At The University Of Iowa, The Feds Cut Funds For The Famous International Writing...
“It’s the end of a 58-year-old partnership, which has brought writers from all over the world” - including later Nobel Prize winners like Han...
King Charles Listens To Kylie Minogue?
is this … is this real? His playlist in honor of Commonwealth Day “features a diverse range of artists across various genres, including Bob...
With The Politicization Of The Kennedy Center, This Is What’s At Stake For United...
A prominent human rights lawyer warns that “when a political leader tries to ‘capture culture' it's something ... typical of an authoritarian. ‘Right by...
Can We Build Clones To Watch All Of These Clone Movies?
It might be a full-time job for someone to follow the strands of clone movies - and TV shows - in the 21st century....
Frank Lloyd Wright May Have Owed A Lot To This Long-Forgotten Nicaraguan Artisan
Manuel Sandoval “had been part of the 1932 founding class at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship in Wisconsin. … The young man had been interested in...
Showing The Tender Side Of Avant-Garde Filmmaker And Historian Jonas Mekas
A new documentary “draws heavily from Mekas’s visual diaries, which Davison said seemed to reflect the rootlessness he experienced as a refugee during World...
You Know What Would’ve Been, Could’ve Been, Great For Horror Fans?
Not to mention women older than, oh, 29, who aren’t playing sex workers? Yeah. A win for Demi Moore. However: “Since the birth of...
As A First-Amendment Lawsuit Continues, The NEA Drops One Of Its Anti-Trans Requirements
“The news is mixed, however. While artists may now apply for funding without attesting to the new ‘gender ideology’ requirement, the NEA has not...
In The Netherlands, Anselm Kiefer Wonders If Humans Will Ever Learn
The German artist said “stays abreast of current events, and said that recently he has felt a physical sense of threat by the rise...
Buffy Sainte-Marie Stripped Of Two More Big Music Awards
"Both the Juno Awards and the Polaris Music Prize announced Friday they were rescinding the honours Sainte-Marie had received over the years, after the 84-year-old musician returned her...
Hollywood Has Always Been Obsessed With Sex Workers
So what’s new about the attention and awards for Anora? - The Guardian (UK)
In Buffalo, Protestors Decry The Layoffs Of 13 Unionized Museum Workers
The sudden “reorganization” happens (coincidentally!) to result in openings for non-union security guards. A union organizer said, “It is appalling to see AKG take...
In 2020, Hollywood Pledged To ‘Do Better’ With Diversity And Equity, But Backslid Almost...
And now that backsliding is more like an avalanche crushing BIPOC creators of any gender — and women of all races and ethnicities —...
The Poem That Gave Late-‘80s Britain A National Conniption Fit
“If it's unusual for a poem to escape the world of literature, it's virtually unheard of for one to provoke angry newspaper headlines, prompt...
How Man-Of-Many-Voices Hank Azaria Lost, And Then Found, Himself
He was always a natural mimic, and he used that ability to make a remarkable career as a voice actor, most famously on The...
America’s Oldest Performing Arts Organization Is Losing Its Longtime Director
Under David Snead’s leadership, the 210-year-old period instrument orchestra’s annual revenue grew by 45 percent. Its endowment has expanded from $13 million to more...
Brick Is Making A Comeback In Urban Architecture
Brick, stone, and terra-cotta, products that have the solidity and hue of earth, have timidly but perceptibly snuck back into New York’s repertoire of...
How The Acoustics Of Notre-Dame In Paris Have Changed From Before The Fire
Brian Katz, an acoustics expert at the Sorbonne, took an extensive acoustical survey of the cathedral in 2015, four years before the fire, and...
An AI Researcher Rails Against Big Tech’s Cultural Theft
Perhaps the most beautiful part of this digital heist is that all of this knowledge is being stolen in broad daylight. Napster was a...
Why YouTube Got Out Of Making Premium Content
Big creators on YouTube “are the new Hollywood in that sense because they are producing the content that people want to watch. And so...
How Do You Protect Cultural Sovereignty In This Digital Age?
Right now, the global landscape is shifting in ways that could have profound consequences for Canada’s creative industries. The rise of AI, the dominance...
That Time “Rocky Horror” Flopped On Broadway (An Oral History)
The stage version of the now-cult classic movie had very successful runs in London and Los Angeles before it came to Broadway — and...
SF Symphony Puts Emerging Black Composers Project On Hold After US Government Letter
A memo from the United States Department of Education forced the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to pause their...
Brand Agencies Are Imploding. Ad Campaigns Are Now Inundation Campaigns
Brands now flood social platforms with constant content, yet the depth and craftsmanship that once defined advertising are being drowned in an ocean of...
US Department Of Defense Bans Images Of Enola Gay Plane In “Gay” Crackdown
In total, 26,000 images have been flagged, according to the AP, though one official told the outlet that that number could reach 100,000 when...
