Music Is Now UC Berkeley’s Fastest-Growing Major
The increase in music majors may be related to the COVID-19 pandemic. “It turns out people turned to music in their time at home, and...
The Multi-Billion-Dollar Ad Industry Faces An AI Reckoning
“The advertising world might be at their funeral without even realizing it,” said Geoffrey Colon, an entrepreneur who spent two decades at creative agencies...
The Scariest Two Musical Notes In Film History
"The 'Main Title' music from Jaws has inspired generations of commercial and cultural riffs and rip-offs — since filed under a larger surge of...
This Administration Almost Sold The Freedom Rides Museum, And Other Civil Rights Monuments
“Many of the buildings on the original list were not ‘underutilized’ at all. They were simply being used for government work that the president...
British Comedian David Walliams Performed The Nazi Salute Twice During A Panel Taping
Walliams is also a children’s author. “The show's production company and the BBC both described the gestures as ‘completely unacceptable’ and said the segment...
National History Day Has Turned Into A Deeply Competitive Performance Extravaganza For High School...
But federal funding cuts are threatening national history: "A scramble for stopgap funding from donors and bake sales allowed all qualifying teams to attend...
Julianne Moore, Action Hero
“There are these physical fights, stuff with horses, there’s all this water and diving and pulling and carrying. It’s exhausting!” - The Guardian (UK)
Dara Birnbaum, Who Transformed The Wonder Woman TV Show Into Art, Has Died At...
“Television was a one-way medium, its audience tending to become passive. … I wanted to show the aggressive conditioning forced upon viewers by these...
The Schomburg Center, At 100, Is Ready For Its Day In The Sun
“Artists, writers and community leaders have gone the center to be inspired, root their work in a deep understanding of the vastness of the...
Writing Joy Where Publishers See Only Pain
“What does it mean when the majority of the African LGBTQI+ narratives lauded as ‘important,’ ‘urgent,’ or ‘powerful’ are ones where queer black bodies...
Emmy Writers On Controlling Runaway Costs In Hollywood
“The most important part of my job besides writing producible scripts that are on time is to keep my show on the air as...
Stop Blaming Jaws For ‘Ruining’ Movies
“Five decades on, it’s easy to forget just how remarkably undiluted the pleasures of Jaws were, and how unassailable its craft.” - Washington Post...
How Los Angeles Museums Have Failed Undocumented Immigrants
“In a city of over 800 museums, fewer than a dozen have publicly voiced their support for the undoc+ community, with the majority of institutions exclusively...
Space Artists At The Museum Of Natural History Discovered A Spiral At The Edge...
As the artists worked on a video, “We’re flying away from the Oort cloud and out pops this spiral, a spiral shape to the...
Joel Shapiro, Post-Minimalist Sculptor, Has Died At 83
“Shapiro’s best-known sculptures are easy to recognize. Constructed from wooden beams jutting in different directions, they typically suggest a human figure with outstretched arms,...
The Paris Opera House Turns 150 This Year
“It was a time in French history when you could change your birth status with money. The nouveau riche included industrialists and bankers. You...
How Can Hollywood Studios Still Be Downsizing?
“Rosy projections of a robust recovery this year have not materialized. If anything, the downturn, at least in terms of employment at the studios,...
Thanks To Our Phones, We Deeply Lack Boredom
And for the sake of our brains, that’s a real problem. - The Guardian (UK)
Netflix Took Its Number One Show From Mocked To Celebrated
How? Well - murder. And our timeline. “Georgia Miller—scammer, charmer, killer—is an American icon for our times, and she deserves public office as much...
Disney And Universal’s Battle With Midjourney May Reshape Copyright
“The only thing that can stop AI companies doing what they’re doing is the law. ... If these lawsuits are successful, that is what...
Pussy Riot Founder’s Performance Art ‘Police State’ In LA Got Shut Down By The...
"Tolokonnikova, 35, whose political art has left her as a wanted criminal in Russia, chose to continue her performance inside the empty museum.” Normal...
Nerding Out With The Unwieldy Emmy Ballot PDF
What’s up with guest actors on White Lotus and The Pitt? Will Kathryn Hahn get nominated in Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress? Could...
Golden Toilet Thieves Sentenced To Prison
“'This was an extraordinary case in many respects,’ Shan Saunders, a solicitor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said in a statement. ‘It is not every...
Booker Shortlist Nominee Wins Women’s Prize For Fiction
The Safekeep, a novel by Yael van der Wouden about a family in the 1960s Netherlands whose house is filled with secrets, wins the...
Remaking Biography, Again
“Biography alters as we do, as our conceptions of motive evolve, as theories of personality float into fashion or fade away. It offers a...
