Don’t Call Disney’s Settlement With A Fired Actor Cancel Culture
We know what real, and terrifying, cancel culture and real corporate capitulation look like now, thanks to Paramount Global, law firms, and a certain...
A Young Donor’s Sudden Death Leads To Questions, And Challenges, At Some Of New...
Matthew Christopher Pietras “found himself eagerly courted by institutions that are desperate to find new generations of young patrons. He was invited to join...
TikTok Has Made Manny Jacinto A Star, But Can Hollywood Follow Suit?
Celebrity can be weird these days: “The 37-year-old actor has for years now been a subject of TikTok thirst edits and calls for him...
Apparently, Emma Thompson Speaks Italian?
Or, of course, she’s a very good actor. - Variety
Australia’s Prestigious First Nations Art Prize Goes To An Artist Who’s Buzzy
Sketched on discarded road signs, “the artwork’s surface depicts hundreds of stringybark blossoms and thousands of bees, referencing the songline of Wuyal, the honey...
Glimmerglass Versus America’s National Pastime
Opera lovers trying to find hotel rooms or Airbnbs - or anything at all - near their favorite summer opera festival are now competing...
What In The Stalker Influencer Hell Is Going On At Instagram?
“The platform added a map tool that lets your Instagram friends see your precise location every time you open the app.” Then there’s...
Do The Emmys Need A Nomination Ceiling For Certain Shows?
“The Emmys continue to saturate the zone with their favorite shows, clogging up the supporting performance categories (and sometimes even lead, or writing and...
The Relatively Quick De-Centering Of English-Language Literature
“The consolidation of the English-language publishing industry in the 1980s and 90s gave its most successful writers a worldwide reach and a critical impact that...
The Comedian Who Grew Up A Hasidic Lubavitch Jew And Now Plays One On...
Robby Hoffman "recently received her first acting Emmy nomination — for the role of Randi” on Hacks. It was relatively quick success, after she...
The Woman Who Perfected Flower Painting Was Once More Famous Than Vermeer
“Over the course of her nearly 70-year career, Ruysch shunned radical innovation and experimentation, and opted for the subtlest of variations on a theme....
A Paris Show Traces Gaza’s Cultural History
“The exhibition, Saved Treasures of Gaza, at Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe brings what curators called a sense of ‘urgency’ to explain the rich history...
Jimmy Fallon Has Knuckled Under To Kiss The Conservative Ring On His Late-Knight Show
"Fallon is a professional. If he has any reservations about interviewing Gutfeld, … made headlines by joking that conservatives should proudly reclaim the word...
Jane Morgan, Torch Singer Who Charmed Paris, New York, And Los Angeles, Has Died...
Morgan “arrived in Paris in 1948, having dropped out of Juilliard after the French nightclub impresario Bernard Hilda offered her a chance to sing...
Standup Comedy In English Is Developing An Entire Circuit In Mainland Europe
“(This is) in part because European cities are teeming with foreigners who use English as a lingua franca and want to connect through laughter....
If Cinema Is Dying, There’s Still Plenty To Say
Its infirmity has a number of culprits: superhero box office dominance, short-form videos eroding attention spans, streaming services hollowing out theatrical exhibition. - The Walrus
Preserving The Gullah Songs And Spirituals Of South Carolina’s Sea Islands
A group of singers, mostly in their 70s and 80s, on St. Helena Island in the South Carolina Lowcountry has been preserving the praise...
Public Media’s Slow Motion Crisis
For dozens of stations that depend heavily on federal dollars, a slow-motion crisis is now unfolding; many are already downsizing and cutting programming, and...
How Hollywood Is Pivoting To Conservative Audiences
The red-state audience that Hollywood is chasing isn’t a monolith, and there’s an experimental energy in the crop of shows catering to this newly...
Archaeologists In Peru Uncover 3,000-Year-Old 3-D Polychrome Mural
“Spanning 13-by-5 feet, the polychrome mural, … with a three-dimensional design, indicating a sophistication and artistry that is without precedent for pre-Inca cultures in...
The Individualist Trap: Hard To Believe In The Future
If you have a world in which everyone is encouraged to be a total individualist, they tend to get trapped in that mindset. It’s...
Inhabiting The Machine: Make Peace Or Fight?
Machines no longer assist our lives from the outside; they increasingly define the conditions under which we think, work, and relate. And here Skidelsky...
If AI Really Can Make Movies, Then What Does Hollywood Become?
Luma’s generative AI platform, Dream Machine, debuted last year and points toward a new kind of moviemaking, one where anyone can make release-grade footage...
San Francisco Human Rights Commission Announces, Then Withholds, $19 Million In Arts And Community...
“In June, the HRC announced it would issue awards to organizations such as the ... San Francisco LGBT Center, Chinese Culture Center, Youth Art Exchange and...
Why The Library Model Is A Great Business Model
What if long-term success is more about building environments where people feel inspired, curious, and connected? That’s what libraries do. And that’s what the...
