Da’Vine Joy Randolph On Getting Her Day At The Oscars
"Randolph doesn’t really speak Awards Season — not like the shiny glittery things who seem to have it down. Ask her how she fee-eels and the 37-year-old...
Did Online Trolls From Saudi Arabia Manipulate Opinions About Amber Heard?
Pretty much, yes - and that may have implications for elections in the U.S. and other democracies. - CBC
Petra Mathers, Author And Illustrator Of Many Children’s Books, Has Died At 78
"Mathers’s stories — whose subjects included a soulful museum guard (an alligator) who falls in love with the subject in a painting (another alligator)...
The Woman Who Brought Libraries Online
The internet was hard to use in 1992 - there was no web browser, for instance - so "the service was mediated by local...
Juliette Binoche On Turning Spielberg Down Multiple Times, And That Oscar
"My mind wasn’t working when I went up to receive my Oscar . You’re in a space of awe, in this surprising state of not...
Theatre For A Complex, Multivocal Street In The Nation’s Capital City
“To be able to participate in this project is to not only get to learn more about history, but also to have an outlet...
New York Times Culture Writers Are Still Mad At These Oscar Snubs
Many, many readers are also angry. A few things marinate on and on: Brokeback Mountain’s lack of wins, Shakespeare in Love’s wins, and some...
Report: Children Become Discouraged From Reading By Adult Judgment
“Children have told us that they think that reading choices are judged by the adults around them,” said Cassie Chadderton, CEO of World Book...
Study: Big Increase In Retail Record Shops In The UK
A study by the Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA) finds that there are now 461 indie record shops in the UK, 122 more...
Museums Are Buying As Private Sales Decline
Museums are increasingly important buyers at TEFAF Maastricht, as the number of private individuals purchasing old master pictures, sculptures and antiques has declined. - The New...
Have A Conversation With A New Marilyn Monroe AI Chatbot
The AI-generated Digital Marilyn chatbot lets you interact “in real-time using advanced natural language processing, deep learning and GPT 3.5,” Soul Machines said in...
Hollywood’s Rough Year, And Trends We’d Like To See
The movie industry is notorious for learning precisely the wrong lesson from its successes, not to mention failures. Here are some trends from last...
Russia Opens Museum Celebrating Its War In Ukraine
Russian authorities have announced plans to memorialise the destruction of the occupied city in the Donbas—which it blames on Ukraine—with a new “museum of...
Kyoto is Banning Tourists From Its Historic Alleyways
"Residents of Japan’s ancient capital have struggled to reconcile the financial boost from a return to pre-pandemic visitor numbers with overcrowding and incidents of...
The Binge: Healthy Indulgence Or Destructive Behavior?
Here’s what has me perplexed: The word itself means doing something excessively, and to do anything excessively means doing it more than is reasonable...
As Space In New York Gets Ever More Expensive, Indie Theatermakers Are Getting More...
In years past, what used to be called Off-Off-Broadway would take place on small, out-of-the-way stages in storefronts, schools or church basements. Post-pandemic, they're...
The Psychology Of How We Sort Into Categories
At some point, we have to make a principled decision about what the category is and why that is the best way to think...
The Physicality Of Books Versus What They Say
Sometimes we ignore a book’s material presence: absorbed, ‘good’ reading is often figured as a forgetting of the material conditions of book, body, room...
Is A Solution To The Plague Of Counterfeit Books At Hand?
"Counterfeiting occurs when a party poses as a book’s real publisher to sell fake versions of books. … Sometimes these versions are obviously fake...
If Our Tools Shape Us, How Will AI Change Us?
Just as Joseph Stalin called artists the “engineers of the soul,” Gemini and other AI bots may function as the engineers of our mindscapes....
Meet The Founders Of Hollywood’s New Union For Choreographers
Although choreographers for the stage are represented by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the film/television/video industry had no equivalent of SAG-AFTRA or the...
Akira Toriyama, Legend Of Manga And Anime, Dead At 68
"There is hardly a space in pop culture today that hasn’t been touched by Akira Toriyama’s art. … He brought manga and anime into...
A Cross Between A Baseball, An Armadillo, And The Sydney Opera House: Design For...
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and HNTB designed the planned 33,000-seat arena for the team currently known as the Oakland A's, which is moving to...
Starchitect Bjarke Ingels Talks About His “Spherical Armadillo” For Las Vegas
"I mean, it’s not like we tried to make it look like an armadillo." On comparisons to the Sydney Opera House: "I’ll definitely take...
Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre, Nearly Dead Last Summer, Has A New Artistic Director And A...
"The company, which was founded in 1988 by a group of Northwestern University graduates and achieved national fame for its original theatrical works, has...
