British Film And Drama Schools Aren’t Exactly Filled With Working-Class Students
Actor Naomi Scott, who didn’t go to drama school, would like to change the chances for young working-class Brits interested in acting with material...
There Is No Way To Make Teenage Fame Safe
“Fame, like football, takes a toll. The effects can be particularly destabilizing when the star in question is still just a kid. And all...
Instagram And Facebook Are Tagging Searches For Megalopolis With A Really Creepy Warning
“Instead of seeing posts about Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film, they’re shown a warning, titled, ‘Child sexual abuse is illegal.’” - The Verge
A Novelist Shared Her Notes About The Dust Bowl With John Steinbeck
He got The Grapes of Wrath; Sonora Babb’s novel contract was cancelled; and Steinbeck dedicated his book to her male supervisor. What would Tom...
A Documentary Exposing The Far-Right In The UK Was Yanked From A London Film...
The director: “Fear is its own form of censorship, it’s not deliberate, but it works out that way and the only people benefiting from...
The Emergency Tailors Of New York Comic Con
"Armed with glue guns, zip ties, Popsicle sticks and safety pins, the Paladins of Cosplay come ready to fix.” - The New York Times
Looks, Ten; Sound, Exciting
The remodeled symphony hall in San Diego has stepped up, as has its entire neighborhood. But how does it sound? - Los Angeles...
When Writing Criticism Feels Like Dumping Your Time Into Quicksand
"Sometimes we study a text so closely that we see past the violence right in front of us. … There is no objective analysis.”...
The Greatest American Art Form Started In Britain
But the U.S. comprehensively remade horror - particularly historical horror, starting, but far from ending, with the Salem witch trials: “The bad conscience of...
The Death Of The Auteur
Directors used to have power - maybe too much power, of course, but their visions were important. Then came superhero everything. - The Guardian...
The Azure Buildings Of India’s Blue City Are Fading
A historic neighborhood in the center of the city of Jodhpur is famous for the old homes and buildings clad in blue plaster. In...
A Small Demonstration Of The State Of AI-Created Movies And What’s Possible
Figuring out what’s possible is a fraught proposition when it comes to AI in Hollywood. - Wired
Toronto’s Mayor Announces Five-Year, Multi-Million Plan To Boost Arts And Culture
Mayor Olivia Chow's plan would increase the budget of the city's arts funding agency by $2 million annually over the next five years, double...
We Celebrate The Rise Of Indie Bookstores As A Victory. But What Are We...
The indie bookstore is a dialectical synthesis of the crusty old bookstore and the rationalized superstore. - The Baffler
What Our Language Reveals About Us
Our language is also infused with our sensory memories and experiences, and this allows it to be a source of pleasure and even transcendence,...
You’re A Successful Writer. And Yet You Can’t Make A Living At It
A 2022 report from the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) found that the median income of full-time authors had fallen by more than 60% since...
Paris To Spend $55 Million Greening The Spaces Around Notre-Dame Cathedral
The project will create roughly 20,000 square feet of green space with 160 new trees, adapting the cathedral's underground parking garage into a visitor...
Boston’s Gardner Museum Buys A $22M Apartment Building
The deal shows how ingrained the Gardner is within the area—and seems to suggest that the museum views nearby commercial development nearby as a...
How TV Killed Itself
“When streaming starts, people have a choice they can make, and they make it. So what does cable do? They raised the prices. They...
How Our Brains Predict What The World Is
A big idea known as predictive processing says that your experience of the world is a simulated model constructed by your brain... In our brain’s...
Does Money Change Everything? Five Major Dance Artists Talk About Winning Major Grants
Donald Byrd, Michelle Dorrance, Miguel Gutierrez, Rosie Herrera, and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa discuss how receiving six-figure prizes such as the Doris Duke Artist Award...
Study: How Our Brains Attach Meaning To Words
They’ve discovered that the brain uses contextual clues to decipher meaning, implying that understanding words and sentences is a dynamic, interpretive process. - Harvard...
Philosopher Finds Logical Fallacy In The Way Patents Are Awarded
He explains that patent offices, when assessing an invention's patentability, have been inadvertently examining the cognitive abilities of the inventor rather than the invention...
The Pompidou’s Controversial Renovation Plans
The renovation plan and the closure it entails has not received much support within the art world. - Apollo
John Leguizamo Has Written His First Play For More Than One Actor
Not to worry: it's still about Hispanic Americans, and he's still starring. "Not bragging on myself, but Molière wrote all his plays for himself...
