That Time When Bill Nighy Liberated Shakespeare And Shaw From The Library
It was all to impress a young woman at drama school auditions. - BBC
The Motion Picture Academy Just Laid Off A Whole Lot Of People
Who cares about the history of film, right? You might think the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But hey, it’s time to...
A New Smell-O-Vision, This Time For Museums
“The human sense of smell, which has powerful connections to memory and emotion, has been deployed in art and historical displays and museums around...
Patricia Johanson, Groundbreaking Environmental Artist, Has Died At 84
Johanson “made nature her medium, transforming highway underpasses, sewage treatment plants and other grimly functional public spaces into sweeping artworks.” - The New York...
How A Grad Student Found A Hidden Mayan City From His Computer
“I just started poking around on the internet and eventually got the right combination of search terms and number of Google pages results in...
John Williams, From Jazz Pianist To Blockbuster Composer
“Williams is undoubtedly the greatest ‘whistle test’ composer of his age – a purveyor of instantly memorable tunes that both capture and breathe life into the...
The Woman Who Negotiated For Management During The 2023 Hollywood Strikes Is Stepping Down
“She was a lightning rod for criticism by Hollywood workers, particularly during last year’s walkouts. A parody account portraying Lombardini as a cartoonish corporate...
Where, Oh Where, Is Clint Eastwood’s Latest, And Probably Last, Movie?
"Eastwood fans in the UK will have no problem seeing Juror #2, where it’s enjoying a wide release in more than 300 cinemas nationwide....
Philly Gets A Golden Statue Of Trump Making A Grab ‘Em By The Genitalia...
Is this effigy, with a plaque that reads, “In honor of a lifetime of sexual assault,” by the same artist who commemorated the dump...
What Should You Do If You Make Money From A Film Whose Topic You...
Looks like Anna Kendrick, director and star of the Netflix film Woman of the Hour, which is about a serial abuser and killer, thinks...
Good Night, Sweet Bay Area Theatres
“After the loss of so many theatres here, the closure of Cutting Ball and Cal Shakes, both leaders in their respective genres, feels like...
British Police Send Russell Brand’s File To Prosecutors
More than a year after allegations of abuse emerged, the Metropolitan Police are sending their evidence out. "The allegations against Brand come from a seven-year...
Why Choreographer Oona Doherty Has Grabbed The Contemporary Dance World’s Attention
Her "refusal to compromise with movement that felt inauthentic (and) her instinctive pull towards the extreme and the subversive" were channeled into her first...
The Internet Has Fractured Culture So Much, The Cultural References Don’t Work For Everyone
Considering the way that many recent novels reference recent, niche cultural fragments most relevant to an incestuous class of urban media professionals, future generations...
What Made Dorothy Parker So Potent:
For such a self-professed grump, she never left a reader hanging after a seemingly desultory setup. There was always a reward. And the jokes...
International Protests At Restructuring Of Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery
More than 200 Russian curators and art historians, both in the country and in exile, have written an open letter claiming that Moscow’s State...
Dark Mofo, Tasmania’s Wild Winter Arts Festival, Is Back After Last Year’s Cancellation
Following 2024's "period of renewal," the festival’s return in 2025 will include an ambitious art and music program, alongside cornerstone events including Winter Feast,...
Where (And How) The International Book Market Is Growing
A recent Nielsen BookData and GfK Entertainment report on global book sales for the first eight months of the year shows “rising revenues in fiction, while sales of...
Is A New Generation Of Theatre Critics Around The Corner?
The 1950s undoubtedly gave us some of the most significant critics in history, but there’s no value in being intimidated by them. Golden generations are...
Antonio Skármeta, One Of Chile’s Greatest Authors (And Source For “Il Postino”), Is Dead...
"He was so versatile — his output included plays for radio and stage, films, short stories, novels and poetry — that he was best...
A Call For Systemic Change In NY’s Cultural Structures
Anyone paying attention to recent testimonies of artists, cultural workers, and leaders of arts organizations in New York City Council hearings to discuss the...
Cautionary Tale: How The Market For A Popular Artist’s Work Collapsed After His Death
The story of Scott Burton is a story about how fragile, mutable and, to some degree, arbitrary art history is. It illustrates how an...
A.I. Might Actually Be Good For Hollywood
Right now the key benefit is in visual effects: what requires hundreds of hours and people to accomplish using CGI takes a second or...
Paris Opera’s Palais Garnier and the Opera Bastille To Close For Years Of Renovations
The closure of the almost 150-year-old edifice, one of the architectural jewels of Paris, will be followed by the closure for renovation of the opera’s...
Comcast Suggests It Might Spin Off Its Cable Channels
“We are now exploring whether creating a new well-capitalized company owned by our shareholders and comprised of our strong portfolio of cable networks would...
