Oscar Nominations Postponed Due To L.A. Fires
"Voting for the nearly 10,000 Academy members opened Jan. 8 and was originally set to close on Jan. 12. Deadline is now Jan. 14....
How Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Novel Finally Made It Into Print
"In (The Life of Herod the Great), Hurston looked to redefine the legacy of Herod, who reigned as king of Judaea from 37 BCE...
What Two YouTubers’ Stories Tell Us About The New Economics Of Creativity
Colin Furze demonstrates that in certain corners of the creative economy an individual with minimal overhead can work on select attention-catching projects and earn...
Considering (Or Not) The Politics Of Shostakovich, “The Hamlet Of Soviet Music”
"How can we reconcile the apparently gung-ho socialist sentiments expressed in Symphonies No. 3 and 4 with the bitter disillusionment and sarcasm that explode...
Can Animals Make Art?
If we take art to be something that is beautiful and consciously created – and animals consciously create things that look like art –...
Ingesting Writing For Translation, Transformation
When considering writing as a function of the body, we face the work’s physical, irreplicable quality. Stories and poems can be shared, but voices cannot; languages...
Why Even Thinking About Utopias Seems Remote
When national politics is becoming increasingly polarised, global conflicts are escalating to new temperatures, and the toll of the climate catastrophe grows deadlier, the...
What’s Ultimately Behind The Decline Of Arts Criticism? The Decline Of Its Audience.
"What’s gone missing, in a society that long ago excused itself from seriousness, is a broader sense that art is urgent business, that your...
The Role Of Beauty In Science
Over the past three years, we have studied thousands of scientists on three different continents, asking them about the role of beauty in their work. Our research left...
Can What You Eat Change Your Brain?
In a sense, yes. The most extraordinary property of the gut-brain axis is that it is plastic. In the same way that your brain...
Pushing Back Against The Pushback Against Social Justice and Art
In the current climate, I would argue there are few more urgent subjects for art than identity and contemporary politics, just as was the...
Sadler’s Wells East, The Buzzy New Dance Venue Opening In London’s Olympic Park
"This (550-seater) is the fourth Sadler’s Wells stage, after the original site, with its 1,500-capacity main stage and 180-seat Lilian Baylis studio, and the...
What MrBeast’s Game Show Says About The State Of Today’s Media
Beast Games exists to make you hate it and other people, and for you to keep watching regardless. In this, it’s an extraordinary success. -...
Remembering American Avant-gardist Richard Foreman
Foreman’s idea of theater, born in opposition to the mainstream, was an acquired taste that some of the most rigorously inventive sensibilities couldn’t get...
Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Broken Copyright System
If Sherlock Holmes really is the last of the classic fairy-tale heroes, he may also be the first to have been protected by modern...
Watching Master Magicians From Just Six Feet Away
At the back of a magic store near the western edge of Brooklyn is the theater 69 Atlantic, where some of the world's most...
Even As Hollywood Contracts, L.A. Is Going Ahead With $1 Billion “Television City” Project
On the site of the old CBS Television City complex, a developer plans to build 980,000 square feet of offices, sound stages, production facilities...
The Netherlands Is Converting Its Panopticon Prisons Into Arts Hubs
At the Koepel in Haarlem, "a cafe fills the ground floor with chatter. Above, nearly all the former cells are being rented. There’s a...
An All-AI-Powered FM Radio Station, Courtesy Of Rapper Lupe Fiasco
Fiasco’s station, created in partnership with MIT and called "Endless LUP," is planning to run 24/7, with music generated by AI software "trained on...
Getty Images And Shutterstock To Merge Into Photo-Licensing Giant
"Getty Images on Tuesday said it has agreed to merge with its rival Shutterstock in a cash-and-stock deal … valued at $3.7 billion." -...
Survival Of Off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre Co. Is In “Substantial Doubt,” Finds Auditor
"Signature Theatre Co. — which raised the bar off-Broadway by devoting entire seasons to the work of major dramatists while offering $25 tickets across...
Peter Yarrow, Of Peter, Paul And Mary, Has Died At 86
"During an incredible run of success spanning the 1960s, Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers released six Billboard Top 10 singles, two No....
Report: Getty Villa Museum Gardens in Palisades Are On Fire
An unidentified official on LAFD radio said that the Getty Villa Museum was “catching on fire” shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday. - Los Angeles...
Dive-In Movies: Summer In Rural Australia Features Film Showings At Local Swimming Pools
"Dive-ins are a time-honoured tradition in (inland) Australia, where residents can’t easily access what much of the nation takes for granted on a hot...
Human Use Of Alphabets May Be Much Older Than We Thought
“The longer the sequence of symbols, the more likely that writing is involved,” Schwartz said, distinguishing alphabetic writing from semasiography, which refers to “signs...
