Directors Are Mattering More In Hollywood
An emerging trend skews more classic Hollywood—directors, particularly those who might be considered auteurs for their well-defined aesthetic and storytelling style, have begun to...
How Hollywood Has Adjusted Its Messaging During The Second Trump Administration
The creators of some of the more politically compelling movies and TV shows of the past year have explored how being alive feels during...
An Opera Singer Who’s Made A Name As A Car Salesman
He started making videos of himself performing robust opera arias while standing outside on a car lot, wearing his name tag. He composed lyrics...
Quentin Tarantino Has Written A Theatre Farce For The West End
The stranger-than-fiction truth is that Tarantino has written an original, old-fashioned British farce, in the door-slamming, trouser-dropping, mistaken identity vein of Brian Rix or...
Thinking Of AI Art — You Have To Think Of It As Its Own...
I don’t understand how anyone can say they’re anti something that’s potentially creative. If it’s not working for you today it could work for you...
Colleges, students, and jobs: nobody knows anything
In my past life I spent some time in university administration, and one of my jobs at this public university was to take proposals for new degree programs that the university had approved of to the state board of higher education, for their necessary approval. In those proposals we had to include
UK Museums Hold Hundreds Of Thousands Of Human Remains
An investigation by the Guardian found that UK museums hold more than 263,000 items of human remains from around the world, including whole skeletons,...
LiveNation Settles Antitrust Case
The centerpiece of the agreement is expected to be structural changes to Live Nation’s ticketing business. Under the settlement, Ticketmaster will be required to...
Preserving Church Architecture Isn’t Easy, Especially In An Era Of Digital Attendance
“Sometimes people think that churches have some kind of magic ATM machine that we go to and withdraw money. And the truth is that...
This Opera Used To Be About History, And Now It’s About Today’s News
“History is repeating itself 70 years later, just in a different way. The government is ‘systematically trying to erase our history with the demonization...
Hollywood Turns From Movie Stars Back To Auteurs
An “emerging trend skews more classic Hollywood—directors, particularly those who might be considered auteurs for their well-defined aesthetic and storytelling style, have begun to...
The BBC Commissioned A Film About Health Care In Gaza, And Then Refused To...
“All these Palestinians told us that they thought the BBC would never run our film, and we really had to try and persuade them...
Glasgow Used To Be An Arts Powerhouse, But It’s Losing So Many Arts Spaces
“Glasgow is slowly becoming a hollow shadow of the thriving, radical and creatively edgy place it once was. ... If you’re a young creative...
The Best Way To Read 100 Books A Year
Sure, there’s “be rich” or “have your minions do everything in life for you except reading,” but there’s also this: Read physical books. -...
Look At All The President’s Men, And See That Movie For What It Was
It’s not really a triumphal movie about the power of journalism, but a dire warning about the future - our present. - Salon
A Top Paramount Executive Sees His Career Take A Big Hit For His Friendship...
The Paramount Skydance president is "facing new scrutiny after his Paramount bosses hired a law firm to investigate his surreptitious dealings with a Las...
The Performing Arts In The UK Aren’t Exactly Friendly To Working Parents
So says a new report, which “criticises the industry for failing to consider how it might adapt to better accommodate parents, with the result...
Thaddeus Mosley, A Sculptor Who Found Fame In His Nineties, Has Died At 99
The self-taught Mosley's works “show as much concern for pure form as any modernist’s, and reflect the influence of Constantin Brancusi and Isamu Noguchi,...
The Privilege And Power Of Having A Writing Mentor
Ashley Ford needed “a reason to believe that giving myself over to a creative life didn’t also mean condemning myself to poverty and invisibility....
How DOGE Used AI In An Attempt To Destroy The Humanities
DOGE employees used ChatGPT to make their choices. “The prompt was simple: ‘Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less...
The Women Of Kashmir, Struggling With Climate Change, Create Art In Order To Survive
“Afroza Bano’s hands, once calloused from planting and weaving reed mats, now grow nimble with needle and thread. But sometimes, they get pricked by...
The Internet Is After Timothee Chalamet, Yes, But Also Jessie Buckley
Buckley doesn’t like cats. Big deal, right? Well … yes. Huge deal: "I have to come out and say it: Have we all lost...
South Texas Has A Huge Mariachi Community, And ICE Is Destroying Some Of It
“‘For McAllen, mariachi is like the Friday Night Lights of high school,’ said Anthony Medrano, a prominent San Antonio mariachi musician. ‘There’s pride in...
The Best Actor Race Is Weirdly Up For Grabs
“‘When there’s not unanimity in the lead acting races, it can get really weird.’ In that situation, voters stop gaming out front-runners and simply...
Romance And Romantasy Fans Are Driving A Potential Literary Shift
“Readers’ increasingly vocal partiality for first-person perspective over third person amounts to a profound shift in taste. Even while publishing is in dire straits elsewhere, the romance...
