Lots Of Legal Drama Around Mysterious African Art Collection In Houston
The collection of 1,400 objects belongs to broker Sam Njunuri, who's been ordered to sell part of it to pay $990,000 in damages to...
Even Now, Hollywood Still Gives Twice As Many Roles To Men As To Women:...
"Just 32% of speaking characters in the top 100 movies at the box office in 2023 were women or girls, according to (USC's) Annenberg...
Another Spanish Church Restoration Goes Wrong
This isn't as bad as "Beast Jesus," but the repainting at the Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Mirón in the city of Soria has...
Writers At The Atlantic Push Back Hard Against Management’s Deal With OpenAI
"Nearly 60 journalists — including marquee names such as Adam Serwer, Caitlin Flanagan, Jerusalem Demsas, and George Packer — signed a letter calling on...
Uh-Oh, Last-Second Cancellations Of Shows Due To COVID Are Back (At Least In Chicago)
This past weekend, the Goodman Theatre called off two performances of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil just before curtain time. On...
David Lynch Has Emphysema And Can’t Leave His House, But He Is Not Retiring
He dares not venture out for fear of catching even a cold, and he can only walk a short distance before running out of...
The Five Composers Who Defined The Sound Of Horror Movie Music
"The history of horror scores is a long, winding path (that leads to an old abandoned shed stocked with rusty hatchets), with legends of...
Irony-Impaired Florida Man Pleads Guilty To Bombing Satirical Sculpture of Lenin And Mao
The artwork by the Gao Brothers, titled Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin’s Head, was brought to San Antonio...
AI Software Encodes Language The Same Way Human Brains Do During Conversation
"A neural code refers to particular patterns of brain activity associated with distinct words in their contexts. We found that the speakers’ brains are...
Remember Ruth Mackenzie, Who Was Abruptly Fired As Director Of The Châtelet In Paris?...
After her still-inadequately-explained sacking in 2020, she went in 2022 to be the Adelaide Festival's artistic director through 2026. She completed this year's event...
Elif Shafak On Being Prosecuted In Her Homeland For Her Fiction
"I was accused of insulting Turkishness, even though nobody knew what that meant. And it was quite surreal, because the words of fictional characters...
Rachid Ouramdane Is Director Of France’s National Theatre Of Dance. How Does He Find...
"His job is huge. His friends and fellow artists ask him how he finds time to create when he is in charge of so...
The Complete Freud, Revised For the 21st Century
"The new 24-volume, 8,100-plus-page Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud has been three decades in the making, with psychoanalyst...
The Florida Orchestra May Finally Get A Headquarters Of Its Own
The ensemble operates out of cramped offices in St. Petersburg and has no fixed rehearsal space; now the CEO has proposed a new building...
Racial Inequities In Arts Funding In Pittsburgh Persist, Finds Study
"For the new report, (the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council) analyzed more than 11,000 grants made to about 500 local organizations from 2018 to 2023....
Game Of Thrones Had Three Dragons, And The Sound Designer Could Hold Down Their...
But House of the Dragon? “There are more than a dozen dragons running around the Seven Kingdoms, and every one, Fairfield says, is...
The Puppet Makers And Puppeteers Reimagining “Spirited Away” For The Stage
Come for the hand-carved dragon scales; stay for the “evil flash mob” animating Kaonashi/No-Face. - T — The New York Times Style Magazine
In Liverpool, England, Far-Right Rioters Set Fire To A Community Library
“The Spellow Library and Community Hub library, a 'one stop shop for one of the most deprived', was set alight with flames visible inside...
After Blair Witch Project Came Out, Fans Swarmed A Town That Didn’t Want Them
Now, on the 25th anniversary of the iconic horror film, Burkittsville, Maryland, the new mayor “thinks the town deserves to see some benefit from...
A US Book Prize Judged By Incarcerated People Awards Its First Winner
And the winner of the Inside Prize is Imani Perry, who also won the National Book Award for her South to America. - LitHub
For Women And Girls In Gymnastics, Dance Is Required, But An Afterthought
What if the sport, and its judges, actually valued dance? “That would involve thinking of each floor routine as a miniature choreographic work: an...
Alexander Waugh, Grandson Of Evelyn, Opera Critic And Composer, Has Died At 60
“Beginning with Mr. Waugh’s great-grandfather Arthur, the family has produced nearly 200 books and thousands of pieces of journalism; all four of Auberon Waugh’s...
A Statue Of Johnny Cash Will Replace One Racist Politician’s Statue In The Capitol...
“His statue joins that of another Arkansas native, Daisy Bates, a civil rights leader who headed the state’s NAACP chapter and mentored the Black...
Peacock Cracked The Emmys’ Reality TV Code
"For starters, Peacock campaigned the heck out of” The Traitors. Then there’s just the fact of Alan Cumming. - Vulture
Why This Black And White Movie Hit Italy Much Harder Than Barbie
Movies that shift "feminist shifting “the struggle of feminism into the past strip it of its political essence and allow it to be viewed...
