them a task: to perform...
Ai Wei Wei On Being Ai Wei Wei
Ai’s trajectory is impossible to understand without knowing about his late father, Ai Qing. Regarded as one of China’s greatest poets, Ai Qing was...
Do Buildings Have “Moral Purpose”? Jacques Herzog Thinks Not
“They do congresses and symposia and they speak about this and that. I have to say that I have huge doubts. Architecture is the art of...
Can This New Movie Pass Save Art House Theatres?
Mubi, which caters to cinephiles seeking an eclectic mix of films, has begun offering a membership program: A well-stocked streaming service that movie lovers...
We Need A New Way Of Studying Literature
“There is no such thing as an individual work in literature.” The work is always part of a “system of literature,” in which the...
Soprano Designs A Better Mask For Singers
What was wrong with ordinary masks? "They were really close to the lips and you would breathe in and you would suck the fabric right...
The 1619 Project Debate Is Still Roiling The Historian World
As an interpretation not only of the founding moment but of the whole of U.S. history the project involved major scholarship. Yet it didn’t...
Why “Star Trek” Has stood The Test Of Time
From the beginning it had a mission, not just to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go...
Architect Quits Over Dismal Mega-Dorm Project
The dorm, on the UC Santa Barbara campus would be an "11-story, 1.68 million-square-foot building with just two entrances. The massive dorm would house...
The Golden Globes Want To Present Awards Again. Hollywood Takes A Pass
Despite the public silence, according to those involved in the response discussions, there is a broad “consensus” across the entertainment industry to withhold submissions...
Intact Ancient Roman Busts Found During UK Train Excavation
In a small village in southeast England, at an abandoned medieval church along a high-speed railway, archaeologists have made what they call an “astonishing”...
Elizabeth Zimmer: Noticing Dance Is Getting Harder And Harder
If dance artists turn on the critics who take the trouble to notice them, artists will have an even harder time trying to connect...
Old Movies Have Never Been So Available. So Why Are We Worried?
There was a time when you couldn’t see even towering classics, other than at the odd repertory showing. Now, those films are just a...
