This Year’s Costume Design Nominees, From The Heart Of The Forest To 1950s Glam
For Kate Hawley, designer for Frankenstein, "her first directive from the filmmaker was color, color, color. ‘It was all part of rebelling against the...
FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens To Revoke Licenses If Iran War Coverage Isn’t To...
Uh … how’s that First Amendment doing? Carr "accused the news media of wanting the United States to lose the war.” - The New...
Security For The Oscars Since The Iran War Began Has Been Extended, Intensified
“Security at the ceremony has always been formidable. But this year, in the weeks leading up to Sunday’s event, federal authorities issued a memo...
Huge Anti-Merger Billboard To Circle Oscars Ceremony Today
“An anti-monopoly mobile billboard, meant to caution against the impending merger between Paramount and Warner Bros., will circle Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony. The billboard’s...
The Studio System That Backed This Year’s Likeliest Best Movie Is About To Fade...
After missteps, Warner Bros’ new “strategy was a roaring success that evoked the studio’s prior glories and served as a reminder that if you...
Grappling With AI’s Presence In Hollywood As The Oscars Take Place
A recent report "forecasts more adoption of AI throughout the industry. But it also points to ways that the technology could lead to different...
What If Chalamet Was Just Using The Wrong Metrics?
One soprano: “Some things are made primarily for consumption, while others help form us as human beings” Ouch. - HuffPost
This Los Angeles Project Brings Veterans In Long, Close Contact With Shakespeare
A new venture in Los Angeles brings the Shakespeare Center and local veterans together for a year-long learning and writing experience. They perform today,...
New Job For Actors Is, As They Say, A Trap
“If you’ve got strong creative instincts, the ability to authentically portray emotion, and are capable of staying true to a character’s voice throughout a...
The Musician Actors Of Hades And Other Broadway Shows
“Putting bands and musicians at the center of theatrical storytelling can give it a special immediacy and urgency, not least by reconnecting a form...
What A Classic Zombie Movie Teaches About Film, And Life
“I’ve seen Night three hundred times. It’s a film that, no matter how many times I watch it, yields new information, especially once I...
What The Screenwriter Of Blue Moon Actually Thinks Of The Musical Oklahoma
Or, to give it its proper name, Oklahoma!: “It’s one beautiful song after another. They really are beautiful melodies. I think the show is...
The Women Of Color Lifting Up Others Behind The Scenes Of Sinners
“Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw's journey to become part of Coogler's Sinners crew began with a recommendation from her friend, Rachel Morrison, the cinematographer on Coogler’s Black Panther.”...
This Filmmaker Has Two Documentaries In Oscars Contention Today
Geeta Gandbhir says she slept through the phone calls that told her she was nominated for best documentary feature for The Perfect Neighbor and...
The Book World Seems To Have Fallen Back In Affection With Barnes And Noble
“Like all big chains, when you shop there, more of your money leaves the community than when you shop at something locally owned. …...
Meet The Renderings Of The New Kennedy Center
Which — for the moment? — looks a lot like the old one. - Washington Post (MSN)
Inside The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Power Struggle That Led To Andris Nelson’s Ouster
“The maestro’s fall is the bare-knuckled endgame of a years-long power struggle over the soul of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble renowned for...
BuzzFeed’s Pivot To AI Is About To Lead To Bankruptcy
“Three years after its AI pivot, the writing is on the wall. The company reported a net loss of $57.3 million in 2025 in...
Is The Met In A Death Spiral?
“Without serious remedial action, the institution known as the Metropolitan Opera could well go dark.” - David McKee
Amelia Durán shares the key pillars cultural organizations should adopt
Amelia Durán, Executive Director of Garage Cultural, shares the key pillars for cultural organizations focused on community.
Richard Grenell Out At The Kennedy Center
He leaves behind an institution that is drastically changed, and in many ways diminished, from a year ago, when Mr. Trump installed himself as chairman and filled...
The First-Ever Film About Robots Has Been Rediscovered. It Was Made In 1897.
“A copy of Gugusse and the Automaton, an 1897 short made by legendary film pioneer George Méliès, was discovered by a man in Grand...
Eight Projects By This Year’s Pritzker Prize Winning Architect
Following the news that Smiljan Radić has won this year's delayed Pritzker Architecture Prize, we round up eight projects from the Chilean architect's experimental career. - Dezeen
World Café Live In Philadelphia Files For Bankruptcy, Changes Name
The venue, named after popular a public radio music show, has been in turmoil for a year, since a new management team led by...
Why Aren’t Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Selling?
The architect’s passion for combining design and nature meant that many of his residences were built in rural areas. Because of their pedigree, they...
