After His Oscar, The Question Remains: Will Miyazaki Retire?
Hayao Miyazaki was the oldest person ever nominated for an Oscar for best animated feature - and then, in a surprise moment (Spider-Man: Into...
An Irish American Silent Film Was Pulled For Its Stereotypical Depictions
Then what happened to The Callahans and the Murphys? "Released in June 1927, the comedy initially received encouraging reviews.” Then things got ugly, and...
How Many Films Do You Know About Brazilian Americans?
Not many? Camila Mendes didn’t either. So the actor (Riverdale, Palm Springs) decided to produce one. - Los Angeles Times
Billy Porter Would Like His Flowers – And Payment – While He’s Here
Porter says, "The world has a difficult time understanding that fabulous and serious do coexist." - The Guardian (UK)
Authors Withdraw From PEN Festival Over Its Response To The War In Gaza
Lorrie Moore, Maaza Mengiste, and many others signed a letter criticizing PEN America for not doing enough to highlight 'the scale and scope of...
Canada’s Independent Cinemas Say They’re In Crisis
And they call for more help: "About two-thirds of the 67 respondents said they need increased public funding in order to stay open, with...
Off-Broadway Stagehands Seem Ready To Sign Up With A Union
Specifically, some, or many, say they want to become part of IATSE - a stagehands and construction crew union across the country. Said the...
The FCC Wants To Speed Up Our Internet
Broadband speed of 25 Millibytes per second (Mbps) for downloads and 3 Mbps for uploads isn’t it anymore - now the FCC says wants...
Art House Films Rely Just As Much On Visual Special Effects As Blockbusters Do
VFX is for a lot more than explosions. “For every Kraven the Hunter or Argylle, there’s a Ferrari, Maestro or Killers of the Flower...
Why Director Ava Duvernay Isn’t On Social Media
"After a decade on Twitter I’d had every possible insult hurled my way. The most awful abuse you can think of. It stopped affecting me....
The Terrible Willy Wonka Glasgow Experience That Went Viral Is Becoming A Musical
Have we all been deeply punked? Was this the plan the whole time? Hm: "The show's lead producer, Richard Kraft, has assembled a team...
Change In Rules Opens Up Investment For West End Theatre
“This is a once in a generation transformational change that will ensure Britain remains the global capital of creativity,” stated composer and producer Andrew Lloyd Webber....
Philanthropy As A Business Model
First, and most simply, philanthropy is most certainly a business model, or at least the core of such a model, because it is at...
Government Regulators Need AI Experts. They Just Can’t Pay (Well) For Them
As governments spin up new AI programs, regulators around the world are urgently trying to hire AI experts. But some of the job ads...
Personality Typing Is A Multi-Billion-Dollar Business. Why Do We Want To Be Typed?
The self has never been more securely an object of classification than it is today, thanks to the century-long ascendence of behavioral analysis and...
Reframing The History Of Modernism Outside Of Its Eurocentric Story
“The main issue is Eurocentric modernism and its history, which can be dealt with by redefining modernism and re-writing its history. How can this...
Sweden Is At The Forefront Of Music Technology. Is There Something In The Water?
Some music tech entrepreneurs argue the speed at which AI tools are growing globally is also putting pressure on Stockholm's well-oiled music tech ecosystem....
Ballet Dancers Are Not All Anorexic (Anymore) And Other Myths Busted
A principal dancer and the director of Munich's Bavarian State Ballet explain that dancers are athletes as well as artists, they're thin because they're...
Defining The Great American Novels
In setting out to identify that new American canon, we decided to define American as having first been published in the United States (or intended to...
The Frida Kahlo You Probably Didn’t Know About
Yes, we know she was intelligent and gifted, leftist and patriotic, long-suffering physically and emotionally. She also scorned the New York elites feting Diego,...
The Fierce, Frustrated Life Of The Real-Life Inspiration For Strindberg’s Miss Julie
Victoria Bruzelius Benedictsson, marooned in a stifling Swedish village, began writing and publishing books and stories under the name Ernst Ahlgren, left her family...
Josh Kosman: Sizing Up Salonen’s Time At The San Francisco Symphony
Even after regular concerts resumed in earnest that fall, there was still that faint shadow across the proceedings, a sense that we had all...
Meet The Last Of Venice’s Artisan Gold-Beaters
Three hundred years ago, the city had around 300 battilori hammering out gold leaf using traditional techniques. Today, Marino Menegazzo's family workshop is the...
Who Might Replace Salonen At The San Francisco Symphony?
While American orchestras have a propensity for pursuing and hiring conductors from abroad, MTT’s success here might lead SFS to consider hiring an American....
Argentina’s New Right-Wing Populist President Is Defunding The National Film/TV Agency
"Javier Milei is forging ahead with his administration’s plans to defund the country’s film-TV institute INCAA, which will adversely impact national film festivals such...
