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...
Streamer MUBI Responds To Anger Over Investor With Ties To Israeli Defense Startup
Widely shared social media posts have called for a MUBI boycott. The response: "The beliefs of individual investors do not reflect the views of...
Dear Literary Writer, Sure, You Might Be The You Know What
Or not! “You’re not doing anyone a disservice by declining to share your art.” - LitHub
Podcasts Drive Massive Books Sales For Conservative Authors
Especially audiobook sales, it turns out. Authors of other political backgrounds are taking note. - The New York Times
In April, Two Visitors Sat On, And Broke, A Priceless Chair In A Venice...
Now, the Palazzo Maffei is asking people to “respect art.” Somehow, the couple - caught on camera - have not yet been identified. -...
Where The Last Decade Of Andy Goldsworthy’s Life Has Gone
He’s been doing physically demanding, “totally grim work” on nine farmhouses, restored and turned into art, across six miles in a valley in Yorkshire....