When Is A Calder Not A Calder?
Or rather, when is a broken Calder still a Calder? "Richard Brodie, an art collector, says his ability to sell the work has been...
An Idea For Los Angeles This Awards Season
Let’s stop complaining about the Oscars. “Awards season is an intrinsic part of the Los Angeles economy, and keeping the major events in place...
Zilia Sanchez, Whose Erotically Charged Art Earned Her Fame In Her 90s, Has Died...
Sánchez primarily worked in "an era when Latina and lesbian artists — she was both — were largely confined to the shadows.” - The...
Yet Another Hollywood PR Battle
Who’s smearing whom? “Depending on who you’re hearing, information is misinformation, victim is offender, and power is in the eye of the beholder.” -...
Lessons From The Secret Photographer Of Nazi-Occupied Paris
“No matter how small, quiet, or private the expression, art can move the needle in fighting for our collective freedom.” - The New York...
What Would Garcia Marquez Think Of The New Screen Version Of His Masterpiece?
“'It would be a travesty,' he said. 'What is most entrancing in the book cannot be translated into another medium. People keep forgetting that...
A New Deal For Imax
Netflix made a deal with Imax to release Greta Gerwig’s Narnia only in those theatres for two weeks before the movie heads to the...
Check Out Some Of History’s Great Literary Forgers And Fraudsters
There's the guy who wrote a love letter to Anne Hathaway and some poems and passed them off as Shakespeare. The guy who faked...
On Social Media, Disasters Are Now Merely Consumable Content
Like every major platform in 2025, X has become more like TikTok, prioritizing recommended content from accounts from people users follow. You can still follow people on X,...
World’s Top Street Dance Competition Comes To Arab World For First Time
"Rhythmic beats echoed through the Tunis Opera Theatre stage as dancers faced off at the first-ever edition in the Arab world of a street...
Small Study: Readers Don’t Seem To Care If Writing Was Created By AI
"Throughout the study, writers expressed concerns about audiences' reactions to their use of AI assistance for their writing," the authors note. However, the survey...
Criticize Artists For Promoting After the LA Fires? I Don’t Think So!
“The Oscars are a big show that will be seen by millions of people and will bring national attention to Los Angeles. That can...
How De-Gendering Language Works
“She’s an actor” simply phases out “actress” and sends it on its way, along with Studebakers, Koogle peanut butter and Red Skelton. It creates...
They’re Already Thinking About An “Emilia Pérez” Broadway Musical
"We would love to put Emilia Pérez on Broadway," said co-composer Clément Ducol. "At the start, (director) Jacques (Audiard) mentioned he was thinking of...
How We Listened In 2024: Increase To Almost 5 Trillion Streams
The global music industry hit 4.8 trillion streams in 2024, a new single-year record, Luminate’s 2024 Year-End Report found. That’s up 14% from 2023, which held the previous record....
The Death Of DEI
For a large swath of the country, the idea of DEI has become a catchall insult. DEI is part bogeyman, part always-there scapegoat for some combination...
The TikTok Ban — End Of An Internet Era
TikTok’s rapidly approaching deadline represents the end of an era in online life and a strange moment for many—even those who don’t consider themselves...
Getty Museums In L.A. Now Seen As “Beacon Of Fire Preparedness”
"The Center, which houses a sprawling collection in a modernist building, is described on the Getty website as a 'marvel of anti-fire engineering.' The...
The Art Of Amazon Reviews
He embraced all the stylistic quirks, choppy sentence fragments and run-ons, either darting from point to point like a distracted squirrel or leaning heavily...
How/Why Netflix Changed How We Watch
Guilds like the WGA and the Screen Actors Guild under-estimated just how quickly Netflix would take over the industry. Suddenly, most of the work...
Sesame Street Is Homeless After 55 Years
These shows didn’t just pioneer ways to teach children their letters and numbers. They created a set of tenets rooted in love – the...
US Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Law Banning TikTok
"TikTok, which has 170 million monthly American users, had argued the ban tramples on the First Amendment rights of both the app and its...
Bankrupt University Of The Arts Building Is Sold At Auction — To Curtis Institute
The renowned music school outbid Temple University for the former Arts Alliance building, very near Curtis's home on Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, after an...
Countertenor David Daniels Sues U. Michigan For Firing Him For Sexual Misconduct
"Daniels, 58, was hired as a voice professor in 2015 and granted tenure three years later in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance....
Sacramento’s Public Radio Station Sues Its Ex-GM For Theft
"The lawsuit, filed in December, claims that (Jun) Reina used the misappropriated funds for lavish overseas trips, home renovations, his children’s college tuition, and...
