The Second Round Of Wolf Hall Almost Got Canceled Because Of British TV Budget...
“They eventually opted to axe costly exterior scenes in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light, meaning almost everything in the Tudor drama, screened...
The Secret World Of The Artists Who Spent Four Years Living In A Mall
“There are deep and profound things to say about where it fits in the history of art and situationism. But is also this stupid...
The Writer Of Buena Vista Social Club, Now On Broadway, Is Passionate About Protecting...
"I’ve felt a little bit like Indiana Jones running through a temple where tons of things are being thrown at you and you’re just...
AI Is Honestly Crap At Telling Stories
Writing about your life? “To farm it out to a machine that trawls the internet and cobbles together a fake version of you is...
France Cancels An Order For 800,000 Copies Of Beauty And The Beast For Schoolkids
And the illustrator is pretty sure he knows why: “The characters in the new books have ‘darker skin instead of blonde fairy-tale princesses.’” -...
YouTube Is Reviving The Career Of This Japanese Environmental Musician And Artist
Hiroshi Yoshimura died in 2003, but a series of streaming releases has brought his music to a huge new global audience. - The New...
Turns Out A Lot More Women Wrote Medieval Texts Than Some Scholars Believed
“Researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway say their findings suggest that there are enclaves of women scribes that have not yet been...
The Tectonics Of The Art World Are Shifting, And Showing At Art Basel Hong...
India, in particular, has a growing art scene - and the art fair shows that. - The New York Times
In Vancouver, A Record Shop Owner Finds A Rare Copy Of The Beatles Audition...
“It was labelled ‘Beatles 60s demos’ and had been sitting around Neptoon Records, one of Vancouver's most well-known record shops, unplayed. ‘I thought it...
How Snow White Became The Year’s Most Cursed Movie
“How did this bankable story become Disney’s poisoned apple? Snow White has seemed cursed from the start, in part by Disney business logic.” -...
In UK Prisons, A Theatre Program Helps Save Lives
That’s what one formerly incarcerated woman says. “This company came into jail and turned, not just my life around, but hundreds of other people’s....
Can Art Survive The Climate Crisis?
L.A. artists have talked about their losses, but “we still have no clear picture of how many artworks by which artists, owned by which...
A New Report On The State Of Theatre Isn’t Exactly Reassuring
“None of the indicators show full recovery from pre-pandemic levels. And though the pre-Covid years may look booming in hindsight, many of the issues...
The Artists Who Lost Everything In Altadena Wonder What Comes Next
On one street, banding together, “The neighbors plan to present a design package to a contractor, so they can pool resources and access to...
Valencia’s Annual Burning Of Statues
The burning, called Crema, of hundreds of wood-and-papier-mâché sculptures is the climax of the spring festival called Las Fallas in Spain’s third-largest city. This...
We Underestimate The Importance Of Our Ability To Understand Cause and Effect
The human power to view cause-and-effect as part of ‘objective reality’ (a philosophically fraught idea, but for now: the mind-independent world ‘out there’) is...
Meet Idina Menzel’s Latest Broadway Co-Star: A Tree
Stella, as she’s called, is the title character in the new show Redwood, and she has been very carefully designed. - The Christian Science...
Considering The Problematic Revenge Memoir
Admission of desire for revenge on the page also reeks of shame: it’s the thing that every writer—certainly every memoirist—grapples with but generally never...
Academic Research Publishers Increasingly Turning To AI To Check Peer Review
In 2024, more than 4,600 academic papers were retracted or otherwise flagged for review, according to the Retraction Watch database; during a six-week span last...
The Broadway Choreographer Who Started A Hip-Hop Dance Company At An Ivy League School
Jennifer Weber — choreographer of Broadway hit & Juliet and creator of decade-old touring show The Hip-Hop Nutcracker — tried out for every dance...
What Art Basel Hong Kong Says About The Shifting Art World
“Our goal was to have 50 percent of the galleries with a presence in Asia”— meaning a physical space — “and now we are...
The Calculations Of Artists Who Haven’t Canceled Their Kennedy Center Gigs
Many of the artists who went through with their appearance agonized over whether to perform. They faced a version of the dilemma that many...
What Will Be Lost When Library Services Agency Goes Away
The agency provides financial support to a wide array of cultural and educational institutions, including art, science and history museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens...
Maybe Paul Gauguin Was Not The Syphilitic Colonialist Child-Molester People Had Thought He Was
Biographer Sue Prideaux has found materials indicating that the artist did not have syphilis at all, his lover was well over the age of...
Trump Appoints New Head Of Library Services (While Promising To Shut It Down)
"I am committed to steering this organization in lockstep with this Administration to enhance efficiency and foster innovation," Keith Sonderling wrote in a press release....
